Keine Fortschritte bei Haushaltsverhandlungen auf EU-Gipfel

Nach stundenlanger, heftiger Diskussion haben die Staats- und Regierungschefs der EU ihre Verhandlungen über den nächsten Sieben-Jahre-Haushalt der EU ohne Ergebnis vertagt. Bei der “kontroversen” Debatte am Donnerstag in Brüssel seien die unterschiedlichen Positionen aufeinandergetroffen, verlautete aus deutschen Regierungskreisen. Am Rande des Treffens erzielten Deutschland und Frankreich allerdings eine vorläufige Einigung, die das sogenannte Verbrenner-Aus […]

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2030 fast zwölf Euro pro Schachtel: Bundestag beschließt höhere Tabaksteuer

Der Bundestag hat eine deutliche Erhöhung der Tabaksteuer beschlossen. Das Parlamentsplenum stimmte am späten Donnerstagabend mit den Stimmen der Koalitionsfraktionen für eine entsprechende Gesetzesänderung. Durch sie soll sich der Durchschnittspreis für eine Schachtel mit 20 Zigaretten bis zum Jahr 2030 um fast vier Euro auf 11,78 Euro verteuern. Bundesfinanzminister Lars Klingbeil (SPD) erhofft sich dadurch […]

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Ailing UK director Mike Leigh wishes he could make ‘100 more films’

British filmmaker Mike Leigh told AFP Thursday he regretted he could not make “another hundred films” because of ill health, as he attended the London premiere of his prize-winning latest work. Leigh, 83, has myositis, an autoimmune disease that affects the muscles, and now uses a walking stick.”It’s only because I have a medical condition that […]

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Argentine demonstration over education cuts ends in clashes

Argentine demonstrators clashed with police on Thursday at a major protest in Buenos Aires over budget-slashing President Javier Milei’s higher education spending. The main demonstration outside parliament by thousands of university students and staff, trade unionists and opposition activists remained peaceful. But dozens of mostly hooded demonstrators who broke away from the crowd lobbed stones […]

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EUA anuncia investimento de mais de US$ 300 milhões no Caribe

Os Estados Unidos vão destinar mais de 300 milhões de dólares (R$ 1,5 bilhão) para contribuir com a vigilância de infraestruturas, modernizar as forças de segurança e instalar conexões a cabo na bacia do Caribe, informou o vice-secretário de Estado americano, Christopher Landau, nesta quinta-feira (15).”Tenho o prazer de anunciar 37 milhões de dólares (R$ […]

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Argentine protesters, police clash at demo over university funding

Argentine demonstrators clashed with police on Thursday at a major protest in Buenos Aires over budget-slashing President Javier Milei’s education spending. The main demonstration by thousands of students, teachers, trade unionists and opposition activists remained peaceful. But dozens of mostly hooded demonstrators who broke away from the crowd lobbed stones and other projectiles at the […]

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Zelensky rallies European allies as Trump ties slump

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky sought Thursday to rally European allies after saying Kyiv would no longer abide by US President Donald Trump’s demands not to strike Russian oil refineries. Relations between Kyiv and Washington have soured since last week, when Trump eased sanctions on Russia in exchange for Moscow releasing large amounts of diesel onto […]

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Houthis launch deadly attack on presidential palace in Yemen’s Aden

The Houthis launched a deadly missile attack Thursday on the presidential palace in the Yemeni government’s interim capital of Aden, as Saudi Arabia blamed Iran for the recent dramatic escalation in the long-running war. The attack hit command centres located inside the Al-Maashiq presidential compound used by government forces and the Saudi-led military coalition that […]

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School roof collapse kills 32 children, teacher in Pakistan

The roof of a school collapsed in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar on Thursday, killing 32 students mostly younger than 14, and a teacher, officials said, blaming the accident on dilapidated infrastructure. Twenty more students were taken to hospital as residents and rescuers scrambled to pull children from under the rubble. Others in the densely […]

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