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Daily Archives: 21. Juni 2020
Winter solstice 2020: Sunday is Australia‘s shortest day of year
Australian star-gazers will help shine a light on the issue of light pollution by observing the sky during the winter solstice today.
Spectacular ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse thrills skywatchers from Africa to Asia
Skywatchers along a narrow band from west Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, India and the Far East witnessed Sunday a dramatic “ring of fire” solar eclipse.
Fehmarnbelt-Tunnel muss neu geplant werden
Riffe vor der Küste Fehmarns könnten den Bau des Fehmarnbelt-Tunnels deutlich verzögern. Um die Ostsee-Riffe zu schützen, muss das Projekt neu geplant werden.
Protest gegen Ausverkauf
Die S-Bahn-Teilnetze Nord-Süd und Stadtbahn sollen über ein Vergabeverfahren schnellstmöglich an konkurrierende Anbieter verscherbelt werden. Federführend ist dabei Verkehrssenatorin Regine Günther (Grüne), die die Privatisierung des S-Bahn-Netzes bereits seit Monaten vorangetrieben hat.
Geoffrey Berman is leaving office immediately after standoff with Trump administration
Berman leaves behind a string of high-profile prosecutions and investigations. Since he became US attorney in early 2018, the office has prosecuted Trump‘s former attorney Michael Cohen, is investigating top Trump confidante Rudy Giuliani and indicted the former New York mayor‘s associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman.
Trump Fires U.S. Attorney in New York Who Investigated His Inner Circle
President Trump on Saturday fired the federal prosecutor whose office put his former personal lawyer in prison and is investigating his current one, heightening criticism that the president was carrying out an extraordinary purge to rid his administration of officials whose independence could be a threat to his re-election campaign.
Trump feuert Bundesanwalt für Manhattan
Dies teilte US-Justizminister Bill Barr gestern mit. Barr hatte bereits Freitagabend den Rücktritt Bermans verkündet, was dieser aber vehement bestritt.
Der Bundesanwalt für Manhattan gilt allgemein als einer der mächtigsten Staatsanwälte der USA.
Netanyahu caters to Right, divorces Palestinian statehood from annexation
(31.05.2020)
IT WILL likely go like this. Netanyahu will rely on the formal public pledge he made in his 2009 Bar-Ilan speech to support a demilitarized Palestinian state. That pledge was made when former US president Barack Obama was in power and was designed to satisfy an administration that wanted a two-state solution based on pre-1967 lines.
Netanyahu did not speak of the 1967 lines in the speech, but Obama accepted Netanyahu’s statehood pledge nonetheless.
Report: Top Trump officials to hold two key meetings to discuss Israel‘s annexation plan
According to Channel 13, participants at the meetings on Monday and Tuesday will include Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, National Security Adviser Richard O’Brien, Avi Berkowitz, Assistant to the President and Special Representative for International Negotiations and Jared Kushner, Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, in addition to the US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, who will fly in from Jerusalem.
Black Lives Matter in Israel? Sounds Like Science Fiction
Population and immigration department inspectors are bored and frustrated after the end of an eventful season of hunting humans. Instead of nighttime arrests and kidnappings, they currently bully asylum seekers to their hearts’ content at the registry office where they seek to extend their permits, which they are entitled to receive automatically.
The photographs shown last week on Channel 13’s Hamakor program couldn’t leave any viewer indifferent. They showed criminal, sadistic, mean bullying of weaker people on the part of low-level clerks, kings for a moment dishing out lowly racist treatment.
Randale und Plünderungen in Stuttgart
Über die Hintergründe der Auseinandersetzung und die genaue Anzahl der Randalierer war zunächst nichts bekannt. Die Polizei sprach von mehreren hundert Menschen, die in Kleingruppen unterwegs gewesen. Es habe Verletzte gegeben. Die Ausschreitungen begannen um Mitternacht.
Wahlkampf in Tulsa – Trump stichelt gegen Deutschland
Der US-Präsident sagte, Deutschland schulde der Nato wegen unzureichender Verteidigungsausgaben in den vergangenen 25 Jahren in Wahrheit „eine Billion Dollar“.
Trump übte in dem Zusammenhang erneut Kritik an der geplanten Ostsee-Pipeline Nord-Stream 2, die Gas von Russland nach Deutschland bringen soll. „Wir sollen Deutschland vor Russland beschützen“, sagte Trump unter Applaus.
Sick staff and empty seats: How Trump‘s triumphant return to the campaign trail went from bad to worse
Hours later, the President was informed six campaign staffers in Tulsa had tested positive for coronavirus ahead of his scheduled arrival — an unfortunate reminder of an ongoing pandemic Trump‘s critics say he is ignoring. After initially dismissing the revelation, a source familiar with his reaction said Trump erupted when it was subsequently reported in the media — overtaking coverage of the rally itself.
6 Trump campaign members in Tulsa test positive for the coronavirus ahead of rally
(20.06.2020)
Of the six, at least two of them are Secret Service agents, according to a law enforcement official.
President Trump tweets at ‚protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes‘ today before Tulsa rally
(20.06.2020)
President Trump tweeted this Friday morning, a day before his rally in Tulsa:
„Any protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes who are going to Oklahoma please understand, you will not be treated like you have been in New York, Seattle, or Minneapolis. It will be a much different scene!“
Mass shooting just occurred within this hour in uptown MINNEAPOLIS. At least 8 victims. No further details.
At least nine people shot at large gathering in Syracuse, New York
Police responded to a report of a stolen car in a downtown parking lot shortly before 9 p.m. They were greeted by a large crowd of several hundred people running towards officers, saying gunshots had been fired, according to Syracuse Police Chief Kenton T. Buckner.
Police did not hear gunfire while on the scene, Buckner said.
Police enter Seattle cop-free zone after shooting kills a 19-year-old, critically injures a man
According to observers, starting at 11 p.m. Friday, cars began parking outside the barricades bordering the zone at 10th and Pine streets, eventually numbering about 20 vehicles. (…)
After 2 a.m., the festivities turned violent. One eyewitness described an argument that escalated into a fight and resulted in 10 gunshots.
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The hospital confirmed that the two men arrived about 25 minutes apart in private vehicles.
The city said 911 calls placed about a half-hour apart indicated the men were shot a block away from each other.
UK police dealing with multiple stabbings in city of Reading
The news came soon after an anti-racism “Black Lives Matter” protest in the area earlier. The police say there is no suggestion so far that the incident is linked to any protests.
Nieema Hassan, one of the organizers of Saturday‘s protest, said demonstrators had left by the time the violence occurred.
Reading stabbings: Police launch murder investigation after three people killed
12:22AM Counter-terrorism officers at the scene
Counter-terrorism police are at the scene in Reading, while The Guardian is reporting that the security service, MI5, are also assisting the investigation.