live blog Status: 11/24/2022 03:52 a.m Ukraine reports progress in restoring power after Russian missile strikes. French President Macron calls for penalties for all war crimes. All developments in the live blog. 3:38 a.m Amnesty: Russian reprisals on reports about opponents of the war The human rights organization Amnesty International has complained that the media and human rights activists reporting on anti-war protests in Russia are being massively obstructed. "We can see that the Russian authorities are not only doing...
White smoke in Sharm el-Sheikh. An agreement was reached on Saturday on the issue of climate damage suffered by poor countries, one of the main sticking points in the difficult COP27 negotiations, according to a European source. This announcement gives hope that this 27th international climate conference, which seemed on the verge of failure on Saturday morning, will be saved."Rather no agreement than a bad agreement", had launched the vice-president of the European Commission Frans Timmermans in front of the...
The restoration of damaged bridge to the Russian-occupied Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula of Crimea According to British intelligence experts, it could take almost a year. "Russian efforts to repair the Crimean bridge continue, but it is unlikely to be fully operational before September 2023," reads the Department of Defense's daily Ukraine War Intelligence Update in London.The bridge, which is important for the supply of the Russian invasion troops in Ukraine, was severely damaged by an explosion on October 8th.According to...
Recently I stood with my bike at the traffic light in front of the Volksgarten in Vienna, where I had admired the splendor of the roses, looked just as admiringly at the parliament, whose slumber is just coming to an end after a long renovation, and waited for the green to finally when a lady stopped next to me with her bike. I don't always stick to red, I have to admit, but the ring is an insurmountable obstacle, even...
report Status: 08/17/2022 4:37 p.m Although Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine has repeatedly been hit with rockets, it is trying to somehow repair the damaged buildings. But building materials are scarce and expensive - and nobody knows: is it worth it? By Andrea Beer, WDR, currently Mykolaiv Pensioner Lyudmila stands in front of the partially destroyed apartment building in Mykolaiv. The city in southern Ukraine is around 30 kilometers from the front and is regularly attacked. Russian rockets have also repeatedly...
Status: 05/03/2022 1:39 p.m The European Union wants to ensure that more electronic devices are repaired instead of being bought new. Austria is the first EU country to introduce a nationwide subsidy for repair costs. By Till Rüger, ARD Studio Vienna "Repaired instead of discarded" - a second life for defective electronic devices. This is the basic idea behind the EU-wide repair bonus. It doesn't matter whether it's a mobile phone, a razor or a washing machine: in Austria there...
The brilliant idea came to Frank Noe sometime between inflating tires and oiling the chain. For some time now, the news has been almost exclusively about Ukraine, about the war and the suffering of the people there. What can I do to help? This question had been his constant companion in the days before, says the 43-year-old Sauerlacher. So the answer came to him while repairing his wife's bicycle. That's Frank Noe's passion, who is not only a passionate cyclist...
On September 20, sixty years after the end of the Algerian war, Emmanuel Macron promised "recognition and reparation" to the harkis. It will initially translate into fifty million euros from the 2022 budget dedicated to these Algerian soldiers engaged in the French forces during the Algerian war. A specific bill is expected in the Chamber on November 18, but budgetary measures were now necessary "in order to be able to implement this law as soon as it is voted", according...
