An EgyptAir plane hijacked in Egypt, lands in Cyprus, most passengers released

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Tuesday March 29, 2016 · 12:36 AM PDT

2016/03/29 · 00:36

An EgyptAir domestic flight traveling from Alexandria to Cairo has been hijacked. A plane has landed at Larnaca airport in Cyprus. Negotiations with the kidnapped result in the release of all the passengers, except the crew and four foreigners.

www.cnn.com/…

Negotiations with the kidnapped result in the release of all the passengers, except the crew and four foreigners.
— EGYPTAIR (@EGYPTAIR) March 29, 2016

Ukrainian election over, looks like Poroshenko won

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Sunday May 25, 2014 · 11:15 AM PDT

2014/05/25 · 11:15

Ukrainian presidential election is over. No official results yet but exit polls have been released.

http://www.reuters.com/...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Exit polls show that Poroshenko won 55-58% of the vote avoiding a second round. Other candidates:

Tymoshenko - 13%

Lyashko (an openly gay candidate) - 8%

Candidates of the Party of the Regions (Tihipko and Dobkin) - 4.5% and 2.5% respectively

Tyagnibok (Svoboda) - 1.3%

Yarosh (Right Sector) - 1.1%

No voting in Crimea (obviously) although a few Crimean residents left the peninsula to vote. Very limited voting in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, 70-80% of polling stations there closed. So overall about 80% of the country could vote.

Assange should go to Sweden

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Tuesday August 21, 2012 · 3:23 AM PDT

2012/08/21 · 03:23

Frankly, I didn't expect that there will be a discussion on this site whether we support a prosecution of the person suspected of rape or should he run away and hide from the charges. And there isn't. It looks like the opinion here is overwhelmingly on the side that say that he should not be prosecuted no matter what he did.

Because this is what the Assange case is about. It's not about Wikileaks, whistleblowers or human rights. All these things are irrelevant. It about whether people we like for other reasons should be prosecuted for the crimes they are charged with.

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