Status: 01/31/2023 9:11 p.m In 2010, the US and Russia agreed to limit the number of nuclear warheads. But as a result of the Ukraine war, the inspections are on hold. Washington now sees the entire agreement in jeopardy. The US has accused Russia of failing to comply with the New START nuclear arms control treaty. A statement by the US State Department said Moscow would not allow the inspections agreed in the treaty on its territory. This calls into...
After the alleged attacks in Jerusalem, concerns about a spiral of violence in the Middle East are growing abroad. In a reaction, UN Secretary-General António Gutteres expressed concern about the situation in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories and called for "extreme restraint". "The spiral of violence, which has already claimed too many victims on both sides this year, must not continue," said a spokeswoman for the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. "More than ever, there is a need for...
Status: 01/18/2023 10:51 a.m The frustration of the Democrats over the handling of US President Biden with the sensitive document discovery is growing. You wonder how bad the image damage is - after all, Biden could soon announce his candidacy for the 2024 election. By Claudia Sarre, ARD Studio Washington Incompetence and Chaos in the White House? For days there has been criticism from all sides of US President Joe Biden's handling of confidential documents - increasingly also from his...
Opposition to Microsoft's billion-dollar acquisition of Activision Blizzard is growing. The EU will soon send the US software company a list of its concerns, an insider said on Monday. The competition authorities want to decide by April 11 whether to approve the $ 69 billion deal. The EU declined to comment on the issue. Microsoft emphasized that it wants to discuss possible concerns with the authorities and stick to the takeover. According to earlier statements from insiders, the company is...
Exclusive Status: 01/16/2023 5:00 p.m Despite warnings from the Federal Audit Office, according to research by WDR, NDR and SZ awarded a two-billion dollar contract without detailed specifications. Now there is a risk of a cost explosion. The beneficiary is once again a Bremen shipyard. By M. Bognanni, WDR, and V. Kabisch, N. Naber, B. Strunz, NDR In the summer of 2021 everything should go very quickly. The last meeting of the budget committee of the German Bundestag before the...
background As of: 01/12/2023 4:58 p.m Next week, further weapons for Ukraine are to be negotiated again in Ramstein. The delivery of battle tanks is in the foreground. Which country has which types - and which concerns? Germany The German government is under pressure. More and more countries are declaring their willingness to deliver "Leopard 2" tanks to Ukraine. There are also demands from the opposition to support these deliveries. Because Germany, as the manufacturer of the "Leopard 2" tanks,...
Status: 01/11/2023 03:29 am Belarus plays an important role for Russia in the Ukraine war. However, the country does not send soldiers into battle. Does that change? New joint maneuvers of the armed forces provide Kyiv. The maneuvers of Russian and Belarusian troops in Belarus bring back memories of the start of the Ukraine war. In February last year, Russia used the neighboring country as a deployment area and attacked Ukraine from there. There is now a joint combat force,...
Sam Bankman-Fried's attorney Asked to hide the identity of two guarantors on his $250 million bond. and not publicly disclosed citing concerns about harassment Mark Cohen and Christian Everdell of law firm Cohen & Gresser LLP, representing FTX's former CEO, filed the complaint in a letter to Judge Lewis Kaplan on Tuesday. “Over the past few weeks, Bankman-Fried's parents became the target of scrutiny, massive media harassment,” Everdell and Cohen said in the filing. “Above all, Mr. Bankman-Fried's parents Constantly...
Frankfurt Stock Exchange Dax continues to weaken - Corona concerns from China The Dax is the most important stock index in Germany. photo © picture alliance / dpa Weak targets from the overseas stock exchanges pushed the German stock market a little further below the 14,000 point mark on the penultimate trading day of 2022. Concerns about rapidly increasing corona infections in China had weighed on the US stock exchanges the night before and on this Thursday morning also the...
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. you could see his 95 years for a long time. Now Pope Francis announces that his predecessor is seriously ill. Many Catholics are concerned. Three little words from Pope Francis' mouth have caused concern for Benedict XVI among Catholics in Germany and around the world. awakened. "È molto ammalato" - he was "very ill," said Francis of his predecessor, the Pope Emeritus. He called on all believers to a "special prayer" for Benedict. "Think of him,...
