French civil servants no longer have the right to use TikTokTech&CoGovernment bans 'recreational apps' including TikTok, Instagram and Twitter on phonesfranceinfoTikTok banned from phones of French officialsThe HuffPost“Recreational applications”, including TikTok, banned on the phones of civil servants in FranceLe FigaroTikTok, Instagram …: “recreational applications” now prohibited for civil servantsThe IndependentSee full coverage on Google Newssource site
The decision will not fail to react. The International Athletics Federation has taken a major shift in its policy towards transgender athletes by excluding them from the female category, which it intends to "protect", its president Sebastian Coe announced on Thursday. "The (World Athletics) board has decided to exclude male and female transgender athletes who have experienced male puberty from international women's competitions," Coe announced after a three-day board meeting."The Council of World Athletics has taken clear measures to protect...
process dm blackmailer no longer wanted to work - confession The accused is waiting for the trial to begin in the Karlsruhe Regional Court. He is accused of carrying out a bomb attack on a dm branch and threatening further attacks. photo © Uli Deck/dpa A man detonated an explosive device in a dm branch in 2019 and extorted a large sum in bitcoins from the drugstore chain. In court, he confesses - and gives explanations. After repeated burnout, he...
It was a lucrative but also a turbulent year for the power company RWE. In Lützerath there were bitter protests against the fact that the abandoned village south of Mönchengladbach fell victim to the Dax company's lignite excavators. So it's no wonder that CEO Markus Krebber doesn't want to look back on this episode at the balance sheet presentation on Tuesday in Essen. "It's incredibly important that we look ahead now," he says when asked the relevant question. It is...
The production of wristwatches, wall clocks, cuckoo clocks or alarm clocks has declined significantly in recent years, as the Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden announced with a view to the time change at the weekend. Especially cuckoo clocks and wristwatches have sales problems.According to the statisticians, around 385,200 watches worth 287 million euros were produced in Germany in 2021. That was 16.3 percent less than ten years earlier. In 2011, 460,500 watches worth 275.1 million euros were made. Wristwatches, wall...
The objective of this reform so desired by the government is clear, to finance the pensions of our seniors. Because the argument is: the number of contributors who finance the system, compared to the number of retirees will continue to decline due to the aging of the population. The Pensions Orientation Council (COR) proved this in its latest report, published in September 2022: from 2.1 contributors for one retiree in 2000, this figure would gradually fall to around 1.5 in...
decision of the Bundestag End of a ban: homosexuals are allowed to donate blood When taking blood: Homosexuals can no longer be excluded © Annette Riedl / DPA Homosexuals should no longer be excluded from donating blood. The traffic light coalition has changed the corresponding law – because there is "no scientific reason for this discrimination". Homosexual men should no longer be excluded from donating blood across the board. With the votes of the traffic light coalition, the Bundestag decided...
From Boris Herrmann and Claus Hulverscheidt, BerlinThe word "risk-prone" sounds as if it could only come from Robert Habeck. And indeed, the economics minister introduced it into the discourse last autumn. When it came to whether the hastily introduced electricity price brake might face a similar fate as the previously flopped gas levy. Normally one would take more time for this, Habeck argued, his ministry was implementing a political mandate in view of the energy crisis, but: "It is risky."...
Questioned by animal protection associations, the deputies of the mayor Anne Hidalgo in charge of the animal condition, Christophe Najdovski, and of tourism, Frédéric Hocquard, ask the cabaret "to no longer use wild animals" in its shows, in a letter dated Friday.At the Paris Council on Thursday, the elected official of the environmental group Douchka Markovic asked the management of the Moulin Rouge to "deprogram this show", in which a dancer dives into a transparent pool and manipulates large pythons,...
paleontology As long as six giraffes' necks: Scientists find dinosaurs with the longest neck to date Neck length of more than 15 meters: The illustration of the Natural History Museum shows representatives of the species Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorums. photo © Julia D Oliveira/ Natural Histor/Natural History Museum via PA Media/dpa Scientists find a new dinosaur. The Mamenchisaurus sinocanadorum dinosaur species can claim a record for having necks over 15 meters long. Researchers at Stony Brook University in New York have made...
