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The EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan said the EU considers the US investigation into the French digital tax as a "European matter", and confirmed that the "EU will act and react as one" after his visit to Paris on Tuesday. Hogan will travel to Washington next week for talks. US president Donald Trump has threatened to impose punitive sanctions on French luxury goods after France taxing digital tech giants.

An appeals court in Malta on Tuesday overturned a conviction for a German captain of a migrant rescue ship, Deutsche Welle reported. Claus Peter Reisch was found guilty in May for not having the correct ship registration to enter Maltese waters when he transported migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. The appeals court ruled that the captain did not have the specific intent to break the law.

Contrary to what president Donald Trump said on Twitter, US defence secretary Mark Esper has acknowlegded that bombing cultural heritage sites in Iran would be a war crime, the New York Times writes. "We will follow the laws of armed conflict," Esper said at a news briefing. On Monday Republican senator Lindsey Graham said "We're not at war with the culture of the Iranian people."

A British teenager convicted of falsely accusing 12 Israelis of gang-rape in Cyprus said she would go to the European Court of Human Rights to clear her name, the Guardian reported. On Tuesday, the 19-year-old student received a suspended jail sentence in a case that sparked criticism in Britian. Her lawyers called it a "sad and tragic case" for a woman whose crime had been to report a sexual assault.

Kim Rasmussen, a magyar női kézilabda-válogatott távozó szövetségi kapitánya szerint könnyű magyarázat és kifogás, hogy a nemzetközi szövetség (IHF) decemberben felfüggesztette.

Consumers’ preferences must be considered as the EU strives to become a leader in tackling climate change and the new European Commission is devising a Green Deal for Europe. The role of consumers in decarbonising the heating sector is especially important as the new EU legislative cycle begins.

Wegen der fallenden Preise und eines Überangebots bei Chips im vergangenen Jahr erwartet der Elektronikriese Samsung das fünfte Quartal nacheinander einen Rückgang des operativen Gewinns.

Die Fachwelt ist sich einig, dass die Digitalisierung das neue Jahrzehnt prägen wird. Neben vielen nützlichen technischen Neuerungen bringt die digitale Welt aber auch neue Herausforderungen und Gefahren mit sich.

L’organisation salafiste de Nicolas Blancho a dû organiser une conférence des donateurs en décembre à Zurich.

Americas

Ace Electronics Defense Systems won a $64.4 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with firm-fixed-price delivery orders for the production and delivery of manufacturing kits, spare parts and first article testing for the hardware component refresh of the Tactical Tomahawk Weapons Control System (AN/SWG-5(V)6). The AN/SWG-5(V)6 upgrade offers new offensive capabilities to upgraded ships in support of the Maritime Strike Tomahawk, addresses obsolescence risks and improves the operability and maintainability of the system hardware. ATWCS is an evolutionary upgrade to the current Tomahawk Weapon Control System. ATWCS replaces 1970s’ technology with COTS/GOTS hardware and software, thereby reducing overall reaction time and operator workload, enhancing the training capabilities at all levels, and improving Tomahawk strike effectiveness. ATWCS incorporates an open-system architecture to provide for future growth, eliminates stand-alone Tomahawk desktop computers, and enhances command-and-control interoperability. The single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a five-year ordering period, which, if all line item quantities are ordered, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to $64,405,123, with an ordering period to January 2025. Work will take place in Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, and is expected to be complete by January 2025.

Edwards Air Force Base announced in a press release, which covers the achievements made by the F-35 Integrated Test Force in 2019, that the test team had tested the multi-ship Infrared Search and Track capability. Having a multi-ship capability could allow 2 or more F-35s to generate a weapons quality track of low observable aircraft. Over the past year the Test Force has tested 11 unique F-35 software suites and fielded two. Through those efforts, the service has laid the foundation for increased F-35 lethality and survivability with functions like multi-ship Infrared Search and Track.

Middle East & Africa

A secretive spy plane that belongs to the US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) was destroyed by terrorists during an attack on a military base in Kenya on January 5, the BBC reports. The attack on Manda Bay Airfield also killed one American military service member and two contractors. Four al-Shabaab militants were also killed. The US military said in a statement that two others from the Department of Defense were wounded. “The wounded Americans are currently in stable condition and being evacuated,” the BBC quotes US military’s Africa Command. The Associated Press news agency reported that two aircraft, two US helicopters and multiple vehicles were destroyed at the airstrip.

The Egyptian military released footage of Ka-52 Alligator Attack Helicopters operating from one of its Mistral landing helicopter dock (LHD) amphibious assault ships for the first time on January 4. Two Ka-52s were seen taking off and landing on the deck of Gamal Abdel Nasser, which also carried two AH-64 Apache attack helicopters and a Chinook transport helicopter. Unlike the Apaches, which were fitted with rocket pods, the Ka-52s were not seen carrying anything on their hardpoints, although they have a fixed 30 mm gun on their starboard side.

Europe

Leonardo announced the first flight trials of its Osprey 50 Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar in a press release. The flight trials were carried out in support of production for a Strategic ISR platform and Collins Aerospace’s Tactical Synthetic Aperture Radar (TacSAR) reconnaissance system. “Osprey is a multi-mode radar family based on solid-state AESA technology and remains the only system of its type currently available which delivers full spherical coverage with no moving parts“, it says in the release. Leonardo has also re-used technology developed for the Osprey family to refresh its Seaspray family of AESA surveillance radars. Hardware and signal processing techniques developed for Osprey have been introduced back into Seaspray to increase capability and reduce system weight. say the firm.

Asia-Pacific

South Korea has moved a Patriot anti-missile battery to the center of Seoul in a bid to beef up its defense against the growing threat from the North, local news reported on Tuesday. The move came as the North has threatened to unveil a new strategic weapon “in the near future” as tensions rise over stalled nuclear talks between Pyongyang and Washington. The Patriot battery was believed to be equipped with PAC-2 and PAC-3 missiles designed to intercept incoming aircraft and missiles at altitudes of around 12-25 miles. The Patriot missile defense system is part of the Korean Air and Missile Defense (KAMD) system, one of the three defense systems operated by the South to counter growing nuclear and missile threats from the North. The other two are the Kill Chain preemptive strike, and the Korea Massive Punishment and Retaliation (KMPR) plan.

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Eine ukrainische Passagiermaschine ist am Mittwochmorgen in der Nähe des Teheraner Imam-Chomeini-Flughafens abgestürzt. Nach Angaben der Nachrichtenagentur Isna hatte die Boeing 737 insgesamt 176 Passagiere und Crew-Mitglieder an Bord. Es gibt keine Überlebenden.

La Rwandaise Kate Bashabe en Egypte lors de la cérémonie de remise du Ballon d’Or au Sénégalais Sadio Mané, élu meilleur joueur aux CAF Awards Edition 2019 ? Le Sénégalais Sadio Mané est sacré meilleur joueur africain de l’année 2019 devant l’Egyptien Mohamed Salah et l’Algérien Riyad Mahrez. La CAF a procédé à la remise […]

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Around 310,000 cases have been reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo since early 2019.

Über eine Woche wurde Sara M. (†17) aus Baulmes VD vermisst, bis sie schliesslich tot in Yverdon-les-Bains aufgefunden wurde. Unter Tatverdacht: ihr Ex-Freund (19). Bekannte erzählen von der turbulenten Beziehung.

Au Maroc, les associations de consommateurs sensibilisent sur les produits à choisir pour préserver la santé et demandent aux autorités compétentes de renforcer les contrôles. Ce pour éviter d’exposer la santé des consommateurs à divers dangers, avec les huiles frelatées qui inondent le marché, à chaque saison de vente de l’huile d’olive, qui coïncide avec […]

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La Confédération africaine de football (CAF) a dévoilé ce mardi 07 janvier 2020 à l'occasion de la CAF Awards à Hurghada en Égypte, le nom du ballon de l'année 2019. C'est le Sénégalais Sadio Mané qui a remporté cette distinction du football africain.
Le choix du lion de la Téranga n'a pas surpris les spectateurs. Ce n'est que le couronnement de ses efforts.
Sadio Mané succède ainsi à son coéquipier de Liverpool l'Egyptien Mohamed Salah, qui a gagné le prestigieux prix au cours des deux dernières années.
« J'avais promis l'année dernière que je reviendrai pour gagner ce trophée. Je n'ai pas les mots, je suis tellement fier… C'est un grand jour pour moi. Je remercie tous les gens de mon village Bombali, je suis certain qu'ils me regardent à la télé », a déclaré le joueur de Liverpool, qui a raté de peu le ballon d'or mondial 2019.
Outre le ballon d'or, plusieurs autres prix ont été remis au cours de la CAF Awards 2019.
L'attaquant algérien de Manchester City, Riyad Mahrez, a été sacré le plus beau but de l'année.
Vainqueur de la CAN Égypte 2019, l'Algérie a été sans surprise élue équipe africaine de l'année aux CAF Awards.
De même, l'entraîneur algérien Djamel Belmadi a été distingué meilleur de l'année dans sa catégorie.
L'édition 2019 de la CAF Awards a connu la présence de Sammuel Eto'o, animateur principal de la cérémonie.

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Les 11 de l'équipe-type de l'année

Matip, Aurier, Mahrez, Coulibaly, Gana, Gueye, Hakim, Ziyech , Mo Sallah, Mané, Aubameyang.

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