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Faeser said outstanding legislation on domestic security should be approved immediatelyImage: Ebrahim Noorozi/AP/picture alliance German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has urged the swift adoption of draft laws to bolster internal security. The deadly attack on a Christmas market in Magdeburg has raised questions about public safety and intelligence gaps in Germany. “We must do everything in our power to protect the people of Germany from such horrific acts of violence. Our security authorities need all the necessary powers and additional personnel to achieve this,” Faeser told Der Spiegel news magazine. Following the Solingen knife attack earlier this year, lawmakers tightened gun laws and strengthened security authorities’ powers. Faeser, however, said further legislative changes were blocked by her Social Democratic Party (SPD) party’s former governing coalition partner, the Free Democrats (FDP), the opposition Christian Democrats (CDU) and the CDU’s Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU).  “All of these bills could be...

Brazilian prosecutors on Tuesday said that they had rescued over 160 Chinese citizens from “slavery-like conditions.” The workers had been building a factory for Chinese automaker BYD in Camacari in Brazil’s northeastern state of Bahia. What do we know about the workers’ conditions? Since November, Bahia’s Public Works Ministry said it had identified “163 workers who appeared to be in slave-like conditions.” The ministry said that workers were kept in “an alarming situation of precariousness” and subjected to “degrading working conditions.” “In one of the accommodations, workers slept on beds without mattresses and had no wardrobes for their personal effects, which were mixed together with food supplies,” the ministry said, adding that there was only one toilet for every 31 workers. The ministry also said that it suspected that “forced labor” had occurred, as workers’ passports had been confiscated and 60% of their salary had been retained. The statement said...

WHAT are common holiday ills? Common colds, Flu, RSV, COVID-19, holiday diarrheas and accidents at home and on the streets are some common conditions/events to expect during the holidays 2024. If confirmed, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., President Trump’s pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services, will face a massive task he has assigned himself, to “Make America Healthy Again.” One of those, I hope, is to strictly monitor the trillion-dollar industry on vitamins-minerals, food supplements, fruit and vegetables capsules, herbal drugs, brain meds for memory, as to their actual need, medical indication, effective amount, efficacy, side-effects and complications. Currently, the unsuspecting public is being victimized by deceptive greedy entrepreneurs. What is Christmas Blues? Christmas Blues is a form of mild depression (called Seasonal Affective Disorders, or SAD for short) that happens to some of us, normal and healthy people, during the Christmas season or other festive family occasions. Empty...

Huub Stapel (70): ’Als ik de politiek in ga, sla ik binnen één dag iemand op z’n bakkes’ De Telegraaf