human rights EU countries impose new sanctions on Iran A woman is demonstrating in Berlin out of solidarity with the protesters in Iran (symbol image). photo © Joerg Carstensen/dpa The EU is tightening its sanctions against Iran - without classifying the Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization. Did the warnings from Tehran work? The German foreign minister denies that. Because of the ongoing serious human rights violations in Iran, the EU states have imposed further sanctions. The punitive measures decided...
In the face of a massive wave of corona infections in China, the USA and Italy are increasing their precautionary measures. Anyone entering the United States from China must present a negative Covid test from January 5. The new rules already apply in Italy: Air travelers from China have to take a mandatory corona test at the airport after landing, and those who are infected have to go into isolation. Health Minister Orazio Schillaci issued a corresponding regulation on Wednesday....
Phone calls in distress, families on the street with freezing temperatures, stressed and cracking social workers… Scenes of despair have multiplied in recent days on the 115 listening platform, which directs applicants to places emergency accommodation. The situation is particularly catastrophic in Seine-Saint-Denis where hundreds of pregnant women and families with young children were turned back in early December.The Great Cold plan has been activated, which should make it possible to unlock unoccupied places. However, this plan does not solve...
New regulation planned If there is not enough electricity: Switzerland wants to impose driving bans on electric cars In the event of a power shortage, electric vehicles in Switzerland will have to stop under certain conditions (symbolic photo) © Solidcolours / Getty Images If there is a shortage of electricity and you are the only car with an electric vehicle, it could soon be largely forbidden for the Swiss to drive it. Our neighboring country is preparing for possible outages...
Status: 11/16/2022 6:26 p.m The US has imposed new sanctions over the crackdown on protests in Iran. They aim at the state broadcaster IRIB. Meanwhile, government critics continue to take to the streets. Several people are said to have been killed. The US has imposed sanctions on six senior employees and journalists at a state-run Iranian media company. Among other things, their assets are frozen. IRIB is said to have broadcast hundreds of forced confessions from detainees. In addition, interviews...
While in custody, he denied the facts. But faced with elements appearing “serious and consistent enough”, a magistrate pronounced the indictment of this man in his fifties for “rape of a vulnerable person”. Justice suspects this caregiver of having imposed oral sex on a resident of the Kervénanec nursing home, in Lorient (Morbihan), in which he had recently been working. Aged 95, the victim could not be heard, his condition not allowing it, specifies the prosecutor of the Republic of...
The number of refugees in the district of Ebersberg is increasing. Again and again people flee and seek protection from persecution, war and terror - and end up in the region. A bus with 50 refugees from Syria, Turkey and Afghanistan arrived just last Tuesday. It was the second bus within a few weeks that arrived in the district town of Ebersberg. According to the district office, a total of 100 people have now been distributed in the 78 state...
Elnaz Rekabi was back at the airport in Tehran on Wednesday morning, it was still black outside. Her eyes were serious and tense as she repeated to state media cameras the previous day's statements, which had surfaced on her Instagram channel: In the rush before her competition, she forgot her hijab when putting on climbing gear. unintentionally. You regret this. She apologized to the Iranians for the worries she caused them. Then she got into a car and the convoy...
Iranian authorities have imposed drastic internet restrictions, including blocking access to Instagram and WhatsApp, amid unrest following the death of a young woman arrested by vice police, local media reported on Thursday. "By decision of the authorities, it is no longer possible to access Instagram in Iran since Wednesday evening and access to WhatsApp is also disrupted," said the Fars news agency.Since the blocking of platforms like YouTube, Facebook, Telegram, Twitter and TikTok in recent years in Iran, Instagram and...
Cover image: Josep Borrell at a press conference at the UN in New York on September 21, 2022. Julia Nikhinson/AP Ukraine and Russia exchanged military prisonersthe largest since the start of the offensive on February 24. A total of 215 people have been released on the Ukrainian sideof which 188 "hero" having defended the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol (including 108 members of the Azov regiment). Five military commanders, including Azovstal defense chiefs, have been transferred to Turkey, where they...
