British Airways announces new route between Billund and London Heathrow

The airline will fly the route 11 times per week, starting on 3 May 2016
British Airways has announced a new route between Billund Airport and London Heathrow that will open on 3 May 2016, reports check-in.dk.

Anti-migrant demonstration held in Tornio,Finland today

A group of about 150 people, some of whom carried signs that read "close the border" and "migrants not welcome," gathered at an anti-migrant demonstration in Tornio on Saturday afternoon.

Greek banks need €14.4 billion to get on track

Greece’s banks need €14.4 billion ($15.85 billion) of fresh capital, the European Central Bank said on Saturday, in health checks to start the rehabilitation of the country’s lenders.

The announcement follows a series of stress tests on the banks to see how they are faring after a long-running dispute over reforms demanded of Greece for international support.

All 224 dead in Russian airliner crash

A Russian airliner carrying 224 passengers crashed into a mountainous area of Egypt’s Sinai peninsula on Saturday shortly after losing radar contact near cruising altitude, killing all aboard.

The Airbus A321, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia under the brand name Metrojet, was flying from the Sinai Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg in Russia when it went down in central Sinai soon after daybreak, the aviation ministry said.

Bavaria Gives Merkel Until Sunday To End Refugee Influx

 

Gun sales soars in Austria and across Europe over Refugee Crisis

Gun sales have soared in the Austrian town of Vosendorf over the escalating concern of refugees coming into the country, Wednesday

 

 

Nordea In Norway to stop accepting cash from Monday

Scandinavian banking bank Nordea will stop handling cash in its Norwegian branches from Monday, in the latest move towards a cashless society in the Nordic region.

 

Announcing the plans on Friday, Norway's number two bank said the move was prompted by falling demand. Only one payment in twenty in Norway is made using notes or coins. This is fewer even than in neighbouring Sweden, which has attracted global attention for its rapid move towards electronic transactions.

 

Many dead in Bucharest night club fire

Several hundred people had gathered to listen to hard rock band when the fire broke out. Witnesses speak of an inferno in which people caught fire and were trampled to death in the crush at the club in the center of Bucharest.
At least 27 people were killed and over 150 injured.

Around 400 young people had gathered at the club Colectiv on Friday evening in Bucharest, Romania .

Greek securities watchdog chief asked to resign

 

Greece’s left-wing government has asked for the resignation of the country’s chief securities regulator, a government source told Reuters on Friday.

This is the second dismissal after the removal of the head of the public revenues service.

Costas Botopoulos, served as head of the Capital Markets Commission for four years.

Erdogan: Turkey has killed 2,000 militants

 

Turkey has killed around 2,000 militants in recent operations inside and outside its borders and the operations will continue, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday.

“Now 2,000 terrorists have been killed inside and outside of the country,” Erdogan said in comments broadcast by television station AHaber.

Turkey has carried out attacks on Islamic State militants in Syria and also on Kurdish militant positions at home and in northern Iraq.

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Smokers urged to quit or risk being denied surgery

A growing number of hospitals in Finland are asking smokers to quit before they come in for scheduled surgery. Smokers face greater risks during surgery and treatment outcomes are poorer than for non-smokers. In some cases, medical personnel are turning away smokers who book elective surgery.

 

Finnish shops may open for more hours in the future

The possible repeal of a law regulating shop opening hours in Finland will likely affect only Saturday and Sunday opening hours,  at first. Juhani Pekkala, director of the retail business owners’ union, the Finnish Commerce Federation, says the change will surely affect opening hours, but not as dramatically as most people expect.

Sweden's Ikea killer gets life imprisonment

An Eritrean asylum seeker charged with murdering a mum and a son at an Ikea store in Sweden earlier this year was sentenced to life in prison.

 

Abraham Ukbagabir, 36, remained calm when the guilty verdict and jail term were read out in Västmanland District Court on Friday morning, reported regional newspaper VLT.

It is likely that his life sentence will be reduced after a number of years in prison, as is customary in Sweden and he was told that he would subsequently be deported from the country.

                                          Abraham Ukbagabir sitting in the middle between his lawyer and interpreter

Swedish Supermarket painkiller ban takes effect on Sunday

 Paracetamol tablets like Alvedon and Panodil are being taken off Swedish supermarket shelves this weekend, following fears that the painkillers are being abused by customers.

The ban comes into place on Sunday, five months after Läkemedelsverket, the government authority responsible for the approval and control of medicines, took the decision to ask supermarkets to stop selling the products. This followed a spike in cases of accidental poisoning and overdoses.

 

France's most desirable cars by thieves

A motoring Group revealed exactly the type of  cars  most commonly pinched in France with thieves apparently having a penchant for French made automobiles.

 

Around 110,000 cars are stolen each year in France, costing insurance companies around €1.2 billion.

 

UPDATE: Refugees in bus protest accept new forest home

Most of the asylum seekers who were refusing to move into a holiday village in west Sweden have accepted their new temporary homes, Swedish officials have confirmed.

Fourteen refugees had said that they were scared about living in the holiday park, which is in a remote area surrounded by forest, close to the Norwegian border.

 

Accommodating Asylum Seekers in Germany

 

Germany expects 800,000 asylum seekers to arrive before the end of this year. One of the biggest challenges lies in providing them with suitable accommodation. Some companies specialize in just that.

 

Two children face two years in jail for tearing down Erdoğan poster
Two children aged 12 and 13 have been arrested on charges of “insulting the Turkish president” after allegedly tearing down posters showing a photo of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, news website Radikal has reported.

The two cousins, identified only by the initials R.Y. and R.T., now each face up to two years and four months in prison, upon approval of the case by the Justice Ministry.

Refugees Child corpse found in abduction suspect's car

Berlin police have arrested a man believed to be linked to the abduction of Mohamed Januzi, a refugee child missing since early October. The body of a child was found in the man's car.

"In the Mohamed case we've arrested a 32-year-old suspect. In his car, we found the body of a child," Berlin police tweeted on Thursday.

 

Images of Mohamed (l) and his alleged abductor (r).

Deutsche Bank to cut 15,000 jobs after huge loss

Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest lender, said on Thursday it would cut 15,000 jobs and 200 German branches in the wake of the company's biggest-ever quarterly loss.

Deutsche Bank said in a statement that it booked a net loss of €6.01 billion in the period from July to September compared with a loss of €94 million a year earlier, as a result of write-downs on its stake in Chinese group Hua Xia Bank and provisions set aside for litigation costs.

That was a bigger quarterly loss even than those the bank suffered at the height of the financial crisis in 2008.

 

Three in hospital after fire at Malmo asylum Centre.

Three people were taken to hospital after a blaze at a centre in Malmö for refugees arriving in Sweden, just hours before a suspected arson attack on a home for minors in nearby Höör.

An official reception centre run by the Swedish Migration Agency in the Jägersro area of Malmö in southern Sweden had to be evacuated after a fire broke out on the first floor at 9.30pm on Wednesday.

                                                     Jagersro Reception centre

Higher numbers of children being treated for mental disorders in Denmark

Less hospitalisations, but the number of those being treated as outpatients is rising .

A steadily rising number of children and adolescents are being treated for mental illness as outpatients rather than being hospitalised. The idea behind opting for the outpatient route is that the child can maintain contact with their family, friends and school during their treatment.

New figures from the regional government organisation Danske Regioner reveal that the number of children and young people being treated as outpatients has risen by more than a third over the last five years.

 Women should lounge on sofa after work: study

Women are so stressed out when they come home from work that they should head straight for the sofa to relax, a new Danish study recommends.

 

If it were up to Ane Marie Thulstrup, the head consultant at Aarhus University Hospital’s Department of Occupational Medicine, working women would be given a simple prescription for de-stressing: an immediate flop on the sofa when coming home from work. 

 

Dong Energy to build the world’s biggest offshore wind farm

Final pieces in place for construction to begin

Dong Energy announced on Wednesday that it will construct the 660 MW Walney Extension Offshore Wind Farm.

The facility will be located in the Irish Sea, approximately 19 km off the west coast of Britain.

The company has received consent from the relevant authorities and most of the contracts for supply and installation to build the project have been signed.

Alarm on microwave popcorn in Norway



Packaging for microwave popcorn contains toxic so-called perfluorinated substances. It shows a survey by Forbrukerrådet, the Norwegian equivalent of the Swedish Consumer Agency.
The Substances occurring in 4 of 6 packs investigated. Two of them are listed as chemicals which pose a serious threat to health and environment.

The Silent Scream - Abortion as Infanticide  

  Dr. Bernard Nathanson's classic video that shocked the world. He explains the procedure of a suction abortion, followed by an actual first trimester abortion as seen through ultrasound. The viewer can see the child's pathetic attempts to escape the suction curette as her heart rate doubles, and a "silent scream" as her body is torn apart. A great tool to help people see why abortion is murder. The most important video on abortion ever made. This video changed opinion on abortion to many people.

Refugees bring new life to sleepy village -DW News
The German town of Oerbke was given two days to convert a military barracks into a refugee shelter. Residents rose to the challenge; the center was inundated with donations and offers to help. Locals are pleased to welcome the new arrivals.

Refugee crisis could lead to EU collapse, says Slovenian PM Cerar

Slovenian Prime Minister Miro Cerar said that the European Union and Europe as a whole will start to collapse unless "immediate" and "concrete" action is taken with regard to the ongoing refugee crisis, speaking from Brussels, Sunday.

 

 

PM Orban wants end to Schengen's open border policy today

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said he hopes that the open border policy of the Schengen Agreement will come to an end today at the meeting on the refugee situation in the Western Balkans at a press conference in Brussels on Sunday.

Turkey arrests 285 ISIL suspects 

Some 285 members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) were arrested in Turkey in the first nine months of 2015, according to the Prime Ministry’s Office of Public Diplomacy.

During the period, police seized 2,700 kilograms of chemicals used for making explosive substances, one rocket launcher, 13 long-barreled weapons, 40 guns, 21 hunting rifles, 40 hand grenades and six handmade explosives in operations against ISIL.

                                               

Russia continues occupation and we do whatever we can - Bidzina Ivanishvili

 

According to ex-Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili, if the previous government was reasonable enough, it would have prevented the 2008 war and at least maintain the situation that existed before Shevardnadze, when Russians had been performing the role of peacekeepers.

As Ivanishvili told journalists, we should have good neighborly relations with all neighbors, but not at the expense of our territories. To a question of whether the Georgian Dream got results from the dialogue with Russia, he replied by saying: "not much".

Head of Russian Federal Security Service says Georgians are among ISIS fighters

 

According to Ria Novosti, Head of Russia Federal Security Service (FSB) has said there are Georgians among the ISIS fighters.

Alexandr Bortnikov said this at the 39th session of the CIS Security agencies and Special Services heads.

Russia Confirms Soldier's Death in Syria was a Suicide

 

Russia's Defense Ministry said Tuesday that a 19-year-old soldier had died in Syria, Russia's first confirmed casualty in the conflict, but said he had killed himself.

The death on Saturday of Vadim Kostenko, a contract soldier and air force technician, was the first bad news to face Russians since a deployment of about 2,000 personnel and 50 aircraft began bombing the Islamic State and other rebel groups in Syria on Sept. 30.

EU plan lags behind only 90 migrants leave Italy.
A plan to move thousands of asylum seekers from Italy to elsewhere in the EU is already falling by the wayside as just 90 people have left over the past month.

 

Under the bitterly contested plan, 80 asylum seekers were supposed to leave Italy each day as part of an agreement that would see 40,000 relocated over two years.

But only 90 have left – 50 to Sweden and 40 to Finland – since October 9th, despite Italy asking its EU partners to take in 525, La Repubblica reported.

Finnish Professor agrees with WHO: Sausage a day ups cancer risk

Nutrition professor Mikael Fogelholm says he believes the World Health Organisation’s guidelines about the cancer risks of red and processed meat consumption published on Monday back up research that has long been known.

VTB Capital  Hires Ernst & Young for Immediate Sale of Vivacom

VTB Capital, the investment-banking arm of Russia second-largest bank Vneshtorgbank (VTB), has hired global advisory firm Ernst & Young to help it with an immediate sale of Vivacom, VTB Capital AD CEO Milen Veltchev told BTA on Tuesday.

Rising tensions as refugees wait in Cold 

Tensions are mounting at the key southern gateway for thousands of migrants coming into Germany, with overstretched German and Austrian officials trading barbs as asylum seekers queue for hours in the cold at border posts.

Hunt for driver after refugee hit-and-run in Calais

 

A refugee was killed and three others injured after a car knocked them down in a hit-and-run in Calais, northern France. Police are hunting for the driver who remains on the run.

The incident occurred late on Monday night in Calais, not far from a petrol station, reported La Voix du Nord newspaper. 

 

The four refugees were walking along the roadside when a vehicle hit them with such force that they were knocked into a nearby ditch.

Dane jailed for killing brother with potatoes.

A 55-year-old Danish man was sentenced to seven years in prison on Wednesday for strangling his older brother by shoving potatoes down his throat.

A drunken fight between two brothers in northern Jutland left the elder brother dead and the younger one facing seven years behind bars. 

Local newspaper NordJyske reported that the 55-year-old younger brother was acquitted of manslaughter but found guilty of violence causing death for a fight that occurred in November of last year.

  

Diesel scandal slams VW with €3.48 billion loss

German auto giant Volkswagen posted Wednesday its first quarterly loss in 15 years in the wake of the global pollution-cheating scandal which also forced it to lower its full-year forecasts.

VW said provisions related to its admission that it fitted 11 million diesel vehicles worldwide with sophisticated software to skew emissions tests pushed it deeply into the red in the period from July to September.

 

End of EU roaming charges to come into force on June 15 ,2017

Currently  in the EU, Roaming charges for mobile phone users are charged extra fee if they are in another member state, is finally set to be scrapped after years of wrangling.

The move - which will affect Sweden and all other 28 EU members - comes after the European Parliament finally gave the green light to a ban on roaming charges in a vote on Tuesday.

  

14.7% of Bulgarian Armed Forces Personnel is Female - Defence Minister

 

At present, 14.7 per cent of the personnel of the Bulgarian armed forces is female, Defence  Minister Nikolai Nenchev said here on Tuesday. He took part in an international conference "Women, Peace and Security" organized by the Atlantic Club in Bulgaria and the Association of Servicewomen.  

Poland’s eurosceptic conservatives wins.

 

Poland’s eurosceptic opposition conservatives, the Law and Justice party (PiS), won Sunday’s general election, preliminary official results showed on Monday, as the country shifted towards nationalism and left-leaning economics.

PiS secured 37.6 percent of the vote, the country’s election body said, with the ruling Civic Platform (PO) coming in second with 24.1 percent.

                                          Conservative opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski

President Hollande honours 43 victims of French bus crash

French President Francois Hollande and top government ministers are paying tribute to the 43 people, mostly senior citizens, killed in France's deadliest road crash in decades when their bus slammed into a jack-knifed truck and burst into flames.

France's President François Hollande (C) speaks during a ceremony honouring the victims of the October 23 Puisseguin road accident on October 27, 2015 in Petit-Palais-et-Cornemps, near Bordeaux. AFP

Unemployment to worsen in Finland

The unemployment rate in Finland could rise to 9.5 percent this year. According to a fresh forecast by the Ministry of Employment and the Economy, growing numbers of out of work people are falling into the category of the long term unemployed.

 

The Ministry’s forecast sees joblessness in Finland worsening during the remainder of this year and 2016.

Dark chips cause cancer, say researchers

      Overcooked fries contain an increased amount of a potential carcinogen.

Danes tend to like their French fries overcooked, or at least browner than the soggy chips the Brits prefer, for example, and it turns out this preference could be increasing the risk of them getting cancer.

Researchers at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) are confident they can confirm what many have long claimed: the darker the chip, the more likely it is to contain high concentrations of acrylamide – a chemical that is linked to cancer risk. All chips begin to create acrylamide when fried, but the concentration is highest in the darker ones.

Tivoli to open massive food market

      New building is expected to open in August 2017.

The Copenhagen amusement park Tivoli has confirmed it intends to commence the construction of a huge food market, dubbed the Tivoli Food Court, located in the corner of the park facing Vesterbrogade and Bernstorffsgade.

Construction of the new market – which will consist of over 5,300 sqm of shops and restaurants and is expected to open in August 2017 – is set to begin this coming January. The court will consist of 30 eateries, including Tapa del Toro and Italian chain Vapiano, which have already signed up for a spot in the new building.

The 5,300 sqm building will include some 30 eateries (photo: Tivoli)

                           

Zlatan buys Church for his mother valued at 110 million crowns($13.7million)

         A while ago a holding company with links to Zlatan Ibrahimovic  bought a church in central Stockholm in a business deal.The church was purchased by a holding Company, Pestolla and the purchase price amounted to almost SEK 43 million.

After a total renovation ,Zlatan and his family will be ready to take over the property from the holding company and the price  according to the  Property Magazine values ​​at 110 million.

 Swedish School attack:Lavin Eskandar to be buried tommorrow 

Tomorrow the teaching assistant hero, Lavin Eskandar who was killed at the school ,Kronan in Trollhättan will be buried.
 A funeral procession starting from Kronogården to the funeral ceremony will take place.
Lavin Eskandars coffin will be taken through Kronogården past the school where the attack took place, reports the P4 West, and up to 4000 people are expected to attend the ceremonies.
There remains some 40 witnesses to interrogate about the attack on the krona's school, says the preliminary investigation says Thord Haraldsson. The picture of the sequence of events becomes clear more and more as the police collect more testimony.
 

France sees biggest drop in jobless rate since 2007

The number of registered unemployed in France recorded in September its biggest monthly drop since the global economic crisis began in 2007, data showed on Monday.

 

The shortening of the jobless queue by 23,800, or 0.7 percent, was the biggest monthly improvement in recent years save for statistical glitch in August 2013

Russian spy ship off Norway's Lofoten Islands

A new Russian spy ship which according to the New York Times appears to be targeting undersea telecommunications cables is now operating off Norway’s Lofoten Islands.

Yantar, launched by the Russian Navy in May, is equipped with two self-propelled deep-sea submersible craft which can identify and even potentially sever or otherwise sabotage the cables through which much of the world’s communications are carried. 

  According to the New York Times, Yantar was last month cruising slowly between the East Coast of the United States and Cuba — where a major cable lands at Guantánamo Bay, near the US base. 

1 in 5 young Germans threatened by poverty

A new study published on Tuesday shows that while Germany is doing better on social justice than others in Europe, it still has a long way to go to help many of its young people.

The Bertelsmann Foundation Social Justice Index found that 26 million children and young people – 27.9 percent of all those under 18 - are currently threatened by poverty and social exclusion across the EU.

In Germany 19.4 percent of under-18s are at risk of poverty or social exclusion, the study published in western Germany showed And 5.4 million of those aged 20-24 – 17.8 percent of that group - who are not in education, employment or training (NEETs) have "limited future prospects", the authors write.

Maersk Oil to cut 1 in 10 jobs amid price slump

Maersk Oil of  Danish conglomerate A.P. Møller-Maersk on Monday said it will cut between 10 to 12 percent of its workforce due to slumping oil prices.

"We are operating in a materially changed oil price environment and have taken necessary decisions to reduce activity levels through 2015," Maersk Oil chief executive Jakob Thomasen said in a statement.

"We expect the pressure to continue into 2016 and we must remain cost-focused to grow in this market," he added.

 

Refugee ,climate change talks planned between UK and Sweden  

Sweden's Prime Minister, Stefan Löfven  announced he will travel to London next week to hold talks on the refugee crisis with his British counterpart David Cameron.

The Prime Minister's office released a press statement on Tuesday revealing that the Swedish premier would arrive in the UK on Monday to discuss "the refugee situation in Europe, other EU questions and the upcoming climate conference in Paris".

Cancer warning over German bratwurst intake

      Processed meats including those found in sausages and cured ham have been listed as potential causes of cancer by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in a blow to the modern German diet.

 

According to the WHO, processed meats such as those used to make sausages can lead to more serious health risks than previously thought.

The organisation's latest report suggests that having just 50g of processed meat a day - less than two slices of bacon or one sausage - increases the chance of developing colorectal cancer by 18 percent.

It is the first time that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that there is "sufficient evidence" to make the link.

            

Dane loses passport for fighting Isis
        22-year-old Danish-Kurdish woman who fought against the terror group Isis in Iraq has had her passport seized by Danish authorities.

Joanna Palani stepped forward in the Danish national press last year to say that she had left Denmark to fight against Isis in Iraq. 

“I would rather die in battle than on the run,” the 22-year-old told Politiken newspaper. 

                                            Palani poses with other Peshmerga fighters On Facebook.

Attacked school set to reopen next week

        Teachers and other staff at a Swedish school where two people were killed in a sword attack are receiving psychological help as they prepare to reopen the school to pupils next week.

Staff are still struggling to recover after last week's fatal attack at the Kronan school in Trollhättan in western Sweden, which left one of their pupils and another of their colleagues dead.

    

Refugees refuse beds at Swedish holiday park

      Over 30 asylum seekers refused to get off a bus that took them to a temporary accommodation at a holiday park on Sunday night because they didn't want to stay in a rural location, Sweden's Migration Board has told The Local.

Two buses packed with refugees arrived at the park in Lima in west Sweden on Sunday, but around 30 passengers initially refused to disembark.

 

                                          The holiday park in Lima, Sweden. Photo: Lima Turism

Nigeria to challenge UK on deportation of 29,000 Nigerians

            The Nigeria High Commission in London says it is worried by the migration and removal policy of the UK Government, which has placed deportation tag on 29,000 Nigerians.

The Acting Nigerian High Commissioner in London, Olukunle Bamgbose, gave the indication in his office when he spoke with State House correspondents covering Vice President Yemi Osinbajo’s visit to London.

Thousands demonstrated in Cologne for and against immigration

         Thousands of people in Cologne in Germany has demonstrated both for and against immigration.

          About a thousand people gathered at the train station in Cologne to take part in a demonstration against immigration organized by extreme right.

Meanwhile, over 10,000 people in a counter-demonstration.

Police used water cannons to calm down the situation.

        

Torchlight procession and rally in memory of victims in Trollhattan

          Victims and their relatives after the school attack in Trollhättan has been honored in various ways today in Sweden.

A memorial service was held today in Trollhättan to the memory of the victims.

A torchlight procession started from Lextorp church and around the same time began a support rally for the victims and their relatives.

Ukraine stops direct flights to Russia

          Direct Flights between Ukraine and Russia expires Saturday night, reports the BBC. Ukraine punish Russia for the annexation of the Crimean peninsula.

From midnight, it will no longer fly directly between Moscow and Kiev. Ukraine punish Russia for the annexation of the Crimea and the support to pro-Russian rebels by prohibiting Russian airlines to operate in Ukraine.

Big police presence in Helsinki for Close the Borders demo

        In Finland's capital a vast number of police squads were present to monitor an anti-immigration demonstration and associated gatherings.

Demonstrations kept police busy in Helsinki on Saturday. A motorcade of police vehicles and officers attired in bulletproof tactical gear drew gazes from onlookers.

       Some 150 demonstrators gathered in the centre at 3 pm to protest Finland's immigration policy with the slogan "close the borders". The Kamppi square also drew a 200-person counter-demonstration of pro-immigration protesters.Police isolated the two demonstrations on opposite sides of the Square.

Sugar tax proposal on the way

        Finland’s health authorities are planning a replacement for the doomed ’sweet tax’ on confectionary and ice cream. The current levy has been condemned as incompatible with EU law—but the replacement could be in place to curb any rush to the sweet counter.

Brussels has let it be known that Finland’s ‘sweet tax’, which is levied on confectionary and ice cream, is not compliant with EU law. Finland’s health authorities have already come up with a replacement that they say will be more acceptable to the EU mandarins.

    

Spanish workers celebrate victory over Coca-Cola

          220 employees are celebrating their return to work at a Coca-Cola factory near Madrid after they blocked its closure in court, marking a rare legal victory for workers in Spain where one in five people are out of work.

          After what supporters call a David-and-Goliath battle, the reinstated workers were greeted with a guard of honour by comrades when they arrived each day at dawn this week to start their shift.

In January 2014, Coca-Cola Iberian Partners, the bottler for the soft drinks firm in Spain, Portugal and Andorra, announced over a thousand workers would be laid off at the bottling plant in Fuenlabrada, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of Madrid.

German Govt convert hotel into refugees home without notice, 100 employees rendered jobless

German govt uses hotel to house migrants without notice, 100 jobs lost.

 

 

Turkish fisherman saves life of refugee toddler spotted floating at Sea (VIDEO)
      This is the moment Turkish fishermen save the life of an infant refugee by plucking him out of the water off the coast of Turkey.
The 18-month-old toddler was spotted floating in the water wearing a life jacket in the sea off the city of Aydin. Local news reports state two boats capsized in separate incidents in the Aegean Sea on boats heading to Greece from Turkey on Wednesday.Two refugees are reported to have died and 31 are still unaccounted for following the incidents. The fishermen appear to think the toddler is already dead when he is spotted floating in the water.

 

Steel maker SSAB to cut almost 300 jobs in Finland

      SSAB has announced plans to shed up to 295 positions in Finland.

The Stockholm-headquartered steel manufacturer announced on Thursday that it will launch consultative negotiations with personnel employed at its steel mill in Raahe and its construction division, Ruukki Construction.

      The negotiations will affect all of the 2,455 staff members at the steel mill and are expected to result in the reduction of up to 210 positions in Raahe. The negotiations will also affect the majority of personnel employed in the construction division and are expected to result in the reduction of up to 85 positions.

Prostate cancer soaring among Czech men

  Survival rate is also better due to advances in treatment 

  The incidence of prostate cancer among Czech men had skyrocketing as it rose by 56 percent over the past ten years, surpassing the colon cancer as the most frequent type of cancer among men, medical expert Marek Babjuk told the Czech News Agency today.

However, there is good news that the mortality from the disease fell by 14 percent over the same period, Babjuk said.

 “In this respect, the Czech Republic has considerably outstripped the rest of Eastern European countries, all but closing the gap behind advanced Western countries,” he added.

European Union and Balkan leaders hold emergency talks on Europe's refugee crisis.

        The mini-summit called by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, groups the heads of eight hard-hit EU nations including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, plus the leaders of Serbia and Macedonia.

The meeting comes after Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia on Saturday warned they would not allow themselves to become a "buffer zone" for the tens of thousands of arrivals streaming into Europe.

Juncker shares concerns over xenophobia as Germany's asylum policy kicks in

         European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker expressed his  concern over xenophobia in Germany. Juncker addressed the issue as the country's amended asylum seekers policy came into effect.

Juncker told German papers belonging to the media group "Funke Mediengruppe" on Saturday that if hate slogans heard at demonstrations and similar incitement can result in attacks on people, then he was prepared to worry about these "so-called citizens."

Russians Consider TV the Most Trustworthy News Source

      More than 50% of Russians consider television the most trustworthy news source, the Interfax news agency reported Friday, citing the Levada Center, an independent pollster.

Complete trust in the information shown on television has increased to 59 percent of poll participants, up from 47 percent in 2012.