"Winter of Displeasure" Britain in state of emergency as massive wave of strikes peaks Strike everywhere you look: Because of the biggest labor disputes in decades, a standstill threatens in large parts of the United Kingdom on Wednesday © Jane Barlow/PA Wire / DPA It is not just a single strike - the industrial action in the UK covers the whole country and many sectors. The outstanding payments are likely to peak this Wednesday. It is the biggest strike in...
Teachers, railway workers, civil servants, university lecturers… The United Kingdom is preparing for another day of massive strikes on Wednesday, the largest in a decade, in a country in the grip of an economic crisis fueled by inflation. Up to half a million people could strike Wednesday, on the eve of the date marking the first hundred days - agitated - of the conservative government of Rishi Sunak. The TUC trade union federation warned that it would be "the biggest...
Podcast "important today" The torn country: Israel's democracy is on the brink Mourners at a funeral for the youngest victims of attacks in Israel © Ilia Yefimovich / DPA "Israel has always been a powder keg," says Middle East correspondent Raschel Blufarb. A new wave of violence with assassinations and deadly raids is sweeping the country, while hundreds of thousands of Israelis are protesting against Netanyahu's right-wing government. "Society in Israel is deeply divided," says Israel correspondent Raschel Blufarb...
The world's first electric car dealership from Mercedes-Benz lies between unattractive houses in a landscape of shades of grey. Yokohama is nicer elsewhere, but here you get a good look at the rough reality of Japanese traffic. The two-story highway "Route K1" and a level highway runs in front of the shop window. In the rushing stream you can see that hardly anyone in Japan drives completely emission-free. And when you ask senior product manager Asami Ueno whether her employer...
Status: 01/29/2023 3:12 p.m Anyone who has to deal with authorities in Estonia practically no longer has to go to the office. The Baltic state is considered a model case for how administration can offer its services digitally. But the infrastructure is getting old. By Sofie Donges, ARD Studio Stockholm Holger Kiik is a lecturer at the University of Tallinn and he is happy: on February 16 he is marrying his girlfriend. Of course, they filled out the application for...
The Minister of the Interior does not mince his words. As the pension reform arrives in Parliament on Monday, Gérald Darmanin denounced "the deep contempt for the value of work" from part of the left, which he accuses in an interview with Parisian to seek "to border the country". “To balance our pension system, yes, we have to work harder. We must not say anything else and assume it”, he declares, castigating “those who think that we must work less...
9:42North Korea condemns Washington's decision to send tanks to UkraineNorth Korea on Friday condemned Washington's decision to send tanks to Ukraine, saying the United States is fueling a "proxy war" to destroy Russia.Washington "is crossing the red line further," Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said in a statement Friday, accusing the United States of being responsible for the war in Ukraine.On Wednesday, US President Joe Biden promised to send 31 Abrams tanks, one of...
18:14'It's our dream': Volodymyr Zelensky wants allies to deliver 'long-range missiles'The Ukrainian president spoke on Friday after meeting with the NATO secretary general and asking him that allied countries step up their military support for Ukraine."We must open the supply of long-range missiles to Ukraine and it is important that we develop our artillery cooperation and we must start supplying aircraft to Ukraine," he said in a statement. his video.He then concluded: "This is our dream and our task."18:03Ukraine will...
knife attack Minister Karin Prien: "The whole country is mourning" Karin Prien (CDU), Education Minister of Schleswig-Holstein, visited the school where the victims of the knife attack on a train in Brokstedt went. photo © Daniel Bockwoldt/dpa/Daniel Bockwoldt Schleswig-Holstein's Minister of Education visited the school in the morning where the two victims of the knife attack attended. shared mourning. After Brokstedt's knife attack, Schleswig-Holstein's Education Minister Karin Prien expressed her sympathy at the school of the two victims. "I came...
Herders and their herds were in the village of Rukubi, on the border between Nasarawa and Benue states in Nigeria, when a "bomb" exploded in their midst on Wednesday evening. The latest report shows 40 dead, against 27 previously, the government announced.Police experts are investigating the origin of the explosion. For its part, a group representing pastoralists said Wednesday that the explosion came from a strike by the Nigerian army. “It was an airstrike. It killed 27 people” from the...
