The prince is caught up in a far-right conspiracy theory
Prosecutors and intelligence officials in Germany have accused Prince Heinrich XIII of holding meetings at his hunting lodge in Bad Lobenstein, in the state of Thuringia, where it is said that he and a group of far-right accomplices plotted to overthrow the German government and execute the chancellor.
The Waidmannsheil motel, a three-hour drive south of Berlin, was one of 150 targets raided by security forces in one of Germany’s biggest counter-terrorism operations in post-war Germany. By Friday, 23 members of the cell had been detained across 11 German states, and another 31 members were under investigation. Police discovered weapons and military equipment as well as a list of “enemies”.
Nostalgic for the German empire before 1918, when his ancestors ruled a country in eastern Germany, Heinrich XIII, 71, has openly accepted the far-right conspiracy theory that the country’s postwar republic Germany is not a sovereign state but a corporation established by the government. Allies after World War II.
Prosecutors said he was a well-to-do descendant of a 700-year-old aristocratic family and was appointed by his accomplices to become head of state during the post-coup regime.
Text definition: These conspiracy theorists call themselves the Reichsbürger, or Citizen of the Empire. Many live in southeastern Thuringia, the state where the Nazis first gained power more than 90 years ago and where the biggest political force is the far-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD.
Ukraine air strikes on Russian-occupied city of Melitopol
Ukrainian forces Attack on Russian-occupied city of Melitopol Over the weekend, authorities said, signaled the importance of long-range artillery in the next phase of Ukraine’s campaign to retake Ukraine’s land in the south of the country. According to the city’s exiled mayor, the attack hit a church used by Russian soldiers as a base.
A Russian state news agency reported that an attack on Melitopol using a long-range HIMARS system killed two people and wounded 10 others. Ukrainian separatists operating behind Russian lines for months have carried out attacks on targets around the city.
Ukraine recaptured the city of Kherson in mid-November, forcing Moscow to withdraw its troops to the east bank of the Dnipro River and ushering in a new phase of the war for control in the south of the country. However, military experts warn that Ukraine’s progress is likely to be slow. Russian forces have improved their defenses in the south and east of the country in recent weeks.
Related: All thermal and hydroelectric power plants of Ukraine have been damaged by recent Russian attacks targeting the country’s electricity grid, the Prime Minister of Ukraine said yesterday.
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Lack of natural gas and electricity because of conflict in neighboring Ukraine, Moldova confront the street protests sponsored by a pro-Russian politician to target its pro-Western government.
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Detaining foreigners to gain concessions from their host governments is dangerous for both parties, but especially, perhaps surprisingly, for hostage-takers, Written by Max Fisher in Translator.
Lockerbie suspects extradited to the US
Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud, a Libyan intelligence agent accused in the 1988 bombing of a US jet in Lockerbie, Scotland, has been arrested by the FBI and is in custody. extradited to the US to face prosecution for one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in US history.
The arrest was the culmination of a decades-long effort by the Justice Department to prosecute him. It is not clear how the US government negotiated his extradition. Mas’ud, who is accused of making the explosive device used in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 270 passengers, including 190 Americans, is being held at a prison in Libya. for unrelated crimes.
Mas’ud confessed the bombing in 2012 to a Libyan law enforcement official. His suspected role in the bombing received new scrutiny in a three-part documentary on “Frontline” on PBS in 2015.
What’s next: Extradition would allow Mas’ud to stand trial. But legal experts have expressed doubts about whether his confession, obtained in prison in war-torn Libya, is admissible as evidence.
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Celebrating the octagonal house
In the mid-19th century, a quirky architectural fad swept America: octagonal house.
Orson S. Fowler, a major proponent, asserts that with windows on all sides, octagonal homes have more light and better airflow, so they’re healthier. while living in it. He argued that a unified floor plan would also make housework easier, because there would be a shorter distance from the kitchen to the laundry room.
Most of those claims were refuted, but it wasn’t until about 1,500 were built in North America. More than 300 of them are still standing. They still have devoted fans who celebrate the extraordinary lighting and good ventilation that make buildings easier to cool.
Joseph Pell Lombardi, an architect who owns and restores magnificent buildings Armor-Stinerin Irvington, NY, is skeptical of claims that octagonal homes make better use of space — in part because triangular rooms are a design problem.
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