Category: German News

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said sorry on Saturday for introducing South Korea’s athletes as coming from North Korea during the opening ceremony of the 2014 Paris Olympics. The gaffe happened as the South Korean delegation sailed down the Seine river in the French capital on Friday evening. The team was introduced as being from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the full name…

Over the past 10 years, Venezuela has seen a brain drain of unprecedented proportions, as 8 million people have left the South American country — about a quarter of its entire population. Suffering from a severe food crisis, hyperinflation and a massive loss of skilled workers, Venezuela’s economic and humanitarian crises are mainly the result of failed economic policies under…

Authoritarian Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, who has been in power since 2013, is running again in this Sunday’s election. His time in office so far has been dominated by severe economic problems, political instability and international sanctions. “These are neither free nor fair elections. The opposition was not able to freely nominate its candidates,” Luis…