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Iceland prime minister Bjarni BenediktssonThe current Iceland’s PM sold almost all his remaining assets in a major Icelandic bank’s investment fund on the day the government seized control of the country’s collapsing financial sector at the peak of the 2008 crash.

According to leaked documents, B. Benediktsson, then an MP on the parliament’s economy and tax committee, sold millions króna of assets in the Glitnir bank’s fund in the final days & hours before an emergency law placed Iceland’s failed financial institutions under state control. Read more HERE.

Published on 06/10/2017 @ 15h43  |

A demonstration in Barcelona against Catalonia’s independence referendum.Spain’s constitutional court has suspended a Catalan parliament session planned for Monday in an attempt to block an expected declaration of independence by the Catalan president, Carles Puigdemont.

Upholding a challenge by Catalonia’s Socialist party, which opposes secession from Spain, the court ruled that allowing the regional parliament to meet and declare independence would violate the rights of the party’s MPs. Read more HERE.

Published on 05/10/2017 @ 15h10  |

Image result for Las Vegas suspect had more than 40 firearms in hotel and home, police sayThe suspect in the Las Vegas shooting that has left at least 59 people dead had amassed an arsenal that included more than 40 firearms, police said on Monday night, as officials declared a state of emergency for the county encompassing the Las Vegas strip.

Authorities found 23 guns, including a handgun, in the hotel room of the gunman, identified earlier by police as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock. At least some were equipped with scopes, devices that help the shooter identify targets at a range. Read more HERE

Published on 03/10/2017 @ 14h40  |

Image result for Catalonia referendum: 90% voted for independenceThe pope made a plea for unity during a tour of northern Italy on Sunday. During a stop in Bologna, he told students there they had a right to culture, hope and peace and that recent populist and nationalist movements in Europe were threatening that peace.

The Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, said earlier the referendum “only served to cause serious harm to coexistence” among Spaniards but he is “not going to close any door” to dialogue. Read more HERE.

Published on 02/10/2017 @ 08h27  |

Image result for Outcry as Azerbaijan police launch crackdown on LGBT communityAuthorities in Baku, have begun a vicious crackdown on the city’s LGBT community, according to activists in the country. Reports suggest that over the past 10 days dozens of gay and trans people have been arrested. One person the Guardian contacted said he had been beaten in police custody.

Homosexuality is legal in the oil-rich, post-Soviet country, but a survey released last year by a rights organisation ranked Azerbaijan as the worst of 49 European countries in which to be gay. Read more HERE.

Published on 28/09/2017 @ 13h04  |