Today’s news in star-Ticker.
Today’s news in star-Ticker:
9.35 a.m.: Natives of Easter Island vote against reopening for tourism
The natives of Easter Island decided in a referendum not to reopen their island to tourists for the time being. 67 percent of the Rapa Nui voted against lifting the foreclosure decided almost two years ago because of the corona pandemic, as the community announced on several online platforms. However, the turnout among the indigenous people was less than 20 percent.
9.30 am Ur: Man of British woman detained in Iran starts hunger strike in London
The husband of the Iranian-British dual nationalist Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe went on a hunger strike in London to protest. Although Iran is primarily responsible for his wife’s situation, “Great Britain is failing us,” wrote Richard Ratcliffe, who started his strike at the British Foreign Office in Westminster on Sunday, in a statement. Two years ago he went on a hunger strike for around two weeks.
The British government recently called for an end to the prosecution and the release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. The 43-year-old has been sentenced again to a year in prison for propaganda against the Iranian regime. Ratcliffe called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to make the case a top priority.
9.20 a.m.: Germany’s exports to third countries fell again in September
The German export economy was unable to recover in September either. According to the Federal Statistical Office, exports to third countries decreased by 0.4 percent compared to August, calendar and seasonally adjusted. In June, July and August, exports to third countries had already fallen month-on-month, calendar and seasonally adjusted.
9:05 a.m.: Study: Every eighth fears for their own job because of digitization
According to a new survey, around every eighth employee in Germany fears for their own job because of the ongoing digitization in the world of work. Twelve percent of those surveyed expressed concern in a job study by the consulting firm EY that their jobs could be endangered in the future as a result of new technological developments. In contrast, 88 percent of those surveyed did not raise any concerns in this regard. The study was available to the German Press Agency in Stuttgart.
8.55 a.m.: Turkish lira falls to a record low
The threatened expulsion of ten Western diplomats from Turkey has caused the local currency, the lira, to plummet to a record low. Early Monday morning, 9.80 lira were charged for one dollar, then the rate recovered slightly and stood at 9.73 lira. The Turkish currency has already fallen by 24 percent against the dollar since the beginning of the year. It also fell sharply against the euro.
8.22 a.m.: Amnesty International closes its offices in Hong Kong
The human rights organization Amnesty International claims to be closing its offices in Hong Kong. As the organization announced, the step was based on the so-called security law passed by Beijing. The law makes it “practically impossible for human rights organizations in Hong Kong to operate freely and without fear of serious government retaliation.”
8.20 a.m.: Search for suspects in the case of 14-year-olds killed continues
After the violent death of a 14-year-old in Munich, the police are still looking for a 17-year-old suspect. However, the investigation was not limited to the young people, it was investigated in all directions, said a police spokeswoman. The background to the crime was initially unclear. The police also did not provide any information on why the 17-year-old is considered a suspect. The officials were called to a house in Munich’s Bogenhausen district on Sunday morning, where the student was found. Rescue workers tried in vain to reanimate the girl. The girl’s body is to be autopsied.
8:05 a.m.: Lauterbach sees “huge construction sites” in the healthcare sector
The SPD health politician Karl Lauterbach sees “huge construction sites” in the German health system. In the past two years, the social democrat told the “Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger / Leverkusener Anzeiger” before the start of the working groups to prepare a traffic light coalition on Wednesday. “The hospitals are in serious deficit, especially the university clinics. The expansion of digitization has stalled, both in practices and in hospitals. The health insurance companies are making double-digit billion deficits. There are significant problems in preventive medicine,” Lauterbach listed.
8.00 a.m.: Corona outbreak in China: Tens of thousands are not allowed out of the house
China is taking strict measures against a new wave of corona infections. Authorities ordered the lockdown of northern China’s Ejin County, which is located on the border with Mongolia. Tens of thousands of people have been asked not to leave their homes. Around a third of the 150 or so infections that have been registered in China since last week come from Ejin.
The Chinese government is pursuing a strict “zero covid strategy”. With curfews, mass tests, contact tracing, quarantine and strict entry restrictions, the country has largely had the corona virus under control. However, there are always smaller outbreaks, which are then brought under control with great effort.
7:05 a.m.: Report: New record for money laundering reports in Germany
In the current year there is expected to be a new high in suspicious transaction reports of money laundering, terrorist financing and sales tax fraud in Germany. “We will have well over 200,000 reports this year, which will be a new record,” said the head of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of customs, Christof Schulte, the “Tagesspiegel”. Last year, with 144,000 suspicious activity reports, the previous record, around 25,000 reports were forwarded to the law enforcement authorities using the risk-based approach.
6.20 a.m.: Armed men arrest leading members of the government in Sudan
After weeks of tensions between the military and the civil interim government, gunmen arrested several leading government officials in Sudan, including Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok. The arrests had taken place in their homes, it was said from government circles. The Ministry of Information announced on Monday that amdok had previously refused to support the soldiers’ “coup”. He was taken to an “unknown place”. As reported by AFP journalists, the Internet was shut down across the country.
5.10 a.m.: RKI registers 6573 new corona infections – incidence at 110.1
The 7-day incidence in Germany has reached 110. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week in the morning at 110.1. For comparison: yesterday the value was 106.3, a week ago it was 74.4. The health authorities in Germany reported 6573 new corona infections to the RKI within one day. This is evident from the numbers that reflect the status of the RKI dashboard at 5 a.m. A week ago the value was 4056 infections.
5.05 a.m.: Deadly film weapon at Baldwin’s shooting contained cartridge according to the search report
Police released details from two investigation reports three days after chief cameraman Halyna Hutchins was killed by an accidentally triggered prop weapon on a western set in New Mexico. Accordingly, an assistant director had assured actor Alec Baldwin when handing over the pistol that it was a “cold weapon” without ammunition. The assistant did not know that there was a cartridge in the weapon, the report said.
The assistant director who gave Baldwin the gun had already violated safety standards in an earlier production, a technician for special effects and pyrotechnics told NBC on Sunday. She had worked with the assistant in 2019 for the series “Into the Dark” at the streaming provider Hulu. The production team there stated that no complaints were made at the time. US media also reported criticism of the 24-year-old weapons master, who was responsible for the proper handling of all weapons on the set.
3.40 a.m.: At least three climbers killed in an avalanche on a volcano in Ecuador
At least three climbers were killed yesterday in an avalanche on a snow-capped volcano in Ecuador. Three people were also missing, said the rescue workers of the Quito fire department. Four dead had previously been reported. In addition, three people were rescued injured in the avalanche.
According to the authorities, the avalanche hit a group of 16 climbers at an altitude of 6100 meters on the Chimborazo volcano, the highest peak in Ecuador. According to media reports, all members of the group were from Ecuador. The avalanche was triggered by “weather conditions”, not volcanic activity.
3.25 a.m.: Severe storm in the south of Brazil: almost 1,000 houses damaged
Strong winds and hail caused damage to 938 houses in the southern Brazilian state of Paraná. Most affected was the city of Foz do Iguaçu on the border with Paraguay and Argentina, where 600 houses were damaged, according to a report by the Paraná civil protection. 851 people were affected, nobody was injured.
2.25 a.m.: DGB: collective bargaining and wage dumping cost social insurance 30 billion euros
Social insurances in Germany lose around 30 billion euros every year due to collective bargaining and wage dumping. As a report by the editorial network Germany shows, citing calculations by the German Trade Union Federation (DGB), the income shortfalls for social security in the west amount to 19.5 billion euros and in the east to 10.3 billion euros.
0.25 a.m.: Rising corona numbers among children: Lauterbach calls for nationwide tests
The SPD health politician Karl Lauterbach has warned of the sharp rise in the number of corona infections in children. “After the autumn break we will see significantly more outbreaks in schools because the children can no longer ventilate,” he told the editorial network in Germany. Lauterbach called for a nationwide uniform test strategy in schools.