Archive du mois : mai 2018

Das spanische Verfassungsgericht hat die geplante Wahl Carles Puigdemonts zum Regionalpräsidenten Kataloniens vorerst gekippt. Auf Antrag der spanischen Regierung setzte das Gericht eine Gesetzesreform des katalanischen Parlaments vorläufig außer Kraft, die die Wahl Puigdemonts in Abwesenheit des Kandidaten gestatten sollte. Die Regierung von Ministerpräsident Mariano Rajoy hatte die Anrufung des Verfassungsgerichts kurz zuvor auf einer…

The family of freed American prisoner Tony Kim thanked President Trump for “engaging directly with North Korea.” The statement was released as Kim and two other former prisoners flew home with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday. All three were arrested on vague charges of subversion and treated abominably by North Korea during their…

At Google I/O, the search and data-collection giant announced a modest, yet important update is coming to Android Auto. Drivers can now search for media within different apps and songs or podcasts are presented in a more visually appealing way thanks to new templates. Plus, once a song is found, a user can tap to…

1/50 9 May 2018 Iranian MPs burning a US flag in the parliament in Tehran. Iran said it will hold talks with signatories to a nuclear deal after US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from the accord, which it branded « psychological warfare ». President Hassan Rouhani also said Iran could resume uranium enrichment « without limit »…

« There are critical differences between where we are today and where we were then, » said Amos Hochstein, who coordinated Iran oil sanctions for the Obama administration. « The first and most important is that Europe is not following with their own embargo, their own sanctions on energy, which means that for the first part of the…

Corporate America partied like never before on cheap money over the past decade, and now comes the hangover. Companies will need to refinance an estimated $4 trillion of bonds over the next five years, about two-thirds of all their outstanding debt, according to Wells Fargo Securities. This has investors concerned because rising rates means it…

Updated May 10, 2018 00:54:33 Photo: Former Edith Cowan University Professor David Goodall turns 104 years old on 4 April. 2 April 2018. (ABC News: Marcus Alborn) As 104-year-old academic David Goodall prepares to end his life through voluntary euthanasia in Switzerland, he tells a press conference he hopes his story encourages Australians to take…