Psychologist: “Our culture produces traumatized men”

Job loss and divorce are traumatic life events for anyone, but many men don’t have the tools to deal with their feelings and are left alone with their problems.

Psychologist and psychotherapist Lauri Mannermaa speaks about the phenomenon of “male shame” - that overwhelming feeling some men are plagued by that says they have failed to be the man that society and other men expect.

More people infected with HIV in Turkey this year

The number of patients infected with the HIV virus has increased in Turkey over the past year, according to Hayati Demiraslan, an academic at the Medical Faculty of Erciyes University in the Central Anatolian province of Kayseri.

                                              

Turkey releases audio of alleged warning,Russian pilot denies authenticity

The Turkish military says it has briefed Moscow on the reason behind downing Russian bomber aircraft over Syria; Russia remains unconvinced.

ECB Puts New EUR 20 Note into Circulation

A new EUR 20 bank note entered into circulation since Wednesday according to the European Central Bank.

                          

Bulgarian Police Bust Crime Group Making Fake Passports for Migrants 

Bulgarian police have arrested five people on charges of making fake identity documents, including passports for illegal migrants crossing the country, BGNES reported on Saturday.

The five suspects, aged between 22 and 57 years, were detained in Sofia and Veliko Tarnovo earlier this week.

                                   

Russia suspends visa-free travel with Turkey

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said that Moscow will suspend the visa-free regime with Turkey starting January 1, 2016.

                             

 Asylum seekers a security threat to Finland:Minister

Justice Minister Jari Lindström says that asylum seekers pose a security threat to Finland. The minister was responding Friday to news that police are investigating about ten reported rape cases in which asylum seekers are suspects.       
                                                               

Two journalists arrested for story on intelligence trucks bound for Syria

Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Can Dündar and the daily’s Ankara bureau chief, Erdem Gül, were arrested due to stories published about Turkish intelligence trucks bound for Syria in early 2014, on Nov. 26 in Istanbul.

                                     

                   Daily Cumhuriyet Editor-in-Chief Can Dündar is seen being transferred to Istanbul's Silivri prison

Turkey advises against all non-urgent travel to Russia

Turkey has issued a travel warning advising Turkish people to postpone all non-urgent travel to Russia after some Turkish citizens and businessmen experienced difficulties. 

                                       

Jimmie Åkesson reelected Sweden Democrats leader

Jimmie Åkesson was reelected as the leader of the Sweden Democrats on Saturday morning at the party's annual meeting in Lund, daily,Dagens Nyheter (DN) reports.

During his speech, Åkesson said that his party was "on its way to win".

                           

95% of foreign fighters who join ISIS are recruited by friends and family 
                                      

ISIS release new video in English list 60 countries as 'coalition of the devils'

ISIS HAS released a video threatening the US and its "coalition of the devils' including the UK to 'bring it on'.

                                              

New knowledge centers aim to stop Swedish IS recruits

In order to prevent the recruitment of people to the terrorist group IS and other violent extremist groups, Sweden's National Coordinator against Violent Extremism, Mona Sahlin, is initiating a pilot program to set up special knowledge centers ("kunskapshus") in four cities.

The idea takes its inspiration in part from Århus, Denmark, which opened a center in 2007 to combat the radicalization of youth after the London bombings of 2005.

Sweden hosts global climate conference for children

Sixty-four children from over twenty countries are currently meeting in Sweden to discuss how to combat climate change. Their goal is to agree on a list of demands that will then be presented to world leaders at the UN's Climate Change Conference in Paris next week.

                                        

Swedish party named in refugee ads slams drive

An international campaign by the far-right Sweden Democrats has been sharply criticized – after they used a centre-right mainstream party's signature alongside their own without permission.

                         

Nordic ministers to boost logistics of refugee situation

.The defence minister, Peter Christensen has revealed that the Nordic countries are looking into the possibility of improving the region’s logistical preparedness in light of the ongoing refugee and migration crisis.

                                              

Russia orders retaliatory economic measures against Turkey over jet

Russia is preparing a raft of retaliatory economic measures against Turkey after Ankara downed one of its warplanes, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Nov. 26.

  

"The government has been ordered to work out a system of response measures to this act of aggression in the economic and humanitarian spheres," Medvedev told a cabinet meeting in televised comments.

                                            

Turkish police detain 11 ISIL suspects in three provinces

Turkish police detained 11 people on suspicions of being members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in simultaneous raids in three provinces across the country on Nov. 23.

                                             

4-year-old Syrian migrant girl found dead off Turkey’s Bodrum coast

Turkish fishermen found the dead body of a 4-year-old Syrian migrant girl off Turkey’s Bodrum coast on Nov. 22, four days after a migrant dinghy capsized. The girl's fate was reminiscent of that of Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi, whose lifeless body washed up on the shore of Bodrum in September, triggering worldwide outrage. 

                                                               

Lufthansa faces new strikes from Thursday

The troubled airline Lufthansa is facing a new round of strikes, after air crew union UFO told its members to head for the pickets on Thursday and Friday.

The strike is set to carry on into Monday of the following week if Lufthansa fails to appropriately respond to the union's demands, said UFO chief Nicoley Baublies in Frankfurt on Monday.

                                         

Denmark considers lowering legal driving age

As part of a 100-point ‘growth package’ presented on Monday, the Venstre government has proposed letting 17-year-olds drive.

The government is proposing a trial programme that would drop the legal driving age in Denmark from 18 to 17. Under the plan, 17-year-olds would be able to drive as long as they are accompanied by an experienced driver. 

                                                                                   

Growing number of people in Sweden care for relatives abroad

According to a study by the National Board of Health and Welfare, 1.3 million people living in Sweden regularly provide care for a relative.

This could be someone who provides care for a partner who is chronically ill, a parent with dementia or a parent providing care for a disabled child.      

Stop sinking migrant boats: Turkish admiral warns Greece

A Turkish admiral has shown footage of a migrant boat being sunk on the Aegean Sea by a Greek Coast Guard boat to a Greek Coast Guard commander, urging them to refrain from such acts, daily Hürriyet reported on Nov. 19.

                                      

                           

Russia sanctions extended by 6 months

Western leaders who met on the margins of last week's Group of 20 summit in Turkey agreed to extend sanctions imposed on Russia for its intervention in Ukraine by six months until July of next year, a senior European diplomat told Reuters.

                        

Multi-million Russian Tax evader to be extradited

A Russian man accused of evading taxes worth 310 million rubles (€4.5 million) will be extradited from Austria to Russia after a court ruling on Friday.

According to a report from news agency RIA Novosti, Eduard Sherbina and his alleged accomplices embezzled the money from the Russian tax authorities by providing them with false information.

                                      

Swedish king calls for ban on bathtubs to cut emissions

King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden has called for a ban on bathtubs to help cut emissions in an interview ahead of UN climate talks in Paris.

 “All bathtubs should be banned. Just imagine it!”, he exclaimed in an interview published in the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper on Saturday.

Carl XVI Gustaf said that the idea had come to him the day before the interview, as he was going through his morning routine and was forced to run a bath, because the room in which he was staying lacked a shower.

                                     

Romanian insurer in financial strain gets EUR 90 mln capital boosts

Local insurer Euroins Romania, which is now under financial recovery, will increase its capital by RON 400 million (EUR 90 million) in the next 12 months.The first capital boost, which amounts to EUR 45 million, will be carried out by the end of the year, according to the Financial Supervisory Authority ASF. The shareholders have already approved the capital increase.