Europe was not represented at the meeting, held in a luxury hotel on Lake Geneva. But France‘s Foreign Ministry confirmed that Kerry and foreign ministers of like-minded nations planned to meet in London on Sunday to discuss Syria.
Kerry said parties to the Lausanne talks would contact each other on Monday to follow up.
In Tennessee it was through this office, charged with overseeing the state‘s purchases and contracts, that Governor Bill Haslam concocted the biggest privatization scheme you‘ve never heard of.
A partial replacement for the loss of public funds comes from corporate and philanthropic „gifts“ and industry contracts for universities. Groups of conservative millionaires like the Koch brothers have created institutions to push the corporate agenda. They have infiltrated universities and introduced the neoliberal worldview through think tanks and programs designed to give „assistance“ to those institutions that would accept their money and programs. These groups, with the combined help of the corporate controlled press and a sophisticated public relations campaign, eased the transition to the corporatization of universities.
Das seit August 2016 gültige „Rechtsvereinfachungsgesetz“ für von Hartz-IV-Abhängige ermöglicht, Betroffene mit einem Bußgeld von 5000 Euro zu bestrafen, wenn sie eine Ordnungswidrigkeit begehen. Laut der Zeitung Neues Deutschland besteht diese zum Beispiel darin, Angaben gegenüber dem Jobcenter nicht vollständig gemacht zu haben.
Schlosberg was arrested in Walhalla, North Dakota on Tuesday for filming activists shutting down a tar sands pipeline, part of a nationwide solidarity action organized on behalf of those battling the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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Während in Deutschland die Zustimmung für das europäische Freihandelsabkommen mit Kanada, auch CETA genannt, groß ist, hat Belgiens französischsprachige Provinz Wallonien am Freitag gegen CETA gestimmt. Jetzt droht das umstrittene Freihandelsabkommen zwischen EU und Kanada zu scheitern.
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US President Barack Obama late Friday informed Congress about authorizing the strikes „in response to anti-ship cruise missile launches perpetrated by Houthi insurgents.“ In the „War Powers Resolution“ letter, Obama stated the United States stands ready to take action in self-defense, as necessary and appropriate, to address further threats.
DAS THEMA, über das ich im Fernsehen sprechen sollte, war eine Frage, die die israelischen Historiker seit diesem schicksalhaften Jom Kippur faszinierte und umtrieb: Wusste Kissinger von dem bevorstehenden ägyptisch-syrischen Angriff? Hatte er Israel wegen seiner schändlichen eigenen Pläne nicht gewarnt?
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif conferred with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Lausanne on Saturday prior to the International Conference on Syria
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Europe is not represented at the meeting being held in a luxury hotel on Lake Geneva. But France‘s Foreign Ministry confirmed that foreign ministers of like-minded nations plan to meet to discuss Syria in London on Sunday.
Kerry hosted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and seven foreign ministers from the region – from Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, Jordan and Egypt
He added that Shoukry was invited to take part in the Lausanne talks by US Secretary of State John Kerry, who highlighted the importance of Egyptian participation in the meeting due to the key role that Cairo plays in the Syrian settlement process.
Apart from the United States and Russia, representatives of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Jordan are taking part in the ministerial talks.
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif arrived on Saturday in the Swiss city of Lausanne to participate in the ministerial talks on Syria.
Facebook, Google, die Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, die Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation und andere Organisationen haben einen neuen Coup gelandet, weiter in den persönlichen Bereich der Menschen einzudringen.
Dieses Mal sind das Wissen über den einzelnen Schüler und seine Leistungen das Ziel des Datensammeln zur Vervollkommnung der „Akte Mensch“, die über jede einzelne Person angelegt wird.
Putin legte auch seine Version des Scheiterns des lange zwischen Washington und Moskau verhandelten Abkommens zur Herbeiführung eines Waffenstillstands in Syrien dar. Dabei erklärte der russische Präsident, dass der Schlüsselmoment für das Ende dieser Vereinbarung die Bombardierung einer Einheit der syrischen Armee durch die von den USA geführten Koalitionstruppen war, von welcher das Pentagon später sagte, dass diese ein Versehen gewesen sei.
Syria talks are to be held in Lausanne today with participation of foreign ministers of Iran, Russia, US, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Egypt, and Qatar.
Additionally, the President‘s team apprised him of ongoing discussions with allies and partners about the violence in western Syria and the Asad regime‘s brutal campaign against its own people. Although the United States suspended bilateral channels with Russia in pursuit of a Cessation of Hostilities, the President directed his team to continue multilateral discussions with key nations with a vested interest in the region to encourage all sides to support a more durable and sustainable diminution of violence and, more broadly, a diplomatic resolution to the civil war.
Nach der Eroberung gelte es dann, die Provinz Idlib zu „säubern“. „Wir müssen die Terroristen in die Türkei zurückdrängen, wo sie herkommen, oder sie liquidieren. Wir haben keine andere Wahl“, betonte Assad.
(4.10.2016) “A conventional conflict in the near future will be extremely lethal and fast. And we will not own the stopwatch.”
(8.10.2016) Der Einsatz von künstlicher Intelligenz und automatischen Waffen würde die Kriegsführung enorm beschleunigen. Die Dinge würden so schnell passieren, dass unsere menschlichen Fähigkeiten überfordert sind“, sagt US-General William Hix gegenüber dem US-Online-Portal „Defense One“.
Es war EU-Kommissionspräsident Jean-Claude Juncker, dem wir das öffentliche Bekenntnis verdanken, in dem es heißt: „Wenn es schwierig wird, muss man lügen.“ Ohne in diesem Fall das berühmte Kreter-Paradoxon bemühen zu müssen – denn Juncker ist kein Epimenides -, können wir uns spätestens seit diesem Zeitpunkt in der Ansicht bestätigt fühlen, dass die Lüge in diesen Tagen das wichtigste Instrument westlicher Politiker ist.
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More than 140 people have been killed and over 500 injured by air strikes on a funeral gathering in Yemen‘s capital Sanaa.
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John Kirby, State Department Spokesperson.
On Friday, the agreement was implemented, with over 1,200 Islamist rebels and their families being transported by the Syrian government to their requested destinations.
The overwhelming majority of civilians in Qudsiyah and Hamah remained in their homes, accepting the Syrian Arab Army‘s control over these suburbs.
Insgesamt 14 Tage lang wollen Frauen auf einer 200 Kilometer langen Strecke von der nördlichen Stadt Rosh Hanikra nach Jerusalem marschieren, um für eine diplomatische Lösung im nie endenden Konflikt zwischen der israelischen Regierung und den Vertretern des Staats Palästina zu werben, der 1988 von der PLO ausgerufen wurde und seit 2012 einen Beobachterstatus bei den Vereinten Nationen genießt.
Contrary to Israeli criticism, UNESCO‘s resolution on Temple Mount has nothing to do with staking religious claims, and even includes some wins for Israel.
„Das Erbe Jerusalems ist unteilbar und jede seiner Gemeinschaften hat ein Recht auf die klare Anerkennung seiner Geschichte und Beziehung mit der Stadt“, sagte UNESCO-Chefin Irina Bokowa am Freitag in Paris. Dies gelte für das Judentum, das Christentum und den Islam.
Hollande’s claim is being also dismissed by translators who facilitated the conversation between Putin and Tsipras either in physical presence or by phone.
They all insist that Greece did not request for Russia’s assistance to print Drachmas but also that Greece did not ask for financial aid from Russia.
Italy will send 140 troops to Latvia in the coming months to „participate in the Canadian-led NATO force“ there, Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said Friday.
Gleich zweimal wurde sie des Mordes verurteilt und freigesprochen. Diese aufschlussreiche Doku lässt Amanda Knox und andere Beteiligte des Falles zu Wort kommen.
Journalists don’t much like this film because it reveals so much about how journalism works – and it isn’t pretty.
I’m not aware of any reputable public survey that weights self-reported past vote back to the actual reported results of an election.
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In the new study, an international team of astronomers, led by Professor Christopher Conselice of the University of Nottingham, converted images of deep space from telescopes around the world, and especially from Hubble, into 3D maps, in order to make accurate measurements of the number of galaxies at different epochs in the universe‘s history.
In addition, they used new mathematical models to infer the existence of galaxies that the current generation of telescopes cannot observe.
This led to the conclusion that there are a factor of 10 more galaxies in a given volume of space when the universe was a few billion years old compared with today.
Devastating drought leaves herders struggling to find enough feed to keep livestock alive through winter
Militias have attempted to overturn Libya’s United Nations-backed government it has been reported.
According to the Guardian the militias have seized control of the central Rixos hotel, which houses the government’s state council.
The plotters issued a statement saying that the coup was an “historic initiative to rescue Libya”. However the presidency asserting that it remained in control has ordered the arrest of the plotters.
Francis is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to bribing Navy officials with more than US$500,000 in cash, sex workers, Cuban cigars, Kobe beef, model ships and others gifts in exchange for favours that helped him beat out competitors and overbill the Navy.
Matsuri Takahashi, who joined Dentsu in April 2015 after graduating from the University of Tokyo, committed suicide in December. A labor tribunal last month ruled the case a death from overwork, or karoshi, after severe work conditions were ruled to have caused her to suffer from depression, the paper said.
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But the terrorists depicted in its footage aren’t the stereotypical religious extremists currently the putative focus of a multi-fronted U.S. military campaign — rather, the Pentagon warns, the enemy will be subversive elements arising amid dwindling resources as the stratification of wealth sharpens in the years to come.
(12.Oktober) Die Länder haben in den vergangenen Monaten beim Thema ,Bildung in der digitalen Welt‘ entscheidende Weichen gestellt. Anfang Dezember soll die Strategie der Kultusministerkonferenz verabschiedet werden.(…)
Wir haben also unsere Hausaufgaben umfassend erledigt und sind gut vorbereitet, um auf das geplante Programm der Bundesbildungsministerin Johanna Wanka einzugehen“, sagte Udo Michallik, Generalsekretär der Kultusministerkonferenz (KMK).
Die Stellen im Netzwerk informieren sich gegenseitig über ihre Bildungssysteme und dienen als Ansprechpartner für Probleme, die sich bei der Bewertung von ausländischen Qualifikationen ergeben können. Auf gemeinsamen Konferenzen beraten sie über Fragen der Anerkennung, die von übergeordnetem Interesse sind. Kanada, die USA und Australien wirken ebenfalls in dem Netzwerk mit.
Als deutsches Äquivalenzzentrum ist die ZAB darüber hinaus an der Vorbereitung und den Verhandlungen für bilaterale Staatsabkommen über die gegenseitige Anerkennung im Hochschulbereich (so genannte Äquivalenzabkommen) beteiligt.
„We have decided to put forward a draft Security Council resolution on Yemen calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities and a resumption of the political process,“ British Ambassador Matthew Rycroft told reporters.
It‘s a joint initiative of the World Food Programme (WFP) and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
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„I don‘t know exactly what party my wife belongs to. Actually she belongs in the kitchen, the living room and the other rooms in my house,“ Buhari told reporters with a chuckle after a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has recently called on universities to pledge not to cooperate with patent trolls. Campaigns like these can help reduce the damages of universities’ aggressive patenting pursuits, which have long ago spiraled out of control.
(11.Oktober) The report provides detailed information on who is buying up farmland in which regions of the world and how this land is being used. It also highlights the economic, social, and political impacts of land investments.
Download the report here: Analytical Report of the Land Matrix II (2.2 MB)
Leaders of the world’s largest emerging markets will gather in India for the eighth annual BRICS summit on October 15 and 16.(…)
n the past year, the BRICS countries launched new financial institutions like the $100 billion BRICS Bank (also known as the New Development Bank), the China-led Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank, and a $100 billion BRICS currency reserve fund.
In Victoria interest is growing around an Indigenous stone arrangement near Melbourne.
“We know agriculture started around 12,000 years ago and if this site dates back to around then, perhaps Aboriginal people were some of the first.”