The director of a new film about a five-year-old girl killed by Israeli forces in Gaza told the Venice Film Festival Wednesday she wanted to give “a voice and a face” to victims.”We’ve seen that the narrative all around the world is that those dying in Gaza are collateral damage, in the media, and I […]
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Bei den hohen Energiepreisen in Deutschland soll es künftig dank einer Absenkung der Stromsteuer und durch Zuschüsse bei den Übertragungsnetzentgelten eine spürbare Entlastung geben. Bundeswirtschaftsministerin Katherina Reiche (CDU) sprach nach einem entsprechenden Kabinettsbeschluss der schwarz-roten Koalition am Mittwoch in Berlin von “guten Nachrichten für die Stromkunden”. Wirtschaftsverbände und Verbraucherschützer kritisierten die Entlastungen hingegen als zu […]
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Pizzeria owner Saeed is unable to take or serve orders at his restaurant in the Iranian capital, his business stalled by rolling power outages that have compounded the country’s many economic woes.”Outages often hit right in the middle of lunch service, the worst time for restaurant owners,” the 48-year-old entrepreneur told AFP from his pizzeria […]
Read MoreFamilies huddled hungry and homeless days after a deadly earthquake hit eastern Afghanistan, not daring to set foot in the few remaining buildings for fear an aftershock could bring them down. The initial powerful 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck remote regions along the border with Pakistan, killing more than 1,400 people, with at least six strong aftershocks […]
Read MoreVerbraucherinnen und Verbraucher sollen künftig einen im Internet geschlossenen Vertrag einfach per Mausklick auf einen Button widerrufen können. Das Kabinett beschloss am Mittwoch, dass Unternehmen dazu verpflichtet werden sollen, den Widerruf mit einer solchen Schaltfläche zu ermöglichen. “Wenn das Bestellen im Internet kinderleicht ist, dann muss es auch der Widerruf sein”, erklärte Bundesverbraucherschutzministerin Stefanie Hubig […]
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The arrest of an Emmy award-winning comedy writer for social media posts about transgender people has reignited a UK row over freedom of speech, with one government minister saying Wednesday “we need to look at” the law. Irish writer Graham Linehan, who co-created popular 1990s sitcom “Father Ted”, says he was arrested by five armed […]
Read MoreWith “The Testament of Ann Lee”, a movie about the founder of the 18th-century Shaker religious movement screening at the Venice Film Festival, director Mona Fastvold sought to honour a figure “on the verge of being erased from memory”. Lee, played by Amanda Seyfried in the film that premiered at Venice this week, was “one […]
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A Swiss court on Wednesday weighed whether to hear a landmark climate case pitting residents of a tiny Indonesian island being swallowed by rising sea levels against cement giant Holcim. The case is part of a wider international movement seeking to assign to major companies responsibility for the climate damage hurting the livelihoods of millions […]
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Nach dem deutlichen Plus im Juli hat der Neuwagenmarkt in Deutschland im August weiter zugelegt. Die Zahl der neu zugelassenen Autos lag um fünf Prozent über dem Wert des Vorjahresmonats, wie das Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA) am Mittwoch in Flensburg mitteilte. Einen auffallend kräftigen Anstieg gab es bei Elektroautos – sie legten bei den Neuzulassungen im Vergleich […]
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