Wilmington, Myrtle Beach and Charleston, collateral damage from the Chinese spy balloon? Air traffic has been suspended at three airports in the southeastern United States as a "national security" measure, the American civil aviation regulator (FAA) announced on Saturday, amid controversy over the presence of a Chinese balloon in the country's airspace.According to US media, citing unnamed sources, Washington plans to shoot down the craft over the Atlantic Ocean. The Chinese balloon, which the Pentagon claims is a "spy" balloon,...
The Munich Toy Museum is closed until the end of March due to increased energy costs. "In November, the forecast was that heating costs would increase two and a half times. For our private museum, that would have meant additional costs of 10,000 euros from January to the end of March," explained museum director Helena Steiger Evening News this decision.According to its own statements, the museum in the old town hall tower has not been open since January 9th, and...
“My justice will crack”. It could be the title of a film whose script is being written in Toulouse. For several months, the warning signs have been red within the Palais de justice of the Pink City, whose activity continues to grow without the human resources to deal with cases being increased tenfold. A situation that pushed the President of the judicial court to take drastic measures in the face of the erosion of its workforce.For lack of a magistrate,...
Three years after the outbreak of the corona pandemic, an assessment is made. Did politicians make the right decisions? Did she rely too much on the virologists and not hear enough from other scientists? Which measures were appropriate, which excessive? Eva Rehfuess teaches Public Health at the Ludwig Maximilian University. Your subject focuses on the health of the population and thus also on the - positive and negative - consequences of preventive measures. With Corona, that was suddenly in demand...
Coinbase NFT announced Wednesday that it is “pausing” future creator NFT launches. But reiterates that it will not close the market completely. “We are halting the launch of creator NFTs in the market. to focus on other features and tools requested by creators,” Coinbase NFT said on Twitter. We recently shared that we are pausing creator Drops on the NFT marketplace to focus on other features and tools that creators have asked for. To be clear: We are not shutting...
Status: 02/01/2023 3:46 p.m The German consulate general in Istanbul has been temporarily closed. The reason is the fear of violent reactions to the desecration of the Koran in several European cities. The Foreign Office advises German citizens to be vigilant. The German consulate general in the center of the Turkish metropolis of Istanbul will remain closed for the time being due to the increased risk of attack. This emerges from a message from the Foreign Office to German citizens...
STORY: The biggest mass strike in decades has started in Great Britain. Hundreds of thousands of civil servants demonstrated on Wednesday for higher wages. Schools remained closed, rail services ground to a halt, and the military was put on standby to help with border controls. The strikers are demanding above-inflation wage increases to meet skyrocketing food and energy bills. It is estimated that up to half a million teachers, civil servants, train drivers and university lecturers are taking part in...
After the train accident in Peiting, Upper Bavaria, three weeks ago, the route will remain closed until carnival. The construction work on the tracks between Peißenberg and Schongau is expected to last until February 19, as the Bayerische Regiobahn (BRB) announced on Monday. On Shrove Monday, trains are to run again according to the regular timetable.After the carnival holidays, there will also be the usual train connections for the schoolchildren again, explained the BRB, which runs the route. DB Netz...
It's been a good month since the giant aquarium "Aquadom" exploded in a Berlin hotel lobby. A million liters of water poured onto Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse, hundreds of fish died and two people were slightly injured. Experts are still looking for a cause of the collapse, and the scene of the accident is still being cleaned up. According to its director, Quirin Graf Adelmann, 47, the neighboring GDR Museum, which was also severely damaged by the water masses, will only be able...
Friktion, the Solana-based DeFi platform, has announced users will be able to cash out of the protocol. Since the platform will suspend all frontend operations, if anyone uses the platform, they must hurry up and withdraw money! The Friktion team said it had decided to suspend the platform due to the financial crisis resulting from the collapse of FTX and the lack of functionality on the Solana blockchain. In addition, the team said that the operating costs of the platform...
