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ISTANBUL — A young gorilla rescued from a plane’s cargo hold is recovering at an Istanbul zoo, officials said Sunday, while wildlife officers consider returning him to his natural habitat.The 5-month-old gorilla was discovered in a box on a Turkish Airlines flight from Nigeria to Thailand last month. After a public competition, he has been named Zeytin, or Olive, and is recuperating at Polonezkoy Zoo.“Of course, what we want and desire is for the baby gorilla ... to continue its life in its homeland,” Fahrettin Ulu, regional director of Istanbul Nature Conservation and National Parks, said Sunday.“What is important is that an absolutely safe environment is established in the place it goes to, which is extremely important for us.”In the weeks since he was found, Zeytin has...
January 14, 2025
Baby gorilla rescued from cargo hold of Turkish Airlines plane
January 14, 2025
Russia forms emergency task force as Kerch Strait oil spill spreads
MADRID — Spain is planning to impose a tax of up to 100% on properties bought by non-residents from countries outside the EU, such as the UK.Announcing the move, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the "unprecedented" measure was necessary to meet the country's housing emergency."The West faces a decisive challenge: To not become a society divided into two classes, the rich landlords and poor tenants," he said.Non-EU residents bought 27,000 properties in Spain in 2023, he told an economic forum in Madrid, "not to live in" but "to make money from them"."Which, in the context of shortage that we are in, [we] obviously cannot allow," he added.The move was therefore designed to "priorit[ize] that the available homes are for...
January 14, 2025
Spain plans 100% tax for homes bought by non-EU residents
January 14, 2025
Greenland ready to work with US on defense, says PM
January 13, 2025
Biden and Netanyahu discuss Gaza ceasefire talks as momentum builds
BERLIN — Germany's far right is in a buoyant mood.On Saturday, while its conference was under way in the eastern city of Riesa, in Saxony, Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) laid out ambitions to close Germany's borders, resume buying Russian gas and, in effect, dismantle the EU.German media reported that the party's agreed manifesto includes plans to quit the Paris climate deal, exit the Euro currency and create a new confederation of states.The AfD's leader, Alice Weidel, even publicly embraced the term "remigration" - a word that's widely understood to mean the mass "return" or deportation of people with a migrant background.Thousands of anti-AfD protestors swarmed the streets in Riesa on Saturday, seeking to obstruct access to the conference...
January 13, 2025
AfD embraces mass deportation of migrants as German election nears
January 13, 2025
Student strikes in Serbia challenge Vučić's rule and demand accountability
January 13, 2025
Croatia's President Zoran Milanović re-elected by a landslide in run-off
January 13, 2025
Zelensky offers exchange of North Korean soldiers
January 10, 2025
NATO takes control from US of air defenses in Poland before Trump takes office
