Section: Greece
German Chancellor Angela Merkel seen shaking for 3rd time in several weeks (video)
The German Chancellor has been spotted trembling uncontrollably two times in recent weeks. The first shaking episode happened on 18 June as Merkel greeted newly elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Merkel has toned down the concerns about her condition saying that the shaking bouts were caused by dehydration. Angela Merkel has once...
Sakkari cruises into third round of Wimbledon
Maria Sakkari reacts after winning a point against Czech Marie Bouzkova in a match during Day 3 of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Wednesday. The Greek 23-year-old won 6-4, 6-1 and will face eighth seed Elina Svitolina from Ukraine for a place in the last 16. Seventh-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas, a member of the younger generation...
“F**k you, Mr. President”: Joe Biden’s son tells Trump
Hunter Biden, son of 2020 Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden, couldn’t contain his anger during a Monday interview over President Trump’s warning the DOJ may investigate his Ukraine business dealings. Biden, an admitted cocaine addict, told The New Yorker in an interview that he heard of the potential probe as a helicopter was...
The hero who betrayed his country
Deniss Metsavas was visiting his relatives in Russia in the summer of 2007 when the incident occurred. While out with his cousin at a nightclub in Smolensk, Metsavas struck up a conversation with an attractive woman he hadn’t met before. They hit it off and spent the night flirting and dancing before retiring to a sauna in the early hours...
Merkel appears shaking again (video)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel appeared shaky again as she attended an official ceremony to appoint a new justice minister in Berlin on Thursday. Standing alongside President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Schloss Bellevue, the president’s official residence, Angela Merkel was filmed holding her arms across her chest, while her legs appeared...
In Russia’s north, a Gulag grave site, a child-abuse trial & a battle over historical Truth
In a patch of forest deep in Russia’s north lies a burial site for victims of Stalin’s Great Terror. Between 1937 and 1938, up to 9,000 gulag prisoners were brought here by night, shot in the head, and stacked atop one another inside 236 rectangular pits that had for years been concealed among the trees. Sandarmokh, as the site is...
What really happened to Malaysia’s missing airplane
At 12:42 a.m. on the quiet, moonlit night of March 8, 2014, a Boeing 777-200ER operated by Malaysia Airlines took off from Kuala Lumpur and turned toward Beijing, climbing to its assigned cruising altitude of 35,000 feet. The designator for Malaysia Airlines is MH. The flight number was 370. Fariq Hamid, the first officer, was flying the...
Four men charged with downing MH17 plane and killing 298 people
Four men have been charged with murder over the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in 2014 which killed 298 passengers and crew. Dutch national police chief Wilbert Paulissen has named three Russians and one Ukrainian man as murder suspects – five years after the MH17 plane was shot down as it flew over Ukraine. Investigators will issue...
Germany’s Merkel says she’s OK after shaking at ceremony (video)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel appeared unsteady and was visibly shaking Tuesday as she greeted the new Ukrainian leader in the hot sun in Berlin, saying later that she clearly hadn’t drunk enough water. Merkel’s whole body visibly shook and she pursed her lips as she tried to contain the situation as she stood with Ukrainian...
Vartholomaios lashes out against Moscow Patriarchate
The Istanbul-based ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, Vartholomaios, who is the first among equals in Orthodox Christendom, lashed out against the Moscow Patriarchate Tuesday over its opposition to the granting of independence to the Ukrainian Church from that of Russia. …read more Source:...
