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A court in Berlin handed down suspended sentences for three climate activists responsible for a paint attack on the German capital's famous Brandenburg Gate in September last year. The district court found the members of the Last Generation climate group guilty of causing damage to property and gave each of them an eight-month suspended sentence. The 22, 28 and 64-year-old defendants had previously confessed to having spray orange paint on the landmark on September 17, 2023. They had argued that the action was an "appropriate and necessary protest" in view of the climate crisis. The court disa...
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Thousands of people in Israel have once taken to the streets to demand an immediate release of all hostages held in Gaza and new elections. At a mass rally in Tel Aviv on Saturday evening, people loudly demanded the immediate release of all people abducted from Israel in the Palestinian coastal region as well as new elections. "The one who abandoned them must bring them home," chanted the crowd, alluding to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom many Israelis accuse of colossal failure in the face of the Hamas massacre on October 7. Relatives of the abductees accuse the Israeli government of ...
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Tens of thousands of people demonstrated against mass tourism on Spain's Canary Islands on Saturday under the slogan "The Canary Islands have a limit." A total of 55,000 demonstrators on the eight inhabited islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Africa demanded an upper limit on the number of tourists and called for affordable housing for locals, the state TV station RTVE and the newspaper El País reported. They waved posters that said: "Tourism increases my rent" and "Paradise is not made with concrete." The protesters were also calling for effective monitoring of the regulations...
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A man has died after setting himself on fire in a park opposite the courthouse in New York during the ongoing criminal trial of former president Donald Trump, according to reports. The man died of his injuries in hospital, several US media outlets reported, citing police sources. The man, reportedly from Florida, spread pamphlets containing conspiracy theories around the park, witnesses said. He poured a liquid over himself and set himself alight, according to unanimous reports from various media outlets, including the New York Times and CNN. Bystanders had screamed and tried to help, the repo...
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According to US media reports, a man set himself on fire in a park opposite the courthouse in New York during the ongoing criminal trial of former president Donald Trump. The man poured a liquid over himself and set himself alight, according to unanimous reports from various media outlets, including the New York Times and CNN. Bystanders had screamed and tried to help, the reports said. After a short time, police officers arrived and extinguished the flames. The man was then carried into an ambulance and driven away. It was initially unclear why he set himself on fire. The incident took place ...
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In Israel's coastal metropolis of Tel Aviv, thousands of people protested again on Thursday evening for the release of hostages still being held in the Gaza Strip. The demonstrators also called on the umbrella organization of the trade unions, Histadrut, to declare a general strike. This should continue until all hostages are released, the organizers from the Hostages' Forum demanded. According to the media, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau said at the rally that it was Israel's duty to bring the hostages home. The current indirect negotiations between the Israeli government and the Palestinian...
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Several hundred people gathered at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate on Sunday following a call from the German-Israeli Society to show solidarity with Israel following the Iranian attack overnight. Police in the German capital put the number at around 500 and said the event had passed off peacefully. Demonstrators held up placards reading "Hands off Israel" and "There is no right to anti-Semitism." Many carried Israeli flags, and there were also old-style Iranian flags from before the 1979 Islamic Revolution. German-Israeli Society head Volker Beck expressed sharp criticism of the Iranian attack. "Th...
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The German-Israeli Society has called for a rally, together with its youth forum, at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate on Sunday afternoon in response to the unprecedented Iranian attack on Israel. "We call on Berliners today to show their solidarity with the Jewish and democratic state that has come under attack," it said, calling for supporters to gather at 3 pm (1300 GMT). The German-Israeli society is an independent organization supported by the German Foreign Office. It promotes strong cultural, scientific and civil society ties between the two countries. The call follows the first direct attack ...
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Tens of thousands of people again took to the street of Israeli cities on Saturday evening to protest against the right-wing religious government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. They called for a more serious effort to negotiate the release of hostages held by the militant group Hamas. This Sunday will be exactly six months since terrorists from Hamas and other extremist groups attacked southern Israel on October 7, killing almost 1,200 people and kidnapping another 250 as hostages in the Gaza Strip. One of the speakers in Tel Aviv remembered Netanyahu's brother Joni, who died as an elit...
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Thousands of Israelis protested for the fourth day in a row against the government and in favour of an agreement to release the hostages held in the Gaza Strip. Israeli media reported that the demonstrators gathered with torches in their hands near the parliament building in Jerusalem on Tuesday evening. They also demanded new elections. In a speech, the mother of a kidnapped man accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of standing in the way of a hostage deal. Clashes between police officers and demonstrators later broke out. According to police, several people tried to march to Netanyahu's ...
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