Uber users tweeted their anger at the online taxi company, expressing outrage as taxi fares rose by up to 300 percent at a time when thousands of Londoners were struggling to get to work… In response to the surge in demand, Uber raised its minimum fare to £14.50 (US$22.30) with an additional fee of £3.62 per mile. If the cab is stuck in traffic, passengers must pay an extra 43p per minute.
Daily Archives: 9. Juli 2015
Österreich und die Slowakei einigen sich auf den Menschenhandel mit Flüchtlingen
Es ist schwer eine andere Bezeichnung dafür zu finden. Schuld daran sind die Worte von der österreichischen Innenministerin Mikl-Leitner: „Für Österreich ist das unterm Strich billiger“, so die Innenministerin.
Was ist geschehen? Die Slowakei hat sich bereit erklärt 500 Flüchtlinge aus dem total überfüllten Flüchtlingslager in Traiskirchen aufzunehmen. Man nennt es eine bilaterale Lösung…
‘Agile Spirit’: NATO military exercises kick off in Georgia
A multinational NATO military training “Agile Spirit 2015” has officially started in Georgia, uniting military personnel from six countries. It comes amid Russia’s mounting concerns over NATO’s military buildup in the region.
The US, Bulgarian, Romanian, Lithuanian and Latvian military will accompany Georgia’s Battalion 42 in the two-week-long military exercises that officially started on Wednesday
Meine Damen und Herren, endlich gibt es wieder ein OpenSSL-Update! Severity: High.
Es handelt sich um ein Problem, mit dem man Zertifikatsvalidierung umgehen kann. Gefunden und gefixt wurde das Problem von BoringSSL, dem Google-Fork von OpenSSL.
The Latest In The ‚Collect It All‘ Collection: An Entire Nation‘s DNA
„Collect it all“: for the NSA, it is communications data; for Kenya, it is information about every Wi-Fi user and device. For Kuwait, as Yahoo News reports, it‘s everyone‘s DNA:
LIVE: Kerry speaks to press as Iran nuclear talks continue
US Secretary of State John Kerry is due to make a statement in Vienna on Thursday, July 9, as the P5+1 talks in Vienna continue.
The statement follows a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif for bilateral talks earlier in the day.
#IranTalks likely to continue for some more days in Vienna & #SecKerry likely to announce this in his update. #IranTalksVienna
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@NegarMortazavi Yeah. Sure.. But who gives a damn about all of this in f*ucking politics anyway? #IranTalks
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Sanctions hurt Iranian people the most. Not just economically, but in politics, academia, health, arts, sports, human rights… #IranTalks
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@NegarMortazavi Yeah. Sure.
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A nuclear agreement will remove threat of war from Iran, empower moderates, weaken radicals, energize civil society, improve people‘s lives.
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Meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
The two leaders discussed key issues of Russian-Iranian relations, particularly prospects for expanding trade and economic ties and energy cooperation.
The presidents of Russia and Iran also exchanged views on pressing international issues, primarily the settlement of Iran’s nuclear issue, assistance in resolving regional conflicts and countering terrorist threats.
Press statement following BRICS summit
The Ufa summit is taking place in the year of the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II and the creation of the United Nations. These anniversaries remind the international community of the need to join efforts to maintain peace, stability and security, the importance of preserving the central role of the United Nations, the importance of complying with international law, respect for the principles of sovereignty and non-interference in internal affairs.
Russia: Rouhani thanks Putin for Russia‘s role in Iranian nuclear talks
Russian President Vladimir Putin held face to face talks with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani on the first day of the 15th meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Ufa, Thursday.
Russia is top U.S. national security threat – U.S. Gen. Dunford
Russia presents the greatest threat to U.S. national security and its behavior is „nothing short of alarming,“ Marine General Joseph Dunford, the nominee to become chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at his Senate confirmation hearing on Thursday.
Georg Schramm zu Atomenergie, Finanzkrise und Grexit
Georg Schramm schlägt beim Schönauer Stromseminar einen atemberaubenden Bogen von den Machenschaften der Atomwirtschaft über das Syndikat des billigen Geldes bis zum Verrat von europäischen Grundwerten in der Griechenlandkrise, um mit einem persönlichen Dank an Ursula und Dr. Michael Sladek für ihre Beharrlichkeit im Kampf gegen scheinbar übermächtige Strukturen zu enden. „Mir haben diese beiden sehr viel gegeben. Und in Zeiten, wo ich dachte, ich rede immer nur, wusste ich, es gibt Leute, die machen was. Das hat mir und vielen anderen sehr viel bedeutet.“
Live: Schäuble spricht bei der Bundesbank-Konferenz
Deutschlands Finanzminister, Wolfgang Schäuble, wird heute bei der Bundesbank-Konferenz in Frankfurt zum Thema „Wendepunkte in der Geschichte: Wie Krisen die Aufgaben und die Praxis der zentralen Banken geändert haben“ sprechen.
Schäuble wird auch, zusammen mit dem französischen Finanzminister Michel Sapin, an einer Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema „Wie Politiker Europa vor künftigen Krisen sichern sollten“ teilnehmen.
Bolivia‘s Morales doubtful of full diplomatic ties with U.S. soon
Morales, a prominent member of South America‘s leftist bloc, told Reuters in an interview he had sought a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama but had not received a response.
Berlusconi sentenced for bribing Italian senator
But the 78-year-old will not actually have to serve any time in prison because of legal technicalities, his lawyer, Niccolo Ghedini, said.
Berlusconi sentenced to 3 years behind bars for bribery
The court in Naples on Wednesday also banned Berlusconi from holding public office for 5 years. The former prime minister was found guilty of paying a total of three million euros ($3.3 million) in bribes to Senator Sergio De Gregorio back in 2006.
Kiwi judge leads historic child sexual abuse inquiry in UK
Goddard is the third person named to chair the inquiry. Dame Butler-Sloss and Dame Fiona Woolf were the first two women who were appointed to lead but they had to step down because of their links to the British establishment.
Wanderers
With kind permission from Ann Druyan, the narration by Carl Sagan is now back in the film.
Also, the film is now available for DOWNLOAD for your private full quality viewing pleasure.
NASA Announces Updated Television Coverage, Media Activities for Pluto Flyby
NASA is inviting media to cover the New Horizons spacecraft’s closest approach and July 14 Pluto flyby from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, site of the mission operations center.
NASA will provide flyby coverage on NASA Television, the agency’s website and its social media accounts as the spacecraft closes in on Pluto in the coming days. The schedule for event coverage is subject to change, with daily updates posted online and in the New Horizons Media Center at APL.
Raumsonde „New Horizons“ nähert sich Pluto
Neuneinhalb Jahre war es unterwegs, jetzt hat das kleine Raumschiff fast sein Ziel erreicht: Am Dienstag, 14. Juli, soll die Nasa-Sonde New Horizons an Pluto vorbeifliegen; jenem Himmelskörper, der bis ins Jahr 2006 der neunte Planet im Sonnensystem war.
Greetings from #67P! Here‘s a new pic I snapped on 24 June #CometWatch
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Alien life ‘unlikely’ on Rosetta comet, say mission scientists
Organisms containing anti-freeze salts are particularly good at adapting to these conditions and some could be active at temperatures as low as -40 degrees Celsius.
Sunlit areas of P/67 Churyumov-Gerasimenko have approached this temperature last September, when at 500 million km from the Sun and weak gas emissions were evident.
As it travels to its closest point to the Sun – perihelion at 195 million km – the temperature is rising, gassing increasing and the micro-organisms should become increasingly active.
Complete EU boycott would cost Israel billions of dollars, Finance Ministry warns
A complete boycott of Israel by the European Union would cause the country to lose some 88 billion shekels ($23.3 billion) of exports, cut 40.4 billion shekels from gross domestic product and cost some 36,500 jobs, the Finance Ministry said in a report obtained by TheMarker.
Exclusive: Israel decides to open dialogue with ICC over Gaza preliminary examination
Senior official tells Haaretz that purpose of contact with ICC prosecutor is only to make its position clear to the court that the ICC does not have any authority to hear Palestinian complaints on the matter.
Siamak Ebrahimi One of the photographers in front of Coburg .photo by Ali Mohammadi #IranTalksVienna #IranTalks
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Fifteen Women to Follow on the Iran Negotiations
13. @NegarMortazavi: A well-known Iranian-American social media journalist, Mortazavi recently flew to Vienna to cover the talks. She regularly shares stories and reactions to recent news on the negotiations from regular Iranians. She tweets in English and Persian.
Iran Nuclear Talks Resume as White House Hopes for Deal
The talks followed a video conference on Wednesday night in which President Obama issued instructions to Secretary of State John Kerry and Energy Secretary Ernest J. Moniz about how to complete an agreement “that meets our requirements,” the White House said in a statement.
“We’re going to resolve the last issues, if we can,” Mr. Moniz said at the start of a meeting Thursday morning with his Iranian counterpart, Ali Akbar Salehi.
“Hopefully, today is the last day,” Mr. Salehi added.
Obama had video conference with Kerry and Moniz on #IranTalks, gave guidance to get a good deal that meets US requirements.
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Salehi out for a night walk, says discussions on technical annexes are progressing well at #IranTalks.
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