UN: Vertreibung im Westjordanland könnte Verbrechen gegen Menschlichkeit sein

Die Vertreibung zehntausender Palästinenser aus Flüchtlingslagern im besetzten Westjordanland durch Israel könnte nach Einschätzung der Vereinten Nationen ein Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit darstellen. Mehr als 33.000 Menschen seien Anfang 2025 aus den Lagern Dschenin, Tulkarem und Nur Schams vertrieben worden, erklärte die UNO am Freitag. Das “großflächige, langanhaltende und systematische” Vorgehen werfe ernsthafte Fragen hinsichtlich […]

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Anschläge auf Umspannwerke: Polizei fahndet unter Hochdruck nach Verdächtigem

Nach den Anschlägen auf Umspannwerke in Brandenburg und Nordrhein-Westfalen fahnden die Ermittler mit Hochdruck nach einem 48-jährigen Verdächtigen. Der Mann aus dem nordrhein-westfälischen Gevelsberg geriet als Verfasser von zwei als authentisch eingeschätzten Bekennerschreiben samt Täterwissen ins Visier, wie Bundesinnenminister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) und Landesinnenminister Herbert Reul (CDU) am Freitag in Düsseldorf sagten. Einsatzkräfte der Polizei […]

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UK hard-right party rallies behind leader after new donation scandal

British hard-right leader Nigel Farage sought to play down a fresh donations scandal Friday sparked by an undercover sting operation that overshadowed his Reform UK party’s annual conference. Farage had been hoping to use the gathering to move on from damaging controversies over financial gifts by setting out the policies of any future Reform government, […]

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How a Dostoevsky novella took TikTok by storm

Marcelo Nogueira is not well versed in the classics but the 27-year-old Brazilian book influencer was seduced by Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “White Nights,” a 19th-century tale of love and loneliness at the center of an unlikely TikTok craze. Dostoevsky’s story of a dreamer who, while strolling through the streets of Saint Petersburg, meets a young woman […]

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More than 120 killed in Yemen’s worst clashes in years: sources

A major offensive by Yemen’s Houthis to seize control of the gateway to the Red Sea has left more than 120 people dead, sources told AFP Friday, the country’s deadliest clashes in years. Fighting erupted on Thursday, after the Iran-backed Houthis launched a ground assault along with rocket and drone attacks near coastal areas, vying […]

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5 EU countries aim to send rejected migrants to ‘return hub’ by 2027

Five EU countries are seeking a deal with a country outside the bloc to host a “return hub” for migrants whose asylum applications have been rejected, with a targeted start date of January 1, a Danish minister said Friday. Denmark, Greece, Austria, Germany, and the Netherlands agreed to the initiative as Copenhagen hosted talks on […]

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Argentina to return Nazi-looted painting to Jewish collector’s heir

Argentina is set to return an 18th-century painting stolen by Nazis from a Dutch Jewish art collector to the rightful owner’s heir, a judge said Friday.”Portrait of a Lady” by Italian baroque painter Giuseppe Ghislandi was missing for eight decades before being photographed last year hanging in the home of the daughter of a senior […]

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