Philippines suspends sending workers to Kuwait over deaths, abuse

The Philippines halted sending workers to Kuwait on Friday, a day after President Rodrigo Duterte said abuse by employers there had driven several domestic helpers to suicide.

North Korea families pressuring elderly to commit suicide

More senior citizens in North Korea are being pressured to kill themselves because of intergenerational conflicts and the skyrocketing cost of medicine.

Russian General Staff says armed groups utilize moratorium on Russian and Syrian flights to launch attacks on western Aleppo

Russian General Staff on Thursday stressed that the armed groups utilized the moratorium on flights of the Russian and Syrian planes to launch attacks on residential neighborhoods in the western part of Aleppo city.

Second black box confirms Germanwings crash was deliberate. (The pilot modified the automatic pilot settings to increase the speed...)

France BEA's aviation investigators on Friday said the second black box recovered from the Germanwings crash site in the southern French Alps confirmed that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz had deliberately crashed the plane.

Germanwings co-pilot crashed plane 'deliberately' (Marseille Prosecutor)

The co-pilot "voluntarily" initiated the descent of the Germanwings flight that crashed into the French Alps and refused to open the door to the pilot who was outside the cockpit, the lead investigator said.

US: American carried out suicide attack in Syria

The U.S. State Department confirmed on Friday that an American carried out a suicide bombing in Syria, as had been claimed by the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front.

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki did not provide any details about the suspect, who had been identified in a New York Times report as a man in his 20s from Florida and of Middle Eastern descent.
“I can confirm that this individual was a U.S. citizen,” Psaki said, adding that he was “involved in a suicide bombing inside Syria.”

21 Dead In Attack On Kabul Restaurant /Des membres de l'ONU et du FMI tués dans un attentat suicide à Kaboul (video R)

Afghan authorities say the death toll from an attack on a Lebanese restaurant in Kabul, frequented by foreigners, officials and business people, rose to 21 on Saturday.

An International Monetary Fund official as well as four United Nations personnel are among the dead.

Authorities say a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the restaurant Friday and that two gunmen entered the establishment and opened fire. The gunmen also were killed.

Syrian army may use kamikaze pilots against west, Assad officer claims. At least 8,000 suicide 'martyrs' ready to foil US warplanes hand-in-hand with Hezbollah and Iran, says regime loyalist

The Syrian air force is considering using kamikaze pilots against attacks by western forces, a Syrian army officer operating air defences near Damascus has claimed in an interview with the Guardian.
The officer said 13 pilots had signed a pledge this week saying they would form "a crew of suicide martyrs to foil the US warplanes".
The Assad loyalist, in his 30s and serving with the Syrian army's air defence section 10 miles from the capital, said: "If the US and British armies launch a single rocket we will launch three or four, and if their warplanes raid our skies they will face hell fire.

Την ενοχή Βαξεβάνη ζήτησε ο εισαγγελέας ..«Μετατρέψατε τη χώρα σε ζούγκλα»

Την ενοχή του Κώστα Βαξεβάνη για τη δημοσιοποίηση της λίστας Λαγκάρντ πρότεινε ο εισαγγελέας στη δίκη του δημοσιογράφου που συνεχίζεται στο κτήριο 2 της πρώην Ευελπίδων.

Ο εισαγγελέας κατηγόρησε τον Βαξεβάνη ότι μετατρέπει τη χώρα σε ζούγκλα ενώ μίλησε και για διαπόμπευση και διασυρμό υπόληψης ανθρώπων, αναφέροντας χαρακτηριστικά: «Ο Κώστας Βαξεβάνης μας λέει άρον-άρον ''Σταύρωσον αυτούς'' και αυτό δεν αποτελεί λύση στο πρόβλημα της χώρας. Σε μια κοινωνία που ζητάει αίμα μετέτρεψε τη χώρα σε ένα Κολοσσαίο και πέταξε μέσα ανθρώπους και υπολήψεις»

Greek suicide epidemic continues: Debt-strapped pensioner hangs himself ...

A 61-year-old Greek pensioner has hung himself from a tree in a public park after succumbing to the pressure of crushing debt. A note in his pocket indicates he is merely the latest in a rash of economic crisis-induced suicides.

The pensioner’s lifeless body was found dangling by an attendant in a public park not far from his home in the suburb of Nikaia, Athens. The attendant also found a suicide note in the man’s pocket, The Athens news reports.

The man, identifying himself as Alexandros, said he was a man of few vices who “worked all day.”  However, he blamed himself from committing one “horrendous crime”: becoming a professional at the age of 40 and plunging himself into debt. He referred to himself as a 61-year-old idiot who had to pay, hoping his grandchildren would not be born in Greece, as the country’s prospects were so bleak.

Macedonia News el : Pensioner's note reveals financial pressure drove him to Syntagma suicide ....

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The man who killed himself in Syntagma Square in central Athens on Wednesday morning has been identified as a 77-year-old pharmacist.

It has emerged that he left a note criticising the government and explaining his reasons for taking his own life.

“I can’t find another way to react apart from putting a dignified end to things before I start looking through garbage in order to survive and before I become a burden for my child,” the note left by the pensioner said, according to reports.

It is not clear if the 77-year-old had the note with him or whether he left it somewhere for his family. It is not yet known what kind of financial problems the pensioner may have had.

The head of the Attica Pharmacists’ Union, Constantinos Lourantos told Skai radio he knew the man, who was identified as Dimitris Christoulas.

“He was a calm, family man,” said Lourantos.

In the suicide note, Christoulas compares the Greek government to Second World War administration led by army officer Georgios Tsolakoglou that collaborated with Nazi occupiers.