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Denmark is now paying foreigners to go home
The Danish government has introduced a voluntary repatriation policy. This new law pays foreigners if they are prepared to return to their country of origin.
A foreigner who is willing to leave Denmark might receive 127,517 DKR (Danish Krone) which is about 23,000 US dollars, and they would receive 38,000 DKR for every child of theirs leaving with them.
Foreigners with more money can expect to be...
UK to produce self-healing transformer drones by 2040
Future aircraft should be able to heal themselves in flight, include 3D printers that could produce mini-drones during a mission, and even use a ‘transformer’ technology, believes BAE Systems claiming all of this could become a reality by 2040.
Scientists and engineers from the British defense company BAE Systems and the Ministry of Defense believe that in just 25 years from now a lot of game...
Austria joins France in banning Muslim veils
As part of his party’s plan to introduce a bill banning full-face veils, Austrian politician Heinz-Christian Strache posted on a social network an image of a young blonde woman with the phrase “Too beautiful for a veil.”
The campaign was launched by the right-wing Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) leader and Member of Parliament Heinz-Christian Strache on his Facebook page. According to the politician,...
Berlin outraged by US's NSA spying
The arrest of a German intelligence employee for allegedly spying for the US has caused an uproar among German politicians. The country’s foreign minister has demanded an immediate clarification of the situation from Washington.
“If the reports are true, then we’re not talking about trifles,” Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on a visit to Mongolia, DPA reports. He added that prompt...
British kids living in care abused
A report has revealed the scale of abuse against children living in care in the UK, showing that one in every hundred children is abused every year in the UK.
The study, conducted by York University and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), tracked cases of alleged abuse in foster and residential care between 2009 and 2012.
According to the report, the rate of confirmed...
Spanish mayor charged for setting town ablaze
A Spanish mayor has been charged for setting a town on fire after ignoring a fireworks ban. The illegal pyrotechnics resulted in a massive hillside blaze, which forced some residents of the town to evacuate from their homes.
Despite a ban, which had been implemented because of an extremely high risk of forest fires, Mayor Ernesto Sanjuan gave the go ahead for a fireworks display on April 26 in the...
Well-preserved dinosaur carcass uncovered in Siberia
A well-preserved carcass of a dinosaur, whose age is estimated at more than 120 million years, was found during excavations at the paleontological complex Shestakovsky in the Kemerovo region of Russia, Siberia.
Researchers uncovered the carcass of, supposedly, Psittacosaurus Sibiricus, the Director of the Kemerovo Regional Museum, Olga Feofanova told Interfax.
The scientists use the “monolith”...
NSA whistleblowers testify in Bundestag: ‘totalitarian surveillance’
Former NSA agents-turned-whistleblowers are testifying before a German parliamentary committee as the Bundestag investigates America’s wiretapping methods with one of them branding the NSA approach “totalitarian.”
It is hoped that evidence from the two US citizens, William Binney and Thomas Drake, will shed light on the methods of surveillance used by the American National Security Agency (NSA),...
Greece faces massive power cuts
Graffiti is painted on walls and the entrance of an electric station of Public Power Corporation (PPC) in Athens, July 2, 2014.
Greece faces massive power cuts as unions have threatened to disrupt the country’s power supply in row over government plans to break up the country’s main electricity provider.
Workers of Greece’s Public Power Corporation (PPC) said they would go on strike on...
Internet providers take UK's GCHQ to court over espionage
Seven Internet service providers, including the UK-based GreenNet, have filed an official complaint at the investigatory powers tribunal in London charging Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) with illegal surveillance.
The ISPs come from the US, UK Germany, South Korea, the Netherlands and Zimbabwe.
They have also joined forces with the anti-surveillance charity Privacy International,...
1 mn more working Brits plunged into poverty, trade unions outraged
A million more working Britons have been pushed into poverty because of soaring housing costs and stagnant wages. That’s according to a new UK government report attacked bitterly by unions and rights groups.
New figures published by the UK government reveal that the number of working Britons below the poverty line has risen by at least 1 million. The government, however, insists the poverty...
Sarkozy arrested in France over influence peddling
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been detained for questioning over influence-peddling, judicial sources say.
Sarkozy turned himself in early on Tuesday to be quizzed by investigators at their offices in Nanterre, west of Paris, after his lawyer Thierry Herzog was held for questioning on Monday, sources told Reuters.
The investigators are seeking to establish if the former president, with...
Greeks are now a minority in Cyprus - Statistic
A study performed by the Institute of Demographics and Migration Policies in Cyprus, caused shock. According to the study, Greek Cypriots are already almost the minority on the island and will definitely be the minority in the coming years.
According to the 2011 census, the Greek Cypriots only number at 572,000, with a downward trend. The president of the Institute for Population and Migration Policy,...
Ukrainian President ends ceasefire in East Ukraine
The aftermath of an artillery shelling of Slavyansk by the Ukrainian military.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has decided to not prolong the ceasefire with Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, announcing an end to a fragile deal to deescalate tensions in the country’s eastern regions.
“We will attack and will free our land,” Poroshenko said. The ceasefire officially ended at 19:00...
Thousands of Ukrainians rally demanding Martial Law
Over 1,000 protesters led by the Ukrainian army’s Donbass Battalion fighters gathered for a rally in central Kiev on Sunday. The demonstrators are demanding that President Petro Poroshenko end the ceasefire and impose martial law.
The Sunday rally was organized by Donbass Battalion Commander Semyon Semenchenko, who told the pro-Kiev protesters on his Facebook page to gather near the presidential...