Section: Protothema (Greece)
Watch customer beat supermarket employee bloody with sausage! (warning: graphic video)
A customer in Ukraine attacked a supermarket employee when he was denied the purchase of alcohol. But the crazy thing is that the bulkier customer used sausage as his ‘weapon’ of attack. The sausage-wielding grocery store customer in Vasylkiv, Ukraine, lost it after the employee told him he was not permitted to buy alcohol before 9 a.m. due...
Stalin purges added to vast human cost of WWII
The Soviet Union suffered the greatest losses of any country as it fought the Nazis in World War II. At the same time, Joseph Stalin’s regime attacked its own citizens, executing, incarcerating and exiling those it viewed as hostile. Here are some of the most striking statistics. Tripling war toll In 1946, Stalin said seven million had died...
Did Russia get NATO’s “Cosmic-level” security clearance secrets?
It took Belgian intelligence years to decide if a top colonel was spying for Russia, potentially exposing Nato to “grave damage”. And even if he was innocent, leaked files painted a picture of the Nato and EU host state as a playground for Ferrari-driving spies and shisha-smoking criminals. Nato has four levels of classification. The highest one,...
Woman takes off panties in public post office and uses them as Covid-19 mask (video)
A woman in Ukraine was banned from entering the post office because she was not wearing a Covid-19 protection mask, so decided to use her underwear instead. She was told by the post office staff that due to the anti-coronavirus safety measures imposed in the country, she could not be served without a mask. So, she decided to take off her pants in...
Erik Prince offered lethal services to sanctioned Russian mercenary firm Wagner
Erik Prince, founder of the private security firm Blackwater and a Trump administration adviser, has sought in recent months to provide military services to a sanctioned Russian mercenary firm in at least two African conflicts, according to three people with knowledge of the efforts. Prince, who is the brother of Trump Education Secretary Betsy...
Trump is trying to take control of other planets, Russian space agency says
Donald Trump is giving himself license to take over other planets, according to the Russian space agency. Roscosmos accused the president of creating a basis to seize other worlds with a new executive order about commercial mining in space. The new rules damage the scope for international co-operation in space after they were made official this...
Forest fires in Chernobyl exclusion zone bring hike in radiation
Firefighters in Ukraine are battling to extinguish two forest fires in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power station that have brought a spike in radiation levels since they broke out on Saturday. More than 100 firefighters, backed by aircraft and other equipment, are trying to contain the fires after working into the night on...
US Senator: Trump could be acquitted in impeachment trial as early as Friday
A Democratic push to force Republicans to accept witnesses at Donald Trump’s impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate appeared to be flagging on Wednesday, raising the possibility the president could be acquitted as early as Friday. As senators spent the day posing questions to both the Trump legal team and the Democratic managers of the trial,...
Swiss police suspect Davos plumbers of being Russian spies
Russian plumbers do not tend to summer in Davos. Even those with diplomatic passports. Five months before world leaders began their pilgrimage to the annual World Economic Forum this week — among them US president Donald Trump — Swiss police interrupted what reports on Tuesday claimed were the beginnings of a Russian spying operation in the...
Trump impeachment officially starts
Donald Trump’s impeachment trial began Thursday in high ceremony and amid vicious political division – as outside the Senate a series of new bombshells exploded in the Ukraine scandal. At 12.05pm, five minutes late, the seven House Democratic impeachment managers arrived at the Senate to formally read the articles of impeachment – and kick...
