The leadership in Beijing has done everything in its power to ensure that the People's Congress can take place this year. Around 3,000 delegates will meet in the Chinese capital in late May, with many having traveled all the way from Shanghai and Sichuan, Tibet and Inner Mongolia. They will walk across Tiananmen Square, past the red flag and soldiers of the People's Liberation Army, before taking a seat in the Great Hall of the People, which was built at the behest of the founder of the modern Chinese state, Mao Zedong.For more than 20 years, China's Communist Party has held the National...…The leadership in Beijing has done everything in its power to ensure that the People's Congress can take place this year. Around 3,000 delegates will meet in the Chinese capital in late May, with many having traveled all the way from Shanghai and Sichuan, Tibet and Inner Mongolia. They will walk across Tiananmen Square, past the red flag and soldiers of the People's Liberation Army, before taking a seat in the Great Hall of the People, which was built at the behest of the founder of the modern Chinese state, Mao Zedong.For more than 20 years, China's Communist Party has held the National...WW…

Das Landeskriminalamt Hessen ermittelt nach SPIEGEL-Informationen wegen eines Anschlagsversuchs auf eine Hochgeschwindigkeitsstrecke der Bahn zwischen Köln und Frankfurt.Laut ersten Ermittlungen hatten Unbekannte auf der Theißtalbrücke in auf insgesamt rund 80 Metern der Strecke die Schienenschrauben gelöst. Ein Lokführer eines ICE hatte am frühen Morgen bemerkt, dass sein Zug unruhig über die Brücke fuhr und meldete den Vorfall sofort.Nach einer Streckenkontrolle stellten Mitarbeiter der Bahn fest, dass die Schienen auf der Brücke sich schon gelöst hatten und fünf Zentimeter mehr...…Das Landeskriminalamt Hessen ermittelt nach SPIEGEL-Informationen wegen eines Anschlagsversuchs auf eine Hochgeschwindigkeitsstrecke der Bahn zwischen Köln und Frankfurt.Laut ersten Ermittlungen hatten Unbekannte auf der Theißtalbrücke in auf insgesamt rund 80 Metern der Strecke die Schienenschrauben gelöst. Ein Lokführer eines ICE hatte am frühen Morgen bemerkt, dass sein Zug unruhig über die Brücke fuhr und meldete den Vorfall sofort.Nach einer Streckenkontrolle stellten Mitarbeiter der Bahn fest, dass die Schienen auf der Brücke sich schon gelöst hatten und fünf Zentimeter mehr...WW…

When European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen talks about politics, there is never a shortage of superlatives and grandiloquence. Until recently, that was also true when she was talking about the extremely sensitive issue of vaccines.In late November, von der Leyen gushed about the contracts the European Union had signed with various producers, saying it meant that Europeans would have "access to the most promising future vaccines under development" against the coronavirus. When it became clear in December that the first people in the EU would be vaccinated soon after Christmas,...…When European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen talks about politics, there is never a shortage of superlatives and grandiloquence. Until recently, that was also true when she was talking about the extremely sensitive issue of vaccines.In late November, von der Leyen gushed about the contracts the European Union had signed with various producers, saying it meant that Europeans would have "access to the most promising future vaccines under development" against the coronavirus. When it became clear in December that the first people in the EU would be vaccinated soon after Christmas,...WW…

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It's not easy to agitate Germany's usually serene Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, but it happened last Wednesday afternoon. The European Affairs Committee of the Bundestag, Germany’s federal parliament, was meeting to discuss the crisis in Belarus and what Germany's stance should be toward Russia, given his protection of Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko. Maas was fiercely attacked from several sides.Maas, a member of the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), the junior coalition partner to Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), first had to listen to a speech by far-left...…It's not easy to agitate Germany's usually serene Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, but it happened last Wednesday afternoon. The European Affairs Committee of the Bundestag, Germany’s federal parliament, was meeting to discuss the crisis in Belarus and what Germany's stance should be toward Russia, given his protection of Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko. Maas was fiercely attacked from several sides.Maas, a member of the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), the junior coalition partner to Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), first had to listen to a speech by far-left...WW…

It is the evening before he would be poisoned, the evening before the star of the Russian opposition would be transformed into a hospital patient, and Alexei Navalny is in excellent form. He is making an appearance in the university town of Tomsk, located in western Siberia, and his local supporters have asked him a question that he has had to answer so many times before: How is it possible that he's still alive?It's the last stop on Navalny's long trip through western Siberia, which began in Novosibirsk, but now Russia's most famous opposition politician has made his way to the smaller...…It is the evening before he would be poisoned, the evening before the star of the Russian opposition would be transformed into a hospital patient, and Alexei Navalny is in excellent form. He is making an appearance in the university town of Tomsk, located in western Siberia, and his local supporters have asked him a question that he has had to answer so many times before: How is it possible that he's still alive?It's the last stop on Navalny's long trip through western Siberia, which began in Novosibirsk, but now Russia's most famous opposition politician has made his way to the smaller...WW…