#dictatorship

#dictatorship

Germany's parliament on Friday commemorated the 70th anniversary of a popular uprising in the Communist east that was brutally crushed by its Soviet-backed dictatorship.Worsening economic conditions and political repression in East Germany had prompted months of protests, starting in rural areas, that culminated in a call on June 16, 1953, for a general strike.

A silver-plated pencil purported to have belonged to Adolf Hitler is set to go under the hammer in Belfast.It is believed to have been given to the former Nazi dictator by his long-term partner Eva Braun as a gift for his 52nd birthday on April 20, 1941.It is inscribed with Eva' in German and the initials AH.

A silver-plated pencil purported to have belonged to Adolf Hitler is set to go under the hammer in Belfast.It is believed to have been given to the former Nazi dictator by his long-term partner Eva Braun as a gift for his 52nd birthday on April 20, 1941.It is inscribed with Eva' in German and the initials AH.

Roman Emperor Domitian is remembered for only one joke.It's a terrible thing to be an emperor, Domitian said, because everything thinks your paranoia about being assassinated is groundlessuntil you're actually murdered!Soon after Domitian was assassinated.Extreme vigilance is the essential mood of tyranny, which must inhabit that condition not just first because it is indeed in danger of overthrow and surrounded by enemies but also because it requires its people to be fearful and isolated, therefore conditioned for extreme solutions.

European powers must stand by pro-democracy Tunisians resisting a fierce onslaught designed to take the country back to the darkest days of dictatorship, a letter from more than 70 academics has urged.The letter, designed to shine a light on the Tunisian crackdown, was in part collated by Soumaya Ghannoushi, whose father, the Tunisian opposition leader, Rached Ghannouchi, was sentenced to a year in jail on Monday.

The defining moment in Mariluz Escribano Pueo's life came when the Spanish poet, activist and teacher was not quite nine months old.On 11 September 1936, three weeks after their family friend Federico Garcia Lorca had suffered a similar fate, Escribano's father, Agustin, was shot dead against the wall of Granada cemetery.

Women's rights activists protest during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Britain, London, March 24, 2023.Toby Melville, Reuters Hundreds of protesters rallied Friday outside Downing Street in central London to heckle the arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a meeting with his British counterpart Rishi Sunak.

17 minutes ago17 minutes ago The closure follows Pope Francis calling President Daniel Ortega's socialist government a dictatorship.The Catholic Church has stepped in to shelter opposition supporters from being persecuted by authorities.The Vatican has closed its diplomatic mission in Nicaragua, the Vatican News portal reported Saturday, in a growing row between the Catholic Church and the Central American country.

Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right populist who served as president of Brazil until he was unseated by former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in October, upended political norms when he was elected in 2018.Mr. Bolsonaro's broadsides against women, gay people, Brazilians of color and even democracy Let's go straight to the dictatorship, he once said made him so polarizing that he initially struggled to find a running mate.

Veteran Spanish film-maker Carlos Saura, director of award-winning films such as Peppermint Frappe, Ay Carmela! and Tango, has died aged 91, the day before he was due to receive a lifetime achievement award at the Goyas, Spain's version of the Oscars.Spain's Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences, the body that hands out the Goya awards, confirmed his death on social media, saying: Saura, one of the essential film-makers in the history of Spanish cinema, has died at home today at the age of 91, surrounded by his loved ones.

When the Spanish film director Carlos Saura, who has died aged 91, completed his first feature, Los Golfos (The Delinquents), a ferocious story of six impoverished children from the Madrid slums, it was invited to the 1960 Cannes film festival.However, its implicit critique of the dictatorship of General Francisco Franco meant that it was forbidden in Spain for another couple of years.

Benedict XVI, the first pope in seven centuries to resign, has died at the age of 95.ELISSA NADWORNY, HOST: Pope Benedict the XVI, the first pontiff to step down since the 15th century, died today in Vatican City at the age of 95.The German born Joseph Ratzinger was a theologian by training.Before becoming pope, he served for a quarter century as Catholicism's top enforcer of orthodoxy.

Aliaksandra Herasimenia of Belarus on the podium during the medal ceremony for the Women's 50m Freestyle at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.Adam Pretty (Getty Images) Former Olympic swimmer Aliaksandra Herasimenia, one of the most prominent Belarusian athletes of the last few decades, has been sentenced in absentia to 12 years in prison on charges of creating an extremist formation, according to the Viasna Human Rights Centre.

Labour would strengthen co-operation with the European Union with a new security pact to complement Nato's role, Mr Lammy added.We will seek to work with allies and partners to create a new international law of ecocide to criminalise the wanton and widespread destruction of the environment, Mr Lammy said.They were wrong in the 1990s with their endless damaging quarrels about Europe, Mr Lammy said.David Lammy has attacked the twisted lies of Empire that turned millions into slaves, in one of the fiercest condemnations by a senior British politician.

The Princess Royal joined foreign monarchs and thousands of mourners in Athens for the funeral of the last king of Greece, Constantine II.Anne represented the King at the sombre ceremony where crowds chanted long live the king and Constantine, Constantine as his coffin emerged from the Greek capital's metropolitan cathedral following the funeral service.

Sex workers were ordered for MPs during an overseas visit to a dictatorship, according to a report.The group of politicians travelling in an all-party parliamentary group (APPG) were met by prostitutes at their hotel during an official trip aboard, The Times reported.There is no suggestion that the MPs used the services of sex workers, or knew they would be ordered in advance, but there is concern about the risk of blackmail because of bad behaviour during trips overseas.