Nach Verdacht auf Sprengstoff vor Oberstem Gericht in Brasilien gibt Polizei Entwarnung

Ein verdächtiger Rucksack vor dem Obersten Gerichtshof in Brasilien hat drei Tage vor der Präsidentschaftswahl kurzzeitig Befürchtungen vor Gewalt ausgelöst. Nach einer intensiven Sprengstoff-Prüfung des vor dem Gericht abgestellten Gepäcks schloss die Polizei jedoch am Donnerstag eine Bombengefahr aus. Der Oberste Gerichtshof ist wegen der Verurteilung des rechtsextremen Ex-Staatschefs Jair Bolsonaro massiven Anfeindungen seitens dessen […]

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World powers gather in Pacific to chart climate battle

World powers are flying delegates to the Pacific to haggle over the fight against global warming, and to see the plight of island nations surrounded by a rising ocean. Ministers, climate negotiators and a handful of leaders will meet in the Fijian city of Nadi for the October 5-8 talks. They will be charting the […]

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Lula, Bolsonaro trade scandal fire in final scramble for votes

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his election rival Flavio Bolsonaro are leaving no controversy unturned in their last-ditch efforts to discredit each other and win over voters ahead of Sunday’s nail-biter election. A campaign dominated by scandals and insults has done little to ease the deep political polarization in Latin America’s biggest […]

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Return of swarming moth spectacle has Australia in a flutter

Moth swarms so thick they can blot out the stars are fluttering across Australia, heralding a migratory spectacle unseen since the creature’s brush with extinction nearly 10 years ago. The great migration of the Bogong moth was once a yearly feature of the Australian spring, the insects humming down the nation’s east coast in their […]

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Nepal’s grim DNA puzzle to identify flood dead

Clutching a photograph of his missing son, Rajesh Ram is pinning his hopes on DNA testing — like thousands of others desperately seeking relatives swept away by Nepal’s catastrophic Himalayan floods.”I searched for him everywhere, but I could not find his body,” 53-year-old Ram told AFP, still waiting for answers about his son Suroj Kumar, […]

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Arab Israeli candidate drops out of election race

Arab Israeli politician Sami Abu Shehadeh withdrew his candidacy on Thursday from October’s parliamentary election after Israel’s Supreme Court indicated a majority of its judges supported barring him from the race. Arab Israeli parties are seen by political analysts as potential kingmakers in the October 27 election, with polls showing neither Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s […]

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Copernicus: Sommer in Europa war so heiß und trocken wie nie zuvor

Der Sommer in Europa war so heiß und trocken wie nie zuvor. Wie der EU-Klimadienst Copernicus am Freitag mitteilte, kletterten in mehr als der Hälfte Westeuropas die Temperaturen an 17 Tagen auf über 30 Grad. Zum Vergleich: Im Vorjahr wurden nur sieben solcher extremen Hitzetage gezählt, beim bisherigen Rekord im Jahr 2003 waren es elf […]

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Feierlichkeiten zu Tag der Deutschen Einheit beginnen in Bremen

In Bremen beginnen am Freitag (16.00 Uhr) die dreitägigen Feierlichkeiten zum diesjährigen Tag der Deutschen Einheit. Bis zum Sonntag gibt es in der Bremer Innenstadt und an der Weser ein Bürgerfest mit Musik, Theater und Diskussionsrunden auf mehr als hundert Bühnen. Ein musikalischer Höhepunkt ist der Auftritt der Fantastischen Vier am Samstagabend. Auf einer Ländermeile präsentieren […]

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Israel courts Europe’s far right, finding friends but also unease

Facing growing isolation over the war in Gaza, Israel is increasingly allying itself with Europe’s far right, despite some parties’ legacies of antisemitism. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused foreign critics of Israel’s conduct in Gaza of fanning hate against Jews, but his government has mostly been comfortable with politicians so long as they support […]

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