The UN creates a special rapporteur mandate to monitor the repression of opponents in Russia The UN Human Rights Council broke new ground by creating, on Friday, October 7, a special rapporteur's mandate to monitor the repression of opponents in Russia. The forty-seven member states of the Council adopted a resolution to this effect – proposed by a large number of member countries of the European Union – with seventeen votes in favour. Twenty-four countries abstained and six voted against,...
literature Book Fair 2022: Back to normal with royal splendor Juergen Boos is pleased that the book fair in Frankfurt can take place again physically after two years of the pandemic. photo © Sebastian Gollnow/dpa With exhibitors from 95 countries, the book fair is as international as it was before the pandemic. A royal couple will attend the opening. And visitors are allowed onto the site earlier. Advance sales are booming almost like they were before the pandemic, there are...
Nuclear escalation warning Biden evokes "Armageddon" and counts on Russia getting the message US President Joe Biden: "We haven't faced the prospect of Armageddon since Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis" © Lev Radin/ / Picture Alliance US President Joe Biden has commented on Russia's nuclear saber-rattling in unusually drastic terms. His comparison with the Cuban Missile Crisis should not be a coincidence. The United States takes the threats seriously. Your defense minister has made that clear, as has the...
triathlon Hungry for pizza, joy and frustration: Haug third in Hawaii The German triathlete Anne Haug during the running stage of the Datev Challenge Roth. photo © Daniel Karmann/dpa They fight, they suffer. It's not enough to win in Hawaii. Anne Haug is third, Laura Philipp fourth at the Ironman World Championship. A surprise winner triumphs in a difficult race. Above all, Anne Haug and Laura Philipp had one wish: to eat pizza. "Fat, salty, unhealthy," emphasized Philipp, but Haug...
Philippines Lottery win by 433 people causes nationwide discussions Lottery and gambling are extremely popular in the Philippines © Matt Hunt / Picture Alliance In a state lottery draw in the Philippines, 433 people scooped the jackpot in one fell swoop. Is it all just luck or is there more to it? An independent investigation should now provide answers. A draw by the state lottery in the Philippines is currently making headlines around the world. Last Saturday, more than 400...
The drama took place Thursday evening near the Lann-Bihoué naval air base in Quéven near Lorient (Morbihan). Around 10:30 p.m., a motorcyclist in his forties who was stopped at a red light was violently hit by a car coming from behind, reports The Telegram. Thrown several meters, the victim died.After the accident, the driver abandoned his vehicle on the spot and fled on foot. Just before the tragedy, he had been chased by the anti-crime squad while he was driving...
They are accused of the murder, accompanied by acts of torture and barbarism, of a forties in 2019: two men and a woman appear from Monday before the Assize Court in Angoulême.Gérald Matifas, originally from Deux-Sèvres, had been beaten up, extorted, mutilated and killed in the cellar of an apartment in Cognac (Charente). His body was then burned and abandoned in a forest in Courcerac (Charente-Maritime).The defendants, Cathy Bichon, 41, David Klein, 38 and Philippe Laroche, 30, wanted revenge for...
The symbol is strong. The Center for Civil Liberties (CCL), an NGO documenting war crimes attributed to Russian troops, became the first Ukrainian Nobel Peace Prize, awarded alongside representatives of Russian and Belarusian civil society. The decision of the Norwegian Nobel Committee caused shock and joy among the members of the CCL, a reputable organization but little known to the general public."When we heard the news, we were stunned," Civil Liberties Center spokeswoman Anna Trouchova told media. “We see this...
comment by Stephen RadomskyIt's quite possible that Christian Lindner really wants to help. It is quite possible that he therefore sent a TV statement to the states that they should please give the property owners in the state a little more time before they have to submit their property tax returns. But it is also quite possible that the Federal Minister of Finance showed one thing above all in front of the Chancellery: free courage. Pretty sure it doesn't make...
It usually begins with a sudden fever, headache, and cough, which often progresses to pneumonia. Countless patients do not survive the disease, dying a few days after the onset. This description inevitably reminds you of the past two and a half years, during which the corona pandemic kept the world in suspense. But the typical course of the disease is also that of the Spanish flu, which raged around 100 years earlier. Between 1918 and 1920 it claimed millions of...
