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+++ 21.05 PM: U.S.-probe InSight successfully on Mars +++
landed, The Nasa’s InSight is successfully landed on Mars. “Landing confirmed!”, said the US space Agency, from your control center, in Pasadena California. Advance is an extremely complicated maneuver of six and a half minutes in length, was gone: The gentle Touchdown on our neighboring planet is one of the most difficult endeavor of space travel.
+++ 20.42 watch: Ukrainian Parliament approves 30-days of war +++
As a reaction to the confrontation with Russia in the Black sea, the Ukrainian Parliament of the imposition of martial has agreed to the right. With the vote of the members of Parliament in Kiev, following the request of President Petro Poroshenko. The laws of war should apply for 30 days.
+++ 19.25 PM: Nato, Russia calls for restraint on +++
The Nato countries have called on Russia in its conflict with the Ukraine to restraint. “There is no justification for the use of military force against Ukrainian ships and naval personnel,” said Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg after a special session of the Nato-Ukraine Commission in Brussels. We call on Russia, the established Ukrainian seafarers and ships immediately.
“All of the allies have placed at the Meeting its full support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine,” said Stoltenberg. Russia was called,
to grant unimpeded access to Ukrainian ports. In addition, it had to be for the Ukraine to free shipping in the Azov sea and the Kerch Strait.
+++ 18.56 watch: British Parliament votes on 11. December Brexit-agreement +++
The British Parliament on the 11. December about the Brexit agreement. The Prime Minister Theresa May announced on Monday in a speech in the house of Commons. The heads of state and government of the remaining 27 EU countries had approved the agreement for the withdrawal of Britain from the EU on Sunday, and now needs to be confirmed by a majority in the lower house.
+++ 18.01 PM: the top candidate of the populist party to form government in Latvia +++
Seven weeks after the parliamentary elections in Latvia, President Raimonds Vejonis has launched a second attempt to form a government. Vejonis commissioned the 40-year-old Deputy Aldis Gobzems of the populist party KPV LV in order to find a viable majority in the Seven-party Parliament. Previously, such an attempt also populist New Conservative party had failed.
Gobzems many Latvians popular, because he had rode as a lawyer, high compensation for the injured and the survivors of a supermarket collapse of 2013. In the case of the accident in Riga, 54 people had been killed. Gobzems is politically controversial because he shows himself open to a cooperation with the Pro-Russian party harmony in Parliament. Many other parties oppose such cooperation.
death of Karl Albrecht, The history of the Aldi Empire
With a wooden cart caught everything – and there are now at Aldi in addition to frozen food, including Computer and travel. The most important events in the history of the discounter.
+++ time: 17: 48: widow of Aldi co-founder Theo Albrecht is dead +++
Cecilia Albrecht, the widow of Aldi co-founder Theo Albrecht is dead. She had been buried in the closest family circle, beige, said a spokesman for Aldi Nord. Had previously reported the “Tagesspiegel”.
Cäcilies husband Theo Albrecht took over in 1946 together with his brother Karl in the family grocery store in food and turn it into one of the world’s most successful discounters-companies forged. Theo died in 2010, his brother Karl 2014. Cäcilie Albrecht lived completely withdrawn.
+++ media-report: Aldi-widow Cäcilie Albrecht is dead +++
Cecilia Albrecht, the widow of Aldi founder Theo Albrecht is dead. The “daily mirror” reported, citing family circles. More to come soon.
+++ 16.52 PM: majority of Germans are afraid of election manipulation +++
a Good half of the German election rigging in Europe by cyber attacks fear according to a survey. In a on Monday published study by the EU Commission, around 56 percent of the German respondents, in this sense, a little less than the EU average of 61 percent. At the same time four from go just of ten Germans in the Federal Republic of definitely enough against electoral manipulation is done. Only four percent are of the opinion that this is not the case.
Also a possible influence from abroad is on elections in Europe, Stokes when 51% of the Eurobarometer respondents German concern. Around Makrobet 72 per cent believe that Wrong – and disinformation on the Internet and especially in social networks are not a Problem before the elections. A good two thirds of that personal data could be used in the network to personalized choice, advertising will be displayed.
+++ 16.48 PM: General Motors cancels 15 percent of the Points +++
The U.S. car maker General Motors has announced a massive restructuring of the group with which the company wants to save six billion dollars (5.3 billion euros). For 15 percent of the jobs will be eliminated, such as General Motos announced. In addition, to be stopped in the coming year in the works, Oshawa, Canada, Hamtramck, Detroit, and Michigan, and Lordstown in Warren, Ohio the production.
+++ 15.55 PM: West Bank country: Palestinian rams car Israeli soldiers +++
A Palestinian was shot dead on Monday in the West Bank, after he had driven his car into a group of three Israeli soldiers. The fatal shots were fired, according to Israeli army figures by a patrol of soldiers. The soldiers had been wounded in the incident light and were transported in stable condition from the scene to the North of the city of Hebron.
A spokesman for the Red Crescent told AFP that Israeli soldiers had brought the corpse of a dead Palestinian from an ambulance in an army vehicle. As the Israeli military announced, would the soldiers have “engineering works on the route between Beit Ummar and Al Arrub executedt”. “A soldier on patrol shot the terrorist and neutralized him,” it said in a statement.
A series of attacks as lone wolves designated attacker had shaken Israel in 2015 – including knife attacks and Ramming people with cars. Since then, only isolated cases of such actions.
+++ 15.36 PM: collective agreement at the troubled Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems +++
The 11,000-tariff-bound employees of the troubled Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems in get more money starting in January. After a nearly eight-month engagement, the company agreed, and the Verdi trade Union on pay increases in the next year and the year, such as Verdi in Berlin, new York. The employees in the pay groups one to five, will get to the first of January next year, three per cent more of the other pay groups, two percent. 1. January 2020 there are, accordingly, then again to 2.5 percent for all pay groups. According to Verdi, the collective result contains no provision that extends the exclusion of redundancies. Thus, the Union’s ability to act to get the case, T-Systems wanted to say, contrary to the previous statements, however, operating redundancies.Khashoggi search
+++ 15.17 PM: Turkish investigators search in the case of Khashoggi luxury Villa +++
Nearly two months after the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in Istanbul, the Turkish police has two villas in the South of the metropolis searches. The houses in the province of Yalova were men, two Saudi Arabian business, reported the state news Agency Anadolu. The investigators have also used tracker dogs and drones, as well as two fountains in the gardens of two luxury villas using the fire Department emptied.
The Istanbul Prosecutor-General’s office said, according to Anadolu, one of the Suspects had taken the day before the murder of Khashoggi with a in Yalova living in Saudi contact. The Prosecutor’s office suspect that it went to the subsequent disposal of the body. It remained unclear what kind of contact it was. The Pro-government newspaper “Yeni Safak” reported that investigators suspected villas in the body Khashoggis on the grounds of the luxury.
+++ 14.59 PM: EU refers to the operations in the Kerch Strait as unacceptable +++
The Foreign service of the EU has referred to the latest developments in the conflict between Russia and the Ukraine as unacceptable and called on Russia for an immediate release of the arrested sailors. From the point of view of the EU Russia would have to allow all ships to pass freely through the Strait of Kerch travel, said a spokeswoman for the EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in Brussels. It is international law.
At the same time, the Foreign service also warned Ukraine against hasty reactions. “In the current situation, all sides must have to maintain posture, to de-escalate the Situation,” said the spokeswoman.
According to information from EU diplomats, the responsible for security matters, the EU Ambassador should come this Monday afternoon to a special meeting to discuss possible reactions of the EU to the crisis.
+++ 14.43 PM: “mirror”: notes on irregularities in Visa-allocation +++
According to a report in the magazine “Spiegel” there are indications of irregularities in the granting of visas to Syrians in the German General Consulate in the Iraqi Kurdish metropolis of Arbil. The speech, therefore, is of about two dozen suspected cases between August and December 2017. Here, locally recruited staff of diplomatic representation, applications should have for inclusion in the so-called country programmes for Syrians manipulated.
Because of the alleged irregularities initiated, according to “mirror” the Berlin public Prosecutor’s office investigation. Accordingly, some of the Syrians are supposed to have paid Smugglers in Erbil between 2000 and 13,000 dollars for it, that you have been able to travel by air to Germany. The facilitators therefore had good contacts in the Consulate General, where Iraq would be made of locally recruited staff in with them.
From the foreign office, it was according to the “mirror”, be it known the allegations to be made in December 2017 organisational measures to prevent further such incidents. Also, the investigative authorities had been contacted immediately.
+++ 14.25 PM: Poroshenko imposes martial law in Ukraine +++
The Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has imposed in view of the conflict with Russia in the Azov sea, the law of war for the next 60 days. The office of the President informed. The Parliament, which will occur in the afternoon, together, must decide within 48 hours.
+++ 14.06 PM: Federal network Agency procurement conditions for 5G determines final +++
The Federal network Agency has announced after a meeting of the Advisory Board of the authority, the final award conditions for the Expansion of the new mobile radio standard 5G. This included “requirements for a better supply, both in the city as well as in the country,” said the network Agency. Are included, therefore, “measures to promote competition as a service provider, rules and regulations for national Roaming”.
“Chip”-network test The networks of Vodafone, Telekom and O2 in the Test – and there is a big Surprise
Which of the three major providers, the best network? This issue of the magazine “Chip” from year to year. In a detailed Test checks the quality of the networks. This year, there is a real Surprise.
By Malte Mansholt +++ 13.55 PM: Russia warns of serious consequences, after the incident in the Azov sea +++
The Russian foreign Ministry has warned Ukraine of serious consequences in the conflict to the sea of Azov. “Russia will bind all Attacks on its sovereignty and security,” said the Ministry in Moscow.
