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02/06/2023

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A priceless 16th century Italian painting that was looted by N**i Germany during World War II and discovered in Japan has been returned to Poland, authorities in Warsaw said Wednesday.

The “Madonna with Child” attributed to Alessandro Turchi, is the latest of some 600 looted artistic pieces that Poland has successfully repatriated. More than 66,000 so-called war losses remain unaccounted for. The painting was handed over during a ceremony at Poland’s Embassy in Tokyo Wednesday.

Culture Minister Piotr Glinski told reporters in Warsaw that the baroque painting was on the N**is’ list of the 521 most valuable pieces of art among the tens of thousands of artworks that they looted when they occupied Poland between 1939-45.

He said it was “not easy” to explain the history behind the looted works as well as the need for their return. But he said the “Madonna with Child” was returned following negotiations with the Japanese side and the “Mainichi Auction Inc. as well as the person who was in possession of the painting have decided to return it to Poland, without any costs.”

26/05/2023

The EU has issued a record-breaking €1.2 billion ($1.3 billion) fine to Facebook owner Meta over data transfers. After a lengthy investigation, officials found the social network’s practice of moving EU citizens' data to U.S.-based servers was in violation of the bloc’s key digital privacy rules. In a statement, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission said that while Meta had attempted to address potential legal hurdles, “these arrangements did not address the risks to the fundamental rights and freedoms of data subjects” in the Union. This is the latest chapter in a saga that has now run for more than a decade examining how EU citizens’ private data is handled by Big Tech. Put simply, European privacy law is thought to be a lot tighter than its American counterpart, especially with a focus on individual rights. But any big tech company with servers all around the world has the ability to move data from one server to another without much effort. That means that an EU citizens’ data could be sent to the U.S., where such stringent privacy laws don’t apply, opening the door for unnecessary surveillance.
It’s something that the EU, often pushed into action by Austrian lawyer and privacy activist Max Schrems, has been working to address. Schrems found the existing Safe Harbor provisions to be insufficient, something that the Court of Justice of the European Union agreed with. So, the bloc worked with the U.S. on the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, which was meant to tighten data controls when information was pushed between the two territories. Naturally, that was similarly ruled invalid by the European Court of Justice, leading to further contortions as Facebook and others said that their businesses, for reasons known only to them, wouldn’t function without this data transfer. As part of the decision, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission has ordered Meta to suspend any future data transfers of EU citizen data to the U.S. within the next five months.

25/05/2023

German Defense Minister expresses disgruntlement as Hungary holds up military aid to Ukraine.
Hungary has once again blocked the disbursement of €500 million from the EU Fund, intended to reimburse member states for military aid to Ukraine
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius criticized Hungary for blocking further military aid to Ukraine at a meeting of EU defense ministers in Brussels on May 23
The €500 million tranche from the European Peace Fund, which supports Ukraine with weapons, has been blocked by Hungary. The reason is behind the largest commercial bank of Hungary – OTP Bank. OTP has become a focal point for officials in recent days as Hungary is refusing to approve more EU military aid for Ukraine until Kyiv removes the company from a “war sponsors” list it maintains.

25/05/2023

The European Commission has proposed to relocate 30,000 migrants to other member countries, with an option to extend this number to 120,000 people, the PAP news agency reported

25/05/2023

King Charles III vowed to follow the late Sovereign's "sacrificial obligation" in his most memorable location to the two Places of Parliament as ruler.
👉The Ruler said Parliament was the "living and breathing instrument of our vote based system" as he talked before 900 MPs and companions at Westminster Lobby.
It followed sympathies from speakers of the Place of Lodge and Masters.
Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Place of Lodge speaker, said "however profound as our sorrow may be, we realize yours is more profound".
Tending to the Lord in the interest of MPs, Sir Lindsay added: "We realize you hold the best regard, the valuable customs, the opportunities, and obligations of our novel history and our arrangement of parliamentary government.
"We realize that you will bear those obligations which tumble to you with the strength, nobility, exhibited by Her late Greatness."
The Lord, in his reaction, said: "While exceptionally youthful, Her Late Grandness swore herself to serve her nation and her kin and to keep up with the valuable standards of sacred government which lie at the core of our country. This commitment she kept with superb dedication.
"She set an illustration of magnanimous obligation which, with God's assistance and your advice, I'm settled loyally to follow."
State trumpeters played a ballyhoo as Ruler Charles cleared his path through Westminster Lobby at 10:25 BST while the Regal Standard was brought up instead of the half pole.
👉Worked in 1097, Westminster Corridor plays had a huge impact in English history across the hundreds of years.
"I can't resist the urge to feel the heaviness of history which encompasses us and which helps us to remember the fundamental parliamentary customs to which individuals from the two houses devote yourselves, with such private responsibility to improve every one of us," the Ruler said in his location.
"Parliament is the living and breathing instrument of our majority rules system. That your customs are antiquated we find in the development of this extraordinary corridor and the tokens of archaic ancestors of the workplace to which I have been called."
At the service - which occurred in a similar lobby where the Sovereign's final resting place will lie in state not long from now - the ruler, joined by Camilla, Sovereign Partner, were given sympathies for the two Places of Parliament.
Master McFall honored the late Sovereign and said she "caught the creative mind of people groups across the globe".
"We recollect her responsibility, her thoughtfulness, her humor, her boldness and her backbone as well as the profound confidence which was the anchor in her life," he added.
"We are glad and lowered to invite you as Lord."

25/05/2023

Stewart Rhodes was one of more than 1,000 people charged in the attack, encouraged by then-President Donald Trump to prevent Congress from recognizing Joe Biden as the winner of the November 2020 election.

"Incitement to insurrection is one of the most serious crimes an American can commit," Judge Amit Mehta said in sentencing.

"You are a continuing threat and danger to this country," Mehta told Rhodes.

"My only crime is to speak out against those who are destroying our country," Rhodes said, comparing himself to the famous Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Rhodes, 57, and Kelly Maggs, 53, were convicted by a jury in Washington in November on charges of seditious conspiracy - conspiring to overthrow the government or unlawfully resist its authority.

In the same trial, three other rioters were convicted of obstructing official proceedings as rioters shut down Congress and sent lawmakers and Vice President Mike Pence to safety.

During the trial, the prosecutor's office stated that the attackers "made a plan of armed insurrection... conceiving of forceful opposition to the United States government."

Rhodes' lawyers argued that he never entered the Capitol building and did not support others in doing so.

Rhodes' lawyer, Philip Linder, however, said he should not be held responsible for the attack on the Capitol and pointed the finger at Trump.

Prosecutors have demanded that Mehta sentence Rhodes to 25 years in prison and apply harsher penalties for terrorism.

25/05/2023

According to the statement, Tina Turner died on May 24 at the age of 83 after a long illness at her home in Kusnacht near Zurich, Switzerland.

"Tina Turner, the 'Queen of Rock and Roll' died peacefully today at the age of 83 after a long illness at her home in Kusnacht near Zurich, Switzerland. The world is losing a musical legend and role model in her passing," the statement reads.

Tina Turner was born in the United States in 1939. The peak of her career was in the 60s, when the singer with an outstanding voice, plasticity and expressiveness won the title of "Queen of Rock and Roll". She was named one of the ten best dancers in the world, and the authoritative Rolling Stone magazine called Turner one of the greatest singers of our time.

The most famous hits of the artist are The Best, Proud Mary, Private Dancer and What's Love Got to Do With It. The words were sung along to at concerts around the world.

25/05/2023

After 13 years of bloody war in Syria, dictator Bashar al-Assad, supported by Russia and Iran, not only retained power but also returned to major regional politics. Saudi Arabia, which resumed diplomatic relations with the Iranian regime a month ago with the mediation of China, helped Syria regain its position in the Arab League, a key regional organization of 22 countries. By the way, other players in the Middle East did not resist this very much. And this is after so many crimes, the murder of hundreds of thousands of people?

In fact, the return of Bashar al-Assad to the big Arab family is an alarming signal. Because it means strengthening the positions of Russia and Putin, as well as Iran and China.

25/05/2023

German Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock began a visit to China today to renew the European Union's common policy toward Beijing.

A few days ago, French President Emmanuel Macron said that the continent's approach to the growing superpower was in disarray. Macron provoked a backlash in the United States and Europe when he called on the European Union to reduce its dependence on the United States and warned against getting involved in the Taiwan crisis caused by "American rhythm and China's overreaction."

According to many European politicians, diplomats and analysts, Macron's comments in the interview with Politico and the French daily Les Echos are a gift to Beijing, which is seeking to destroy transatlantic unity.

As a result, the stakes for Burbock's inaugural trip have risen, and many EU members hope that Berlin will use the opportunity to present a clear and unified position on China.

25/05/2023

The Chinese Embassy in France has removed the transcript of an interview with Ambassador Lu Shae, in which he questioned the independence of the former Soviet Union, which caused a flurry of criticism in Europe.

Bloomberg writes about it.

The embassy initially published a full transcript of Lu's statements in Chinese and French on its official WeChat account, which then disappeared. The interview was also not published on the embassy's official website. However, screenshots of the excerpts were still available on the Chinese microblogging platform Weibo.

In an interview with the French television company LCI, which was aired on Friday, Lu said that some "countries of the former Soviet Union" have no status under international law.

Ukraine's ambassador to France, Vadym Omelchenko, responded to the interview, saying that the Chinese diplomat "either has obvious problems with geography or such statements are contrary to the position of the Chinese capital "on efforts to restore peace in Ukraine on the basis of international law and the purposes and principles of the UN Charter."

25/05/2023

European police conducted raids in several European countries on Wednesday morning as part of an investigation into the case against the Italian mafia group Ndrangheta.

CNN writes about this with reference to the Belgian Federal Prosecutor's Office.

The raids took place in Italy, Germany, Belgium, France, Portugal, Romania and Spain.

"This morning, a large-scale European operation took place in several countries. This concerns a case opened by the Belgian Federal Prosecutor's Office in cooperation with the Limburg Prosecutor's Office (German province - ed.), the Federal Judicial Police, Eurojust, Europol and various countries, including Italy," prosecutors said in a statement.

In Italy, 108 people were arrested as part of a four-pronged investigation on charges of "mafia unification."

In a joint release on Wednesday, prosecutors in German cities said that "forces from Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and the Saarland" were involved in a "large-scale operation." More than 20 raids were conducted in Belgium.

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