Daily Archives: 19. April 2014


19.04.2014 - 22:31 [ Portal amerika21.de ]

Kolumbien: Erneut grausame Morde in Buenaventura

Der 16-jährige Carlos Angarita ist am vergangenen Sonntag in der Hafenstadt Buenaventura zerstückelt worden. Die Behörden hatten außerdem am Freitag die Leiche des 22-jährigen Josué Figueroa gefunden, dem die Kehle mit einer Machete durchgeschnitten worden war. Nachdem in Buenaventura die Existenz von „casas de pique“ („Hackhäusern“), in denen Menschen bei lebendigem Leib zerstückelt werden, im März für großen Wirbel gesorgt hatte, hörten die Morde in der pazifischen Stadt zunächst auf.

19.04.2014 - 20:35 [ Reuters ]

Italy gives wife, daughter of wanted Kazakh banker refugee status

The wife and daughter of a Kazakh tycoon who is wanted in three countries for alleged fraud have been granted refugee status in Italy, their lawyer said on Friday.

Lawyer Anton Giulio Lana said in a statement that an Interior Ministry committee had granted Alma Shalabayeva and daughter Alua a five-year, renewable permit of stay.

19.04.2014 - 19:54 [ ACLU ]

The Government is Silencing Twitter and Yahoo, and It Won‘t Tell Us Why

The government is using shaky legal arguments to silence major Internet companies without giving them – or the public – the opportunity to respond. In three separate recent cases, the government has sent a grand jury subpoena to Yahoo or Twitter and requested a gag order from a magistrate judge, attempting to bar these tech companies from informing the customers in question. To make matters worse, the government won‘t disclose its reasoning for requesting the gag, effectively shutting the public out of the courthouse without any explanation.

19.04.2014 - 19:37 [ Spiegel ]

Kinderporno-Verdachtsfall: Opfervertreter fordert Schließung der Odenwaldschule

Der Opfervertreter stört sich im Gespräch mit SPIEGEL ONLINE zudem an zwei weiteren Details des Verdachtfalls: Erstens, dass der Hinweis auf den mutmaßlichen Besitz von Kinderpornografie offenbar nicht aus der Schule selbst, sondern von außen kam – genauer von der australischen Polizei. Laut dem „Mannheimer Morgen“ soll die Internetadresse des Lehrers bei den Ermittlungen gegen einen Kinderporno-Ring dort aufgetaucht sein.

19.04.2014 - 19:20 [ Yonhap ]

N. Korea verbally invites head of S. Korea‘s rail operator

The rail conference in Pyongyang, scheduled for April 24-28, is meant to boost international cooperation between railway operators, the source said, adding that it is expected to bring together top rail officials from China, Russia and 25 other member states of the Organization for Cooperation of Railways.

19.04.2014 - 19:00 [ Spiegel ]

Verdacht auf Besitz von Kinderpornografie: Odenwaldschule kündigt Lehrer fristlos

Auf die Spur des verdächtigen Lehrers sollen die Behörden nach einem Bericht des „Mannheimer Morgen“ durch einen Tipp der australischen Polizei gekommen sein. Demnach soll die Internetadresse des Lehrers dort bei den Ermittlungen gegen einen Kinderporno-Ring aufgetaucht sein. Dieser Aspekt erinnert an den Fall Edathy, der ebenfalls über internationale Ermittlungen angestoßen worden war.

19.04.2014 - 18:11 [ RT ]

Pentagon-sponsored study opens door for super lasers, weather control

A short intensive laser pulse produces plasma in its path. This plasma can interact with charged particles in a storm cloud and change weather, starting rain on request and control lightning bolts. But making laser beams travel into the clouds uninterrupted was always a challenge, because beams powerful enough to control weather dissipate very quickly.

A team of optical researchers at the University of Arizona and the University of Central Florida have found a way around this obstacle. They used a second lower-intensity laser beam to ‘dress’ the primary one and act as a power source for it. This extended the range of the high-intensity beam from just several centimeters to several meters in lab conditions.

19.04.2014 - 17:54 [ Ria Novosti ]

Verhandlungen zwischen Iran und Sechsergruppe finden bei Atom-Gipfel in New York statt – Agentur

Technische Fragen der Atom-Problematik zwischen dem Iran und der Sechsergruppe (die fünf ständigen Mitglieder des UN-Sicherheitsrates und Deutschland) werden am Rande der New Yorker Konferenz zur Erfüllung des Atomwaffensperrvertrages (NPT) vor einem offiziellen Treffen in Wien besprochen, meldet AFP am Samstag unter Hinweis auf den iranischen Vizeaußenminister Abbas Araghchi.

„Diese Verhandlungen werden am Rande der New Yorker Konferenz stattfinden, die vom 5. bis zum 9. Mai abgehalten wird“, so Araghchi.

19.04.2014 - 16:30 [ Reuters ]

Special Report – How the U.S. made its Putin problem worse

In September 2001, as the U.S. reeled from the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, Vladimir Putin supported Washington‘s imminent invasion of Afghanistan in ways that would have been inconceivable during the Cold War.

19.04.2014 - 15:52 [ Reuters ]

Strong 7.5 magnitude quake hits off Papua New Guinea

At least six strong tremors have hit near Bougainville in the past week or so, including a magnitude 7.3 on April 11, but there have been no reports of major damage.

„Certainly it has been very active, more active than usual,“

19.04.2014 - 15:41 [ ITAR-TASS ]

Western states refuse to adopt UNSC statement on Homs, Syria — Russian ambassador

The Russian diplomat said that the British side put forward a proposal to adopt a statement on the situation in Homs. “We’ve discussed the text for two hours, but they refused to adopt very essential elements — our call for supporting the local conciliations, refused to support the resumption of the Geneva talks without any reservations of theirs,” the diplomat said.

19.04.2014 - 12:18 [ Ria Novosti ]

Putin ruft europäische Länder zu Hilfe für Kiew auf

„Wir wollen die ukrainische Wirtschaft nicht untergraben und die Zuverlässigkeit des Gastransits nach Europa nicht in Zweifel ziehen.

Deshalb rufen wir alle europäischen Länder, alle Länder, die an der Aufrechterhaltung der ukrainischen Wirtschaft interessiert sind, auf, am Prozess der Hilfe für die Ukraine teilzunehmen und Maßnahmen zu ergreifen, die auf die Haushaltsfinanzierung gerichtet sind“, so Putin im TV-Sender Rossija 1.

19.04.2014 - 11:53 [ Radio Utopie ]

Mene, mene, tekel: Es hebt die “Pro-Europäer” Dr. Merkel und Dr. Schäuble auf der Waage sanft nach oben

( 25. November 2011) Der Frankfurter “Euro”-Diktator EZB fängt jetzt mal an Geld zu drucken. Sonst ist er bald Diktator über gar nichts. Den Funktionären der euro-kapitalistischen Antidemokraten aus SPD, CDU, CSU, FDP, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, Die Linke ist zu raten, nur noch eines zu tun: die Schnauze zu halten und aus dem Weg zu gehen. Ihre Parteien sind keine Parteien. Sie sind irrelevant.

19.04.2014 - 11:13 [ Radio Utopie ]

Hallo Google. Ich bin der Herr Neun aus Deutschland. Und jetzt reden wir mal Tacheles.

Werte Google Corporation. Man weiß ja, wie Leute hierzulande mit Leuten wie ihnen da drüben zu reden pflegen.

Nun, bei mir läuft das anders.

19.04.2014 - 10:51 [ Euronews ]

Ukraine pro-Russia presidential candidate Oleg Tsarev beaten by angry mob

The 44-year-old Tsarev, whose presidential bid has only the tiniest support, waited two hours at the studios before stepping out into the crowd where, despite some protection from his bodyguards, he was engulfed by a mob who threw eggs at him and then beat him.

He was hustled into a waiting ambulance but members of a far-right nationalist group Right Sector seized him and drove him first to the headquarters of the state security service and then to the prosecutor’s office.

19.04.2014 - 10:47 [ Ace News Services ]

` Six Presidential Candidates out of 23 are Assigned Round the Clock Bodyguards following Tsarev Beating ‘

Overall there are 23 presidential candidates and among them is Oleg Tsarev, a candidate who is extremely popular in eastern Ukraine and who was brutally beaten just three days ago by militants from the nationalist Right Sector group.

However, Tsarev has not been put on the protection list.

19.04.2014 - 10:39 [ BBC ]

Egypt opposition leaders face ‚incitement‘ probe

(27.12.2012) The men will be investigated over charges they „incited the overthrow“ of President Mohammed Morsi.

The three men – Mohamed ElBaradei, Amr Mousa and Hamdeen Sabahi – formed an opposition coalition amid protests against Mr Morsi last month.

19.04.2014 - 10:38 [ New York Times ]

First Fighting Islamists, Now the Free Market

(25.12.2012) Do not listen to your allies in the Muslim Brotherhood, Mr. Sabahi said he warned President Mohamed Morsi, of the Brotherhood’s political arm, in a private meeting a few weeks ago. “Because the Brotherhood’s economic and social thought is the same as Mubarak’s: the law of the markets,” Mr. Sabahi said he had told Mr. Morsi, referring to Hosni Mubarak, the former president.

19.04.2014 - 10:37 [ Reuters ]

Egyptian leftist politician submits bid to run for president

Leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahi officially submitted his bid on Saturday to run for Egypt‘s presidency, making him the second candidate for next month‘s election alongside former army-chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi who is widely expected to win.

19.04.2014 - 10:36 [ Reuters ]

Iran says plane at airport leased to Ghana after U.S.-flagged plane sighting

Iran says that a plane which landed in Tehran airport flying the American flag was leased to Ghana‘s presidential office and carrying a business delegation from the African nation.
The New York Times reported on Thursday that a plane owned by the Bank of Utah was parked in Mehrabad Airport in Tehran on Tuesday.