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RTL Deutschland GmbH: Köln (ots) - Stärkung der Bereiche Transformation, Strategie und M&A schafft Voraussetzungen für einen erfolgreichen Zusammenschluss mit Sky und legt zudem die Basis für den langfristigen Erfolg von RTL Deutschland. RTL Deutschland besetzt ...

AOK-Bundesverband: Berlin (ots) - Anlässlich der gestrigen Verbändeanhörung zum Pflegeneuordnungsgesetz (PNOG) äußert die Vorstandsvorsitzende des AOK-Bundesverbandes, Dr. Carola Reimann, deutliche Kritik. "Es ist gut, dass die Bundesregierung mit dem ...

Zentrum für Mittelalterausstellungen: Magdeburg (ots) - Historische Spuren des Magdeburger Rechts lassen sich heute in elf europäischen Staaten nachweisen. In über 1.000 Städten hatte es zwischen dem 12. und 18. Jahrhundert Fuß gefasst. Bürgerinnen und Bürgern garantierte es ...

ÄNDERUNGSANTRÄGE - Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing Global Europe
Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten
Entwicklungsausschuss
Robert Biedroń, Michael Gahler

Quelle : © Europäische Union, 2026 - EP

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Sékou Seck « Bako » nommé entraîneur des U17 par la Fédération Malienne de Football

La Fédération Malienne de Football a confié les équipes U17 à Sékou Seck « Bako » (CAF A), avec Sékou Berthé (UEFA A) en tant…

Sékou Seck « Bako » nommé entraîneur des U17 par la Fédération Malienne de Football
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Spitch AG: Frankfurt (ots) - - Paradigmenwechsel: Das Dogma der bloßen Automatisierung zur Kostensenkung ist überholt, die Kundschaft erwartet qualifiziertes Eingehen auf ihre Anfragen - Besonders relevant für Finanzdienstleister, Energieversorger und die ...

2023 beendete Helene Fischer ihre letzte Tournee. Nun kehrt sie auf die grosse Bühne zurück und spielt zu ihrem 20-Jahr-Jubiläum in Stadien im deutschsprachigen Raum. Blick war bei der Premiere der Mega-Tour, die sie auch in den Zürcher Letzigrund führt, mit dabei.

Industry and policymakers converge on hydrogen and biofuels as a strategic answer to fossil fuel dependence, but warn of infrastructure and cost hurdles

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Sécurité au Mali : Lancement d’une opération spéciale d’immatriculation des deux et trois roues à partir du 15 juin

Renforcement des mesures de sécurité routière au Mali : Interdiction des motocyclettes de 125 cm³ et plus en dehors des grandes agglomérations Face à la…

Sécurité au Mali : Lancement d’une opération spéciale d’immatriculation des deux et trois roues à partir du 15 juin
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Drei indische Seeleute sind bei einem US-Angriff auf einen Öltanker verstorben. Angeblich soll dieser iranisches Öl transportiert haben. Am Donnerstag kam es zu einem erneuten Angriff auf einen Tanker mit indischer Besetzung im Oman.

Refugees and staff from the Center for Victims of Torture play soccer and celebrate human rights, Minneapolis, USA, June 2023. Credit: CVT

By Simon Adams
PERTH, Australia, Jun 11 2026 (IPS)

This planet’s biggest sporting event—the FIFA Men’s World Cup—will soon kick off. Millions of people around the world will sit up, bleary eyed, watching matches at unreasonable hours and inventing feeble excuses for why we won’t be at work in the morning. More than one billion are expected to watch the finale on TV in mid-July. That’s a bigger audience than any Olympic sporting event and more than the number of people who have viewed Squid Game on Netflix.

The World Cup is also big business. FIFA predicted the competition might bring in a whopping US$30.5 billion in tourist dollars for the United States, Canada and Mexico—the three 2026 host countries. But all is not well with the beautiful game.

Amnesty International and more than 100 local human rights organizations have issued a travel warning for fans planning to visit the eleven U.S. cities that are hosting World Cup matches. According to figures obtained by Human Rights Watch, ICE arrested 167,000 people around the eleven cities from January 2025 to March 2026. Visitors are warned they may experience invasive searches of their phones at the border, “racial profiling,” and other egregious abuses that breach “the United States’ human rights obligations under domestic and international law.” Even before the first whistle is blown, Africa’s leading referee, Omar Artan from Somalia, was denied entry to the United States at Miami International Airport and will now miss the tournament.

Tourist arrivals in the U.S. were already down 5.4% last year, with a “Trump slump” now impacting the upcoming World Cup. According to a survey of more than 200 host city hotels conducted by the American Hotel and Lodging Association, “nearly 80% said hotel bookings are tracking below initial forecasts.” Some fans are having trouble securing a visa, but spiraling expenses and the threat of being deported for some nasty comment you made about Trump on Facebook are also disincentives.

At a massive “No Kings” protest in Brooklyn last October, I joined my fellow New Yorkers to march against this democratic backsliding in the United States. At least 6 million people protested nationally, with a quarter of million in New York, where I had been working for the past decade.

The day felt like a festival. One protester was blowing a vuvuzela, an annoyingly loud horn introduced to the global community at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Someone else was wearing an inflatable chicken suit and carrying a sign that said, “I’m more mature than the President.”

Despite the frivolity, President Trump had threatened to deploy the FBI against protesters, and his team denounced the No Kings movement as being manufactured by treasonous malcontents. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt blamed the Democratic Party and claimed, “its main constituency are made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals.” The No King’s website, meanwhile, said that “in America, we don’t have kings and we won’t back down against chaos, corruption, and cruelty.” It felt like a clash was likely.

On the day, however, the most aggressive encounter I had was when someone thrust a small bright-yellow card into my hand. It boldly declared, “Know Your Rights,” and offered helpful text to recite if you were detained, including: “The U.S Constitution grants all people rights. I am proud to be exercising mine.” A QR code linked to relevant legal advice.

Those laws still stand between President Trump and the unconstrained power he covets. But given that Trump has now appointed 265 federal judges and three Supreme Court Justices, some legal safeguards appear precarious. Some U.S. federal agencies have already embraced Trump’s authoritarian tilt, with illegal deportations and the extrajudicial killing of two protesters on the streets of Minneapolis being the most disturbing examples of a corrosive trend.

The resulting gap between jurisprudence and justice can be deadly. As president of the U.S.-based Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) I had visited safe houses in the suburbs of Nairobi, Kenya, for LGBT+ refugees from African countries where same sex relationships were illegal. Article 27 of Kenya’s constitution guarantees freedom from discrimination, but on the streets of Nairobi, many refugees remained vulnerable.

A CVT colleague recently texted to inform me that a LGBT+ refugee from Somalia had been murdered. She was in Kenya awaiting legal resettlement to the United States but had been halted by Trump’s ban on refugee admissions. In Kenya, like any other country, the laws that secure people’s rights are only ever as strong as the willingness of police, courts, and parliaments to uphold them.

Only around a dozen countries in the world have comprehensive national human rights laws, enacted by parliament and grounded in international treaties and conventions. These include South Africa, India, Ireland, as well as Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Many other states—including Brazil, Japan, United States and Kenya—protect some fundamental rights and freedoms through their constitution or a bill of rights. Australia is the only major liberal democracy in the world without either a national human rights act or a bill of rights, although there is growing domestic pressure to rectify that perilous legal shortcoming.

The World Cup has already given a lot to global culture. Think not just of the insufferable vuvuzela, the embarrassing macarena and the irrepressible Mexican wave. Its deeper value might be in reminding us that in these times of creeping authoritarianism, all states should strengthen their human rights protections.

Simon Adams is Professor of Human Rights, Murdoch University, Australia

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António Costa is convening a two-day summit in Brussels next week

Children dry fish in the sun at a village in the natural gas-rich Afungi peninsula of the northern Mozambique region. In countries including Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, and Mozambique, gas is extracted and exported to serve external markets, while domestic energy needs go unmet. Photo courtesy of Justica Ambiental

By Maina Waruru
NAIROBI, Jun 11 2026 (IPS)

A new report examining the economic impact of oil and gas production in Africa has found that fossil fuels have failed to deliver sustained or inclusive economic development, observing that the resources have contributed to economic vulnerability and inequality and have constrained growth through prohibitive commodity prices, inflation, and weak local currencies.

It reveals that oil- and gas-rich countries were running on economies that are ‘extractive’ in nature, while their other economic sectors remained weak and tended to have elevated levels of corruption, benefiting a few rich, thus perpetuating inequality. This is while delivering few job opportunities, and the sectors employ about 0.3% of the national workforce overall.

The document titled Pipe Dreams, based on evidence from 13 oil- and gas-producing countries, finds that the structure of the oil- and gas-producing economy concentrates on exporting wealth while leaving populations to bear the costs of producing it, ultimately fuelling poverty.

Observing that Africa is in the midst of a “fossil fuel crisis” where global energy prices have surged in the wake of the American-Israeli-Iranian war, exposing countries to expensive petroleum, the analysis by advocacy groups Power Shift Africa and Oil Change International note that producing countries have not been spared the price shocks.

Shanties serving as shops in a village in the natural gas-rich Afungi peninsula of the northern Mozambique region, where poverty remains high. A new report discloses that the government will not receive significant revenues until the mid or late 2030s because contracts allocate most of the early revenues to foreign companies. Photo courtesy of Justica Ambiental

This is because while many of them exported crude, they later imported costlier refined products refined abroad, including petrol and diesel. This happens as hundreds of millions of people across the continent still lack access to electricity and clean cooking energy.

“In some cases, such as Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, and Mozambique, gas is extracted and exported to serve external markets, while domestic energy needs go unmet,” the analysis explains.

This happens against a backdrop of millions living in extreme poverty, Nigeria and Angola being two such countries where the report acknowledges that an estimated 40% of the population survive on less than USD 3 per day, decades of extracting oil notwithstanding.

“In fact, according to the African Import-Export Bank, Africa’s oil exporters have mostly had lower economic growth and higher inflation than their non-resource-intensive counterparts in recent years,” it explains.

Basing its conclusions on peer-reviewed literature, official data, and independent reports, it asserts that, among others, the fossils sector in Africa is ‘extractive’ in nature, with extraction occurring in ‘enclaves’.

Fishermen at a village in the natural gas-rich Afungi peninsula of the northern Mozambique region, where poverty remains high. The new Pipe Dreams report reveals that the government will not receive significant revenues until the mid or late 2030s because contracts allocate most of the early revenues to foreign companies. Photo courtesy of Justica Ambiental

By breeding an extractive economy where the commodities are mostly exported, the main economic function for producer countries is restricted to generating revenues and export earnings.

This is made worse by the fact that the natural wealth is dominated by multinationals, who often “take a disproportionate share of the revenues either through one-sided contractual terms or through lopsided accounting schemes”.

Citing the example of Mozambique’s Coral South gas project led by Italy’s Eni, which began producing gas in 2023, it discloses that the government will not receive significant revenues until the mid- or late-2030s. The reason is that the contract terms usually allocate most of the “early revenues” to foreign companies to the exclusion of governments.

The report faults fossil sectors for having few links to other sectors in an economy, noting that related sectors, including services and supplies, are “generally imported, while the products and the profits are mostly exported”.

Released on 11 May to coincide with the Africa Forward 2026 summit sponsored by France and bringing together more than 40 African presidents and heads of government in Nairobi, Kenya, it asserts the fossil wealth was creating minimal employment opportunities, even when it constituted a large share of gross domestic product (GDP).

“The enclave effect is especially strong with floating offshore facilities, as companies can tow these facilities into place and load oil and gas onto tankers without ever setting foot in a country”,

For example, in Nigeria and Congo Brazzaville, the oil industry employs only 0.01% of the countries’ workforce and 0.3% in Angola, the document reveals.

Even worse, the extractive economy tended to harm other economic sectors, worsening poverty, a good example being the west African country suffering frequent oil spills that negatively impacted agriculture and food security.

Almost all African oil producers have suffered corruption scandals related to their oil and gas revenues, and between 1989 and 1993, senior executives of French company Elf, now part of TotalEnergies, allegedly paid bribes to politicians in Gabon, Angola, Cameroon and Congo-Brazzaville in a USD350 million scandal.

In other instances, the fossils are exposed and vulnerable to the dynamics of international markets, leaving countries heavily indebted during oil price collapses, a good example being 2014 when oil prices crashed, forcing Angola to cut its budget by 25%, with public employees and suppliers going unpaid for months.

The report makes a strong case for accelerated adoption of renewable energy across Africa as a more just and inclusive alternative, explaining that fossils are not a “viable foundation for equitable economic development”.

What Africa needs now is a green and more resilient energy system and rich countries should support the continent financially and technologically for the transition to happen, said Power Shift African head Mohamed Adow.

“What we need right now is an energy future built around people, not exports, because it is obvious that we cannot drill ourselves out of poverty,” he said.

It was a shame that as many as 600 million people had no access to electricity and around 900 million lacked clean cooking energy despite the abundance of renewable resources such as solar all over Africa, he said.

“It is also sad that African countries are locked up in fossil dependency while big countries like China are exporting technologies. Our presidents see oil and gas as shortcuts to wealth. We must adopt development that genuinely serves the people,” he told a media briefing on the report in Nairobi.

“Real prosperity” for Africa, he noted, will come from investing in renewables while ending the tradition of using the limited forex available to “import problems”, in the form of finished petroleum products.

For this reason, international facilities such as climate finance must be made to work and help prove that development and climate action can go together. “It is our duty to help challenge the notion that there is no development without fossils,” he added.

The continent must therefore adopt a development model that serves its people, rather than one that benefits external actors, including for key services such as finance and insurance, all of which take place overseas.

Extracting and shipping resources out of Africa amounted to shipping out value, including jobs, according to Amos Wemanya, Power Shift Africa’s Senior Advisor, Renewable Energy and Just Transition.

The notion that renewables cannot power development across the continent has been debunked, and what is needed is continued scaling up of tested and proven renewable models of development.

“The oil and gas era has failed our continent and the energy revolution is happening on our rooftops, not in the oilfields,” he stated in reference to growing uptake of solar for powering homes and institutions across Africa.

Currently the global financial system has left many countries in distress, with nearly 57% of the African population, or about 751 million people, living in countries that spend more on interest payments than on health and education, according to UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD).

This has resulted in calls for debt restructuring and a review of credit ratings. Wemanya added, “Building resilience in African economies needs a fair international financial system.”

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Az előzetes adatok szerint a légvédelem 195 drónt hatástalanított az ország északi, déli és keleti régióiban, azonban 9 helyszínen mindkét Iszkander-M típusú ballisztikus rakéta és 21 csapásmérő drón célba talált, 8 esetben pedig roncsok lezuhanását jelentették – tette közzé a légierő parancsnoksága a Telegram-csatornáján. A hivatalos közlemény kiadáskor néhány drón még az Ukrajna által ellenőrzött légtérben tartózkodott.

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Június 11-én kora reggel orosz támadás érte a Szumi megyei Konotop város infrastruktúráját – jelentette Artem Szemenyihin polgármesterre hivatkozva az Ukrinform. A város egy részében szünetel a gáz- és az áramszolgáltatás, több lakóépület is megrongálódott. A polgármester felszólította a lakosságot, hogy a lehetőségekhez képest tartalékoljanak elegendő vizet, mivel a szolgáltatás csak szakaszosan biztosított.

Az ukrán hírügynökség Olekszandr Hanzsa Dnyipropetrovszk megyei katonai kormányzóra hivatkozva azt közölte, hogy 12-re nőtt a tegnap kora este Pavlohrad városát ért légicsapás sebesültjeinek száma. Korábban az Ukrinform a város önkormányzatának információi alapján beszámolt arról, hogy a frontvonaltól 50 km-re fekvő településen drón csapódott egy ötszintes épületbe, ezenkívül egy iparvállalatot is találat ért.

MTI

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Le compte à rebours est lancé, et l’atmosphère est électrique. Les pays hôtes du Mondial ne se contentent plus de préparer les stades : ils…

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Am Mittwochmorgen ist ein 59-jähriger Arbeiter in Trübbach SG von einem Gesteinsbrocken getroffen worden. Er wurde eher schwer verletzt und von der Alpine Air Ambulance ins Spital geflogen.

Brussels moves to coordinate action on affordability and renovation as Social Climate Fund activation approaches

Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft e.V.: Berlin (ots) - Die erste bundesweite Studie zum Einsatz studentischer Vertretungslehrkräfte zeigt: Sie übernehmen früh im Studium eigenverantwortlich Unterricht bis hin zu Klassenleitungen, werden dabei kaum begleitet und zu oft fachfremd ...