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Die amerikanische Gefängnisaufseherin Miranda Ackerman (29) wird angeklagt, weil sie sich wiederholt mit einem Insassen im Hochsicherheitsgefängnis in Idaho vergnügte. Zudem wird ihr das Schmuggeln von schlüpfrigen Bildern vorgeworfen.

It will be “very difficult” to reach an agreement on the recovery fund and the EU's overall seven-year budget by July, as intended, given the disagreements over the size, the distribution of the stimulus and the attached conditions, EU officials and national diplomats acknowledged on Wednesday (10 June).

Die Finanzminister der Eurozone befassen sich am heutigen Donnerstag mit der Nachfolge des Eurogruppen-Vorsitzenden Mário Centeno und den Strategien gegen den massiven Wirtschaftseinbruch durch die Corona-Krise.

"Together with the European Union, we believe that annexation would not be compatible with international law," German foreign minister Heiko Maas told press in Jerusalem on Wednesday, amid Israeli plans to seize one third of the West Bank. He added he was not "enthusiastic" about EU sanctions on Israel if it went ahead, however. "The [annexation] plan will be pursued responsibly, in full coordination with the United States", Israel said.

Zoom Video Communications temporarily shut the account of US-based Chinese activists after they held an event to commemorate the 31st anniversary of China's Tiananmen Square crackdown, the activists said on Thursday, according to Reuters. Zoom confirmed accounts had been suspended but had now been reactivated, saying: "When a meeting is held across different countries, the participants within those countries are required to comply with their respective local laws."

Im Februar verwüsteten linke Extremisten das Bundesasylzentrum in Lyss BE. Die Behörden wollten den Vorfall unter dem Deckel halten. Jetzt wird bekannt: Der Sachschaden ist immens.

The US has surpassed 2 million coronavirus cases, with the number of infections rising in 21 different states, Deutsche Welle reports. The new case count comes as many states ease lockdown measures and move towards a return to normal life. The death toll in the US is now almost 113,000. Meanwhile, experts at Harvard's Global Health Institute say the US could see as many as 200,000 virus-related deaths by September.

"There is no doubt that Europe as a whole has been doing better than the United States in issues of race, also because we have better systems for social inclusion, protection, universal health care," the Greek EU commissioner in charge of migration, Margaritis Schinas, said Wednesday in a video-briefing by Greek group the Delphi Economic Forum. "There's ... a European tradition for protecting minorities," he added, amid US race riots.

In einem spanischen Zoo ist ein weisses Löwenbaby nach einer schweren Geburt von seiner Mutter verstossen worden. Das Muttertier hatte ganze zwei Wochen lang Wehen gehabt. Das Junge mit dem Namen «Weisser König» ist am 31. Mai zur Welt gekommen.

Neue Erkenntnisse von der Corona-Forschung: Virologe Christian Drosten hält es für möglich, dass das Virus zwar besonders überlebensfähig bleibe, sich aber abschwächen könnte.

Der Iran hat einen gigantischen Fake-US-Flugzeugträger vom Stapel gelassen. Mit Blick auf die Vergangenheit lässt der Zweck des 200-Meter-Modells nichts Gutes erahnen.

Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte, as well as Italy's health and interior ministers, are to be interrogated by prosecutors in Bergamo, an Italian region ravaged by coronavirus, after relatives of victims submitted 50 allegations of criminal negligence by the government earlier this week. "We spoke to the prosecutor and explained that our main objective is to find out the truth," Luca Fusco, the president of activist group NOI Denunceremo, said.

Zuzana Čaputová államfő gazdasági szakértőkkel közös kerekasztal-beszélgetésen vett részt az elnöki palotában. A fő téma a jelenlegi gazdasági helyzet munkanélküliségre gyakorolt hatása volt. A szakértők becslése szerint Szlovákiában egyharmaddal sikerült csökkenteni a munkanélküliség növekedését.

Thousands of people have taken to Europe's streets not only to protest the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in the US but to denounce police brutality and structural racism, which is an issue on this side of the Atlantic as well.

MEPs are threatening to veto a future EU and UK trade deal if it lags on environmental standards and workers' rights, according to a draft European Parliament resolution, seen by British newspaper The Guardian, to be put to a vote Friday. A level playing field for commerce and "robust" rights and standards were the "necessary condition for the European Parliament to give its consent to a trade agreement", it said.

Kosovo's president and the White House are refusing to speak to the EU's new Western Balkans envoy, in what the EU sees as "lame ... misguided" tactics.

Belarus' incidence of the disease is currently higher than in Italy. Ukraine and Azerbaijan have counts comparable to Poland and the Czech Republic, where the outbreak had an average intensity. Whereas, Georgia compares well with Greece and Slovakia.

More than 50 scientists on Thursday called on the European Commission, European Parliament and EU member states to end overfishing "as an urgent and necessary response to biodiversity and climate crises". The scientists urge the EU to set fishing limits based on scientific advice. EU fisheries ministers will meet after the summer to agree on annual fishing limits for 2021. The EU committed in 2014 to ending overfishing by 2020.

A new report published by Eurobarometer on Wednesday revealed that over seven in 10 Europeans believed that corruption was widespread in their country, although the proportion varied among member states - over nine in 10 respondents shared this opinion in Croatia, Cyprus, Spain, Portugal and Lithuania, while only a minority held that view in Finland, Denmark, Sweden, and the Netherlands.

The EU has shamed Russia and China as the main perpetrators of online misinformation about Covid-19, urging social media platforms like Facebook to step up anti-fake news action.