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• The world’s largest solar farm rises in the remote Egyptian desert

  By konigludwig on July 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  By Rachel Scheier In 1913 on the outskirts of Cairo, an inventor from Philadelphia named Frank Shuman built the world’s first solar thermal power station, using the abundant Egyptian sunshine to pump 6,000 gallons of water a minute from the… Read More ›

• Red Hot Planet

  By konigludwig on July 5, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Red-hot planet: All-time heat records have been set all over the world during the week From the normally mild summer climes of Ireland, Scotland and Canada to the scorching Middle East, numerous locations in the Northern Hemisphere have witnessed their… Read More ›

• Erdogan’s Win Paves the Road Toward Autocracy

  By konigludwig on June 25, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  With Erdogan’s reelection, Turkey faces a future as a purely autocratic state, persecuting political rivals and settling scores With more than 90 percent of the votes counted Sunday night, one could predict with a great deal of certainty that Recep… Read More ›

• Victims of Torture File Criminal Complaint Against Assad Regime in Austrian Courts

  By konigludwig on May 31, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Victims of torture by the Assad regime have filed criminal complaint against Assad in law courts in the Austrian capital of Vienna, citing the arbitrary arrests and torture of hundreds of thousands of civilians. The victims accused the Assad regime’s… Read More ›

• Убийство российского журналиста

  By konigludwig on April 20, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  Из статьи «Российский журналист, который сообщил о секретных полувоенных убийствах» в Нью-Йорк Таймс Moscow — A Russian journalist who had reported recently on clandestine Russian paramilitary groups in Syria died on Sunday after falling from the balcony of his fifth-floor… Read More ›

• Ahed Tamimi Has Become the Symbol of a New Generation of Palestinian Resistance

  By konigludwig on December 25, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  It would be far better, however, if she could just be a child. By Ben Ehrenreich Ahed Tamimi was 11 when I met her, a little blond slip of a thing, her hair almost bigger than she was. I remember… Read More ›

• Besieged Syrians Are Eating Trash To Survive

  By konigludwig on November 25, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Children are dying of starvation in the rebel-held region of eastern Ghouta. Desperate Syrians trapped in eastern Ghouta have started eating garbage to survive as a government-imposed siege tightens around the dilapidated Damascus suburb like a noose. Many famished children… Read More ›

• Russian airstrikes have killed thousands of civilians in Syria since 2015

  By konigludwig on October 4, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  A total of 5,233 civilians have been killed in Syria since Russia began airstrikes against opponents of the Syrian regime in 2015, according to a Syrian NGO. The fatalities included 1,417 children and 886 women, the London-based Syrian Network for… Read More ›

• More Than 1,000 Died in South Asia Floods This Summer

  By konigludwig on August 30, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  查看简体中文版 查看繁體中文版 MUMBAI, India — More than 1,000 people have died in floods across South Asia this summer, and as sheets of incessant rain pummeled the vast region on Tuesday, worries grew that the death toll would rise along with… Read More ›

• Afghanistan’s Young Liberal Elites Challenge the Taliban

  By konigludwig on July 31, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  A young, liberal elite has emerged in Kabul, including many women. It is taking a stand against the Taliban’s atrocities in the form of political and artistic initiatives and wants to put an end to Afghanistan’s culture of violence. By… Read More ›