According to figures released by Germany’s Federal Statistical Office, or Destatis, on Wednesday, tourism in 2024 was greater than the pre-pandemic record year of 2019. Destatis recorded some 433 million overnight stays in Germany between January and the end of October of this year. In August, the most popular month of the year for European … Read more
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is set to present on Wednesday the formal application for a vote of confidence in his government. This is the first step on the road to snap elections scheduled for February. Germany’s parliament, the Bundestag, will then vote on the motion of the 16th of December. It is largely considered a … Read more
Sudan topped the ICR’s watchlist of global humanitarian crises for the second year in a row in a report released Wednesday. The organization said a total of 30.4 million people were in humanitarian need in the war-torn African country, making it the world’s single biggest humanitarian crisis ever recorded. Source link
Loneliness is becoming a more serious problem in Germany, according to a new survey carried out by one of the country’s leading public health insurers. Around 60% of Germans suffer from loneliness either often, sometimes or rarely, according to the survey, which was presented in Berlin on Wednesday by the Technician health insurance (TK). The … Read more
A world-renowned news photographer has spoken to FRANCE 24 about her efforts to document the conflict in Yemen. Asmaa Waguih has been to numerous countries, including Afghanistan and Libya – and won last year the Reuters Photographer of the Year for her coverage of the Arab Spring. Her latest book of pictures from Yemen, called … Read more
Since the October 7 Hamas attack last year, some 350,000 Israeli reservists have been called up to fight. The ongoing fighting, now entering its 14-month mark, has left its mark on Israeli troops as more and more suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. Struggling to cope with the horrors of war, some soldiers are seeking out … Read more
“It breaks my heart! You can’t treat people this way. We’ve worked so hard for Thyssenkrupp,” said Helmut Renk, the 62-year-old works council chairman of the steelmaker’s facility in Kreuztal-Eichen, Germany. Venting his anger and frustration about the plant’s likely closure, he adds that he’s been working there for 40 years — just like his … Read more
PRESS REVIEW – Friday, December 6: Emmanuel Macron is “alone”, “solitary” in the face of an unprecedented political crisis. The press has few words of comfort for Macron as France’s political chaos ensues. Also, EU commissioner Ursula von der Leyen flies to Uruguay to seal the Mercosur deal – despite France and Italy’s opposition. Scientists … Read more
Washington: Date – December 10. Today – Tuesday. Time – About 10:45 p.m. The sky over Guam, the US military base in the Pacific, lit up with a loud noise. The sound was so loud that the windows of people’s homes broke. At first, people thought this was the sonic boom of a fighter plane, … Read more
A survey on the outlook of French businesses released by the Bank of France shows that the country’s industrial and construction sectors have reached levels of uncertainty last seen during the 2022 energy crunch. This comes as Emmanuel Macron is expected to name a prime minister who will be tasked with forming a new government, … Read more