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    27Feb, 2023
    A Greek teacher is held against her will by a group of students she had failed

    We’ve gotten to the point where we don’t want to come to work, we’re unprotected and scared
    The professor was held by a group of students for three hours in her office at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki for failing 28% of the students.

    The event took place last Friday when the professor, attached to the Department of Psychology of the Faculty of Philosophy, communicated the evaluation notes for the first semester. One in three students in her class had failed the subject. A group of students went to the teacher’s office and held her for three hours against her will. At first, “they asked me not to count the errors in the multiple-choice questions,” the teacher declared in statements to the Greek newspaper ‘Kathimeriní’. “We’ve gotten to the point where we don’t want to come to work, we’re unprotected and scared,” she adds.

    The optional subject is one of the courses with the most students enrolled each year. However, as it is a subject in the last year, the students protested that the failure delayed obtaining the title.

    Threats by students are not something new
    For her part, Meri Kosmidou, head of the psychology department at this university, has declared in local media that it is not the first time that a group of students from that faculty have tried to impose their criteria by using violence towards teaching staff and other students. The board of directors of the faculty has also denounced that the teaching team receives daily pressure from some radical students about changes in the contents that have to enter the exams, the subjects that the subjects must include, the forms of evaluation , that is, questions that are purely academic and that concern deans and department heads.

    According to a communiqué from the board in which it condemns the “kidnapping” of the teacher, it affirms that “all these events affect teaching, go against our labor rights and have negative consequences on the functioning of the department as well as on the psychology of the teachers”.

    Investigation by the prosecution
    The Thessaloniki prosecutor’s office has requested that a police investigation be carried out to investigate the facts and identify those allegedly responsible for the retention and threats to the teacher.

    The students involved in this case face various disciplinary sanctions such as the prohibition to participate in examination sessions during one or several academic years, the suspension of up to 24 months of student status or the definitive expulsion from the faculty.

    27Feb, 2023
    Artur Mas, Homs and eight other leaders of the 2014 sovereign consultation will have to pay one million in interest

    The Court of Auditors dismissed the appeal with which they intended to halve that amount, which is added to the 4.9 million that they had to repay for the public money diverted from the Generalitat
    The former president of the Generalitat Artur Mas, his then Presidency counselor and spokesman, Francesc Homs, and eight other former senior officials of the Catalan Executive will finally have to pay one million euros in interest for the 4.9 million euros of public money that they diverted to finance the illegal consultation that took place on November 9, 2014, known as 9-N. The Court of Accounts (Tcu) has dismissed the appeal led by Homs, with which he and other convicts have tried to halve the amount to be paid for interest.

    It was the prelude, as a test, to the referendum and subsequent declaration of independence that took place on October 1, 2017, already with Carles Puigdemont as president of the Generalitat.

    For 9-N, Artur Mas, Francesc Homs, the then Vice President and Minister of the Interior of the Catalan Executive, Joana Ortega, as well as the person in charge of the Ministry of Education, Irene Rigau, were prosecuted and sentenced in the Court of Accounts. and six other senior officials of the Generalitat.

    Diverted public funds
    It was determined that they had illegally diverted 4.9 million euros for the organization and holding of that sovereignist consultation. And, the Court of Accounts estimated interest at one million euros, calculated by the time elapsed since the diversion of public money occurred and until the culprits repaid it to the Generalitat.

    Those sentenced have been trying for some time, without success, for those interests that they must face in solidarity to be reduced by half. Homs has led the strategy, arguing that the interest meter should have stopped when the defendants attended the preventive consignment of funds that the court required of them, something that occurred between November 2017 and July 2019.

    This argument from Homs was already rejected months ago, when the TCu dismissed the appeal that it filed on July 28, 2022. Faced with the setback, it tried again with this appeal, which this Monday was resolved by the Chamber of Justice of the Court of Auditors, which has once again dismissed the arguments of Homs and the other convicts who have adhered to this strategy.

    Thus, the liquidation of interest that was carried out against them by ordering procedure of October 27, 2021 is reconfirmed. In it, in addition to the 4.9 million that they had to return to the Generalitat, the interest was estimated at around of one million euros, compared to less than 600,000 euros to which the condemned aspired.

    27Feb, 2023
    They ask for a jail for a masseuse in Valladolid for touching a client buttocks and pinches

    The defendant has declared himself innocent and has insisted that the massage given to the complainant developed with absolute normality, in identical circumstances to those of many others
    The public and particular accusations have kept their requests of a year and a year and a half in jail on Tuesday, respectively, for a Valladolid masseuse accused of a crime of sexual abuse about a client to which, during a session in June of 2021, he allegedly, his buttocks and breasts and pinch his nipples.

    The trial for such facts, in a public session, has been seen for sentence at the Valladolid Hearing, where the defendant, M.A.M.F, has declared himself innocent and insisted that the massage given to the complainant was developed with absolute normality, in identical circumstances to those of many others throughout their more than two decades of professional practice.

    Regarding the object of the present case, the sexagenarian masseuse, in statements collected by EP Relaxation and that he took care of the young woman and a companion of the parent because the daughter said she was somewhat cold and chose a warmer room in which he was.

    Without panties
    The massage in question would have a duration of two hours -facial, with body and feet- and the defendant invited the client to lightened clothes as far as she would like, “with whom you are comfortable,” he says that he indicated to the complainant , who, always according to the version of M.A.M.F, undressed completely, even though he was with menstruation, and placed himself face down on the stretcher.

    «I have never played some to a client, that is clear. I think that question out of place; No, no and no! ”He said the accused outraged to the prosecutor’s questions about whether the withdrawal of the panties had been ‘motu proprio’ of the young woman or at the initiative of the masseuse.

    He assures that he covered it with a soft fabric, pareo type, which was removed as it operated on the massage area, first through the back and lumbar area, later by the legs and finally, already upside down, part of the thorax, Neck, shoulders … and again lower extremities, but without any time, as he has reiterated, he approached his fingers to erogenous areas and touched his breasts, pinch his nipples and, as a brooch, give the young woman Forehead kiss.

    “In no case is there breast massage, that is something that is clarified to the client at the beginning,” insisted the defendant, who added that throughout the massage the woman did not verbalize him to find himself uncomfortable and that once the session is finished The client and her mother were informing other services and schedules in the center.

    Shocked”
    The version of the complainant, about 35 years It has already begun when at the beginning of the session he asked for a glass of water and had to drink it with the breasts in front of the defendant.

    But in addition, he has argued that he preferred to keep the panties because he was staining and, to his surprise, when he was face down on the stretcher he was deprived of them at the initiative of the masseuse.

    He has acknowledged that he was offered a couple to cover his body but maintains that at some point he became deprived of that garment completely and that during the first massage maneuvers, she with the legs open slightly, the denounced touched the buttocks and He approached the vaginal zone with his fingers, something that was “very violent.”

    Later, the woman, the woman, D.A.H, reports that the masseuse approached her inguinal zone, then touched her breasts and pinch both nipples for an act then, and to conclude the session, she kissed her forehead.

    «He asked me if everything had gone well and I said yes because I was a little in shock. All I wanted was to get out of there. During the massage I was paralyzed because that caught me by surprise. I feel that he abused my trust, that he did not respect me, I felt invaded, ”the woman recalled as justification for why he ended the session.

    It was at the exit of the center when a solo walk took of abuse. He opted for this last option after consulting with friends and her boyfriend and decided to file the corresponding complaint.

    The prosecutor of the case has maintained its request from a year in prison and prohibition of approaching the accused of the complainant for five years, while the private accusation has raised the request for conviction to a year and a half

    27Feb, 2023
    We can ridicule Vox’s motion: “It is a numerite and we should not waste too much time”

    The Belarra Party Tilda the ABASCAL initiative of “staging” that responds to its “battle” with the Popular Party
    The president of the Senate charges against Vox’s motion of censure: “There is no right to tease citizens”
    Podemos has ridiculed the motion of censure led by Professor Ramón Tamames that Vox records Monday at the Congress of Deputies. Cogobernative parties, PSOE and Unidas Podemos, face the Santiago Abascal initiative with different strategies. The PSOE and the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, will reach the debate with a serious speech -there is to remember that Sanchez achieved power in 2018 after a motion of censure against Mariano Rajoy. However, the leaders of Podemos lack little to laugh at the matter.

    «Especent», «Ridiculo» and «Numerito» are some of the qualifiers that the co -spotlights of the party led by the Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, have dedicated today in their press conference to the initiative of censorship to Sánchez. Alejandra Jacinto, spokesman for Podemos and candidate to preside over the Community of Madrid, has reduced the “to a battle with the Popular Party to see who occupies the covers with a more delirious speech.”

    In Podemos they have been saying that Vox knows that his play will not prosper and is an electoral maneuver to portray the PP before the regional elections of May 28. «Given the grieving, given the number and ridicule of the motion of censure, we should not waste too much time to parliamentary groups or the general population, from there, what we have said; Reiterate that Vox and the Popular Party are in competition to see who occupies the covers saying more barbarities against the coalition government, ”explains Jacinto. “The Spanish right has run out of ideas,” he added.

    In addition, the spokeswoman has regrets that the right is more focused on their electoral wars than in collaborating with the government to approve measures against inflation. On the other hand, Yolanda Díaz, second vice president and united leader Podemos in the Government, said Thursday that “absolutely respect” to Tamames and the people who, like him, go from military in the PCE to identify with Vox. Although it is still “surprising,” he added, that being a former communist leader, he now joins the Abascal party. A formation that, he said, “would have illegalized the PCE.” Díaz also called the motion of censure for the PP and not against Sánchez.

    27Feb, 2023
    The King appeals to the Angolaña Assembly to “unite efforts” against the war in Ukraine

    Felipe VI has made an appeal before the National Assembly Angolaña to “unite efforts to defend the basic principles of international law.” He thus referred to “Russian aggression against Ukraine, which is producing a serious international impact.”

    Before the 250 Angolan deputies, Felipe VI stressed that “today more than ever friendly countries have to preserve a fair international order based on rules that has as its cornerstone respect for national sovereignty and territorial integrity of all states.”

    In Africa, the impact of war is evident in the “food crisis” form that “has only aggravated the difficult humanitarian situation that many Africa countries are already experiencing due to one of the worst droughts of the last decades.”

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    Advocates the use and learning of Spanish and Portuguese as “Mutual Understanding Languages”

    In his third speech before a general assembly -the two previous ones were in France and Portugal -the king also influenced the “land of opportunities” in which Angola has become: “Let me point out that Spain, both from the public and private sector , is prepared to contribute to the economic growth of the country; A productive growth that generates jobs for Angolaña youth. We have very competitive companies in sectors that are interested in promoting, such as agro-industry, infrastructure and sanitation, renewable energies, engineering and tourism ».

    The King made these words after presiding over, together with President Joao Lourenço, a Hispanic-Angoleño business forum.

    Upon arrival at the National Assembly, Don Felipe and Doña Letizia were received by an Angolaño folklore group. Dentreo received an ovation at their entry into the hemicycle, with imposing dome, and another after being officially presented.

    Don Felipe also sealed the Ibero -American bond of Angola, Portuguese speech country. This was mentioned as “the great African -American country with clear affinities with that great space for dialogue and cooperation that is Latin America.”
    Don Felipe initiated and concluded his speech in Portuguese … “Graças also important two nosos parliaments, she will continue to approve Switful Amizade and cooperate Bem-these hair two dosos povos and nações.”

    These were the last words of Felipe VI in the National Assembly Angolaña before going to the Presidential Palace to say goodbye to President João Lourenço and then go to the airport.

    Thus concludes the first state trip of the kings Felipe VI and Letizia to Angola, the first sub -Saharan country that receives this high distinction, symbol of the new impulse of the relations that both countries want to have.

    27Feb, 2023
    The Covid Pandemia was due to a laboratory leak, according to the US Department of Energy.

    Was it a natural transmission of an animal to a human or product of a laboratory leak? The origin of the Covid-19 Pandemia, which has caused the death of at least seven million people worldwide, has divided scientists, experts, international commissions and governments.

    In the US, where the virus ended with more than one million people, a new voice joins those who have concluded that it was a laboratory escape: the Department of Energy has changed its analysis of the origin of the pandemic In this sense, according to an update of a classified report of American intelligence.

    The White House and several key legislators from the Congress have received the new version of the report, as reported on Sunday several of the main US media, in which the energy department ensures that the virus is most likely to spread from a escape from a escape from laboratory.

    It is a conclusion that the FBI has already reached in 2021, but in which there is no unanimity within the US intelligence community so far, the National Intelligence Council and four other government agencies maintain the determination that Pandemia originated from a natural transmission through an infected animal. Two other agencies, including the CIA, remain undecided about it.

    New data
    The conclusion of the National Intelligence Council on Natural Transmission is “low trust”, as well as that of the Department of Energy on the Laboratory escape. The FBI’s about the latter is “moderate trust.”

    The Department of Energy has changed its determination for the appearance of new intelligence in this regard, although the authorities did not give details about what it was. This agency manages a network of public laboratories in the US, some of which carry out advanced biological research.

    The revised report to which the White House had access and the congressmen maintains that the virus began to circulate, as afternoon, in November 2019 in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The most defended theory has been that of natural transmission, with an eye on a market with abundance of living animals that could have infected humans.

    A report by the World Health Organization of 2021 assured that it was “extremely unlikely” that the virus appeared by a laboratory accident. But half of the experts who signed that report had been appointed by the Chinese government itself, who opposes the laboratory theory and did everything possible to control their conclusions.

    From the beginning of the pandemic there were theories that pointed to the Wuhan Virology Institute, a laboratory with advanced biological experiments, among others, with Coronavirus. One of the most cited evidence in that theory is that three laboratory researchers, who worked with Coronavirus, fell ill in November 2019 and required hospital care.

    26Feb, 2023
    All the fiscal measures approved by the Government: lowering of personal income tax, new tax on the rich…

    The Government will punish high incomes and reward workers with gross incomes of less than 21,000 euros
    The Government has just approved a new tax package for the years 2023 and 2024 that will include incentives for low incomes and new taxes for companies and high incomes. These are the measures announced by the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero and that will be included in the 2023 Budget, will come into force on January 1 and will be in force until the end of 2024.

    Tax reduction for income less than 21,000 euros
    The Executive includes in its package a tax reduction in personal income tax for income of less than 21,000 euros gross per year. Until now, this reduction was focused on taxpayers with incomes of 18,000 euros. Specifically, the formula chosen by the Government is to expand the tax benefit, instead of touching the sections or rates.
    This reduction will affect, according to government calculations, 50% of workers, who will achieve savings of 1,881 million euros. For example, a worker without children who earns 18,000 euros will be able to save up to 746 euros per year.

    The exempt minimum becomes 15,000 euros
    In addition, the Treasury plans that income of up to 15,000 euros be exempt from paying personal income tax and therefore presenting the Income Statement. Until now, that maximum was established at 14,000 euros. This measure will be accompanied by an increase in the minimum wage, which will prevent fiscal distortion.

    Increase in capital income
    On the other hand, the Government will tax higher incomes more. A tax increase on capital income of more than 200,000 euros is approved, going from 26 to 27%. For capital gains greater than 300,000 euros, for its part, the new rate will be 28%.

    Temporary tax on the rich
    The Government will also create a temporary tax, which will be in force in 2023 and 2024 to tax the rich. Specifically, it will affect citizens with wealth of more than 3 million euros and will have three sections, from 1.7% to 3.5%. So that this new tax does not entail double taxation, the amount paid by assets to the autonomous communities will be fully deductible. This also means that the new tax will ‘de facto’ deactivate the tax advantages in force in the Community of Madrid and those that Andalusia has just approved. The Government expects to raise 1,500 million euros with this measure, which will affect some 23,000 people.

    Changes in corporate tax
    There will also be changes in corporate tax. A reduction in the nominal rate of the tax will be applied from 25 to 23% for small companies, which will enjoy savings of 292 million.

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    On the other hand, for large companies, the Treasury will limit the ability to compensate the losses of its subsidiaries to 50%, which will put 2,439 million euros in the State treasury (and will remove company funds) between 2023 and 2024. No Only the Ibex companies will pay it, but this change affects 3,000 corporations.

    Winks to the self-employed
    A part of the government’s fiscal package will go to the self-employed. The Executive will reduce the net income of the self-employed workers modules by an additional 5%. In addition, it increases by two points, up to 7%, the reduction of deductible expenses without justification. The Executive expects to benefit with this measure 578,000 self-employed in the case of modules and another 956,000 in the direct estimate regime.

    26Feb, 2023
    At least 60 dead, including several children and a baby, when a boat full of immigrants crashed against the rocks in Calabria

    It is the umpteenth tragedy of immigrants in the Mediterranean, now near the coast of Calabria. An old ship packed with about 250 immigrants has been wrecked in a very rough sea when it crashed against the rocks a few meters from the Calabrian coast of Steccato di Cutro, 20 kilometers from Crotone, capital of the homonymous province.

    The services of the Maritime Captaincy and Finance Guard have recovered some 60 bodies, including several children, including a newborn. The bodies were found this morning on Steccato beach. The boat was packed with people from Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. At the moment there are a hundred immigrants rescued, while the search continues for another hundred of the missing. The immigrants did not have time to ask for help. Some of the survivors made it to shore under their own power. “There were more than 250 people on the boat,” some survivors have said. It was a fisherman who raised the alarm shortly before five in the morning.

    The Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, has expressed her “deep sorrow for the many human lives cut short Read More

    22Feb, 2023
    Zakharyan refused “Galatasaray” – “for personal reasons.” Wants to Europe, but not to Turkey

    A new transfer episode in the series about Arsen Zakharyan is a variant with the Turkish Galatasaray. There was no big story.

    Zakharyan really could go to Galatasaray?

    The plot developed rapidly.

    On February 14, the Turkish edition of Fotomac reported on the interest of the Turkish club in Zakharyan. “Championship” added: “Galatasaray” and “Dynamo” contacted about the transition, but the player refused to negotiate.

    A week later, insider Nicolo Schira published an insider that Galatasaray was close to signing Zakharyan for 13 million euros for a contract until 2027 with a salary of 1.9 million.

    Here Arsen himself conveyed through the “Championship”:“I don’t consider the option of continuing my career at Galatasaray for personal reasons”.

    Galatasaray is now leading the Turkish league – nine points ahead of Fenerbahce with an extra match. The team has a powerful streak of 15 wins in a row in all competitions – a club record. There are enough bright names in the team: Fernando Muslera, Juan Mata, Lucas Torreira, Dries Mertens, Mauro Icardi.

    In Turkey, the transfer window is open until March 5 – it is logical that rumors still arise. True, the championship there is on pause because of the devastating earthquake. The tournament will resume no earlier than February 25.

    What does Zakharyan have with the contract? And with the desire to leave at all?

    You definitely remember the saga in August-September: Arsene was very close to Chelsea, the contract was agreed, the terms of the transfer suited everyone – but the English club simply could not pay the Russian one.

    According to SE, at least four clubs from Europe wanted to buy Zakharyan in the winter – Mallorca, Celta, Porto and Ferencvaros. Everyone was ready to pay the necessary 15 million euros, but offered different payment schemes. An important detail: this amount of release is valid for Spain and Portugal (and, obviously, other top leagues). In the summer of 2023, the option will be more expensive – 25 million for the strongest leagues in Europe.

    Zakharyan has a contract with Dynamo until the summer of 2024.

    Arsene wants to go to Europe, he has repeatedly confirmed both this and his interest in himself.

    • In September 2021, Zakharyan said that he did not go to Brugge: “I wanted to stay at Dynamo, and it’s good that it happened.”

    • Three months later, he told Sport24 that he would like to try himself in La Liga.

    • In May 2022, for RB Sport, he developed the idea of ​​wanting to play in Europe: “Yes, I want to. Morally, I’m ready for this, but physically I’m still trying to catch up, I’m trying to gain muscle mass in order to be ready for this. ”

    • He spoke about Chelsea in the Commentary Show: “I immediately said that I wanted to and I would go. And there already how it will be. Did not rule out the option that there will be a lease. But at least I’ll try myself. Maybe you can play right away. I was happy, I was very worried whether it would work or not. I scrolled in my head how everything would be there if I went.

    So far, Zakharyan has the second part of the season at Dynamo ahead of him, starting with three games in a row against Krylia (two cup games, one more in the RPL). His team is six points away from the top three, in fourth place.

    Zakharyan is hardly satisfied with only two goals in the summer-autumn in the RPL, five assists look better – but also not ideal. We will see Arsene on the field in the official match on Thursday in Samara.

    22Feb, 2023
    “Match TV” and the RFU are making a show out of the Cup, but there is a problem – “Spartak” does not let you into the locker room

    A sudden topic of the quarterfinal confrontation between Spartak and Lokomotiv in the Russian Cup, which is not related to the game.

    The Cup of Russia is a testing ground for RFU experiments, according to the idea, they want to turn the matches into a show of the North American level with the maximum approximation to the teams, but there are already the first serious obstacles. Spartak refused to let cameras into the locker room (even if they won) and thwarted Match TV’s plans.

    Before the Cup game, Match TV turned to Spartak and Lokomotiv with a request for media activities during the match – placement of microphones on the benches, interviews with substitutes during the match and cameras in the locker room in case of victory. But from Spartak he was refused with reference to the regulations.

    “The situation, in fact, is normal, working. Colleagues sent a request, we answered it. If someone is interested in making news out of this – for God’s sake. This once again speaks of the uniqueness of our club, ”said Dmitry Zelenov, head of the club’s press service, to Sport-Express.

    The regulations really do not have such an obligation to let cameras into the locker room

    The RFU has conceived a media revolution in the Cup, but so far has not reflected this in the documents. Therefore, refusals of Match TV requests may become the norm.

    So far, the regulations spell out such rights and obligations of clubs and journalists.

    • Players and coaches can be interviewed in the mixed zone. There is nothing about talking at the benches.

    • The main broadcaster (“Match TV”) has NOT access to every room of the stadium – not to the VIP box, business box, referee and inspector rooms, doping control rooms. It is possible to enter the locker rooms, but only “in agreement with the inspector and representatives of the clubs.”

    • There is also such an interesting point. On the one hand, obliging “to provide the greatest possible assistance in organized access”, but at the same time allowing the club itself to decide on admission.

    Formally, Spartak does not violate anything. There is no public response from Lokomotiv at the time of publication.

    Can you tell us more about the media reset of the Cup? The RFU was inspired by the Wings of the Soviets for it!

    Kirill Tereshin, director of the RFU for events, activations and special projects, explained: “New formats of broadcasts, strapping, flash interviews, internoise, behind-the-scenes content – all this should also become the norm. Part not so much of the sports regulations, but of the deal with the broadcaster, sponsors.

    And he gave an example: “A few years ago, the Wings once launched a camera into the locker room during a break and displayed the coach’s motivational speech on the stadium scoreboard. They say that for the sick it was a gap, the degree of emotions increased, the sense of involvement intensified.

    Of the specific plans – a competition among the divisions of the participating clubs for the best promotion of the tournament and their teams. As conceived by the RFU, this will motivate clubs to create bright content. The winner will be determined by an expert jury, and the prize fund will be 10 million rubles. It turns out that Spartak, if it participates at the beginning of the competition, is partially.

    For the sake of the show, the RFU even introduced a new position – a media manager.

    “The media manager pays attention to the little things that the press service of the hosts in a stressful moment can miss – the time the teams enter the field to coincide with the broadcast, flash interviews of the players after the game, the timeliness of the coach’s press conference and other media activities,” said the general producer of “Match TV” Alexander Taschin in the telegram.

    Zarema vs!

    Taschin said that the idea was highly appreciated in the media world: “My colleagues, who have experience in various football clubs, speak very positively about the advisability of introducing such a specialist at games – he is the link between the media, including the main broadcaster, and the clubs.”