Agrégateur de flux

Popstar Ed Sheeran hat eigenen Angaben zufolge das Angebot abgelehnt, im Weltall aufzutreten. «Vor einiger Zeit wurde mir angeboten, ins All zu fliegen», erzählte der 34-Jährige dem britischen Radiosender BBC Radio 2.

Ein Klimaexperte des Bundesamts für Landwirtschaft amtet gleichzeitig als Co-Präsident einer WWF-Sektion. Für Bauernvertreter ist das ein klarer Interessenkonflikt: SVP-Nationalrat Martin Haab will Antworten von Bundesrat Guy Parmelin. Die Verantwortlichen wiegeln ab.

Des pilotes, des professionnels de santé, des enseignants et même un employé des services secrets font partie des personnes qui ont été suspendues ou licenciées pour avoir publié des messages sur les réseaux sociaux à propos du décès de Kirk.

Premier témoin à être entendu, le chef de la police de la province du KwaZulu-Natal a accusé son ministre, Senzo Mchunu, d’avoir contribué à enterrer plus de 100 enquêtes criminelles.

5000 Kilometer mussten die GC-Frauen fürs Rückspiel gegen Kazygurt Schymkent reisen. Das hat sich gelohnt. Sie setzen sich durch und nehmen die erste Quali-Hürde im Women's Europa Cup.

Adama Bayala et Alain Traoré avaient respectivement disparu depuis juin et juillet 2024. La junte d’Ibrahim Traoré est accusée d’utiliser de manière abusive un décret de mobilisation générale dans le cadre de la lutte antidjihadiste.

The nominees for this year’s Prize will be presented by the political groups in a joint meeting of the Committees on Foreign Affairs (AFET) and on Development (DEVE) and the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) in Brussels on 23 September, 14:30-15:30. Each year, the Parliament awards the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to honour exceptional individuals and organisations defending human rights and fundamental freedoms.
In 2024, the Prize was awarded to María Corina Machado, leader of the democratic forces in Venezuela, and President-elect Edmundo González Urrutia.The AFET and DEVE Committees will vote on a shortlist of three finalists on 16 October and the Conference of Presidents will take a decision on the final laureate on 22 October.
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Schone Neuigkeiten von einer ehemaligen Slalomspezialistin. Veronika Zuzulova hat geheiratet – zum zweiten Mal.

A la Une du 18 septembre, un "jeudi noir" attendu en France après l'appel intersyndicale à la grève, la polémique sur la suspension d'antenne d'un célèbre animateur américain, et l'été indien qui se prolonge pour le PSG.

Beim Staatsbesuch von Donald und Melania Trump auf Schloss Windsor in Grossbritannien steht vor allem Melanias Kleiderwahl im Vordergrund. Laut der britischen Presse zeigt sich das Netz gespalten.

Interviewé sur RTL ce matin, le secrétaire national du PCF soutient le mouvement de grève et de manifestations : « Est-ce que l’on a d’autres moyens (…) pour être entendus avec un nouveau premier ministre qui est encore une fois issu du camp du président de la République ? ».« C’est pour exprimer nos attentes de changement. Il faut que … Lire la suite

Environ neuf pharmacies sur dix fermées pour dénoncer la réduction des remises commerciales sur les génériques, une mesure destinée à réduire les dépenses de santé mais jugée catastrophique par la profession. Les organisations de pharmaciens (FSPF, Uspo, UNPF, Federgy, UDGPO) ont appelé les apothicaires et leurs salariés (préparateurs, magasiniers etc..) à « faire le plus de bruit … Lire la suite

The veteran Socialist politician has been one of the most outspoken European figures on the humanitarian cost of the Gaza war

By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 18 2025 (IPS)

When the high-level meeting of the General Assembly takes place, September 22-30—with over 150 world political leaders in town–the UN will be in a locked down mode with extra tight security.

With a rash of threats and political killings in the US—including an attempted assassination of Donald Trump when he was campaigning for the US presidency in July 2024– the list continues.

Against the backdrop of the killing of a conservative activist Charlie Kirk last week, plus the fire-bombing in early 2025, of the residence of Governor Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania, and the killings of Minnesota state lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband– the UN is predictably taking extra precautionary measures.

Asked at a press conference September 15 about security in the wake of recent events in the United States, UN Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric told reporters: “The security within the UN complex during the General Assembly sessions is as tight, as it can be”.

“We are obviously in close contact with the host country authorities, the US Secret Service, the State Department, and, of course, the NYPD (New York Police Department). They will take the measures they need to take outside”.

Traditionally, diplomats and delegates, do not undergo security checks or walk through metal detectors inside the UN building.

Asked whether there will be new restrictions this year, Dujarric said: “I don’t know”.

The limits on the movements of accredited journalists during the high-level meetings were spelled out September 17 by the UN’s Media Accreditation and Liaison Unit (MALU). The link follows:
https://www.un.org/en/media/accreditation/unga.shtml

Accredited media representatives, including official photographers and videographers, must be escorted by Media Accreditation and Liaison Unit staff at all times in the restricted areas, including the Conference Building and General Assembly Building.

Media pass holders are NOT permitted on the second floor of the Conference Building or General Assembly Building.

But going down memory lane, there were several lapses in security in a bygone era, resulting in a bazooka terrorist attack against the Secretariat building back in 1964—and the only such attack in the history of the UN.

But last year, the UN security, conscious on the high-tech weapons now deployed in military conflicts, had a sign outside the building declaring the UN a “NO DRONE ZONE.”

Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Minister of Industries of Cuba, addresses the General Assembly on Dec. 11, 1964. Credit: UN Photo/TC

The streets next week – as in previous years — will be littered with scores of police officers, US Secret Service personnel, UN security officers, the New York Police Department (NYPD), bomb-sniffing dogs, road closures — and a stand-by ambulance in the UN campus ready to cope with any medical emergencies.

In previous years, the Secret Service also had an official chaplain ready to perform last rites in case of any political assassinations in the UN premises.

Meanwhile, hundreds of UN staffers and journalists are double and triple-checked for their photo IDs, reminiscent of security at the Pentagon and the CIA headquarters (where a visitor ID is geared to automatically change colour, if you overstay your visit).

Still, back in 1964, perhaps with relatively less security, the UN building came under a terrorist attack — perhaps for the first time in the history of the world body — from a mis-guided rocket launcher.

When the politically-charismatic Ernesto Che Guevara, once second-in-command to Cuban leader Fidel Castro, was at the United Nations to address the General Assembly sessions in 1964, the U.N. headquarters came under fire – literally.

The speech by the Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary was momentarily drowned by the sound of an explosion.

The anti-Castro forces in the United States, backed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), had mounted an insidious campaign to stop Che Guevara from speaking.

A 3.5-inch bazooka was fired at the 39-storeyed Secretariat building by the East River while a boisterous anti-Castro, anti-Che Guevara demonstration was taking place outside the UN building.

According to Wikipedia, the bazooka is the common name for a man-portable recoilless anti-tank rocket launcher, widely deployed by the US army, especially during World War II.

But the rocket launcher – which was apparently not as sophisticated as today’s shoulder-fired missiles and rocket-propelled grenades – missed its target, rattled windows, and fell into the river about 200 yards from the building.

One newspaper report described the attack as “one of the wildest episodes since the United Nations moved into its East River headquarters in 1952.”

As longtime U.N. staffers would recall, the failed bombing of the U.N. building took place when Che Guevara launched a blistering attack on U.S. foreign policy and denounced a proposed de-nuclearization pact for the Western hemisphere.

After his Assembly speech, Che Guevara was asked about the attack aimed at him. “The explosion has given the whole thing more flavor,” he joked, as he chomped on his Cuban cigar, during a press conference.

When he was told by a reporter that the New York City police had nabbed a woman, described as an anti-Castro Cuban exile, who had pulled out a hunting knife and jumped over the UN wall, intending to kill him, Che Guevara said: “It is better to be killed by a woman with a knife than by a man with a gun.”

A security officer once recalled an incident where the prime minister from an African country, addressing the General Assembly, was heckled by a group of African students.

As is usual with hecklers, the boisterous group was taken off the visitor’s gallery, grilled, photographer and banned from entering the UN premises.

But about five years later, one of the hecklers returned to the UN —this time, as foreign minister of his country, and addressed the world body.

Meanwhile, Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister ACS Hameed had one of his memorable moments when Krishna Vaikunthavasan, a London-based lawyer, campaigning for a separate Tamil state, surreptitiously gate-crashed into the UN and tried to upstage Hameed by walking onto the podium of the General Assembly hall and momentarily took the speaker’s slot—at a time when security was lax.

The incident, perhaps a rarity in the history of the UN, saw the intruder unleashing a diatribe against a member state accusing it of genocide and lambasting the government for committing war crimes against the Tamils fighting for a separate state in northern Sri Lanka.

When the president of the Assembly realized he had an interloper on his hands, he cut off the mike and summoned security guards who bodily ejected him from the hall and banned him from the UN premises. And as Hameed walked up to the podium, there was pin drop silence in the Assembly Hall.

As a member of the Sri Lanka delegation at that time, I was seated behind Hameed. But the unflappable Hameed, unprompted by any of his delegates, produced a riveting punchline: “Mr President”, he said “I want to thank the previous speaker for keeping his speech short,” he said, as the Assembly, known to suffer longwinded speeches, broke into peals of laughter.

The intruder was in effect upstaged by the Foreign Minister.

This article includes excerpts from a book on the United Nations titled “No Comment – and Don’t Quote Me on That” authored by Thalif Deen and available on Amazon. The link to Amazon via the author’s website follows: https://www.rodericgrigson.com/no-comment-by-thalif-deen/

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Az Európai Parlament (EP) állandó képviseletet nyit Kijevben, hogy napi szintű együttműködést folytathasson Ukrajnával – jelentette be Roberta Metsola, az EP elnöke szerdán Kijevben, az ukrán parlamentben tartott beszédében.

Az ukrán képviselőkhöz szólva Metsola elmondta: azért látogatott el Kijevbe, hogy az EP „még szorosabbra fűzhesse együttműködését” Ukrajnával.

„Állandó képviseletet nyitunk itt, hogy jelen legyünk az országban, és nap mint nap közvetlenül önök mellett dolgozhassunk”

– jelentette ki az EP elnöke, hozzátéve, hogy „megígértük ezt önöknek, és most teljesítjük”.

„Ezzel azt üzenjük, hogy soha nem maradnak egyedül. Amikor eljön a béke, és helyre kell állítaniuk az országot, mi továbbra is önök mellett fogunk állni” – ígérte.

Az Európai Parlament elnökeinek értekezletén már 2023 novemberében megerősítette azt a szándékát, hogy állandó képviseletet nyit Ukrajnában, ezzel is elősegítve az ország európai integrációját és együttműködését – emlékeztetett az Ukrajinszka Pravda hírportál.

Forrás: MTI

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En République démocratique du Congo (RDC), la pétition lancée par des députés contre plusieurs membres du bureau de l’Assemblée nationale a été jugée recevable lors d’une session en plénière ce 17 septembre 2025. Un document qui vise surtout le président de la chambre basse Vital Kamerhe, allié historique du chef de l’État.

Privé de son attaquant congolais Yoane Wissa, blessé lors du match RDC-Sénégal, Newcastle United accueille ce jeudi 18 septembre le FC Barcelone dans le cadre de la Ligue des champions de l’UEFA.

Touché au genou lors du dernier rassemblement avec la République Démocratique du Congo, le joueur est forfait pour cette rencontre face au géant espagnol. Selon plusieurs sources anglaises, Wissa aurait pourtant insisté auprès du staff pour figurer dans le groupe, malgré une gêne persistante.

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