Mitten im Truppenaufbau im Rohingyas Heimatland appelliert die UN an Myanmar zur friedlichen Lösung
19. Januar 2019 // 09.01.2019 Frieden und Sicherheit
UNICEF / Ruslana Sirman
UNICEF/Ruslana SirmanAmid troop build-up in Rohingya’s home state, UN appeals to Myanmar for peaceful solution
Major fighting in Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state has so far been avoided following clashes between armed separatists and national security forces who are increasing troop numbers there, a top UN humanitarian official there said on Wednesday.
USA-Mueller bestreitet die Richtigkeit des BuzzFeed-Berichts über Trump, Cohen
19. Januar 2019
US-Sonderberater Robert Mueller (AP) (Mainichi Japan)
WASHINGTON- Am Freitag veröffentlichte der Spezial-anwalt Robert Mueller eine seltene öffentliche Erklärung, in der er die Richtigkeit des Berichts von BuzzFeed News in Abrede stellte. Der ehemalige Anwalt von Präsident Donald Trump sagte zu Mueller, der Präsident weise ihn an, er solle den Kongress belügen.(c) (AP)
In den ersten 13 Tagen des Neujahrs sind Schweinegrippe 49 Menschen gestorben. Laut einer Meldung von Hindustan Times vom National Health Disability Center an den 13. Januar 1.694 Fälle registriert, war doppelt so viel wie der gleiche Zeitraum.
Die meist gesehenen Regionen sind die Provinzen Delhi, Gucarat und Haryvana. Im vergangenen Jahr wurden 14 Tausend Erkrankungen und die Folgen der Krankheit starben 1.103 Personen.
Aus Rajasthan wird berichtet, dass der Urlaub aller Ärzte dort annulliert wurde.Bisher wurden 43 Todesfälle durch Schweinegrippe gemeldet. Am Freitag sind 63 Fälle von Schweinegrippe aufgetreten.
Half a million attend opposition rally to remove India’s Modi
India’s major opposition parties come together in a show of strength with an eye on general elections due by May.2 hours ago
India‘s opposition parties have drawn half a million supporters to the eastern city of Kolkata for the largest show of force yet against Prime Minister Narendra Modi ahead of national elections due by May.
The massive “Unite India” rally held on Saturday brought together leaders of over 20 national and regional parties – many of whom have previously fought against each other during elections – to rail against Modi and his ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
“The Modi government is past its expiry date,” said Mamata Banerjee, chief minister of West Bengal state.
Her government, which organised the rally, had suggested four million would attend, but Kolkata Police chief Rajeev Kumar said 500,000 showed up in the eastern city.
Modi, who was inspecting military hardware in Gujarat state on Saturday, accused the opposition of acting in self-interest.
“The alliance is not against me, it’s against India,” he said, as quoted by the Hindustan Times newspaper.
Modi, whose BJP won a landslide victory in 2014 and now seeking another term, faces rising discontent over unemployment and economic inequality.
The BJP was defeated in three key state elections in December to the Congress, the main opposition party.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi did not attend the rally but sent party representatives. His mother Sonia Gandhi, the party’s former president, said it was “an important attempt to galvanise leaders to fight the Modi government”.
Leaders of the Left parties were also missing from Saturday’s line-up, reflecting tensions among opposition parties on who would be their prime ministerial candidate against Modi.
Speakers from India’s myriad state, regional and caste-based parties criticised the prime minister and his BJP for what they alleged was divisive politics that pitted communities against each other.
The slogan “remove BJP, save democracy” was repeated by several leaders.
HD Deve Gowda, who was briefly prime minister in the 1990s, said regional parties were powerful but “cannot save India without uniting”.
The opposition has not allied in a formal bloc, but some state outfits have joined forces as the election draws nearer.
Last week, two regional parties and former bitter rivals – the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) – announced an unlikely alliance to challenge Modi in Uttar Pradesh state, India’s most populous and politically critical state.
With the formation of the SP-BSP alliance in a state that sends 80 members to lower house of Parliament., Modi’s party faces a risk of losing elections, Banerjee said.
Arvind Kejriwal, chief minister of Delhi, said Modi had failed to fulfil his promises including job creation.
“Modi had promised to create 20 million jobs a year but after a faulty launch of national sales tax and demonetisation in 2016 more than 10 million jobs were lost,” he said.
The BJP dismissed the prospects of an opposition alliance, questioning who would lead such a coalition.
India’s unemployment rate hit 7.4 percent in December, highest in 15 months, while the number of people employed fell by nearly 11 million from a year ago, a report by the Mumbai-based Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy said this month.
Several leaders also spoke of the BJP’s failure to tackle the crisis facing farmers.
Politicians at the rally said India’s growth had slowed during Modi’s term and their first priority was to defeat him, adding a replacement would be decided after the elections.
Modi is expected to detail a package worth more than one trillion rupees ($14bn) in his last budget on February 1, including benefits for farmers and other taxpayers.
Michael Jacksons Kurzfilm für “Man in the Mirror” war der dritte von neun Kurzfilmen, die für Aufnahmen von Bad produziert wurden, eines der meistverkauften Alben aller Zeiten. Die Single “Man in the Mirror” schlug 1988 in vier Ländern die Nr. 1, die in den USA, Italien, Belgien und Polen die Charts anführte und in Kanada, Irland und Neuseeland die Top 5 erreichte. In den USA war “Man in the Mirror” der vierte von fünf aufeinanderfolgenden
Nr. 1-Singles eines Albums auf der Billboard Hot 100, für Michael, der erste Künstler. “Mann im Spiegel”, geschrieben von Siedah Garrett (von Michaels Duett-Partner zu “Ich kann nicht aufhören, dich zu lieben”) und Glen Ballard, ist einer von nur zwei Songs, die nicht von Michael Jackson geschrieben wurden Der Fall war kein Lied, das ist eine Botschaft, die mit seinen eigenen Philosophien widerspiegelte, wurde durch seine Handlungen gezeigt und in einigen eigenen eigenen Texten zum Ausdruck gebracht. “‘Man in the Mirror’ hat eine großartige Botschaft”,
schrieb er 1988 in seinem Moonwalk. “Ich liebe dieses Lied. Beginnen Sie mit sich selbst.” Schauen Sie sich nicht alle anderen an. Beginnen Sie mit Ihnen. Das ist die Wahrheit. “Eine Rezension von Bad in Rolling Stone im Jahr 1987 nannte das Lied” unter den halben Dutzend besten Dingen, die Jackson getan hat. “Im Gegensatz zu Michaels anderen Kurzfilmen aus dem Bad Ära erzählt” Man of the Mirror ” eine Geschichte nicht durch Leistung, sondern durch kraftvolle Bilder von Unterdrückung, Obdachlosigkeit, Hunger, Polizeibrutalität und anderen Krankheiten der Welt.
Malaysia says Goldman Sachs must pay, apology not enough
18, 01, 2019
Malaysian Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng gestures during a press conference at Finance Ministry in Putrajaya, Malaysia, on Jan. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
PUTRAYAJAYA, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng said Friday that an apology by Goldman Sachs for its role in the alleged multibillion-dollar ransacking of state investment fund 1MDB was insufficient and that it must pay $7.5 billion as compensation.
Goldman-Chef David Solomon entschuldigt sich am Mittwoch beim malaysischen Volk für die Rolle des ehemaligen Bankiers Tim Leissner bei der Vermittlung von Anleihenverkäufen für 1MDB.
Goldman Sachs ist in einer der größten Korruptionsskandale der vergangenen Jahre verwickelt.
Sie stellten den Mitgliedern des ehemaligen malaysischen Premierministers Najib Razak die Möglichkeit zur Verfügung, angeblich über mehrere Jahre hinweg Milliarden aus dem Fonds zu stehlen.
Solomon has said the investment bank conducted due diligence but was misled by Leissner and former Malaysian government officials.
“That’s insufficient, necessary but not sufficient,” said Lim. “Apology with $7.5 billion is what matters … there has to be accountability.”
Der 1MDB-Fonds wurde von Najib bei seinem Amtsantritt im Jahr 2009 für die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung eingerichtet. Stattdessen wurden Schulden in Milliardenhöhe angesammelt. Er wird in den USA und mehreren anderen Ländern untersucht. Der Skandal trug dazu bei, dass Najib im Mai bei einer historischen Wahlniederlage aus dem Ruder gelaufen war.
Hauptsitz von Goldman Sachs in New York.
The new government has filed criminal charges against Goldman Sachs, Leissner and another former executive, Roger Ng Chong Hwa. Officials say the government is seeking several billion dollars in fines from Goldman for violations of securities laws involving making false and misleading statements to investors.
Malaysia’s attorney general Tommy Thomas has said $2.7 billion was stolen from three bond sales organized by Goldman subsidiaries and that the investment bank received $600 million in fees, several times industry norms, for organizing the deals. Thomas alleges that Leissner and Ng conspired with Najib associate Low Taek Jho to bribe Malaysian government officials to choose Goldman Sachs to handle the bond deal, knowing the money would be stolen.
Leissner, who headed Goldman’s operations in Southeast Asia, pled guilty in the U.S. last year to money laundering conspiracy and conspiring to violate foreign bribery laws. Ng was arrested in Malaysia in early November and Low, also known as Jho Low, remains at large. In statements through a lawyer, he has maintained his innocence.
Najib faces multiple corruption charges. He has said that more than $700 million that moved through his bank account was a political donation from the Saudi royal family, but U.S. prosecutors allege it came from 1MDB. U.S. legal filings that are part of a Justice Department civil case to recover assets bought with 1MDB funds allege the money was used to finance Hollywood films and spent on luxuries such as diamond jewelry for Najib’s wife, a yacht, artworks and high-end properties.
Lim told reporters the government is willing to discuss dropping the charges if Goldman pays up.
Er sprach, nachdem er mit drei Banken beauftragt war, eine Samurai-Anleihe in Höhe von 200 Milliarden Yen (1,9 Milliarden US-Dollar) zu arrangieren. Die Regierung hat gesagt, es braucht mindestens drei Jahre, um Ihre Haushaltsprobleme zu lösen .
Zeuge: Zahlreiche Palästinenser durch die Besatzung im Osten des Gazastreifens verletzt-wurden.
Der Sprecher des Gesundheitsministeriums im Gazastreifen sagte, 30 Menschen seien bei Zusammenstößen bei den (Demo) Rückkehre marsch am Freitag in der Nähe des Grenzzauns östlich des Gazastreifens verletzt worden.
Despite global opposition, the survival of Norway’s endangered population of wolves is once again being threatened. Plans to allow the mass killing of the country’s 60 remaining wolves spells out certain extinction for the species. Please urge Norway’s Ministry of Climate and Environment to end wolf hunts once and for all.
In 2016, the Norwegian government halted its plans to kill off nearly two-thirds of the wolves in the county of Hedmark, thanks in part to the 7,000 emails sent by our supporters from around the world and also to a petition with 70,000 signatures. Despite this recent victory, protests and demonstrations are taking to the streets in response to plans of yet another wolf hunt targeting the estimated 60 wolves found within its borders, including the killing of wolves in designated wolf zones that “were supposed to be set aside as conservation zones to protect Norway’s wolf population.”
Animal rights activists and conservationists strongly oppose the hunt due to the potentially catastrophic effect mass killings would have on the small wolf population, most likely resulting in the complete annihilation of the already critically endangered species.
Anti-wolf ranchers incorrectly blame wolves for the loss of sheep, yet the vast majority of free-grazing sheep are killed due to the negligence of the ranchers, and the small remaining percentage die due to attacks by other predators.
Those in favor of killing off wolves are fueled by greed and myths of the “big bad wolf,” and have no interest in the well-being of the animals in their “care” or the conservation of endangered wolves. Paradoxically, individuals who support the wolf hunt because they claim the animals pose a major threat “have never actually encountered a wolf”and those who have done so have called it a “memorable” and even “fantastic” experience, indicating wolves are tragically the “victim(s) of an undeservedly bad reputation.”
What YOU Can Do:
Norway’s wolves must be protected from the disastrous and misguided plans to hunt them. Please urge Ola Elvestuen, Norway’s Minister of Climate and Environment, to put an end to wolf hunting once and for all. Please sign our letter to Minister of Climate Change and Environment Ola Elvestuen, by filling out the form on this page.Read the next article
Bitte nehmen Sie einen Moment Zeit, um die bereits gefährdete Wolfspopulation Norwegens zu retten! Bei etwa 60 verbliebenen Wölfen in der Region hängt ihr Überleben von uns ab!
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