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Nobel Prize for Literature postponed in wake of sex scandal 0

Nobel Prize for Literature postponed in wake of sex scandal

The Swedish Academy has announced that no Nobel Prize for literature will be awarded this year, in the wake of a financial and sexual scandal that has engulfed the body responsible for selecting the winner. The Academy said on Friday that it aimed to award two prizes, including for this year, in 2019. The controversy comes…

Islamophobia prompts Muslims to make a choice out in US democracy: represent 0

Islamophobia prompts Muslims to make a choice out in US democracy: represent

Washington, DC – American Muslims reported a higher number of incidents of discrimination this past year than any other religious group, but growing Islamophobia has pushed them to become more politically engaged, according to Muslim leaders, pollsters and activists. The third annual poll published this week by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU),…

Al Jazeera’s Mahmoud Hussein spends 5 hundredth day in Egyptian detention center 0

Al Jazeera’s Mahmoud Hussein spends 5 hundredth day in Egyptian detention center

Friday marks 500 days since Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein was arrested by Egyptian authorities after returning to his home country for a holiday. Hussein, an Egyptian national who was based in Qatar, was stopped, questioned and detained by authorities on December 20, 2016, after travelling to Cairo on annual leave. Five days after his initial arrest, Egypt’s interior…

04. Mai 2018: Sie streiten sich um zero,eleven Prozent 0

04. Mai 2018: Sie streiten sich um zero,eleven Prozent

Von 100 Euro, die EU-Bürger verdienen, geht etwa ein Euro an die EU, also eine Tasse Kaffee. So sagt es der Haushaltskommissar der EU, Günther Oettinger. Und der hätte gern mehr als nur eine Tasse Kaffee pro Bürger. Aktuell zahlt jeder Mitgliedsstaat ein Prozent der eigenen Wirtschaftsleistung. Oettinger will, dass es ab 2021 1,11 Prozent…

Labour FAIL to desire Tory crown jewels of Wandsworth and Westminster 0

Labour FAIL to desire Tory crown jewels of Wandsworth and Westminster

Labour’s hopes of a local election surge fuelled by seizing Tory citadels faded today as it fell short as the results came in. Wandsworth and Westminster both re-elected Tory councils in defiance of Labour’s predictions it could make history by claiming both town halls. Labour’s final hope for a landmark result in the capital is…

Outmoded Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn charged in diesel emissions scandal 0

Outmoded Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn charged in diesel emissions scandal

Enlarge / Martin Winterkorn looks on during the FC Bayern Muenchen Annual General Assembly at Audi-Dome on November 24, 2017 in Munich. On Thursday, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed a secret March indictment charging Martin Winterkorn, former Volkswagen CEO, with conspiracy to defraud the US government and customers, wire fraud, and conspiracy to…