200/2018 • 01 SEPTEMBER, 2018 WEEKEND ISSUE
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Journalist Deniz Yücel to sue Turkey over imprisonment In a short message on Twitter, media watchdog Reporters Without Borders announced Wednesday that GermanTurkish journalist Deniz Yücel will sue Turkish authorities for detaining him "unlawfully." The Turkish branch of the Paris-based organization said that Yücel is demanding one million Turkish liras (€130,000, $152,000) in damages for his detention. The correspondent for German daily Die Welt will be represented by his lawyer, Veysel Ok. The hearing is set for September 25 in Istanbul.
Amnesty accuses Turkey of ʼturning blind eyeʼ to abuses in Afrin Human rights organization Amnesty International accused Turkey on Thursday of allowing Syrian armed groups to commit a wide range of violations against civilians in Afrin. Turkish forces aided by allied rebelscaptured the northern Syrian townin March from the US-backed Kurdish Peopleʼs Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara considers a terrorist group.According to Amnestyʼs research, scores of displaced residents have since returned to their homes, only to be subjected to rights abuses. Read more:Turkeyʼs military offensive against Kurdish-held Afrin: What you need to know Amnesty interviewed 32 people, both current and former Afrin residents, between May and July 2018, who said: Residents in Afrin are enduring "arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances, confiscation of property and looting."Most of the abuses were "at the hands of Syrian groups that have been equipped and armed by Turkey."Some of the rebel groups and Turkish armed forces had "taken over schools, disrupting the education for thousands of children."
Donald Trump: China ʼnot helpfulʼ with North Korea Trump praised his relationship with Kim Jong-Un as a very good and warm one
President Donald Trump said China was applying "tremendous pressure" on North Korea due to its trade disputes with the US. Trump praised his relationship with Kim Jong-Un as "a very good and warm one."
Outcry in Uganda over compulsory HIV test 19-year-old Methia Nalukwago, a student at Makerere University in the capital Kampala, is excited by the proposal to have all students undergo compulsory HIV/AIDS testing. Some students, she says, have been living in denial. "Our friends, we study with them but you look at someone and you are like, ʼare you sure you are not sick or something like that?ʼ Of course you never come out to tell them but you feel it deep down inside you, this person must be sick because of the symptoms that show," Nalukwago told DW. "Compulsory testing for HIV will help us know our HIV status and where we stand." Studies
conducted by the Ugandan AIDS Commission show lack of sufficient information among the youth is contributing to an increase of HIV. Jane Were, the head teacher of Forest Hill College in Mukono district located 21 kilometers (13 miles) east of Kampala, said they are grappling with HIV in schools. She said the situation has been made worse by parents who mislead their children on what they are actually suffering from. "We have situations where parents lie to students about these [anti-retroviral] drugs. There are parents who tell children they have other ailments other than HIV," Were said.
Andy Murray jokes #liarliarpantsonfire in Fernando Verdasco heat break disagreement Andy Murray joked he needs a check-up as he has "started imagining things" after Fernando Verdasco denied he spoke to his coach during the heat break in their US Open second-round tie. Players are not allowed to be coached during breaks for extreme heat. Murray reported Verdasco,who won in four sets,but the Spaniard said: "I donʼt want to say that Andy lied but I didnʼt talk one word with my coach." Murray later posted a response using the hashtag #liarliarpantsonfire. Writing onInstagram,the former world
number one thanked fans for their support and joked: "Iʼm off to get a health check as apparently Iʼve started imagining things." Earlier, following his 7-5 2-6 6-4 6-4 defeat, Murray had said Verdasco and his coaching team "probably werenʼt aware of the rule" about heat breaks. "When I came out of the shower, his coach and one of the Spanish doubles players were in there chatting to him, and youʼre not allowed to speak to your coach," said Murray. "Iʼm not blaming Fernando and his team. They certainly werenʼt trying to break any rules.
EU Mediterranean migrant mission at risk of collapse Italy is expected to use a meeting of European defense and foreign ministers in Vienna on Thursday to ask other members of the bloc to take in migrants rescued at sea under the EUʼs "Sophia" mission. With little immediate sign of a compromise in sight, the row could jeopardize the EUʼs anti-trafficking mission in the Mediterranean. Operation Sophia was launched in 2015 after a series of fatal shipwrecks in the Mediterranean involving migrants from North Africa and the Middle East.
PEGIDA protester leaves police after reporter row The far-right PEGIDA protesterat the center of a scandal involving police and journalists in the eastern German city of Dresden no longer works for the investigative arm of Saxonyʼs state police, the LKA, officials announced on Thursday. Starting on September 3, the man will have "another adequate role outside of the Saxon Police force," authorities said in a statement. The decision was made following discussions with the man and his lawyer where he had the opportunity "to present his perspective on the situation," the statement read.
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200/2018 • 01 September, 2018 Weekend issue
Reasons why you should be happy the holidays are over Best time of the year? No way! Nearly 20 percent of people aged between 30 and 44 cannot relax while on holiday. This is the conclusion of a Forsa survey. Some people canʼt completely forget work because their boss wants them to be available at all times. Others have stress with their family. The holidays apparently also lead to a few extra pounds. More than 50 percent of all Germans gain weight during their vacation, usually one or two kilos, according to a representative survey by the travel site start.de. All that good food and drink has to go somewhere!
Red Star, Benfica, PSV win to qualify for Champions League draw Benfica, PSV Eindhoven and Red Star Belgrade have secured the final spots in the draw for the group stage of the Champions League. Salzburg failed in their 11th attempt to qualify for the group stage. Red Bull Salzburg, who due to UEFA rules are referred to as "FC Salzburg" in European play, blew a 2-0 lead at home to Red Star Belgrade on Wednesday, playing to a 2-2 draw, which saw the 1991 European champions advance on the away-goals rule. This was the 11th time that the Austrians have failed to advance from qualifying for the Champions League — in five of those cases they tripped at the final hurdle.
Former national team stars express cautious support for Joachim Löw Joachim Löw has received mixed reviews after he presented his analysis as to why Germany crashed out of the World Cup at the group stage.
Few, if any German media outlets were particularly impressed by the analysis of what went wrong for Germany at the 2018 World Cup in Russia presented by national team head coach Joachim Löw in Munich on Wednesday. Read more: Opinion: Too little, too late and still too detached The mass circulation newspaper Bild described the self-criticism that Löw expressed at the press conference as "weak," the national broadsheet Die Welt wrote that the Germany
coach "lacked the strength to act," while the news magazine Spiegel found that the results of the German Football Associationʼs (DFB) analysis was "not worthy of two months of silence." German football fans will be watching Löw like a hawk when the national team faces World Cup champions France in their first match in the inaugural UEFA Nations League next Thursday, before taking on Peru in an international friendly the following Sunday.
Michael Jackson: A pop iconʼs legacy The King of Pop had numerous hit singles and iconic music videos under his belt before his death at the age of 50 shocked the world. Where were you when news of Michael Jacksonʼs death broke? June 25 2009 is one of those dates that will have stuck in the minds of music fans the world over. His many hit songs — from "Billie Jean" to "Black or White" — have gone down in music history, and Jackson himself is remembered as one of the worldʼs greatest pop icons. And yet in the
years before his death, Jacksonʼs public image had begun to suffer thanks to his ever more extreme experimentation with plastic surgery and of course allegations of child sexual abuse, earning him the nickname "Wacko Jacko" in the tabloid press. MJ the musician There is no question that Michael Jackson earned the title "King of Pop." The most fruitful period for him was during his collaboration with producer Quincy Jones, which gave us the landmark albums Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1982) and Bad (1987).
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Fans pay their last respects to Aretha Franklin A public viewing is underway in Franklinʼs home town Detroit ahead of the soul legendʼs funeral on Friday. Fans traveled from all over the country to say goodbye. Fans in the United States are paying their last respects to soul singer Aretha Franklin,who died on August 16 at the age of 76. On Tuesday Franklinʼs body, dressed in a red outfit and red high heels, lay in a casket surrounded by pink and purple roses at the Charles Wright Museum of American History in Detroit. Franklinʼs powerful vocals sounded from loudspeakers as fans — some weeping, some singing along — lined up to say goodbye. The Delta Sigma Theta sorority, of which Franklin was an honorary member, held a private ceremony in her honor in the museum on Tuesday evening before a second day of public viewing began on Wednesday morning. A fitting send-off Franklinʼs niece Sabrina Owens said those who had organized the public viewing wanted to give Franklin a send-off that "would match her legacy."
Refugees in Italy get their hands dirty with own farm Every morning Dembo Cisse, a sturdily-built 21-year old from Guinea, waits for the car to pick him up. He and two others, who live in the same apartment that belongs to Italyʼs privatized migrant reception system, get in the vehicle. The old family car then heads from Oleggio, a small town in the northern Italian region of Piedmont, to an agricultural field nearby. But Dembo and his companions are not off to work in the food supply chain, dominated by large-scale distributors who require ever lower prices and therefore cheap labor — which many of their fellow Africans provide for lack of better options. Read more: Italy tells refugees