Izraelské elektrické letadlo Alice doletí až 1200 kilometrů. Výrobci doufají v revoluci v regionálním cestování

Izraelský výrobce Eviation Aircraft na aerosalonu u Paříže představil své elektrické letadlo pojmenované Alice, které je podle něj prvním letadlem na světě s nulovými emisemi.
První let má uskutečnit už letos, běžně létat by stroj měl začít v roce 2022.
Prvním zákazníkem je americká společnost Cape Air, která chce koupit až 92 těchto letadel.

Honzovi Čižinskému prý smrdí… Prahou se šíří informace o velmi podivné zakázce v Kongresovém centru

Třaskavé podezření ze zmanipulování veřejné zakázky má na krku Kongresové centrum Praha (KCP). Na pochybný tendr, ve kterém mohlo dojít ke zvýhodnění dvou účastníků řízení, upozornila soukromá firma. Ta byla za podivných okolností o možnost účastnit se zakázky připravena. Nyní si na postup Kongresového centra stěžuje a požaduje zrušení tendru.

Milion chvilek: Pravda o Mikuláši Minářovi

Publicista a aktivista Jan Cemper na serveru Manipulátoři.cz upozornil na příspěvek jednoho z uživatelů sociální sítě Facebook, v němž se komentující naváží do aktivisty Mikuláše Mináře, stojícího za spolkem Milion chvilek, který pořádá demonstrace proti premiéru Andreji Babišovi a jeho vládě. Minář na příspěvek reagoval a obhajoval tak například, že jeho otec nepracuje jako ‚pingl‘, že nebyl vyloučen ze školy, nespolupracuje s německou Antifou, podezření z distribuce drog označil za zoufalost a upřesnil, zda měl někdy něco společného s Klinikou. A co se týká demonstrace na Letné, tak prý: „Na pódiu nebude Kalousek, ani se nebudou rozdávat žádné peníze.“

Xi Jinping Says Pyongyang Is Moving in the ‘Right Direction’ Ahead of His Visit to North Korea

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping praised North Korea for moving in the “right direction” by politically resolving issues on the Korean Peninsula in an essay published in both countries’ official media Wednesday on the eve of Xi’s visit to Pyongyang to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.Xi had nothing to say on the biggest outside worry about North Korea — stalled nuclear weapons talks between Washington and Pyongyang — in the article published on the front page of North Korea’s main newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, and by China’s Xinhua news agency. But experts believe he could use his summit with Kim, which the North is calling a state visit, to endorse North Korean calls for an incremental disarmament process in which every action Pyongyang takes is met with U.S. concessions on sanctions and security issues.
Much of the article focused on lauding the neighbors’ seven-decade relationship. Xi said his visit on Thursday and Friday will “strengthen strategic communicatio..

Nearly 71 Million People Have Been Displaced by War and Other Violence, the U.N.’s Refugee Agency Says

(GENEVA) — A record 71 million people have been displaced worldwide by war, persecution and other violence, the U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday, an increase of more than 2 million from last year and an overall total that would amount to the world’s 20th most populous country.

The annual “Global Trends” report released by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees counts the number of the world’s refugees, asylum-seekers and internally displaced people at the end of 2018.

The figures, coming on the eve of World Refugee Day on Thursday, are bound to add fuel to a debate at the intersection of international law, human rights and domestic politics, especially the movement in some countries, including the U.S., against immigrants and refugees.

Launching the report, the high commissioner, Filippo Grandi, had a message for U.S. President Donald Trump and other world leaders, calling it “damaging” to depict migrants and refugees as threats to jobs and security in host countries. Often, they..

Inside the Battle to Save Congo From the Ebola Crisis

Outside a brown cement house in the eastern city of Beni in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, a government-employed psychologist is telling 19-year-old Merveille Mwenze that her husband has tested positive for Ebola. She’s seven months pregnant and nine months married, with so few possessions she doesn’t even own a chair to sit on and digest the news. Mwenze sways, processing the information, before she wonders aloud if the baby could have the virus too.

Mwenze and her 23-year-old husband, a pastor and community leader, share this home with another family, who watch in concern as a hygienist in protective gear begins the process of decontaminating everything in sight. “He was feeling bad,” Mwenze recalls. “I thought it was malaria. I knew about Ebola but I didn’t think about it in relation to my husband.”

The pastor suffered a fever for several days in early June before going to hospital, where he was immediately isolated. Mwenze still has no idea how he contracted the virus..