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Today’s news in star-Ticker:
10.18 a.m.: Prison sentences against operators of so-called cyber bunkers in Rhineland-Palatinate
In the trial against the operator of the so-called cyber bunker in Traben-Trarbach in Rhineland-Palatinate, the defendants are sentenced to prison terms. The Trier district court saw it as proven that the eight accused had operated a computing and data center for criminal customers in a former Bundeswehr bunker. The main defendant, a man from the Netherlands, was sentenced to five years and nine months in prison.
9.42 a.m.: Ricarda Lang announces candidacy for Green party chairmanship
The deputy Green Party chairman Ricarda Lang is officially applying for the party chairmanship. She wrote on Twitter: “We have made no less than to rebuild our society socially and ecologically – in government and beyond. It would be a great honor for me to serve this great task. That is why I am running as party chairman of @the green.”
The Greens elect their new leadership at a virtual party conference on January 28th and 29th. Since the current chairmen Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck have been elected to the Bundestag and take over government offices, they have to give up their party offices according to the rules of the party statutes.
Foreign politician Omid Nouripour had already announced his candidacy for the chairmanship of the Greens at the beginning of December. Lang said: “I can imagine that with him very well.” Your “common management style” could be “honest and cooperative” – ”always based on the question: What do we want to achieve together?”
9.36 a.m.: 17 injured in clashes between migrants and police in Mexico
17 people were injured in clashes between security forces and migrants in Mexico. Among the injured were 13 police officers, as the regional government of Mexico City announced on Sunday (local time). The riots broke out outside the gates of the capital Mexico City, where the migrants protested against their illegal residence status.
According to the authorities, the group set out in mid-October and wanted to get to the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City to take part in the annual pilgrimage to the shrine of the patron saint of Mexico. Hundreds of thousands of people made pilgrimages to the basilica over the weekend. The officials and the migrants finally agreed that the group should be trucked to the basilica.
9.18 a.m.: Four more dead found after a house collapse in Sicily
After the gas explosion and the collapse of houses in Sicily, rescue workers discovered four more bodies. The fire brigade found four of the six missing people during the rescue work on the destroyed buildings. This increased the number of confirmed fatalities in the town of Ravanusa near Agrigento in the south of the island to seven. For the two still missing people, there is little hope of finding them alive under the rubble.
On Saturday around 8:30 p.m. there was a strong gas explosion. As a result, a four-story house collapsed and several other buildings were destroyed. Two women were found alive by the rescuers. Around 100 people could no longer get into their houses, the area was like a field of rubble, and fires flared up again and again.
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8.55 a.m.: Accident in South Tyrol with dead Germans: agreement on damages
Almost two years after the traffic accident in South Tyrol with seven dead Germans, relatives and victims who were injured at the time have agreed on compensation with the driver’s insurance company. As lawyer Markus Wenter announced, those affected are getting out of the proceedings as civil plaintiffs. The lawyer from Bolzano represents most of the 79 victims. He announced that those affected had actually made claims of 18 million euros – but the sum insured was 10 million. This money has now been distributed and has already been paid out.
In the nightly accident on January 5, 2020, seven German ski tourists were killed in the Ahrntal Valley when, according to previous knowledge, a local drunk raced into the group of people. Six young people – mainly from North Rhine-Westphalia – died on the spot, and one woman later succumbed to her injuries in hospital.
8.26 a.m.: Youngster blows himself up in school in Russia
A young man detonated a self-made explosive device on the premises of a Russian women’s convent. The explosion occurred in the morning in the city of Serpukhov in the Moscow region, around 90 kilometers south of the Russian capital. The Central Investigative Committee in Moscow announced that an attempted murder trial had been initiated. The background was initially unclear.
The Russian state news agency Tass reported, citing its own sources, of seven injured children among the emergency services. It was therefore unclear whether the suspect, presumably 18 years old, survived the attack. According to investigators, he is a graduate of a high school of the Russian Orthodox Church, which is located next to the women’s monastery.
It is also being investigated whether the young man could have detonated the explosive device out of hatred of the school’s teachers and the nuns. Accordingly, he could have felt harassed during the training. A large number of police could be seen in pictures of the women’s monastery on Monday morning. In Russia there had been several rampages at educational institutions this year, some with dead and injured.
7.21 a.m.: Palestinians – man killed in Israeli military operation
According to Palestinian sources, a man was killed in an Israeli army operation in the occupied West Bank. The hospital in Nablus said he was shot in the head. According to the police, Israeli security forces arrested a wanted suspect in Nablus. When they withdrew, the security forces were pelted with explosives by several people. The soldiers and police fired back and apparently hit one of the attackers. He was evacuated by the ambulance service.
6:07 am: Harnaaz Sandhu from India is “Miss Universe 2021”
The 21-year-old Harnaaz Sandhu from India has been named “Miss Universe 2021”. The actress prevailed on Monday night at a live show in the Israeli coastal city of Eilat on the Red Sea against 79 competitors from different countries. 19-year-old Eloisa Jo-Hannah Seifer from Düsseldorf took part for Germany.
The 70th “Miss Universe” election began at 3:00 am, Israeli time, to be broadcast live in prime time on US television. Because of the corona pandemic, only viewers with a “green pass” were allowed to attend the show. In addition, it was mandatory to wear a mask. It was only in May that the then 26-year-old Andrea Meza from Chihuahua won the title of “Miss Universe 2020” in the US state of Florida. The competition had been postponed due to the corona pandemic from the previous year.
5.31 a.m.: Australia and South Korea agree arms deal
Australia and South Korea have signed an arms deal with a business value of one billion Australian dollars. The deal, signed by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, is reportedly the largest arms deal between Australia and an Asian nation to date. Among other things, it provides for the delivery of self-propelled artillery howitzers, ammunition supply vehicles and radars by the South Korean company Hanwha.
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5.27 a.m.: Funeral shooting in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon
According to the radical Islamic Hamas, three of its members were killed in a shooting at the funeral of a Palestinian in a refugee camp in Lebanon. Fighters from the warring Fatah group opened fire at the ceremony on Sunday near the southern Lebanese coastal city of Tire, said Hamas representative Raafat al-Murra. Six other people were injured.
An official from the Fatah-affiliated security forces in the Burj al-Shemali refugee camp told the Lebanese National News Agency that the shooter was “neither a member of the Fatah movement nor of the security forces.” The Lebanese army later announced that Palestinian security officials had extradited a Palestinian man accused of shooting. An investigation has been opened. A resident of the camp told AFP news agency there was an argument when the funeral procession arrived at the camp’s cemetery. Then “suddenly the crowd” was shot. In the chaos it was unclear who shot whom.
3.49 a.m.: South Korea rejects boycott of the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing
South Korea has spoken out against a boycott of the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing. “We have not received a request from any other country, including the US, to participate in the diplomatic boycott,” said President Moon Jae-In on a visit to Australia. Such a step is not being considered.
The US announced last week that it would not send political representatives to the Winter Games in China in February to protest human rights violations by the Chinese authorities. Australia, Great Britain and Canada followed suit. However, athletes from these countries will take part in the games. Beijing threatened the states with consequences.
2.25 a.m.: Greenhouse gas emissions from the meat and dairy industries continue to increase
According to a study by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), the greenhouse gas emissions caused by Europe’s largest companies in the meat and dairy industry are continuing to increase. “The climate footprint of the major European meat and dairy companies is comparable to that of the major players in the fossil fuel sector,” said IATP boss Shefali Sharma. But at the same time they have not yet been in the focus of politics and so get away with “unpunished”.
The IATP experts examined the carbon footprint of the 35 largest beef, pork, poultry and dairy companies headquartered in the EU, Great Britain and Switzerland. Including emissions in their supply chains, especially in livestock, these companies were responsible for seven percent of EU emissions in 2018; the output of the 20 largest companies exceeds that of the Netherlands.
1.29 a.m.: EU increases financial aid for Belarusian civil society
The EU is increasing its financial aid to Belarusian civil society. “Today we are increasing our support with an additional 30 million euros for young people, independent media, small and medium-sized companies in exile and cultural workers,” said EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen after a meeting with the Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tichanovskaya. This would almost double the funds that have been promised so far.