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Turkey’s autocrat Erdogan is trying to eliminate his rival Imamoglu

In 2019 already, Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem Imamoglu ermerged as the most dangerous rival for Turkey’s president turned autocrat, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was single-headedly ruining the Turkish economy and impoverished large sections of the population. Imamoglu is not the typical dull, secular, liberal, center-left CHP politician, but a charismatic one who is also electable...

Jun 16, 2015 at 23:09 2193
Lviv sightseeing

At the end of 1998, the Old Town of the Galician city of Lviv (Lwów in Polish, L’vov in Russian, Lemberg in German and Leopolis in Latin), which has completely preserved its Medieval...

May 07, 2015 at 19:45 1226
The new Israeli coalition

After the 2015-election, it was clear that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would form a right-wing government. He had already moved further to the right at the end of 2014. As a surprise...

Feb 17, 2015 at 01:08 3006
Hotel Plaza Athénée Paris

Review, history, anecdotes and design of the palace at avenue Montaigne In February 2015, I finally had the chance to rediscover the renovated and enlarged Hotel Plaza Athénée in Paris....

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Christophe Moret

Christophe Moret has rightly been awarded a second Michelin star (Added on February 1, 2016 at 17:54 CET). Biography of Christophe Moret The executive chef at Shangri-La hotel Paris,...

Nov 14, 2014 at 15:38 1676
Netanyahu moves to the right

Israeli politics have always been volatile. New parties emerge, existing parties merge, politicians change parties and alliances. When Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu sacked his finance...

Sep 15, 2014 at 20:52 3694
Smokey Robinson

The early life of William Smokey Robinson The Motown record label owes its success to many people. The first to come to my mind are founder Berry Gordy and singer, songwriter, record...

Aug 27, 2014 at 12:34 20925
Emmanuel Macron

The most important appointment in the new, largely unchanged, second government Valls, is the one of Emmanuel Macron as France’s new Minister of the Economy, the Industry and the...

Aug 13, 2014 at 19:05 2494
Lauren Bacall

Lauren Bacall was born Betty Joan Perske in the Bronx, New York City, on September 16, 1924. Her father was a Jewish immigrant from Poland, her mother a Jewish immigrant from Romania. She...

Aug 07, 2014 at 00:00 4588
Nicola Benedetti

Nicola Benedetti was born on July 19, 1987. She grew up in the small Scottish town West Kilbride. She has a brother and a sister. Both her parents are Italian born, but moved to Scotland as...

Jul 08, 2014 at 21:14 1339
Israel’s war against Hamas

At the end of 2008 and in early 2009, Israel already fought a war against Hamas. Only a regime change in the Gaza strip would have “justified” such a large scale operation which caused...

May 19, 2014 at 00:00 3975
Dieter Roth

Roth Time – the retrospective at MoMA QNS and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Dieter Roth (1930-1998) is an artist’s artist. In this, in the 20th century, he is probably only...