DIary of the 20s

17.02.2020 : NASA astronaut, Christina Koch, returns to earth after spending a record breaking 328 days in space (ISS). 18.02.2020 : Reports about Antarctica temperatures breaking a new record, as warm as 20C degrees. Last weekend in Munich was also ~20C ! 19.02.2020 : Brain surgery by a British doctor for removing a tumour from a patient's brain, who is an orchestra violinist, went to another level today! The patient was woken up from anastesia in the middle of the surgery to play the violin, making sure the parts being removed from the tumour are not affecting her brain abilities. She was asked to continue playing while the doctors were removing the last parts. 20.02.2020 : a 43 year old german man with a "deeply racist mentality" is responsible for shootings at two hookah bars overnight in the town of Hanau near Frankfurt - Germany. Killing at least 8 foreigners of Turkish, Kurdish, Bulgarian, Bosnian & North African backgrounds. The man was later found dead ...

10.02.2020 : The Oscars this year are making history, for the first time ever, the movie that collected the highest number of Oscars is not English speaking! It was the Korean film "parasit" that collected 4 Oscars this year. 11.02.2020 : a snow coat covering the Iraqi capital Baghdad! A city that is known for it's hot weather as its located on the edges of the desert and has an attitude of only 40m above sea level. The last time this happened was in 1918, and ever since then our snowed lightly only in 2008 winter. 12.02.2020 : protests go violent again un Beirut, Lebanon. As the parliament is gathering for a confidence vote for a newly formed government by Hassan Diab. 13.02.2020 : a scandal news pops up confirming that US & German intelligence has used Swiss firm Crypto AG, which supplied encoding devices to more than 120 governments from the Cold War era up to the 2000s, to spy on those governments through Crypto's devices. Bringing up again also the ques...

03.02.2020 : Despite many things happening world wide for sure today.. the super bowl fever is hitting all over the news, not only sports news. In a sign of how commercial this thing actually became! 04.02.2020 : Dramatic state of the union address by US president Trump, as he is done with the speech he ignored shaking hands with the house of representatives speaker who then shridded his speech copy. The tension between them is due to the impeachment, as she participated in leading that. 05.02.2020 : AFD extreme right party is in a german state government for the 1st time! As it backed FDP's candidate in Thuringia. The Left party has months struggling to form a coalition with the SPD and the Green party. After a lot of protracted wrangling since October 2019, the three parties had finally signed an agreement to rule together on Tuesday evening. It was expected that lawmakers in Thuringia's parliament would elect the Left party incumbent, Bodo Ramelow, without much fanf...

27.01.2020 : Chinese city Wuhan turns into a "ghost town", as authorities are making the city a big quarantine and limiting people from moving except for emergencies. 28.01.2020 : the 1st case of the Corona virus in Germany discovered in Starnberg near Munich, patient is in stable condition. US president Donald Trump has announced a "2 state Israeli-Palestinian peace deal" along with Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and in the presence of his opposition leader, Benny Gantz! Named "peace for prosperity plan", and known in the media as the deal of the century, the deal acknowledges and documents the current state on the ground, meaning : Jerusalem as the unified capital of Israel, all settlements in the west bank & the western Jordan valley are declared official Israel state territory, & the rest of west bank as Palestinian territory connected with highways & bridges, also connected to gaza with a highway tunnel, & an indu...