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- Explosion near the US Embbady in Beijing (8:34)
- Nowhere does it fire more often than in Garmisch (6:43) [19659003] Saudi Arabia stops oil transport through the Yemen and Djibouti straits (5:20 pm)
- Germans consume more than 220 kilograms of packaging per capita and per year (16:35)
- The number of Deaths of forest fires in Greece rose to 81 (16:18)
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+++ 8:48: Voßkuhle reprimands the asylum rhetoric of the CSU +++
The President of the Federal Constitutional Court, Andreas Voßkuhle, clarified the CSU rhetoric in the criticized refugee policy. Voßkuhle, in the "Süddeutsche Zeitung", rejected Thursday the use of the term "rule of injustice" as "unacceptable rhetoric" in 2016, without naming by name the chairman of the CSU and the federal minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer. "She wants to spark badociations with the state of Nazi injustice, which are completely devious."
+++ 8.34 Clock: Explosion near the US embbady in Beijing +++
In front of the US embbady in Beijing on Thursday, an explosive device exploded, There is no no major damage, eyewitnesses reported. On the ground at a corner of the embbady, however, there were signs of explosions. According to conflicting statements by eyewitnesses, one human being was injured.
The German news agency learned from a Chinese employee of the US Embbady that someone had thrown an object over the fence on the property's property. But a staff member of the message threw the piece in the street, where it exploded. It was an explosive device manufactured by itself
+++ 8:08:17 years after the World Trade Center attacks identified a 26-year-old victim +++
17 years after the bombings of the September 11, remains A 26-year-old was identified with the help of new DNA tests. Out of a total of 2,753 people killed in the attack on the World Trade Center, Scott Michael Johnson was the 1642nd identified victim, senior medical examiner Barbara Sampson said on Wednesday. He then worked as a securities expert with the investment bank Keefe, Bruyette and Woods.
+++ 7h: New rocket attacks by militant Palestinians in Gaza against Israel +++
Militant Palestinians in
Gaza Strip Rockets fired again in the Israeli border area after the attacks of the Israeli army. The Israeli army said Thursday that a total of nine coastal shells had been identified overnight. One of them had been intercepted by missile defense. Most of them were taken outdoors near the border fence.
+++ 6h40: Rescue teams in Laos continue to search for more than 130 missing persons +++
After breaking a dike in
Laos rescuers with boats and boats Helicopters continue to search for 131 missing persons. 688 people have already been rescued from flooded areas, local media reported on Thursday.
The Xepian-Xe Nam Noy Dam in Attapqeu, in the southeastern province, collapsed on Monday night. Five billion cubic meters of reservoir water flooded six villages. It is about as much water as the Lake Chiemsee and Lake Starnberg
+++ 6.34 clock: this is the case most often in Garmisch flashes +++ [19659011] It crashes into the alpine idyll: the biggest lightning of the country In 2017 in the Bavarian district
Garmisch -Partenkirchen down. According to an evaluation of the Siemens Blitz information service, an average of 3.5 flashes per square kilometer was recorded in the region. The districts of Hesse Main-Taunus and Gießen follow in the other places.
In total, the Blitz information service recorded about 443,000 lightning strikes in Germany last year. That is 11 000 more than the year before
+++ 5h20: Saudi Arabia stops the oil transport across the strait between Yemen and Djibouti +++
L & # 39; Saudi Arabia has stopped all oil transport through the straits between Yemen and Djibouti. "All oil supplies in the Bab al-Mandab Strait are temporarily suspended until sea transport in the region is secured again," Saudi Minister of Energy Chalid Al said on Wednesday. -Falih. had previously reported that two oil tankers operated by the Saudi shipping company Bahri had been attacked in the Red Sea by Iranian Yemeni Houthi rebels. A ship was slightly damaged, injured or leaked oil, according to preliminary findings, no.
The Bab al-Mandab Sea Route forms the southern point of entry to the Red Sea. It is one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world.
+++ 5.04 am: Many couples want to get married in August +++
Three special dates in August are particularly attractive for those who want to get married. Since a few months, the registration offices are complete: the 1.8.2018, 8.8.2018 and 18.8.2018, several registrars offer more wedding dates than usual, result of A national survey conducted by the German news agency. August 18 – a Saturday – is even the wedding day in some cities like Cologne or Dessau-Roßlau, the most popular of the year
+++ 4.35 Clock: the Germans consume more than 220 kilos of Per capita per year +++
Germans continue to produce a lot of packaging waste. In 2016, 18.16 million tons fell, as announced Thursday the Federal Agency for the Environment. This represented 0.05% more than the previous year and 220.5 kilograms per capita and year. Packaging consumption in Germany remains well above the European average of 167.3 kilos per capita. Nearly half of the waste produced, 47%, went to private consumers.
"We produce far too much packaging waste – a sad place in Europe," commented Maria Krautzberger, president of the Federal Agency for the Environment (UBA)
++ + 4.18: The number of deaths from forest fires in Greece has increased to 81 +++
According to new data, 81 humans have died in devastating fires in Greece. Fire Department spokeswoman Stavroula Maliri announced on Wednesday. The search for possible other victims is continuing. Always worth it
+++ 4.08 clock: Report: More and more pensioners have a mini-job +++
More and more pensioners in Germany win after a media report by a mini-job to do something. The number of people aged 65 and over and low-employment has doubled to more than one million between 2003 and 2017, writes the Pbadauer Neue Presse. The newspaper refers to the evaluation of statistics of the Federal Agency for Employment by age category, carried out by Sabine Zimmermann, member of the Bundestag Left
As a result, it There were exactly 1,074,689 mini-jobbers in December 2017, 65 and over. In contrast, at the end of 2003, there were only 587,046.
+++ 3.53pm: Media: Other cult members executed in Tokyo for toxic gas attack ++ +
Because of their involvement in the devastating attack of toxic gases in the Tokyo metro in 1995 According to media reports, six other members of a sect were executed. NHK TV and other Japanese media reported that the six members of the Aum Shinrikyo sect, who were still on death row, were executed on Thursday. An official confirmation was not available at the beginning.
At the beginning of July, seven members of the sect had already been hanged, including Shoko Asahara, then leader of the sect.
+++ 3.42 am: Hyperinflation: Venezuela removes five zeros from the currency +++
Faced with galloping inflation in Venezuela, the socialist government wants to cancel five zeros of the national currency. In addition, the Bolivar must be coupled in the future to the new Petro cryptocurrency, said President Nicolás Maduro on Wednesday (local time). Currently, a dollar costs about 3.5 million bolivars.
The richest country in the world has been facing a serious economic crisis for years. Due to corruption and mismanagement, Venezuela has little currency to import food, medicine or basic necessities.
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