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Former presidential advisor Arestovych confirms that Zelenskyy failed to fight corruption in entourage

Former presidential advisor Arestovych confirms that Zelenskyy failed to fight corruption in entourage

December 27, 2025 • 01:30 PM

Former advisor to the Office of the President of Ukraine Oleksiy Arestovych said that Volodymyr Zelenskiy failed to overcome corruption in Ukraine. He said this in a new interview on Yulia Latynina's YouTube channel. According to him, there should be a person in power who wouldn't engage in corruption and wouldn't let his subordinates do it. In his opinion, there is no such person in power today and "unfortunately, so far we have not been lucky. "He (Zelensky, - ed.) has not completely beaten...

US state of Idaho wants executions by firing squad

US state of Idaho wants executions by firing squad

December 27, 2025 • 01:30 PM

People sentenced to death could soon be executed by firing squad in the US state of Idaho. The Senate of the state in the north of the U.S. passed a corresponding bill on Monday (local time), as reported by U.S. media. Previously, the Idaho House of Representatives had approved. It provides for the possibility of execution by firing squad, should the chemicals for the lethal injection not be available. The bill is now with the governor for his signature. Since 1976, there have been three...

Greens to bring forward coal phase-out to 2030 in east

Greens to bring forward coal phase-out to 2030 in east

December 27, 2025 • 01:30 PM

According to a report, the Green Party wants to bring forward the phase-out of coal throughout Germany to 2030. This is a "necessary step to achieve the climate targets," the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) quoted from a draft resolution for the Green parliamentary group's conference in Weimar next week. According to the paper, lignite mines in eastern Germany are also to be shut down eight years earlier than initially planned. Germany is still not on track to meet the 1.5-degree target, the Greens...

Erdogan wants to agree to Finland joining NATO

Erdogan wants to agree to Finland joining NATO

December 27, 2025 • 01:30 PM

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants to approve Finland's planned entry into NATO. The ratification process will be initiated in parliament, Erdogan said in Ankara on Friday. Erdogan has thus at least partially abandoned his blockade against NATO's northern enlargement. For unlike Finland, Sweden must continue to wait for approval from Ankara. Sweden will still have to be considered, Erdogan said after a meeting with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto. The latter said Finland's membership...

Iran and Saudi Arabia want to normalize relations

Iran and Saudi Arabia want to normalize relations

December 27, 2025 • 01:30 PM

Iran and Saudi Arabia want to reestablish diplomatic relations and reopen their embassies within two months. That was the result of talks in the Chinese capital Beijing, the Iranian and Saudi state press reported in unison. A statement Friday said part of the agreement was an affirmation of respect for each other's sovereignty and non-interference in each other's internal affairs. The two regional leaders have long sought to ease tensions. Riyadh broke off relations in 2016 after the Saudi...

Omar Harfouch, a hope for Lebanon

Omar Harfouch, a hope for Lebanon

December 27, 2025 • 01:30 PM

As Lebanon faces an unprecedented crisis, a new political class is beginning to emerge in the country. Mr. Omar Harfouch is the most telling example of this generation that wants to rebuild Lebanon. The Lebanese Parliament has still not succeeded in electing a successor to Michel Aoun, President of the Republic who left office on October 31. There is no president, but even more seriously, there is no government either since his resignation on November 1. Moreover, the Parliament is no longer...

Verdi demands 3000 euros for public sector employees in Berlin

Verdi demands 3000 euros for public sector employees in Berlin

December 27, 2025 • 01:30 PM

The trade union Verdi demands a one-time payment of 3,000 euros for each employee of the public service in the state of Berlin. The people needed a compensation for the currently very high inflation, explained Verdi department head Benjamin Roscher on Thursday. Because: "The Berlin employees who do their job at the Senate and the district administrations are also suffering from the sharp rise in prices." On Friday, the union wants to hand over about 11,000 signatures of employees in favor of...

Berlin's energy supply remains secure

Berlin's energy supply remains secure

December 27, 2025 • 01:30 PM

Berlin's energy supply is secure - "currently in all sectors", according to the current "Situation Report on Energy Security in the State of Berlin". Since the summer, the Senate Energy Administration under Senator Stephan Schwarz (non-party, for the SPD) has been sending a corresponding report to the members of the House of Representatives about every two weeks. Anyone reading the situation assessments in recent weeks and months could come to two conclusions. First: Berlin's energy supply has...

Employment agency assures punctual payment of citizen's allowance

Employment agency assures punctual payment of citizen's allowance

December 27, 2025 • 01:30 PM

The new citizen's income is to be paid out to needy people in Germany on time at the beginning of the year. Thanks to the political agreement reached in November, the Federal Employment Agency (BA) will be in a position to pay out the increased standard rates on time on January 1, BA board member Andrea Nahles told the German Press Agency in Nuremberg. After lengthy negotiations, the Bundestag and Bundesrat gave the green light in November for the citizen's income, which is to replace Hartz IV...

EU states agree to freeze funds for Hungary

EU states agree to freeze funds for Hungary

December 27, 2025 • 01:30 PM

A large majority of EU member states have agreed in principle to freeze billions in payments from the European Community budget earmarked for Hungary. However, the sum is not to be as high as proposed by the EU Commission, several diplomats confirmed to German Press Agency late Monday evening after a meeting of the permanent representatives of the member states in Brussels. The background to the unprecedented action against Hungary is concern that EU funds are not being used properly in the...

New regulations for immigration of skilled workers

New regulations for immigration of skilled workers

December 27, 2025 • 01:30 PM

The German government has agreed on new regulations for the immigration of skilled workers. The federal cabinet on Wednesday approved the key points for a new skilled labor immigration law, as was announced after the end of the meeting. "We will lower the thresholds for immigration," Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) said in Berlin in this regard. Education Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger (FDP) spoke of an immigration law with a points system. The bill provides that job seekers "with...

Gas price brake to apply retroactively from January

Gas price brake to apply retroactively from January

December 27, 2025 • 01:30 PM

In the gas price brake, citizens and companies are to be relieved retroactively for January and February 2023. So far, it was clear that relief would be provided from March 2023 until the spring of 2024. According to a draft bill made available to the German Press Agency on Tuesday, the relief amount calculated for the month of March is to be extended to the months of January and February "retroactively, as it were". Previously, the "Spiegel" had reported on this. This approach is also planned...

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