Quick Glance: Dispute over Climate Protection Measures in Traffic Sector
- The Environment Agency opposes drastic measures in the transport sector.
- Reform of the Climate Protection Act and potential driving bans spark controversy.
- Ampel parties argue over climate goals and blame games.
- DUH feels vindicated in lawsuit against Transport Minister and calls for new measures.
Germany: Less CO2 emissions due to economic slump - that hides a problem - Politics - SZ.de
Quick Glance: Is Boris Pistorius the Right Defense Minister?
- Most popular politician in Germany since taking office a year ago
- Character description by de Maizière: clever, hardworking, communicative, demanding, impatient
- Pistorius well-prepared at the start, knowledgeable and accident-free in the military
- Finally someone with military experience: Pistorius served in the military and understands it
Quick Glance: Daniel Ellsberg, Leaker of Pentagon Papers, Passes Away at 92
- Military analyst Daniel Ellsberg revealed a secret history of American lies and deceit in Vietnam, known as the Pentagon Papers, in 1971. Ellsberg passed away on Friday at his home in Kensington, Calif.
- He told Robert McNamara that he forecasted a dismal prospect of continued death and destruction, ending perhaps in an American withdrawal and victory for North Vietnam.
- Frustrated, disillusioned, and aware that he could be committing a crime and could be sent to prison, Ellsberg approached Neil Sheehan with the documents.
- Ellsberg agreed to turn over the papers if The Times would publish them and do its best to protect the identity of its source.
Quick Glance: 25 NATO peacekeepers injured in clash with ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo
- The NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping force reported that 25 of its troops were injured on Monday during clashes with ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo. The Serbs were attempting to take over the offices of one of the municipalities where ethnic Albanian mayors took up their posts last week.
- Several Kosovo police vehicles and one belonging to journalists sustained damage.
- On Monday, the Kosovar police and the NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR) were observed protecting municipal buildings in Zvecan, Leposavic, Zubin Potok and Mitrovica, four municipalities in the north that held early elections last month.
- According to Goran Rakic, a local Serb politician, the Serbs want both new mayors to resign and vacate their offices, as they consider them 'illegal and illegitimate sheriffs'. Additionally, they demand that the special police leave northern Kosovo.
Quick Glance: Thomas Bagger - New Secretary of State for Annalena Baerbock
- Experienced diplomat Thomas Bagger returns from ambassador position in Poland to Berlin
- Bagger advises vigilance towards the world and its changes in essay
- Bagger has worked for all foreign ministers since Klaus Kinkel
- Previous position: Head of the foreign policy department at the Federal Presidential Office
What makes people happy in the Alps becomes a nuisance in Aomori in Japan: In no major city in the world does so much snow fall as here ... Show more
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Experts have known for at least 20 years that the chemicals PFAS are a problem. Research by the SZ together with NDR and WDR now shows for the first time ... Show more
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Grinding footsteps? Peace in the winter forest? "For me, romance and snow have never had anything to do with each other," says Yoshiko Yamauchi from Aomori ... Show more
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Quick Glance: Corona: Mask need in long-distance trains reduces - when it is so far away
- Lauterbach has announced the abolition of required masks on long-distance trains.
- In public long-distance traffic, the mask obligation falls prematurely.
- The calls for an early end to the mask obligation grew louder and louder, and the FDP insisted on it within the Federal Government.
- The mask requirement in public transportation has already been repealed in Bavaria, Saxony-Anhalt, and Schleswig-Holstein.
Harder should be punished the "climate RAF", as CSU politician and ex-Federal Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt calls the "last generation". Fittingly ... Show more
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