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Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party lost on Sunday in two national elections in southwest Germany. In Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate, the CDU has not become the largest party, according to German media forecasts. In Baden-Württemberg, the CDU is expected to win 24% of the vote, 3 points less than in the previous elections in 2016. In Rhineland-Palatinate, the CDU holds around 26.5% …

Minister Ramdin in conversation with the Moroccan press. The intensification of cooperation between Surinamese and Moroccan companies should result in investments and an intensification of trade relations. The Department of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and International Cooperation has announced it. Minister Ramdin has been in Morocco for a few days when it was discussed opening of a Suriname embassy and …

The interim head of the ousted Myanmar government has vowed to continue a revolution against the authorities. Mahn Win Khaing Than, in a speech on Facebook, called on his compatriots to fight together against the army which removed NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi. This is the first public speech by the former Senate head since the coup at the …

Yesterday, a raid was carried out off the coast of Benin in West Africa on a ship managed by a Dutch company, the company reports to NOS. Fifteen crew members were removed, the other six remained on board and are doing well. The oil tanker Davide B sailed under the flag of Malta, but was managed by the company De …

Russian police arrested around 150 people on Saturday at a meeting of independent and opposition politicians in Moscow. They are accused of having links with an “undesirable organization”, according to the protest monitoring group OVD-Info and Russian media. The forum, scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, was to be a gathering of city delegates from across the country, Andrej Pivovarov, organizer …

In other Syrian cities, demonstrators overwhelmingly occupied squares and intersections in 2011. In Raqqa, residents first look at the cat out of the tree. Like Thaer Dardoush, 43, who was working as a teacher at the time: “I only watched demonstrations at the beginning, my legs didn’t want to go.” In 2012, a year after the uprising began, a teenage …

Alexandr Kalashnikov instructed the regional heads of his department to draw up this plan. Agreements have already been made with the administration of Norilsk, an industrial city in northern Siberia heavily polluted by mining activities. In this region, mining giant Norilsk Nicke suffered an environmental disaster last year, as 21,000 tonnes of fuel spilled into rivers. The red color that …

Daphne Westbrook (17) never returned from a weekend with her father John Westbrook (43) in October 2019. Since then, everyone has been looking for the girl from Chattanooga, Tennessee, believing she is drugged. However, Daphne recently managed to get in touch with a friend. In the post, the teenager wrote that she was considering harming herself. It is not known …

The Polish public broadcaster launched a new channel on Monday, on the occasion of International Women’s Day. TVP Kobieta was created by the government to idealize the lives of “housewives”. TVP Kobieta launch video shows pretty slender housewives in a candy-colored family setting with the song A pretty woman on the background. We take a giant bowl of broccoli from …

The European Parliament on Thursday adopted a resolution declaring that the entire European Union is a zone of freedom for LGBT people. In this way, the EU provides a counterweight to the violation of civil rights, for example in Poland and Hungary. The resolution overrides national measures which in effect restrict the freedom of certain groups. Poland, on the contrary, …