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Der Prämienschock ist da: 2024 steigen sie im Schnitt um 8,7 Prozent. Die Krankenkassen werfen Gesundheitsminister Alain Berset vor, mitverantwortlich dafür zu sein.

French President Emmanuel Macron bowed to the inevitable on Sunday (24 September), announcing the immediate recall of France’s diplomatic team in Niger. The remaining 1,500 French troops there will return home before the end of 2023. 

Euronews: Egy nőszerű alak hanyagul fekszik egy fotelban – ez az első látvány, ami a galériára belépőket fogadja. A műalkotás a „Happy Gas” című kiállítás része, amely Sarah Lucas munkásságát tekinti át. A tárlat Lucas több mint 75 alkotását mutatja be szeptember 28. és 2024 január 14. között.

Sie sind typische Vertreter der Armenküche: Knödel. Inzwischen lässt sich jedoch auch die Hochküche davon inspirieren. Etwa von Serviettenknödel. Hier handelt es sich um eine klassische und sehr traditionelle Beilage. Wie kommt der Serviettenknödel zu seinem Namen? Sehr wahrscheinlich liegt es an der Zubereitungsart: Statt viele kleine Knödel zu drehen, wird die Knödelmasse vor dem Garen zu einer Rolle geformt. Vor allem früher wurde diese in ein Tuch, eine Serviette, eingeschlagen und im Wasser oder Wasserdampf gegart. Heute nutzen viele auch je eine Schicht Klarsicht- und Aluminiumfolie.

Depuis plusieurs mois maintenant, l’Algérie cherche à augmenter sa capacité de production d’eau douce. Le pays mise sur le dédoublement du nombre de stations de […]

L’article Dessalement d’eau de mer : l’Algérie inaugurera 5 nouvelles stations à l’horizon 2024 est apparu en premier sur .

The death of popular 27-year-old singer MohBad has sparked protests in Nigeria.

Mit gezückter Waffe fordert die Polizei in Florida die Insassen eines Wagens auf, herauszukommen. Dann steigen zwei Kinder aus. Sie sind abgehauen, weil sie sauer auf ihre Mutter waren. Sie hatten ihrem Nachwuchs Elektro-Geräte weggenommen.

Die Leiterin des Veranstaltungsraums für Neue Musik Gare du Nord in Basel wird mit dem Basler Kulturpreis 2023 geehrt. Der gleichzeitig vergebene Kulturförderpreis geht an das Okra Collective, das sich für eine diskriminierungsfreie Clubkultur einsetzt.

Infolge des russischen Krieges in der Ukraine wurden die Staatsausgaben gekürzt, sodass der Bildungsbereich mit weniger finanziellen Mitteln auskommen muss. Gleichzeitig steigt die Arbeitsbelastung der Lehrkräfte, die versuchen, den Unterricht offen zu halten.

Nehezen tud ellenállni annak, amikor evés közben a kutyája ételt kunyerál, és gyakran dob le neki pár falatot? Esetleg előfordul, hogy odaadja neki a maradékot? Legyen óvatos, ugyanis számos emberi fogyasztásra alkalmas élelmiszer az ebeknél gyomorproblémákat, sőt akár súlyos betegségeket is kiválthat!

Bahnreisende müssen sich an den kommenden beiden Wochenenden in Biel auf eine ungewohnte Situation einstellen. Wegen Arbeiten an den Fahrleitungen verkehren am 30. September/1. Oktober und am 7./8. Oktober keine Züge der SBB und der BLS durch den Bahnhof.

In Langenthal werden sämtliche Leuchtmittel der öffentlichen Strassenbeleuchtung auf Leuchtdioden (LED) umgestellt. Damit werde der Energieverbrauch deutlich gesenkt, teilte der Gemeinderat am Dienstag mit.

For the first time, EU institutions are debating a binding legislation on media freedom online. One question is fueling intense debates: What level of oversight should be applied to online media within democracies?

Im Kanton Thurgau haben bisher fünf Stimmberechtigte unvollständige Wahlunterlagen gemeldet. Es handle sich um vereinzelte Fehldrucke, bei denen ein Teil der Wahlzettel doppelt vorhanden sei oder fehle, teilte der Kanton mit.

OPINION on the ongoing negotiations on a status agreement on operational activities carried out by the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) in Mauritania
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Jan-Christoph Oetjen

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Euronews: A Nemzetközi Energiaügynökség arra figyelmeztet, hogy a világnak fel kell gyorsítania az energetikai átállást, nem pedig lassítani a folyamatot, kockáztatva azt, hogy nem teljesülnek a párizsi klímamegállapodás célkitűzései, és a bolygó a szén-dioxid-kibocsátás túsza lesz.

The International Energy Agency finds that the clean energy investment needed to stay below 1.5 degrees Celsius warming saves $12 trillion [€11.3 trillion] in fuel expenditure — and creates double the amount of jobs lost in fossil fuel-related industries.

Die EU-Kommission ist der Ansicht, dass die EU stark in die Stromspeicherung investieren muss – eine Idee, die vom polnischen Stromversorger Tauron unterstützt wird. Dieser schlägt die Gründung einer europäischen Bank für Energiespeicherung vor.

Az alapellátást nyújtó gyermekorvosok felszólítják a következő egészségügyi minisztert, hogy haladéktalanul terjessze a parlament elé a gyermekgyógyászat stabilizálásával foglalkozó intézkedéscsomagot – tájékoztatta a TASR-t az alapellátásban dolgozó gyermekorvosok szövetsége.

Civilians are evacuated in Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, after the Azeri attack on September 19. Local administration data estimates the population of Karabakh at 120,000. Credit: Siranush Sargsyan/IPS.

By Karlos Zurutuza
ROME, Sep 26 2023 (IPS)

On September 19, the sound of bombs reminded the world of a long-forgotten conflict. In the Caucasus, the Azerbaijan’s army was launching a massive attack against a small enclave, Nagorno-Karabakh.

Also called Artsakh by its Armenian population, Nagorno-Karabakh is a self-proclaimed republic within Azerbaijan which had sought international recognition and independence since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.

But that´s unlikely ever to happen.

Davit Baboyan, former Foreign minister of the enclave, calls the current situation the “worst moment in Armenian history since the genocide"

Aware of the enemy’s military superiority, and exhausted by a ten-month blockade by the Azeri army that has left its residents without even the most basic supplies, the Armenians of the enclave capitulated in less than 24 hours.

These fast-moving events, however, are just the latest chapter in a violent, painful saga dating all the way back to the end of the Cold War.

During the Soviet collapse, conflict between Armenians and Azeris led to a chain of forced expulsions and violence escalated sharply in Nagorno-Karabakh.

Thirty years ago, the First Nagorno-Karabakh War (1988-1994) ended with an Armenian victory this time, leading to the exodus of more than half a million Azerbaijanis back to Azerbaijan.

For the next 25 years, Armenians in the enclave enjoyed their own de facto republic, which they resumed calling by its old name: Artsakh.

However, the international community did not recognize Artsakh. Meanwhile, Azerbaijan spent those decades investing new profits from gas and oil to strengthen its army, investing heavily in new, high-tech military technology.

Azerbaijan would unleash its new force in 2020, during the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War. After 44 days of horror, Baku would retake many of the areas lost years before.

Armenians fled, some even digging up their dead from cemeteries and driving away with their ancestors in the trunk of their cars for reburial elsewhere, so certain they would never return to that land again.

For Azerbaijan, however, it was an incomplete victory. The Armenians had lost two-thirds of the territory under their control in the second war. But the areas Armenian troops had held on included key regions such as the capital and its surrounding districts.

Carnegie Europe’s Thomas de Waal, author of Black Garden: Armenia and Azerbaijan Through Peace and War, describes the conflict between Armenians and Azeris as “ethnic cleansing by each side in turn, rather than diplomacy.”

That the Azeris had squandered their turn three years ago became clear on September 19. The job had to be finished.

 

Families from Karabakh wait their turn to flee the besieged enclave. Prior to the attack, they had spent ten months under a brutal supply blockade imposed by Azerbaijan. Credit: Siranush Sargsyan/IPS

 

Now what?

Local sources point to hundreds of dead and thousands of displaced, although it is still too early to know the real figures. What can be confirmed is the mass exodus of thousands of Karabakhis to Armenia.

In addition to the disarmament and dismantling of the Armenian administration of the enclave, Baku has called for its “full integration into Azerbaijani society.”

Could the enclave become an autonomous region within Azerbaijan? It’s unlikely.

If nearly a million members of the Talish people -a Persian-speaking minority, many of whom people also live in neighbouring Iran- do not enjoy any rights as a minority in Azerbaijan, what could the 120,000 Armenians from Karabakh possibly expect?

The only thing standing between them and the Azeris were the Russian peacekeepers deployed after the 2020 peace agreement launched by Moscow.

But it didn´t quite work.

During the three years since the second war, armed incidents were common along an uneasy contact line between the two sides. Russian peacekeepers were hesitant to get between the two longstanding enemies, with Russian forces limiting themselves to observing and taking cover during frequent flareups.

Armenia’s Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, had frequently accused the international community of looking the other way. Calls for Russia to be more assertive in its peacekeeping mission on the border received a cold shoulder from the Kremlin.

 

Russian peacekeepers in front of the Dadivank monastery, in Nagorno Karabakh. The failure to fulfil its commitment to protecting the population after the 2020 war has been key to the Azerbaijani victory. Credit: Karlos Zurutuza/IPS

 

In early September, Armenia and the United States conducted joint military manoeuvres, widely interpreted as a signal that Armenia had run out of patience with Moscow.

Five Russian soldiers are reported dead in the current Azeri attack. But even that appears to have drawn little response from Moscow.

Complicating the situation further, the European Union maintains gas supply agreements with Azerbaijan, which have become key to making up Russian supplies disrupted by the war in Ukraine.

A complicit silence from the EU on the invasion has allowed Baku and Moscow to close ranks against the West. Only Turkey -a close ally of Azerbaijan- is likely to find an open line to Baku and Moscow now, and may play a crucial role as a third voice.

Amid the high-wire diplomacy, regular Karabakhis have been abandoned to their fate, and for most fleeing to Armenia is the only option. Images from the brutal 2020 second war, of Azeri soldiers cutting off the noses and ears of civilians and vandalizing monasteries, remain fresh in local memory.

 

A group of women pray in the Dadivank monastery during the 2020 war. The enormous Armenian archaeological heritage is among the victims of the war between Armenians and Azerbaijanis. Credit: Karlos Zurutuza/IPS

 

Just a slice of land

The new conflict has also shed light on a longstanding strategic objective of Baku: to join the region to Turkey and the Mediterranean. Azerbaijan has been deploying troops in Armenia´s recognized territory since 2020, in a southern region called Syunik.

The strategic strip of land is the only thing standing in the way of connecting the Caspian region to commercial and military access to the open sea. Importantly, it’s a longstanding goal Baku shares with a key regional power, Turkey.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev clings to point 9 of the peace agreement that ended the 2020 war.

Where it says: “Ensure the free movement of people, vehicles and goods,” Aliyev believes he reads something about a certain “corridor” that, of course, he would control but that could isolate Armenia from its Persian neighbour.

Its consequences for Armenia would be disastrous: Iran is the only country with which Armenia maintains a fluid commercial link given that its borders with Azerbaijan and Turkey have been closed since the 90s.

On the other hand, relations with Georgia tend to be problematic due to ties of this with Ankara.

On Monday 25, while Karabakhis were fleeing in their dozens of thousands, Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited the Azerbaijani enclave of Nakhchivan for the first time.

Bordering Turkey, Nakhichevan would be a strategic part of the controversial corridor.

The fate of Nagorno-Karabakh will surely ripple through the region and beyond. “If Artsakh falls, Armenia will also fall,” Davit Baboyan, former Foreign minister of the enclave, told IPS several months ago.

Baboyan calls the current situation the “worst moment in Armenian history since the genocide.” More than one and a half million Armenians were exterminated in the Armenian genocide, the notorious Anatolian purges that occurred in the first decades of the 20th century.

On August 9, a former prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Luís Moreno Ocampo, warned of “the threat of a new genocide against the Armenian people.”

As the world watches the exodus of the Karabkhis from the land they have inhabited for thousands of years, the images may be repeated in Armenia in the short term.