International News Today - 8 July 2019 - Greece will be proud again, new prime minister PROMISES
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Date: 2019-07-08

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Greece will be proud again, new prime minister promises.

Greece's new center-right prime minister, has vowed the country will "proudly raise its head again".

New Democracy, has won 39.85% of the vote so far, ahead of the ruling party with only 31%.

This would give New Democracy an outright majority as the winner receives 50 extra seats in parliament.

US President Donald Trump has criticized the UK ambassador after leaked emails

In the emails, the UK ambassador to Washington said: "We don't really believe this administration is going to become substantially more normal; less dysfunctional; less unpredictable; less faction-driven; less diplomatically clumsy and inept."

Now to India, Bus crashes on the highway to Taj Mahal, killing 28.

A bus on Monday skidded off an expressway to India's northern city of Agra, home of the famed monument to love, the Taj Mahal, and fell into a drain, killing 28 people, after its driver apparently dozed off at the wheel police said.

the capital.

Indian roads are among the world's deadliest, with 464910 accidents in 2017, that killed nearly 148000 people, the latest government data shows.

There is an Urgent Call to Update Microsoft Windows

Up to a million, ‘dangerously out of date’ Windows users, could be at risk of a global attack that could be as devastating as WannaCry.

Microsoft says any operating system earlier than Windows 8 is at risk. Internet security company A.V.G, is warning users to check if their operating system is ‘dangerously out of date’.

Microsoft alerted users to BlueKeep earlier this year, but have warned more than a million computers are still vulnerable.

The vulnerability involves a common Windows protocol, which can allow hackers to remotely take over a computer without any input from the machine’s owner.

Here is the Latest on Disney's legacy.

Disney Trust Funds War, not Mickey Mouse

Disneyland might be known as the “happiest place on earth”, But the Disney clan’s complicated and bitter private lives are anything but.

It’s almost impossible to hear the name “Disney” and not automatically think of wholesome, happy families.

But sadly, that legacy has been tarnished over the years by a bitter family feud between Walt Disney’s descendants, which has reportedly, all but torn at least one branch of the clan apart.

According to a lengthy investigation by The Hollywood Reporter, Sharon Disney set up trusts for her three children, worth around $US400 million in total.

Each adult child was supposed to receive lump-sum payouts every five years, when they turned 35, 40 and 45.

But there was a catch, the payments would first have to be approved by three trustees.

In a statement sent by the trustees to NBC News, the trustees said that the clause allowed them to withhold payments, if the siblings lacked the “maturity and financial ability to manage, and utilize such funds in a prudent and responsible manner.”

But according to The Hollywood Reporter, it was a “catastrophic” caveat that would destroy the family.

The publication claimed troubled Victoria Brown, lived a “disheveled existence”, was addicted to heroin, and would famously charter planes and “splurge on $5000-a-night suites”.

She also once, reportedly, trashed a room in a Disney cruise ship, but despite everything, she still received $US20 million after her 35th birthday.

However, she died a year later in 2002, and her share of the fortune was automatically added to her twin siblings’ trusts.

As children, both Brad and Michelle attended a school for youngsters with learning difficulties, Michelle has dyslexia, while Bill Lund has previously claimed his son has Down syndrome, and fetal alcohol syndrome, although it has never been proven.

When the twins turned 35 in 2005, the trustees drove a wedge between them by giving Michelle her share but holding back Brad’s.

A slew of lawsuits followed, but in 2010, Michelle received her next installment as planned, despite lingering questions over her mental capacity, while her brother missed out again.

Exactly what happened five years later when the twins turned 45 is unclear, and it is also not known what, if any, legal cases are still underway.

And now we end in the UK, Grandad Spikes Nurses With Cannabis Cake

It was reported by Sky news that nurses were reportedly "off their faces" after a "nice old man", handed them a cake laced with cannabis as a thank you present.

Police were called to Warrington Hospital in Cheshire, after staff ate the red velvet sponge that was spiked with the class B drug.

A grandfather, who wanted to thank the nurses for their care of a relative, is said to have been unaware of the cake's additional ingredient.

He had taken it from his grandson's 18th birthday party before presenting it to nurses.