212/2018 • 15 SEPTEMBER, 2018 WEEKEND ISSUE
DAILY NEWS IN ENGLISH
UK ramps up provision for no-deal ʼsledgehammerʼ Brexit:
Significant risks and short-term disruption for the UK were presaged by the Brexit minister in the event of a no-deal exit from the EU. With just months to go, businesses and individuals are preparing for major changes.
Turkey sentences German taxi driver for spreading ʼterrorism propagandaʼ German national Ilhami A., from the northern German city of Hamburg, was handed a jail sentence in Turkey on Friday after being found guilty of spreading propaganda for the banned Kurdistan Workersʼ Party (PKK). The 46-year-old appeared in court in the eastern city of Elazig where he received a sentence of three years and one-and-a-half months, according to German public broadcasters NDR, WDR and the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.
Bangladesh unions reject $95 monthly wage for garment workers Hundreds of garment workers staged demonstrations in Bangladeshʼs capital, Dhaka, on Friday, after rejecting the governmentʼs plans to hike their minimum wage to Tk 8,000 ($95, €81). The new monthly pay deal, which is due to come into effect from December, marks a 51 percent rise on the current minimum wage, which was set in 2013. Bangladeshʼs Independent newspaper cited Joly Talukder, a union representative for the garment workers, as saying that the new wage is "illogical and unjust.
British Prime Minister Theresa May held a 3-hour Cabinet meetingon Thursday before her government issued a further collection of technical notices about the effects ofleaving the EU next March without a deal in place. With only months to go, there was more advice for UK individuals and businesses to prepare for major changes in their dealings with Europe as outsiders. What the UK government advisedUK manufacturers may have their export products retested by EU safety regulators.Organic food exports would be certified by a UK body, recognized and approved by Brussels.Processing times and costs for bank card payments could increase.British drivers may need to take a new driving test and obtain two new international driving licenses before taking to Europeʼs roads.Roaming charges for UK mobile phone use in Europe could be reimposed.UK passport holders should have at least six months left on their passports before crossing the Channel, or face being refused entry.Seafarer certificates of competency may no longer be valid.Businesses may need to check they can receive personal data about European customers.A delay in imports of sperm for couples seeking to conceive through artificial insemination.The UK may get less warning of falling space debris. More such advice is expected in the coming weeks. News Brexit: UK ramps up provision for no-deal ʼsledgehammerʼ Significant risks and short-term disruption
for the UK were presaged by the Brexit minister in the event of a nodeal exit from the EU. With just months to go, businesses and individuals are preparing for major changes. British Prime Minister Theresa May held a 3-hour Cabinet meetingon Thursday before her government issued a further collection of technical notices about the effects ofleaving the EU next March without a deal in place. With only months to go, there was more advice for UK individuals and businesses to prepare for major changes in their dealings with Europe as outsiders. What the UK government advised UK manufacturers may have their export products retested by EU safety regulators.Organic food exports would be certified by a UK body, recognized and approved by Brussels.Processing times and costs for bank card payments could increase.British drivers may need to take a new driving test and obtain two new international driving licenses before taking to Europeʼs roads.Roaming charges for UK mobile phone use in Europe could be reimposed.UK passport holders should have at least six months left on their passports before crossing the Channel, or face being refused entry.Seafarer certificates of competency may no longer be valid.Businesses may need to check they can receive personal data about European customers.A delay in imports of sperm for couples seeking to conceive through artificial insemination.
Hambach Forest: Battleground
Torture in Russiaʼs prisons becoming ʼmore sophisticated and brutalʼ
for climate action On Thursday morning, police moved into Germanyʼs ancient Hambach Forest toremove activists and the treehousesthey have lived in for the last six years. The forest is one of the oldest left in Europe. But underneath it lies a wealth of lignite, or brown coal — an extremely carbon-heavy fossil fuel. Police told DW they were acting on the request of local authorities to remove the tree-dwelling activists because of fire-safety concerns. But tensions have been building in the west German forest for months, as energy company RWE prepares to fell the treesin order to expand an opencast lignite mine.
In July this year, the Novaya Gazeta newspaper released footage showing Evgeny Makarov being brutally tortured by a group of guards at the Yarslavl prison in Russia. The incident reportedly occurred in 2017. Irina Biryukova works for the Public Verdict Foundation and serves as Makarovʼs lawyer. Her organization has published the names of the 18 prison guards involved in the torture of Makarov. Thirteen guards are currently in pretrial custody. Now, a second video with further evidence of torture inside a Russian jail has surfaced.