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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 federal and state interior ministers on Tuesday agreed on the need for tougher penalties for violent crimes targeting politicians and volunteers ahead of upcoming election campaigns. The ministers discussed policing measures and weighed tightening criminal law in talks called after an attack on a German lawmaker last week. In order to send "a very clear signal," the security authorities and also the judiciary must ensure swift and consistent proceedings and penalties, Germany's Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said on Tuesday evening after a video conference arranged following the inciden...
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German federal and state interior ministers agreed on the need for tougher penalties for violent crimes targeting politicians and volunteers ahead of upcoming election campaigns on Tuesday. They discussed policing measures and weighed tightening criminal law in talks called after an attack on a German lawmaker last week. In order to send "a very clear signal," the security authorities and also the judiciary must ensure swift and consistent proceedings and penalties, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said on Tuesday evening after a video conference arranged following the incident in Dresden. If cr...
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German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser and Berlin's senator for sports Iris Spranger have expressed their outrage at fan violence which marred Saturday's fourth-tier football game between BFC Dynamo and Energie Cottbus, injuring 155 police officers. "155 injured police officers is the terrible aftermath of these massive riots. Such violence destroys sport. I wish the injured officers a speedy recovery," Faeser wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on Monday. Spranger told reporters: "I totally condemn it. "BFC now has tell us what it is going to do with its fan base. This is taxpayers‘ money that we ha...
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One springtime night a decade ago, bearded men wearing flip-flops kidnapped 276 girls from their boarding school dormitories in Chibok, north-eastern Nigeria. They forced the teenagers onto lorries and drove them deep into a vast forest in the savannah. "My captors did a lot of things to me and the other girls," says Glory Mainta, who was abducted that day. "We were beaten, shouted at – there’s nothing that they didn’t do to us. While they didn’t force us to marry them, what they did to us was worse. We were just managing till God saved us." It was a full two years before one of her fellow stu...
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has dismissed Ilya Vityuk, a high-ranking official in the SBU intelligence service, amid allegations of corruption. The decree was published on the Ukrainian president's website on Wednesday without giving a reason. Vityuk was head of the Security Service of Ukraine's (SBU) cybersecurity department. Ukrainian media had previously published investigations in which it was reported that Vityuk's wife bought a luxury flat in the centre of Kiev. Vityuk had already been placed on leave before his dismissal. Zelensky has vowed to pursue a rigorous fight against ...
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World Cup-winning coach Vicente del Bosque has been appointed head of a state supervisory commission which will oversee the Spanish football federation (RFEF), which is facing allegations of corruption. The 73-year-old - who became world champion with Spain in 2010 and won the European Championship in 2012 - will lead the "Commission for Supervision, Normalization and Representation," Sports Minister Pilar Alegría announced on Tuesday. The commission, which was announced last Thursday, is intended to restore the reputation and image of Spanish football in the coming months. Del Bosque embodies...
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has threatened harsh consequences following the arrest of Polish citizens suspected of collaborating with Russian intelligence services. He wrote on the short messaging service X, formerly Twitter, on Friday: "There will be no leniency for collaborators with the Russian secret services. We will burn out every betrayal and every attempt at destabilization with a red-hot iron." Commenting on the current status of the investigation into two specific conspiracies, he said that a Pole responsible for a thwarted assassination attempt on Ukrainian President Volodymyr...
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Online shopping scams are surging in Singapore, with Facebook the venue for more than half of them, the city-state's government has said. The number of such shady deals doubled in 2023 to almost 10,000, after around 4,700 were reported the year before, according to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). The MHA gave Facebook Marketplace the lowest anti-fraud score out of the 6 main e-commerce platforms in use in the country, after the number of con jobs carried out on the Meta-owned platform climbed from 1,138 in 2022 to over 4,500 last year. The ministry gave a 4-tick rating to four providers - ...
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There were more attacks on journalists in Germany in 2023 than in the previous year, the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) has found. After 56 cases in 2022, 69 cases of physical attacks on journalists were recorded last year, the non-profit organization announced on Tuesday in its annual long-term analysis. The capital Berlin had the most cases, with 25. The eastern state of Saxony had the most recorded attacks in the previous year. Demonstrations are the most dangerous environment for Germany's media workers, the analysis found, with 77% of the known cases associated with p...
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