07/05/18

[Maik]

Putin to be inaugurated for fourth term as Russian president with lavish ceremony in former tsars' throne room
Protests and mass arrests took place over weekend ahead of ceremony, with demonstrators chanting 'not our tsar'

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russia-vladimir-putin-inauguration-president-kremlin-tsar-navalny-protests-a8339401.html

[Maik]

Facebook 'helped introduce extremists to one another' because of 'suggested friends' feature

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/facebook-scandal-extremists-suggested-friends-isil-a8339296.html

[Maik]

Torrential rain floods areas in southern Greece

...heavy rainfall on the Ionian island of Lefkada on Sunday damaged homes, hotels, a local hospital and a police precinct in the region of Vasiliki, according to reports on Monday.

Schools in Vasiliki remained closed on Monday.

http://www.ekathimerini.com/228371/article/ekathimerini/news/torrential-rain-floods-areas-in-southern-greece

[Maik]

Man, 79, kills wife with cleaver

A 79-year-old man was arrested on Monday in Thrakomakedones in eastern Attica for the murder of his 72-year-old wife with a cleaver.

http://www.ekathimerini.com/228372/article/ekathimerini/news/man-79-kills-wife-with-cleaver

 

[Maik]

Fewer and fewer taxpayers will earn 1,500 euros per month net

For salaried workers to bring home 1,500 euros per month net on a 12-month basis, or 18,000 euros per year not including holiday bonuses, their employers need to pay 2,610 euros a month or over 31,300 euros a year, given Greece’s particularly high taxes and social security contributions.

For a self-employed professional to pocket the same amount , about 18,000 euros per annum, he or she would have to earn at east 50,000 euros on a yearly basis so as to cover professional expenses, taxes and contributions.

http://www.ekathimerini.com/228366/article/ekathimerini/business/fewer-and-fewer-taxpayers-will-earn-1500-euros-per-month-net


Coming soon, shock report, "Tax evasion is rife".

[Maik]

Thousands of firms born in the crisis were doomed from the start

Some 40,000 enterprises were born and died during Greece’s financial crisis

http://www.ekathimerini.com/228365/article/ekathimerini/business/thousands-of-firms-born-in-the-crisis-were-doomed-from-the-start

[Maik]

If you're in a Chinese elevator don't wave your fan at the doors:
https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=aDYRP_1525592988

[Maik]

Brexit: Loss of EHIC 'to stop thousands of Britons with long-term illnesses taking holidays abroad'
Exclusive: Jeremy Hunt urged to intervene in negotiations to avoid loss of health insurance card

Jeremy Hunt has been urged to intervene in Brexit talks to stop British people from losing their right to free healthcare on the continent – amid warnings that changes could prevent those with long-term conditions from leaving the country at all.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-ehic-holidays-health-insurance-europe-meps-kidney-dialysis-hunt-a8336776.html

[Maik]

Leopard eats three-year-old son of national park ranger in Uganda

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/leopard-uganda-ate-child-elisha-nabugyere-son-ranger-toddler-kill-queen-elizabeth-national-park-a8339946.html

[Maik]

Giraffe headbutts filmmaker to death at South African safari lodge
‘We are not going to shoot Gerald. He was not in the wrong’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/giraffe-headbutt-death-carlos-carvalho-filmmaker-south-africa-glen-afric-broederstroom-a8339616.html