Âu

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Tắm tập thể cho đỡ tốn nước nóng. FKK ở ngoài đường còn được mà.

Tiết kiệm lắm tắm cũng tắm chung.

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Brinflation: Brexit is Brexpensive

UK shoppers pay up to 50% more than those in EU
https://www.theguardian.com/money/20...ikea-decathlon

Zara is charging British shoppers as much as 50% more than in Spain, while Decathlon partly blames Brexit for markups on e-bikes that can be up to £250 pricier in the UK than in France.

Holidaymakers are liable for taxes and duties on all goods bought over the £390 allowance. For example, if you are bringing in a £500 laptop and a £100 watch, you will need to pay tax on the watch and the laptop.

Dân Anh có thể bận chung áo quần cho nó rẻ.

Tháng tám có giá niêm ra
Giá trần gia tốc người ta hãi hùng
Không mua thì phải bận chung…
(Ca dao)

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Tắm tập thể cho đỡ tốn nước nóng. FKK ở ngoài đường còn được mà.

Tiết kiệm lắm tắm cũng tắm chung.

Cóc ai cục vắn cục dài.

Ngại lắm.

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Vì sao nên nỗi. Sao đốc tờ không chạy sang Đức phỏng vấn tui để lấy lại niềm tin không nghĩ quẩn. Tui cấy tới 3 cái chips của 3 hãng thuốc chích mà chỉ chịu sự chi phối của bà xã chứ đâu bị Bill Gates dắt mũi.

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Austria mourns suicide of doctor targetted by anti-COVID vaccine campaigners

ZURICH, July 30 (Reuters) - Austrian leaders appealed for national unity after a doctor who faced death threats from anti-vaccination activists and coronavirus pandemic conspiracy theorists took her own life.

"Let's put an end to this intimidation and fear mongering. Hate and intolerance have no place in our Austria," President Alexander Van der Bellen said, hailing Lisa-Maria Kellermayr as a doctor who stood for healing people, protecting them from disease and taking a cautious approach to the pandemic.

"But some people have been enraged by this. And these people scared her, threatened her, first on the internet and then also in person, directly in her practice."

The body of the doctor -- who had often given media interviews about fighting the coronavirus pandemic and promoting vaccinations -- was found in her office in Upper Austria on Friday.

Media cited prosecutors as saying they had found a suicide note and were not planning an autopsy.

Austria last month dropped plans to introduce compulsory COVID-19 vaccination for adults, saying it was unlikely that the measure would raise one of western Europe's lowest vaccination rates. (read more)

Tens of thousands of people had marched in regular protests against lockdowns last year and plans to make vaccinations mandatory, highlighting a social divide over public health measures that many countries have experienced.

But the doctor's death -- which the Austrian physicians' association said reflected a broader trend of threats against medical staff -- shocked the country.

"Hatred against people is inexcusable. This hatred must finally stop," Health Minister Johannes Rauch said.


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Phần Lan làm mạnh, cấm cửa những đứa con của gấu mẹ vĩ đại ...

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Finland limits visas to Russians amid rush of Europe-bound tourists



HELSINKI, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Finland will slash the number of visas issued to Russians to 10% of the current amount from Sept. 1, foreign minister Pekka Haavisto said on Tuesday, amid a rush of Russian tourists bound for Europe.

Haavisto said the decision had come as an influx of Russian tourists begun using Finland and its Helsinki-Vantaa airport as a gateway towards European holiday destinations, after Russia lifted pandemic-related border restrictions a month ago.

"And this maybe is not very appropriate if we, for example, think of the airspace restrictions put in place for Russia," Haavisto said.

Just days after Russia invaded Ukraine in February, Finland joined a string of Western countries in closing their airspace to Russian planes in response, making it difficult for Russians to travel to Europe.

Finland and the Baltics would together propose that the European Union discontinues a visa facilitation agreement with the Russian federation that makes it easier for Russians to travel to and within the European Union, Haavisto said.

Some EU leaders such as Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin and her Estonian counterpart Kaja Kallas have called for an EU-wide visa ban, which German Chancellor Olaf Scholz contested on Monday, saying Russians should be able to flee their home country if they disagree with the regime.

Finland was looking into creating a national humanitarian visa which could be granted to Russians that needed to flee or visit Europe for purposes such as journalism or advocacy, Haavisto added.

According to European Union rules, a tourist must apply for a visa from the country they intend to visit but can enter the border-check-free Schengen area from any point and travel around it for up to 90 days in a 180-day period.

Finland has imposed the same sanctions on Moscow as the rest of the EU, such as forbidding the import and export of some industrial goods and freezing some assets in EU banks.


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​Nói cho quên đi những tội tình:

Russian soldier exposes rot at core of Ukraine invasion
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...raine-invasion

Two weeks ago, Filatyev went on to his VKontakte social media page and published a 141-page bombshell: a day-by-day description of how his paratrooper unit was sent to mainland Ukraine from Crimea, entered Kherson and captured the seaport, and dug in under heavy artillery fire for more than a month near Mykolaiv – and then how he eventually was wounded and evacuated from the conflict with an eye infection.

He spent 45 days writing his memoirs from the conflict, breaking an omerta under which even the word war has been banished in public.

His memoir, ZOV, is named for the tactical markings painted on Russian army vehicles that have been adopted as a pro-war symbol in Russia.

Extracts were published in Russia’s independent press, while Filatyev appeared via video for a televised interview on TV Rain.

Rải rác biên cương mồ viễn xứ
Chiến trường đi cũng tiếc đời xanh
(Tây nam tiến)

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​Nói cho quên đi những tội tình:

Russian soldier exposes rot at core of Ukraine invasion
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...raine-invasion



Rải rác biên cương mồ viễn xứ
Chiến trường đi cũng tiếc đời xanh
(Tây nam tiến)

Bây giờ ảnh đào ngũ, chạy sang phía Ukraine đầu hàng nữa là trở thành phim có happy ending.

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"Bất chiến tự nhiên trình"

(trưng bày tội ác Đức ngụy)

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Low water levels on Danube reveal sunken WW2 German warships
By Fedja Grulovic



PRAHOVO, Serbia, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Europe's worst drought in years has pushed the mighty river Danube to one of its lowest levels in almost a century, exposing the hulks of dozens of explosives-laden German warships sunk during World War Two near Serbia's river port town of Prahovo.

The vessels were among hundreds scuttled along the Danube by Nazi Germany's Black Sea fleet in 1944 as they retreated from advancing Soviet forces, and still hamper river traffic during low water levels.

However, this year's drought - viewed by scientists as a consequence of global warming - has exposed more than 20 hulks on a stretch of the Danube near Prahovo in eastern Serbia, many of which still contain tonnes of ammunition and explosives and pose a danger to shipping.

"The German flotilla has left behind a big ecological disaster that threatens us, people of Prahovo," said Velimir Trajilovic, 74, a pensioner from Prahovo who wrote a book about the German ships.

Workers in the local fishing industry are also at risk, including from Romania which lies just across the river.

Months of drought and record-high temperatures have snarled river traffic on vital arteries in other parts of Europe, including Germany, Italy and France. In Serbia, the authorities have resorted to dredging to keep navigation lanes on the Danube open. read more

By Prahovo, some of the hulks have narrowed the navigable section on this stretch of the Danube to just 100 metres (330 feet) from 180 metres.

Strewn across the riverbed, some of the ships still boast turrets, command bridges, broken masts and twisted hulls, while others lie mostly submerged under sand banks.

In March, the Serbian government invited a tender for the salvage of the hulks and removal of ammunition and explosives. The cost of the operation was estimated at 29 million euros ($30 million).

($1 = 0.9918 euros)

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Một dòng sông xanh xanh
Một dòng cạn khô khan
Một dòng nông thấy đáy
Một dòng sầu mấy kiếp
(Phạm Ruy)

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Một dòng sông xanh xanh
Một dòng cạn khô khan
Một dòng nông thấy đáy
Một dòng sầu mấy kiếp
(Phạm Ruy)

Hunger stones: Cho vụ này thì hát bài gì? Linh hồn tượng đá? Phiến Đá Sầu?

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“If you can see me, weep”: Eerie 'hunger stone' from 1616 re-emerges in drought-hit Europe as rivers run dry

In order to warn future generations that they will have to deal with famine-related sufferings if the water level drops to this level once more, these stones were inserted into a river during droughts. According to scientists at the European Drought Observatory, the drought is predicted to be the worst in 500 years.



As Europe undergoes one of the worst spells of a heatwave this year, rivers are drying at a dangerously high rate revealing ’hunger stones’ from the early 17th century and giving warnings about the tough days ahead.

A German sign reading "Wenn du mich siehst, dann weine", which literally translates to “if you can see me, weep”, the inscription on boulders usually covered by a European river, Elbe, are giving out an eerie warning of the tough times to come ahead.

A hunger stone is a popular hydrological sign in Central Europe. From the 15th to the 19th centuries, hunger stones were built in Germany and in ethnic German communities all over Europe as famine memorials and warnings.

The roughly 6 cubic metres stone, at Děčín (Tetschen) left riverbank, near the Tyrs bridge in the Czech Republic, has different years of drought engraved onto it. Older carvings (from 1417 and 1473) have been destroyed over time by anchored ships, making 1616 the earliest readable carving.

The Czech saying " Neplač holka, nenaříkej, když je sucho, pole stříkej", translated as "Girl, don't weep and moan if it's dry, water the field", is also found in the stone, which was apparently added in 1938. One of the Elbe river's earliest hydrological landmarks is this hunger stone.

These stones with all their warning messages are considered admonitions about the consequences of drought. It stated that the drought had caused a poor harvest, a shortage of food, high prices, and hunger for the underprivileged.

Without a question, the present drought in Europe is historic. It's reportedly the worst drought in 500 years.

According to the drought observatory, 17% of Europe is on warning for drought, while 47% of the continent is experiencing drought alert conditions. Even the local vegetation is being impacted by the dry weather.

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