The military in Myanmar arrested other members of the disempowered government of Aung San Suu Kyi late on Wednesday evening. At least six high-ranking politicians, including a close advisor to the 75-year-old, have been arrested,
reported the newspaper "The Irrawaddy". Meanwhile, the demonstrations continued unabated. In the northern city of Mandalay, colorfully dressed artists took to the streets to call for the restoration of the civilian government.
Bank employees and Deutsche Bahn employees also took part in the demos. At first it was peaceful - on Tuesday, however, blood flowed: the police had tried to disperse demonstrators with water cannons and rubber balls.
There was also sharp shooting, a young woman is in critical condition.
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Out of the blue, Chambon-sur-Lignon received a windfall of two million euros. A fortune for the community with its 2,500 inhabitants. An Austrian Jew bequeathed his legacy to the village,
which he had hidden as a child during World War II. Erich Schwam died without descendants at the end of December at the age of 90 in Lyon. Between 1,500 and 4,000 people, Jews and non-Jews, 30 percent of them children,
found refuge in this remote and forested region of 500 square kilometers called the "plateau". An area in which the tradition of hospitality was strongly anchored. The entire area of the plateau received an extremely rare diploma from Israel in 1990,
The Czech parliament has rejected an extension of the emergency imposed due to the corona pandemic. The minority government under Prime Minister Andrej Babis was unable to prevail on Thursday evening
by demanding that the state of emergency continue until March 16. Alternative proposals with shorter terms also did not find a majority. The state of emergency that has been in force since October expires on Sunday.
Among other things, it enables the government to suspend civil rights such as freedom of assembly across the board. The presidents of five administrative regions announced that they would step into the breach and declare a so-called "dangerous situation" themselves.
The Bundestag has erased linguistic relics of the Nazi regime from the German right to change names. Parliament unanimously changed the text of the law from 1938, which, despite numerous changes,
still spoke of the German Reich and the Reich Minister of the Interior. Union parliamentary group vice-chairman Thorsten Frei said that the decision had no practical, but a high symbolic effect.
In its original form, the law required Jewish Germans to use the additional first name Sara or Israel. The new regulation that has now been adopted goes back to an initiative of the Federal Government's Anti-Semitism Commissioner, Felix Klein.
Hungary's government is planning to introduce a corona immune passport. Such would be issued to citizens who had been vaccinated against Covid-19 or who had been proven to have survived infection,
explained Chancellery Minister Gergely Gulyas. What advantages the holders of such a pass will have has not yet been determined. According to this, around 300,000 people in Hungary have been vaccinated against Covid-19 so far, 117,000 of them for the second time.
The vaccines from Biontech-Pfizer and Moderna are currently being administered in the country with a population of ten million.
A large program for corona vaccinations in pharmacies has started in the USA. Vaccination doses were initially sent to 6,500 pharmacies across the country.
Some large pharmacy and drug store chains have announced that they will start vaccinations tomorrow. In the medium term, vaccinations are to be offered in 40,000 pharmacies. This is intended to accelerate the pace of the vaccination campaign.
The campaign started slowly in December, but then picked up speed. The government of the new President Joe Biden wants to accelerate the vaccination rate, also in view of the increased occurrence of new corona variants.
According to media reports, a poisonous chemical was released on Thursday (February 11th) in a chemical plant in the Penrose district of Auckland, on the North Island of New Zealand. Because the chemical ended up in the sewage system,
New Zealand authorities are warning against swimming in the beach areas of Māngere Bridge, Taumanu East, Taumanu Central, Taumanu West and Onehunga within 5km of a stormwater drain which carried 5000 litres of poisonous methyl methacrylate from Penrose to Manukau Harbour.