News: Malta also hires Sea-Watch planes

The main short stories in brief:

• Malta declares a plane "Sea-Watch" (10:40)
• Assbadination of a singer 45 years ago: Military sentenced to Chile (8:55)
• Thailand: Misfortune Cave is becoming a tourist attraction (7:10)
• Two people in Salisbury in the clinic after contact with "unknown substance" (18:12)
• The gang rape in Velbert: research in Bulgaria ( 5:02)

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+++ 10h57: Germany pushes the collection of flights 69 Afghans +++

The Federation and the Countries have deported with an unusual collective flight many rejected Afghan asylum seekers and thus angered the Kabul authorities. 69 people were repatriated – more than twice as many as the largest group since the start of direct collection flights – confirmed employees of Afghan and international refugee institutions in Kabu

Representatives of the Refugee Ministry reacted indignantly . There was an agreement with Germany 's upper limit of 50 pbadengers, said an official who did not want to be named by name, the German News Agency. "The Germans have made a mistake." German policemen on board were referred to the high number. The answer was that you wanted to compensate for the lower number of pbadengers. The largest group of deportation candidates with 34 pbadengers arrived in December 2016 with the first groupage flight.

+++ 10:40: Malta also deploys aircraft from German rescue centers at sea +++

Malta also has a rescue service in the country Mediterranean reconnaissance aircraft deployed from a German rescue organization
. The Maltese authorities have now banned all flights to the relief zone from Libya, said the Berlin Sea-Watch organization. Your ship "Sea Watch 3" can not run for the moment. The Maltese government has confirmed the case of the Times of Malta, but without giving reasons for its decision.

The "Moonbird" aircraft was operated in conjunction with the Swiss Humanitarian Pilot Initiative and approved by the Evangelical Church of Germany (EKD) supported, Sea-Watch said. The plane had been involved in the rescue of 20,000 people last
.

+++ 10:21: Prime Minister defends controversial judicial reform +++

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki defended the controversial judicial reforms of his government defended the European Parliament. "Every country has the right to build its legal system according to its own traditions," Morawiecki told MEPs in Strasbourg. "Unity in diversity" is one of the fundamental principles of the EU and "not an empty slogan". "Respect for national identities" is an essential basis for Europe. The EU has launched an unprecedented case against Poland over judicial reforms, which may result in the withdrawal of voting rights at European level. The European Commission accuses Warsaw of restricting the independence of the judiciary and undermining the separation of powers.

As part of the reforms, a law came into effect this week, setting the age limit for judges to colonel. Court was lowered to 65 years. As a result, 27 of the 73 judges have been forced to retire since Wednesday. Many of them refuse to do so and see the reform as an attempt by the national Conservative government to fill judicial positions as they see fit.

+++ 9:50: Hong Kong authorizes spouse visas for gays and bads +++

in the future, apply for a spouse visa for a stay scheduled in

Hong Kong . The court ruled Wednesday in the Southeast China Special Administrative Region. The historic decision in the conservative city follows a lengthy lawsuit involving a bad couple who moved from the UK to Hong Kong in 2011. One of the women, known only as SS, had started work in Hong Kong . Her partner, QT, wanted to join her but did not receive a
visa from a spouse to live and work in the city because Hong Kong does not recognize gay marriage.

+++ 8.55 am: Murder of a singer 45 years ago: Soldiers sentenced in Chile +++

Nearly 45 years after the murder of the famous Chilean singer Víctor Jara, nine former military were sentenced. The former

military must be behind bars for five to fifteen years, as decided by the judges. Jara, then 41, was tortured and killed by soldiers on September 16, 1973. Five days earlier, Augusto Pinochet's army overthrew the socialist president of the time, Salvador Allende. Jara, a singer, composer and theater director, was arrested and taken to a university sports stadium, then Estadio Chile. During the coup, the opponents were detained there. Jara and other opponents of the government were murdered there. After the fall of Pinochet, the stadium was named after Jara.

+++ 7.50am: The Black Keys musician Richard Swift is dead +++

The American musician Richard Swift is dead, Swift, who among others is part of Band Black Keys was and also worked as as a producer, singer and songwriter, who died at the age of 41 in Tacoma, Washington. The US media report, quoting a spokesman. "Today, the world has lost one of the most talented musicians I know," wrote Dan Auerbach, a member of Black Keys, on Instagram. The cause of death is unknown. Last month, it became public that Swift was suffering from a "life-threatening illness".

+++ 7:10: Thailand: Unheated cave to become a tourist attraction +++

The Thai football team included in a cave is far from being saved because the authorities are already forging plans for the accident site. The Thang Luang-Khun Nam
Nang No Cave can become a tourist attraction, said Wednesday Narongsak Osotthanakorn, governor of Chiang Rai Province and chief of the rescue mission. "Now that the children are found, we can relax and consider other projects," he said. Earlier, the head of the Chiang Rai Tourism Council said that the cave had become interesting for domestic and foreign visitors through the rescue operation.

+++ 6:12: Two people in Salisbury in clinic after contact with an "unknown substance" +++

In British Salisbury, two people were hospitalized after being in contact with a "substance" unknown ". Both were in danger of death, police said Wednesday. The police described the incident as "serious". Both victims were exposed to the substance, according to the Amesbury police. The village is located a few kilometers from the place where the former Russian double agent Sergej Skripal and his daughter had been victims of a poison attack in March.

+++ 6.08 clock: A Japanese tourist dies during an attempt to climb to Ayers Rock +++

A Japanese tourist died in an attempt to climb the famous monolith Uluru in Australia. Relief services responded to an emergency call on the famous monoliths of Ayers Rock in the Central Australian desert, police said Wednesday. The 76-year-old tourist was still declared dead on the spot. The accident occurred as a result Tuesday afternoon. "At the present time, we do not expect the case to be suspicious," Shaun Gill, a senior Northern Territory police official, told reporters. Aboriginal aborigines, who are sacred to the red rock in the Australian Outback, are asking visitors not to climb Uluru. An official ban is expected to come into effect in October 2019. The Uluru is visited by about 300,000 tourists each year. Some of them consider the rise of the monolith of 348 meters high as inescapable during a visit to Australia, despite the demand of the natives. In recent years, the number of climbers would have decreased considerably. At least 36 people have died scaling Uluru since the 1950s.

+++ 5.25am: The former Malaysian Prime Minister accused +++

The Prime Minister Malaysian recently repealed Najib Razak is in the midst of a billion-dollar bill for abuse of power and embezzlement has been indicted in three cases
Razak appeared in court on Wednesday. He was arrested on Tuesday. He incurs up to 20 years of imprisonment for each of the charges. Razak has been Southeast Asian country's prime minister from 2009 to May 2018. Background of allegations is the so-called 1MDB scandal. It is money from 2009 launched by the Najib 1MDB government fund, which is expected to promote the economy. The fund is reported to have diverted more than $ 4.5 billion. About $ 700 million was discovered in a private bank account belonging to Najib.

+++ 5.02: Collective rape in Velbert: search in Bulgaria +++

In the case of a gang rape of a girl in Velbert, investigators seem to badume that two of the eight suspects are in Bulgaria. According to the Interior Ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia, the interior committee of the state parliament was prompted to conduct international investigations. The Bulgarian authorities had promised all support. About the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), the State Criminal Investigation Bureau and the BKA liaison officers at Interpol Sofia all exchanged information, he said in the report. At least eight young Bulgarians reportedly dragged and abused the 13-year-old on April 21 in Velbert near Wuppertal. The alleged students are between 14 and 16 years old.

++ 4:30: Northern California fires threaten buildings +++

In northern California, more than a hundred homes are threatened by a rapidly spreading bush fire. The "County Fire" north of the Napa wine region has destroyed an area of ​​more than 280 square kilometers, the West Coast State Fire Department said on Tuesday. More than 2100 badistants fought against the flames. Residents of the danger zone have been called out of their homes. The cause
of the fire that erupted on Saturday was initially unknown. Further north in the Lake District District, a bush fire since the end of June has been largely under control. The "Pawnee Fire" had destroyed nearly two dozen houses and huts.

++ 4.02: arrest warrant issued against the former Ecuadorian President Correa +++

The Ecuadorian judiciary issued a warrant for arrest against the former head of the the state Rafael Correa. Judge Daniella Camacho complied with the prosecutor's request to arrest the former president (2007-2017) for his alleged involvement in the kidnapping of a former deputy, said the general counsel on Twitter
. The judiciary will request an international search for Interpol in order to stop Correa in his current residence in Brussels

+++ 3.25: Bus with German students rams in the underpbad of Italy +++ [19659009] A bus with a group of young Germans crashed on the Adriatic coast in Italy. The two-story bus crashed into the roof of an underground pbadageway near Rimini airport, as confirmed by the fire department of the city of Rimini. German press. Nobody was seriously injured, everything was under control, a spokeswoman said Wednesday night. About the accident had initially reported the station MDR Saxony. On board were therefore students from Großröhrsdorf High School near Dresden, who were shortly before the return trip of a self-organized graduation of the year. According to the MDR, several students were slightly injured, at least one was seriously injured.

+++ 2.18am: French police shoot at a young man – troubles in Nantes +++

In the city of Nantes, after the murder of a young man by the police to clashes. Police sources said that there were clashes between officials and teenagers armed with Molotov badtails. In the Breil district, cars were burned and a shopping center partially burned. The Nantes prosecutor, Pierre Sennès, described the situation in Breil in the evening as "very agitated and unclear". To strengthen other police forces were expected in the district. The young man, aged 20 to 30, was hit by a police bullet during an inspection and died from his injuries Tuesday night, according to regular sources. The prosecution is currently investigating the circumstances in which the man was killed. Police reported that the young man was wounded at the police checkpoint where he was in a vehicle. According to him, he should have resisted the instructions, then he "voluntarily" "reversed" in the direction of a police officer who was then using his weapon. The young man was reportedly shot in the carotid artery and died of wounds in the hospital

+++ 1.15 am: Strange marriage in Mexico: the mayor marries the crocodile +++

Bride with sharp teeth: at a ceremony in Mexico, a mayor symbolically married a little crocodile. The reptile was worn before the wedding party
by his future husband Víctor Aguilar Ricardez by the fishing village of San Pedro Huamelula in the state of Oaxaca to the south and decorated with flowers. The crocodile bride did not wear a veil during the ceremony. The dancers and the villagers accompanied the wedding couple. The wedding is part of the annual celebration of San Pedro. The unusual wedding is to bring a rich fishing to the fishermen, at the celebration they wore fishing nets wrapped like a belt around the upper body.

+++ 0.05 clock: Leyen rents compromise compromise – "in the European spirit" +++

Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) has acknowledged the compromise on the l & # 39; asylum of the Union. The result creates "order at the border and keeps only the clear European idea," von der Leyen said in a conversation with foreign journalists. The question of planned transit centers and administrative agreements with the countries of origin are in the European spirit. "It was a difficult and difficult road, but overall, we took a big step forward.