Month: May 2024

German prince on trial in far-right coup plot 

Frankfurt, Germany — A prince, a former MP and several ex-army officers went on trial on Tuesday, accused of masterminding a plot driven by conspiracy theories to attack the German parliament and topple the government. In one of the biggest cases heard by German courts in decades, prosecutors accuse the group of preparing a “treasonous undertaking” to storm the Bundestag and take MPs hostage. The defendants, including one who covered his face with a file, took their seats in a specially built high-security courtroom in Frankfurt. Eight suspected members of the coup plot will take the stand in Frankfurt, as well …

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ВООЗ нарахувала за останні дні понад 14 тисяч біженців у Харківській області

Управління верховного комісара ООН у справах біженців (УВКБ) висловило занепокоєння тим, що умови в Харкові, де вже живуть 200 тисяч внутрішньо переміщених осіб, можуть стати ще складнішими, якщо наземні та повітряні атаки триватимуть …

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Russian director, playwright on trial over play authorities say justifies terrorism

TALLINN, Estonia — A Russian court on Monday opened the trial of a theater director and a playwright accused of advocating terrorism in a play, the latest step in an unrelenting crackdown on dissent in Russia that has reached new heights since Moscow sent troops into Ukraine. Zhenya Berkovich, a prominent independent theater director, and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk have been jailed for over a year. Authorities claim their play “Finist, the Brave Falcon” justifies terrorism, which is a criminal offense in Russia punishable by up to seven years in prison. Berkovich and Petriychuk have both repeatedly rejected the accusations against them. …

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Nine accused of ‘Reichsbuerger’ coup plot go on trial in Germany 

frankfurt, germany — A would-be prince, a former judge and parliamentarian, and retired military officers are among nine alleged conspirators who will stand trial on Tuesday for a suspected “Reichsbuerger” plot to overthrow Germany’s democracy.  Prosecutors say they were ringleaders in a terrorist plot to topple the German government and install property investor Heinrich XIII Prinz Reuss, scion of a now throneless dynasty, as a caretaker head of state.  The case, to be held in a maximum-security courtroom on the outskirts of Frankfurt, is the second to open against members of a conspiracy involving at least 27 people.  The defendants taking …

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‘The Apprentice,’ about a young Donald Trump, premieres in Cannes

CANNES, France — While Donald Trump’s hush money trial entered its sixth week in New York, an origin story for the Republican presidential candidate premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday, unveiling a scathing portrait of the former president in the 1980s.  “The Apprentice,” directed by the Iranian Danish filmmaker Ali Abbasi, stars Sebastian Stan as Trump. The central relationship of the movie is between Trump and Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong), the defense attorney who was chief counsel to Joseph McCarthy’s 1950s Senate investigations.  Cohn is depicted as a longtime mentor to Trump, coaching him in the ruthlessness of New …

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На фронті відбулося майже 100 бойових зіткнень за добу – Генштаб ЗСУ

Як інформує Генеральний штаб, українські сили ракетних військ і артилерії уразили пункт управління, засіб ППО, артилерійську систему, склад боєприпасів та три інших важливих об’єкти ворога …

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Britain slammed in inquiry for infecting thousands with tainted blood, covering up scandal

LONDON — British authorities and the country’s public health service knowingly exposed tens of thousands of patients to deadly infections through contaminated blood and blood products, and hid the truth about the disaster for decades, an inquiry into the U.K.’s infected blood scandal found Monday. An estimated 3,000 people in the United Kingdom are believed to have died and many others were left with lifelong illnesses after receiving blood or blood products tainted with HIV or hepatitis in the 1970s to the early 1990s. The scandal is widely seen as the deadliest disaster in the history of Britain’s state-run National Health …

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