Crime
Just over a week after being attacked while putting up election posters in the eastern German city of Dresden, Matthias Ecke, who represents Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) in the European Parliament, has made a combative statement in his first public appearance. "I will not be silenced," he said on Monday with a clearly visible bruising under his eye at an event organized by the SPD Saxony in the eastern German city of Leipzig. The attack had struck him, but not defeated him and not intimidated him, Ecke said, adding that his party had a strong fighting spirit. In the late evening of May 3, ...
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New York (AFP) - The trial of Archegos founder Bill Hwang for alleged securities fraud and market manipulation opened in New York on Monday, focused on the fund's spectacular 2021 implosion that cost large banks billions of dollars. The family-owned hedge fund run by Hwang had taken huge bets on a few stocks with money borrowed from banks, and when several of those bets turned sour, the fund was unable to meet "margin calls" to cover the losses. The 2021 collapse of the fund sent shock waves through financial markets and caused $10 billion in losses for Credit Suisse, Nomura, Morgan Stanley an...
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Despite efforts to curb wildlife trafficking worldwide over the past 20 years, more than 4,000 species are still affected, a new report reveals. The majority of them are endangered. The World Wildlife Crime Report, released by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) today, says this inflicts “untold harm upon nature”, including driving some rare species to extinction. The impact of wildlife crime stretches far beyond the direct threat to species, devastating delicate ecosystems, removing a key source of income for nature-dependent communities, and undermining the Earth’s capacity to mitigate ...
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German sports is joining forces to protect its athletes against online hate speech and will take tough action against offenders, especially around upcoming big events such as the Euro 2024 football tournament and the Paris Olympics. The German Football Federation (DFB), German Football League (DFL) and the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) said on Monday that they would report any cases to the Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (ZIT) with which they are cooperating. The ZIT is part of the Frankfurt public prosecution office and decides whether criminal proceedings are launched or...
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German sports is joining forces to protect its athletes against online hate speech and will take tough action against offenders, especially around upcoming big events such as the Euro 2024 football tournament and the Paris Olympics. The German Football Federation (DFB), German Football League (DFL) and the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) said on Monday that they would report any cases to the Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (ZIT) with which they are cooperating. The ZIT is part of the Frankfurt public prosecution office and decides whether criminal proceedings are launched or...
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German sports is joining forces to protect its athletes against online hate speech and will take tough action against offenders, especially around upcoming big events such as the Euro 2024 football tournament and the Paris Olympics. The German Football Federation (DFB), German Football League (DFL) and the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) said on Monday that they would report any cases to the Central Office for Combating Cybercrime (ZIT) with which they are cooperating. The ZIT is part of the Frankfurt public prosecution office and decides whether criminal proceedings are launched or...
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called on citizens to take a stance against violence following a series of attacks on politicians in the lead-up to the European elections in June. "Violence threatens democracy, and that is why we must stand together as citizens against it," the Social Democrat told around 180 guests at a talk organized by German media organization Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND) in Potsdam near Berlin on Saturday. The chancellor's comments come following a brutal attack on the Social Democratic Party's (SPD) leading candidate for the European elections in the state of S...
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called on citizens to take a stance against violence following a series of attacks on politicians in the lead-up to the European elections in June. "Violence threatens democracy, and that is why we must stand together as citizens against it," the Social Democrat told around 180 guests at a talk organized by German media organization Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND) in Potsdam near Berlin on Saturday. The chancellor's comments come following a brutal attack on the Social Democratic Party's (SPD) leading candidate for the European elections in the state of S...
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called on citizens to take a stance against violence following a series of attacks on politicians in the lead-up to the European elections in June. "Violence threatens democracy, and that is why we must stand together as citizens against it," the Social Democrat told around 180 guests at a talk organized by German media organization Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND) in Potsdam near Berlin on Saturday. The chancellor's comments come following a brutal attack on the Social Democratic Party's (SPD) leading candidate for the European elections in the state of S...
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Trevor Bickford, the man who carried out a machete attack in New York City's Times Square during 2022's New Year's Eve celebration, was sentenced to 27 years in prison on Thursday, May 9. Bickford, 20, pleaded guilty in January to slashing three New York City police officers in an attack inspired by Islamic extremism, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. The Maine native faced up to 120 years in prison if he had received the maximum consecutive sentences for the six charges to which he pleaded guilty. “Inspired by radical Islamic extremism, Trevor Bick...
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