News compact
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: the two-degree target threatens to become unattainable. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns in its sixth comprehensive report that it will soon be impossible to keep global warming below two degrees, let alone 1.5 degrees Celsius. It is therefore necessary to start immediately to reduce greenhouse gas emissions quickly and drastically. The extremes intensify, droughts and heavy rain become more frequent. Nevertheless, there is still room for maneuver if you act now. Go to Article
Flood disaster: Laschet calls for aid funds of 20 to 30 billion euros. The storm damage in North Rhine-Westphalia amounts to more than 13 billion euros, says the Prime Minister in the state parliament. The damage in Rhineland-Palatinate is at least as high. The federal government and the prime ministers of the federal states want to launch the fund on Tuesday. In the future, NRW also wants to develop a new flood forecast system for small rivers. Go to Article
Almost a quarter of a million new internally displaced persons in Afghanistan. The UN Agency for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid puts the number at around 244,000 – more than four times as many as in the same period last year. Most of the internally displaced people fled the provinces in the northeast and east from armed fighting. The Taliban now have six provincial capitals under their control, including the city of Kunduz in the north. Go to Article
Summer in Greece turns into a nightmare. First the corona numbers rise, then the forests are on fire. But the greatest need shows that the country has learned from the mistakes of the past. To the article (SZ Plus)
Catholic priest found killed in France. According to reports, the dead clergyman was discovered in the village of Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre in the rooms of a missionary brotherhood. The alleged perpetrator is said to be a 40-year-old who had already started a fire in Nantes cathedral last year. The man surrendered. Go to Article
Bundestag election 2021
How the CDU wants to pull the lever in the election campaign. In the party, they thought for a long time: If enough citizens have formed an image of their candidate for chancellor, he will win the favor of the electorate. The opposite happened. Now Laschet is trying to distinguish himself as a doer in the flood disaster and in the corona crisis. Go to Article
Laschet wants to expand the compulsory corona test. Before the federal-state meeting on Tuesday, the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia presented a package of measures. According to his plan, tests will be necessary in future wherever strangers meet indoors. Go to Article
CDU, SPD and FDP in Saxony-Anhalt agree on a coalition. The state chairman of the CDU, Sven Schulze, said that they had negotiated “very intensively” with one another. According to him, the election of the prime minister will take place on September 16. The CDU and SPD members now have to decide on the draft coalition agreement, while the FDP has a party congress. Go to Article
What difficulties super ministries encounter. Climate protection and digitization are the mega-topics for a new government. But does it need ministries with enormous special powers, as the Greens and FDP envision? Go to Article
That interested many today
Before the Lokdown. From this week on, Germany is facing the toughest rail strikes in years. Why the tariff dispute escalates during the holiday season, of all things, and what commuters and holidaymakers have to expect now. Go to Article
Bach’s power plans unfold. The president opens a gateway in the bubble of Tokyo to enforce the IOC with a personal network – and single-handedly to throw entire sports out of the program. Go to Article
Justice for the vaccinated. The majority must not suffer if a minority is too lazy to deal with the subject of vaccination. In this respect, innkeepers and organizers act correctly if they only let in vaccinated people. To the comment
Last but not least
“The Rock” takes a shower three times a day. Dwayne Johnson is a rock in the shower and Fritz Wepper confesses to having had an affair with Iris Berben many years ago. The news from the world of celebrities.