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He also criticizes the ban on access of Qatari representatives to parliament, in force since the police arrested, among others, a vice-president. According to the diplomat, OM used “inaccurate” information. In the past ten days, police have arrested four people who were allegedly bribed by two countries, according to Belgian media Qatar and Morocco, to influence parliament. During house searches, …

Three years after the highly publicized jewelry theft from a museum in Dresden, East Germany, a “considerable” part of the loot has resurfaced. The 31 pieces of jewelry were seized in Berlin on Friday evening, the police and the justice system report it in a joint press release. Several parts of the jewelry encrusted with diamonds and other precious stones …

Tunisia’s opposition is demanding the resignation of President Kais Saied after low voter turnout in Saturday’s legislative elections. According to the first counts, only 8.8% of voters voted. Opposition parties had boycotted the elections after the president sacked the prime minister in the summer of 2021, installed a new prime minister and dissolved parliament. The opposition party bloc has called …

Angelina Jolie is stepping down as an envoy for UNHCR, the UN refugee agency. This made the American actress Friday known via Instagram. Jolie has served as a UN ambassador since 2001, during which time she participated in more than sixty field missions to refugee camps and conflict zones as the face of the organization. Jolie came during the filming …

In Berlin, a sixteen-meter-high aquarium erupted on Friday morning. Two people were injured there. Opened in 2004 and popular with tourists, the famous Aquadom was the largest free-standing cylindrical aquarium in the world. The tank was destroyed with a single hit. PADecember 16, 202208:41 All four hundred hotel guests and local residents were safely evacuated, a fire department spokesperson confirmed. …

As the world watched the showpiece European match of the World Cup last Saturday evening (England – France), agents in Brussels ransacked offices in the European Parliament for the second day in a row. It turned out that Qatari influence stretches far. Not only at the heart of FIFA, but also at the heart of European democracy. Despite all the …

AllSky7 ONS News•today, 10:02 Belgians living west of Ghent are urged to search for a meteorite that likely fell nearby on Tuesday. It may be a blackened stone about half a kilo, the size of a fist. The meteor was caught last Tuesday at 5:37 p.m. by cameras in the Netherlands and Belgium. Based on the observed light trail, the …

A family from the southern German city of Nuremberg have found their missing dog in Vienna after seven years. Owners picked up the now elderly Pekingese dog named Suzi in the Austrian capital, the local animal shelter said. The family had been looking for Suzi since April 2015. At the time, during a stay in Vienna, they tied her up …

AFP ONS News•yesterday, 10:24 p.m. In Istanbul, thousands of people took to the streets to demonstrate against the sentencing of Mayor Imamoglu. He is considered President Erdogan’s biggest political rival. Yesterday he was sentenced to two years and seven months in prison for insulting the electoral commission. Protesters in Istanbul stood at City Hall and waved Turkish flags. “One day …

Thousands of Turks demonstrated in Istanbul against the prison sentence of Ekrem Imamoglu, the city’s mayor. He was sentenced to two years and seven months in prison on Wednesday for insulting government officials. The condemned mayor appealed. Imamoglu is seen as a potential rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in next year’s elections. But if convicted, he cannot be politically …