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With few controls in place and a lack of transparency, Dutch politician Sophie in’t Veld warns in an interview that the surveillance industry in Europe operates largely without limits. She firmly believes democracy is facing a serious peril.
Building large solar parks in high-mountain regions is arguably an effective way to produce more power in winter. But it remains highly controversial.
The German-born Swiss industrialist and art collector Emil Georg Bührle posing with his paintings in Zurich in 1954 Dmitri Kessel/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images Without Emil Georg Bührle’s success in selling weapons to Nazi Germany, Zurich’s Kunsthaus would not exist in its current form. But as the museum prepares to open a $230m extension that will double its current footprint, the industrialist is casting a long shadow over its plans. The extension, by the British architect David Chipperfield, was 50% funded by the city and canton of Zurich. It has be...
(** B P) War economy flourishing behind the walls of Houthis detention centers Among the group of detainees who were released by paying money to Houthi mediators or supervisors spoke with Almasdar Online, Al-Sabri was the only one who agreed to disclose his name. The others asked to remain anonymous to protect themselves and their relatives who still live in Houthi-controlled areas from retribution. Other former detainees categorically refused to tell their stories for this report, out of fear of what Houthi authorities would do if they found out. A systematic campaign of random arrests Houth...
Siehe / Look at cp1, cp1b (A P) Houthis are using devilish (cunning) ways to withdraw hard currency from the liberated provinces and freezing the accounts of customers in CAC Bank and the militia’s ‘central bank.’/Bawabati (A P) A Houthi campaign has killed 11880 stray dogs in Sana’a in a cruel way stoking wide anger./ Watan Alghad. (A P) A Houthi tribal figure and his sons assault and stab an elderly man (Yusuf Ahmed Qasem Aljudayeei, 60) because he claimed his Social Cafety card from the Houthi militant./Multiple websites. The Social Safety Card in Yemen is the voucher whereby you r...