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Ekrem Imamoglu, mayor of Istanbul.AFP Image Imamoglu won the 2019 municipal elections in Istanbul. According to Erdogan’s AK party, there had been fraud and the electoral council decided that the elections had to be redone. Imamoglu, a member of the opposition CHP party, won again. At the time, Imamoglu strongly criticized the electoral council. He called the course of events …

And then the chosen opening date is also extra sensitive. Exactly 8 years ago, on May 28, 2013, the Gezi protests, named after Gezi Park, which borders Taksim Square, began. These protests were initially against plans for building in the park, but the brutal police intervention resulted in a larger and more fierce protest against the government of then Prime …

One of the students is 23-year-old Russian Sofia Sapega. Last Sunday she and her boyfriend Roman Protasevich were stopped at Minsk airport. Sapega studies international and European law at the EHU. “In a few weeks, she must defend her thesis,” explains Tsimofey Mishukevich, president of the university’s student union. But the chance that she could actually do it seems nil. …

Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai has been convicted again for organizing pro-democracy protests. The 73-year-old entrepreneur was sentenced to 14 months in prison for his involvement in the massive protests of October 1, 2019. The sentence is in addition to the conviction handed down last month. Lai was then sentenced to one year in prison for staging another protest …

During the legislative elections in this metropolis, citizens will soon be able to directly elect only 20 parliamentarians, against 35 previously. The number of parliamentary seats will increase from 70 to 90, 40 of which will be filled by a committee which also elects the head of government. Members of the Electoral Commission were elected on September 19, and legislative …

American construction worker Giovanni Loyola (26) was severely handcuffed. They were so tight that permanent damage was done. In the end, there was no other option but to amputate the hand. Loyola, who lives in Pinson, Alabama, was arrested in February last year on suspicion of being involved in a fight. He himself said it wasn’t, but maybe it was …

According to the Belgian government, many motorists choose not to have the particulate filter replaced under their old diesel when it breaks. They just took off the filter. Belgium wants to prosecute these “emission fraudsters” and has now carried out a number of tests with “ecological radars”. An investigation commissioned by Zuhal Demir, the Flemish Minister for the Environment, shows …

Russia did not allow an Air France-KLM plane to land in Moscow on Wednesday morning. The flight was then canceled, confirms Air France-KLM. According to the company, the refusal was linked to the new route, now that it is no longer allowed to fly over Belarus. This is flight AF1154, which was to take off from Paris this morning at …

EU member states want to quickly introduce economic sanctions against Belarus for arrest of journalist Roman Protasevitsj. He was on a flight between Greece and Lithuania, an EU country, when Belarus forced the plane to land and he was arrested. The sanctions are expected to include aviation and Belarusian companies that fund the regime, said Ursula von der Leyen, president …

Babrow tells the AP news agency how she pasted a photo of her drawing on a bridge near the Vatican in early 2019. She was taken aback when she found out more than a year later that he had been used for the traditional stamp that the Vatican issues each year at Easter. “I just didn’t believe it,” says the …