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Madeira crash – At least 29 killed on tourist bus carrying German tourists

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A bus carrying German tourists have fallen off from a road and overturned on the Portuguese island of Madeira. It is been reported that at least 29 people have died in the accident. The bus was carrying 55 passengers, the driver and the tourist guide as per reports. Almost 28 have been injured.

The accident happened at 18:30 (17:30 GMT). Portuguese news agency Lusa reported that the accident happened when the driver lost control over the bus and plunged off a road. Reports said that almost 19 ambulances came after the accident. Portuguese media images showed a group of fire fighters gathered around a collapsed white bus.

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Filipe Sousa, the mayor of Caniço said to SIC TV, “I have no words to describe what happened. I cannot face the suffering of these people”. 17 women and 11 men were included in the victims, added Sousa.

The Agency said that Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the Portuguese President is flying to the island to visit the accident zone.

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The German Plum Cake – An Authentic German Recipe !

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Ingredients:

  • Italian plums ,cut into quarters, pits removed : 3 pounds
  • Warm milk : 1 cup
  • Dry active yeast : 1 1/2 tbsp
  • All-purpose flour : 4 cups
  • Sugar : 150 g
  • Salt : 1/2 tsp
  • Butter : 120 g
  • Eggs : 2 nos
  • Pure vanilla extract : 1 tsp

For the Streusel:

  • All-purpose flour : 1 cup
  • Sugar : 1 cup
  • Ground cinnamon : 1 tsp
  • Butter : 1/2 cup

Preparation:

Dissolve the yeast in 3/4 cup warm milk and keep it aside for about 5 to 10 minutes till it becomes frothy. Take a bowl and add into it the flour, sugar and salt. Add the yeast mixture, melted butter, eggs and vanilla extract into it.

Stir it initially for combining and then attach a dough hook and knead it on the bread setting (“2”) for 4-5 minutes, adding the remaining 1/4 cup milk as necessary. Loosely cover it with a plastic wrap. Keep it in a warm, draft free place to rise for an hour or until about doubled in size.

Butter well a German Backblech extended to full length or a large jelly roll pan. Spread the dough out across the full length of the pan, pressing it up against the sides. Put the plums in rows over the whole length of the dough on the sheet pan. Arrange the plums closely. Put the pan in a warm place and let it rise for up to another hour.

Making streusel:

Put all the ingredients in a medium-sized bowl and set it all together. Combine it well till it forms a rough sand and clumpy texture. Sprinkle the streusel over the top of the cake. Bake the cake in a preheated oven (350 degrees for 30-35 minutes). Let the cake sit for about 10 minutes before slicing for the liquid to set. Slice it into square pieces and serve!

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Bracelet to test drinks for date-rape drug developed by German Inventors

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The German inventors have developed a bracelet for reducing the terrible practice of drink spiking. The drink spiking, which intents in assaulting, robbery or sexual assault have always been a fear of many clubbers.

This bracelet needs just one drop of liquid to be applied on it to identify the presence of “date rape drugs”. The band is available at German healthcare shop dm-drogerie markt. It is white in color and resembles the ribbon used to enter many clubs.

There are two green circles in the band which turns blue if the result is positive for the drugs. The bracelet also intends to deter potential offenders when they see someone wearing it as well as serving as a reminder to the wearer to be mindful of the crime.

Drink spiking is illegal and is banned in the UK, with punishment of maximum 10 years in prison. If an assault, rape or robbery has also taken place, the sentence will be higher.

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The German taxi drivers to demonstrate nationwide against Uber

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On Wednesday, the German taxi drivers are planning a protest against Uber. They are saying that this will help in generating unfair competitions from taxi-sharing services.

BZP, The German Taxi and Rental Car Association have urged the taxi drivers in around 30 German cities to take up protest plans to liberalize the taxi market.

BZP said that a rally in Berlin was the largest action in Germany. In this 5,000 taxis are critisized to drive at walking speed from three starting points – Tegel Airport, Olympisches Dorf and Ostbahnhof – to the Brandenburg Gate, reported the Berliner Morgenpost.

Newspapers reported the words of a taxi driver as “I’ve done my job for 20 years and I would like to do it for another 20 years, but I’m skeptical about whether that will be possible with the current situation”.

BZP demands that every person who commercially transports people with their vehicle should be qualified verifiable to do so. Also they demands commercial passenger transport vehicles must have coloured vehicle registration plates, for identification. The electronic central register for goods and passenger transport companies by bus should also be included to taxi and rental car operators.

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Kasespatzle : A German Delight

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Ingredients:

  • Eggs : 3 nos
  • Milk : 1 cup
  • Flour : 3 cups
  • Nutmeg : ¼ tsp
  • Salt : 1 pinch
  • Pepper : 1 pinch
  • Water : 2 qt
  • Butter : 1 tbsp
  • Swiss cheese, shredded : ½ cup

Preparation:

Beat well the eggs and milk with a fork or beater. Add into it salt, pepper and nutmeg. Add the flour gently into it in small amounts and mix well with a fork. Add the whole flour till the mixture becomes thick and elastic. Let stand for 5 minutes while bringing a 3 qt pot filled with water to boil.

Add the prepared dough into a spatzle maker and press through.
Let the dough hang into the water (be patient, it will fall off by itself, no need to cut it off). 

When the noodles rise into the top, the recipe is ready. Strain it well. Transfer it into a bowl. Heat 1 tbsp butter in a large pan. Add chopped onions into it and simmer for 7 minutes. Add spatzle and sprinkle swiss cheese on top. Stir well until all cheese is melted. Garnish it with coriander leaves and serve hot.

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German Potato Dumplings – A Savoury Dish To your Table

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The ‘Kartoffel Kloesse’ or Potato Dumplings are a delightful addition to any German feast.

Ingredients:

  • Butter : 6 tablespoons
  • Dry white breadcrumbs : 1 cup
  • Fresh white bread : 2 slices (cut into 1/2 inch squares)
  • Potatoes : 3 1/2 cups (cold, cooked, riced, about 4 to 5 medium potatoes; russets or other baking potatoes)
  • All-purpose flour : 1/2 cup
  • Regular farina : 1/2 cup
  • salt : 3 teaspoons
  • Ground nutmeg : 1/8 teaspoon (grated)
  • Ground white pepper : 1/8 teaspoon
  • Lightly beaten : 2

Preparation:

In a skillet, melt 4 tablespoons of butter and brown the breadcrumbs. Remove from the pan, melt the other 2 tablespoons of butter and brown the bread cubes. Drain both on paper towels or tissues. Place the riced potatoes in a large bowl. mix the flour, farina, 1 1/2 teaspoons salt, nutmeg, and pepper in a bowl. Add the mix in three or more portions to the potatoes, beating after each addition.

Add the eggs and mix well. If the mixture is too thin to hold together in a ball, add flour a little at a time until the right consistency is reached. Bring 4 quarts of water and the remaining salt to a boil in a 6- to 8-quart pot. shape each dumpling into a 2-inch ball with wet hands.

Make a hole in the center of the ball, place 2 to 3 bread cubes into it and reform the ball around the bread. Drop all of the dumplings into the boiling water and stir gently, so they don’t stick to each other.

Reduce heat and simmer for 12 to 15 minutes, or until the dumplings rise to the surface. Cook it for 1 more minute. Remove with a slotted spoon and place on a preheated platter. Sprinkle with toasted breadcrumbs and the dish is now ready to serve.

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Rightists’ triumph continues in the West

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The demand for snap election is active in Spain, which is at present in the hands of leftists. Hours before, the rights have successfully organised a protest in Madrid demanding the resignation of the ruling leftists. Through it has been triggered by the ruling’s lenient stand towards the Catalonian separatists’ demand (that is, the independence of Catalonia), all efforts have been directed solely towards the destruction of the political base of the leftists in the country.

The tread is not different elsewhere in Europe. It is evident in Italy (with the presence of the Five Star Movement and Northern League), France (with the presence of Marine Le Pen), the UK (with the victory of Brexit), and even in Germany (with the emergence of far-rights voices in the country).

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Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the UK are the four biggest economies in the continent. It is on these economies the entire European Union stands. With the UK’s proposed departure and the ongoing friction between France and Italy, the union at present already has a buddle of problems to deal with.

It is sure that the union cannot survive another big blow. It is high time to articulate a applicable strategy to counter the emerging threat of euroscepticism.

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West invents a way to evade the US’ sanction on Iran

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The three major western powers, such as Germany, the UK and France, have established a new payment channel to evade the United States’ economic sanction on the Middle Eastern country of Iran.

The new payment channel, the Instrument for Supporting Trade Exchanges (INSTEX), shares no links with the US-linked payment channels the west presently uses widely.

It is this detachment from the popular payment channels that helps the new channel evade the sanction imposed by the US on Iran.

Iran is one of the most important trading partners of the three major European powers. The countries see the Shia-dominated nation not only as a source of cheap oil but also as a potential market for their goods and services.

It was the US’ belief that Iran involved in the destabilisation of some of its prime allies in the region such as Israel and Saudi Arabia that promoted the world’s most powerful country to impose an economic sanction against the Arab country.

The three important western countries were not in the favour of the sanction. It even urged the US to withdraw the sanction.

The latest move is capable to provoke the US. The US’ present regime is already unhappy with the European powers’ attitude against its long standing demand that the European countries should step up their defence spending to pay justice to their financial obligation to the NATO force.

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Germany, France forget differences to shield them from the increasing tide of modern populism

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From Italy and Spain to the Brexit-affected UK, many European countries have already succumbed to the destructive wave of populism. The economic principle of protectionism, which has come as a part and parcel of the political ideology of modern populism, has clandestinely infiltrated into the economic structure of the populism-affected countries, weakening their present economic structure rooted in the economic principle of liberalism.

Definitely, the European Union is worried about this development. It has almost lost one of its arms to this development. It may not sustain another loss.

It is in this backdrop that Germany and France have come together to act. The role they play is the role of a defender, the defender of an economic structure which once gifted life breadth to the embattled European continent.

The latest agreement both has signed means that henceforth Germany and France will not think differently in their internal and external security, economic and political affairs.

Their decision to develop a European army is capable to irritate many, especially the United States and the United Kingdom. To them, the more irritating one will not be the agreement for economic corporation, political corporation and/or defence corporate, but the understanding for cultural corporation.

It is noteworthy that the measures for the increased cultural corporation has been doubled by Germans and France at the time many of their friends are researching on how to segregate people on the basis of culture.

The developments indicate that the France-Germany agreement attempts to launch attacks on the concepts of protectionism and populism from all the four fronts –political, economic, security and cultural- on which these dangerous concepts are pivoted.

Will the new European defenders of liberalism win? How better they execute their plan decides what answer the aforesaid question deserves.

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