223/2018 • 29 SEPTEMBER, 2018 WEEKEND ISSUE
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Macedonia name change could be a game changer Risto Mijakovski sits in a tent in the small park opposite the Macedonian parliament building in the capital Skopje. A painter by trade, Mijakovski is a member of the #Bojkotiram (Boycott) movement which wants to preserve the Republic of Macedonia. "By changing our name they want to completely erase the Macedonian nation. We are losing our identity, our language, everything," he tells DW. The debate over what to call the country has been simmering since independence in 1991. Now, it has reached boiling point. Citizens in one of Europeʼs youngest countries are set tovote on renaming the former Yugoslav republic "North Macedonia."
Facebook security breach affects 50 million users How has Facebook resolved the issue?
Facebook says attackers have exploited vulnerability in its code to steal "access tokens" which could have affected millions of profiles.
Belgium to sue Google for not blurring military sites Belgium has said it will take legal action against Google for not complying with its requests to blur satellite images of sensitive defense sites. The Belgian Defense Ministry said it had asked the technology giant to blur sites such as air bases and nuclear power stations, citing national security concerns. "The Ministry of Defense will sue Google," a ministry spokeswoman said, without giving further details. Google has previously complied with similar requests from other countries including France and the Netherlands.
Amnesty accuses Turkey of ʼturning blind eyeʼ to abuses in Afrin
Outcry in Uganda over compulsory HIV Dutch police find bombtest
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."
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.
Mick Schumacher tests DTM Mercedes at Nürburgring Michael Schumacherʼs son Mick took a time-out from his Formula 3 championship bid on Friday to test a German Touring Car (DTM) Mercedes. The 19-year-old is making steady progress through the junior ranks. Michael Schumacher rose the ranks in Mercedesʼ young driver program in the late 1980s and early 90s, also finishing his Formula 1 career with three seasons driving the Silver Arrows in F1. Now, his son Mick is progressing up the junior series, competing this
year for the Formula 3 championship. Schumacher the younger took time out from his typical F3 duties on Friday, however, to try out the Mercedes DTM (German Touring Car) around the Nürburgring. "I had a lot of fun. That was a very worthwhile experience," Schumacher said after the test drive. The original plan was to allow Schumacher to drive demonstration laps in the same DTM Mercedes that Michael Schumacher raced in 1990 and 1991; but the car was ultimately not fit for use on the day.
making materials after ʼterrorʼ arrests Dutch investigators revealed on Friday they found a substantial quantity of raw materials for explosives at the homes of seven suspects arrested a day earlier on terror-related charges. Officers also found "100 kilograms [220 pounds] of fertilizer, possibly for use in a car bomb," prosecutors said. The men were reportedly planning to carry out a large-scale attack on an event with the aim of causing multiple casualties. The arrests followed a monthslong investigation into a terror network.
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