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Jailed Pussy Riot leader: ‘I love Russia but I hate Putin’
BERLIN — One of the three members of punk band Pussy Riot jailed last month for a protest in a Russian cathedral launched a fierce new attack on Russian President Vladimir Putin in a magazine interview. “I love Russia but I hate Putin,” Nadezhda Tolokonnikova told the German news weekly…
Report: Germany calls for new EU treaty
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for a new European Union Treaty but is facing lukewarm interest from her EU partners, the weekly Der Spiegel reported. “The federal government would like to further European integration,” it said in its issue to be published Monday, adding that Merkel advocated a meeting…
Rich Germans donated only €165,489 Euros to reduce €2.1 trillion debt
An appeal by Germany’s government for generous-hearted citizens to help wipe out the country’s debt has fallen short… by over two trillion euros, Der Spiegel reported Friday. Germans have only donated 165,489 euros ($203,556) to the finance ministry cause since the launch of its appeal in 2006 to reduce the…
German neo-Nazi ‘helped Munich massacre mastermind’
BERLIN — The self-proclaimed Palestinian mastermind of the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre among Israeli athletes was aided by a German neo-Nazi, Spiegel online reported on Sunday. Documents made public after a request from weekly news magazine Der Spiegel show that in July 1972, police sent the domestic intelligence service information…
Twitter widens window to links in tweets
SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter added Wednesday to the array of online content people could preview in messages without having to click on links included in tweets. People who access the one-to-many text messaging service online at twitter.com or mobile.twitter.com were provided more opportunities to “expand tweets” with looks at pictures,…
Fixing Airbus A380 wing cracks to ‘cost 100 million euros’
BERLIN — Tiny cracks detected in January in the wings of some Airbus A380s will cost around 100 million euros to fix, the German weekly Der Spiegel reports in its edition to appear on Monday. Experts and internal sources at Airbus estimate that repairs and inspections on the super jumbos,…
Assange could be prosecuted for unplanned WikiLeaks release
Since the unanticipated release this week, in complete and unredacted form, of all 251,287 U.S. State Department cables held by WikiLeaks, there has been plenty of blame to go around — and the possible repercussions have grown increasingly dire. Most obviously in danger are the informants in places like Iran,…
US army apologizes for Afghanistan abuse pictures
WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US Army on Monday formally apologized “for the distress” caused by pictures portraying abuse allegedly committed by American troops serving in Afghanistan. “We apologize for the distress these photos cause,” said a statement released by the Army. German weekly Der Spiegel earlier Monday published photos that…
Ex-German leader: Bush lying about Iraq in new book
Former President George W. Bush just isn’t telling the truth, says one ex-world leader in a position to know. In his new book Decision Points, Bush claims that former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder offered him full-fledged support should he decide to invade Iraq. Bush wrote that Schroeder told him, “What is…
Ex-WikiLeaks staffers to launch rival whistleblower site: report
A group of former WikiLeaks staffers are planning on launching their own site for leaked documents, according to a published report. Daniel Domscheit-Berg, an important member of WikiLeaks who quit in September after disagreements with the site’s founder Julian Assange, is reportedly planning to create his own whistleblower site along…
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