Nemački kancelar Olaf Šolc u znak solidarnosti obišao poplavljene oblasti u državi Sarland

Nemački kancelar Olaf Šolc u znak solidarnosti obišao poplavljene oblasti u državi Sarland

Životna sredina | Izvor: Beta-AP | 18.05.2024 | access_time 17:00 Nemački kancelar Olaf Šolc je danas posetio regione na jugozapadu Nemačke koji su bili pogođeni poplavama nakon izlivanja reka i odrona posle obilne kiše. Nema vesti o mogućim žrtvama.  Šolc je otkazao predizborne skupove u pograničnom regionu Sarland da bi posetio poplavljene oblasti zajedno sa guvernerkom

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Helicopter carrying Iran’s president suffers a ‘hard landing,’ state TV says without further details

Helicopter carrying Iran’s president suffers a ‘hard landing,’ state TV says without further details

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a “hard landing” on Sunday, Iranian state media reported, without immediately elaborating. Raisi was traveling in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province. State TV said the incident happened near Jolfa, a city on the border with with the nation of Azerbaijan, some 600

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The Israel-Hamas war is testing whether campuses are sacrosanct places for speech and protest

The Israel-Hamas war is testing whether campuses are sacrosanct places for speech and protest

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. Stephen Hawking on the Big Bang. Millions of students for civil rights and against the Vietnam War. They were provocative in their times, products of an ideal that holds universities as sacrosanct spaces for debate, innovation — and even revolution. But Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7 attack

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French security forces work to regain control of airport highway in violence-scorched New Caledonia

French security forces work to regain control of airport highway in violence-scorched New Caledonia

Using armored vehicles and backhoes to shove aside charred barricades, French security forces worked Sunday to retake control of the highway to the international airport in violence-scorched New Caledonia, shuttered because of deadly unrest wracking the French Pacific archipelago where indigenous people have long sought independence from France. An eventual reopening of the Nouméa-La Tontouta

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Slovak prime minister’s condition remains serious but prognosis positive after assassination bid

Slovak prime minister’s condition remains serious but prognosis positive after assassination bid

BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia (AP) — Slovakia’s populist prime minister, Robert Fico , remained in serious condition on Sunday but has been given a positive prognosis four days after he was shot multiple times in an assassination attempt that has sent shockwaves across the deeply polarized European Union nation, the defense minister said. “The worst of

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Tunisians stage anti-migrant protest as the number of stranded in transit to Europe grows

Tunisians stage anti-migrant protest as the number of stranded in transit to Europe grows

JEBENIANA, Tunisia (AP) — Hundreds of Tunisians marched through the streets of Jebeniana on Saturday to protest the presence of sub-Saharan migrants who have found themselves stranded as the country ramps up border patrol efforts. Anti-migrant anger is mounting in impoverished towns like Jebeniana along the Tunisian coastline that have emerged as a launchpad for

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As ethnic armed group claims to have captured a town in western Myanmar, Muslim Rohingyas flee again

As ethnic armed group claims to have captured a town in western Myanmar, Muslim Rohingyas flee again

BANGKOK (AP) — A powerful ethnic armed group fighting Myanmar’s military government in the country’s western state of Rakhine claimed Saturday to have seized a town near the border with Bangladesh, marking the latest in a series of victories for foes of the country’s military government. Members of the state’s Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority, targets

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