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Deutsche Bahn: Zugverkehr nach Sanierung stabiler, aber nicht störungsfrei

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Generalsanierungen von Bahnstrecken sollen mehr Pünktlichkeit bringen. Beim bundesweit ersten Projekt gibt es deutliche Verbesserungen – zufrieden ist die Bahn nach einem Jahr aber noch nicht.
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Generalsanierungen von Bahnstrecken sollen mehr Pünktlichkeit bringen. Beim bundesweit ersten Projekt gibt es deutliche Verbesserungen – zufrieden ist die Bahn nach einem Jahr aber noch nicht.
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Ein Jahr nach der Generalsanierung der Bahnstrecke Frankfurt-Mannheim sieht die Deutsche Bahn positive Auswirkungen auf die Pünktlichkeit. Der Zugverkehr auf dem Abschnitt sei deutlich stabiler, teilt das Unternehmen mit. „Wir sind aber noch nicht ganz zufrieden“, sagt Wolfgang Weinhold, Programmleiter Generalsanierung.
Die Riedbahn genannte Strecke war die erste, die dem Prozess unterzogen wurde. Mitte Dezember vergangenen Jahres wurde sie nach einer fünfmonatigen Sperrung wieder freigegeben.
Rund 40 weitere Generalsanierungen sind geplant, aktuell ist die Strecke Hamburg-Berlin an der Reihe. Dabei sperrt die Bahn hochbelastete Abschnitte komplett für mehrere Monate, um die Infrastruktur grundlegend zu überarbeiten. Dies soll jahrelang die Zahl von Baustellen deutlich reduzieren.
Weinhold sagte, auf der Riedbahn sei der Nahverkehr im November 2025 zu 81 Prozent pünktlich gewesen — damit hatte noch etwa jeder fünfte Zug Verspätung. Im November 2023 habe der Wert bei knapp 59 Prozent gelegen — damals waren also 41 Prozent der Züge mit Verspätung unterwegs. Solche Monatswerte schwankten allerdings meist stark.
Beim Fernverkehr misst die Bahn, wie viele Verspätungsminuten die Züge auf der Strecke sammeln. Dieser Wert sei deutlich gesunken. Ziel sei allerdings, dass keine Verspätung mehr hinzukomme, sagte Weinhold.
Die Bahn setzt hier unter anderem auf ein digitales Zugsicherungssystem, das nächstes Jahr auf der gesamten Riedbahn in Betrieb gehen und eine schnellere Fahrt ermöglichen soll — bisher ist dies nur auf einem Teil der Strecke der Fall.
Trotz Generalsanierung gibt es auf der Riedbahn weiterhin Störungen etwa an Signalen, Bahnübergängen oder Weichen. Deren Zahl sei nun aber deutlich geringer, erklärte das Unternehmen: zwischen März und Juni um rund 60 Prozent im Vergleich zum Zeitraum vor der Sanierung. Zielmarke sind 80 Prozent weniger Störungen, daran werde weiter gearbeitet.
Teilweise seien Störungen auch witterungsbedingt. Die Riedbahn zeige zudem, dass es Faktoren gebe, die Generalsanierungen nicht verbessern könnten, wie eine hohe Auslastung der Strecke.
Der Zeitplan für die Inbetriebnahme der sanierten Riedbahn sei zu knapp gewesen, räumte Weinhold ein. Künftig werde man stufenweise vorgehen, um eine stabilere Wiederaufnahme des Verkehrs zu erreichen. Die Generalsanierung kostete der Bahn zufolge rund 1,5 Milliarden Euro.
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「もう五輪出たくない」あの時の本音 引退前に感じた「新たな喜び」

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バレーボールの試合会場となった体育館には、選手の等身大パネルがいくつも並んでいた。そこにはスポンサー企業の名前も入っている。 　「企業の方々が会場に来て喜んでくれる姿を見て、うれしくなりました」
バレーボールの試合会場となった体育館には、選手の等身大パネルがいくつも並んでいた。そこにはスポンサー企業の名前も入っている。
「企業の方々が会場に来て喜んでくれる姿を見て、うれしくなりました」
笑顔でそう話すのは、バレーボール元日本代表の宮下遥さん（31）。現役を引退し、今は三重県桑名市を中心とするクラブチーム「ヴィアティン三重」のスタッフだ。
バレーボールのリーグは数々の変遷を経て今に至る。
「日本リーグ」から「Vリーグ」へ、さらにトップリーグは「Vプレミア」、「Vリーグ1部（V1）」と名称を変えた。さらに2024～25年シーズンには「SVリーグ」と下部の「Vリーグ」に再編された。ヴィアティン三重は現在のVリーグに所属している。
中旬のこの日、津市内の体育館でホームゲームが開催され、宮下さんはイベントの企画や営業を担当。自分の仕事が「一つの形」として結実したという充実感があった。
「当初はイメージがわかなかったけれど、ファンの皆さんや選手たちが喜んでくれるイベントを作る難しさと大変さを実感しました」中2でVリーグ挑戦「断ったら怒られる」
地元のママさんバレーに参加していた母の影響で小学1年生から競技を始めた。6年生のときにバレーボール教室に参加していたところ、その場にいたクラブチーム「岡山シーガルズ」（岡山市）の河本昭義監督の目に留まった。河本監督は全国大会の常連、大阪国際大和田中学校（現大阪国際中学校）の総監督でもあった。
当時身長は既に170センチもあり、プレーも際立っていた。河本監督からの入学の勧誘を宮下さんは2度断りながら、最終的には入学を決意し12歳で親元を離れた。「初めての寮生活でさみしさもあったけれど、先輩たちが気にかけてくれました」と振り返る。
入学後は攻撃的なポジションから「司令塔」のセッターに転向した。河本監督から理由を直接説明されたかどうか定かではないが、河本監督は後に「レシーブがうまかった」と明かしている。
中学2年のある日、河本監督に呼び出された。トップリーグであるVリーグ挑戦の打診だった。自身の気持ちや考えよりも、どちらかといえば「断ったら監督に怒られ、嫌われる」と了承した。岡山シーガルズに選手登録された。
、中学3年の春。企業チームや大学などが参加し日本一を決める「黒鷲旗全日本選抜大会」に出場。 には、Vプレミアリーグ（当時）で史上最年少の15歳2カ月でデビューした。
その初戦で大きなアクシデントに見舞われた。相手が打ち込んだボー…

This Star Is Being Eaten Alive—and Its Explosive Death Will Be Visible in Broad Daylight

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Researchers have figured out why V Sagittae is so gosh dang bright.
A case of astronomical fratricide is doomed to end in a fiery supernova bright enough to be spotted from Earth during the day.
A study published this August in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society investigated a binary star system about 10,000 light-years from Earth called V Sagittae. Researchers finally solved the century-long mystery behind what makes it so freaking bright. They found that the system is strangely luminous because one of the pair, a super-dense white dwarf, is absolutely scarfing down on its larger sibling at unprecedented speed.
Eventually, the two stars will collide, producing a supernova explosion of unusual brightness. The event is set to occur “in the coming years,” the researchers said in a university statement.The brightest of its kind
“V Sagittae is no ordinary star system—it’s the brightest of its kind and has baffled experts since it was first discovered in 1902. Our study shows that this extreme brightness is down to the white dwarf sucking the life out of its companion star, using the accreted matter to turn it into a blazing inferno,” Phil Charles, a co-author of the study and a researcher at the University of Southampton, said in the statement. “It’s a process so intense that it’s going thermonuclear on the white dwarf’s surface, shining like a beacon in the night sky.”
The team observed the extraterrestrial siblings, which orbit each other once every 12.3 hours, using the powerful European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. By doing so they also found a giant ring of gas around the binary stars, consisting of the debris from carnage and resulting from the gargantuan levels of energy the white dwarf is generating.
This unexpected finding provides insight that could reshape our knowledge about the birth and death of stars, explained Pasi Hakala, a researcher at the University of Turku and co-lead author of the study. “The white dwarf cannot consume all the mass being transferred from its hot star twin, so it creates this bright cosmic ring,” he continued. “The speed at which this doomed stellar system is lurching wildly, likely due to the extreme brightness, is a frantic sign of its imminent, violent end.”An even more brilliant end
Pablo Rodríguez-Gil, the other co-lead author and a researcher at the Spanish Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and University of La Laguna, says that in the near future, the amassing matter on the white dwarf will probably create a nova outburst. A nova is an explosion in a binary star system, and this one would make V Sagittae visible to people on Earth without the help of any instruments.
“But when the two stars finally smash into each other and explode, this would be a supernova explosion so bright it’ll be visible from Earth even in the daytime,” he concluded.

Какой праздник 14 декабря 2025 и почему наши предки в этот день наводили порядок в доме

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Какой праздник 14 декабря 2025 года, и что отмечают украинцы. Читайте на сайте Факты ICTV, какой праздник 14 декабря 2025 – приметы, что нельзя делать, день ангела и церковный праздник
Сегодня, 14 декабря, в Украине отмечают День участников ликвидации аварии на Чернобыльской АЭС. Также ежегодно на второе воскресенье декабря приходится День благотворительности в Украине.
Именно в этот день с заходом солнца начинается Ханука — древний иудейский праздник света, обновления и благодарности, который длится восемь дней.
Также сегодня в мире отмечают День зажженных свечей, посвященный памяти умерших детей, Всемирный день хорового пения и Всемирный день обезьян.
Православная церковь в этот день чтит святых мучеников Аполлония, Ариана и Феотиха, а также Фирса, Левкия и Каленика. В народном календаре 14 декабря известно как Филимонов день.
Факты ICTV собрали все о главных событиях этого дня – узнавайте, какой сегодня церковный праздник, что можно и нельзя делать, народные приметы и кто празднует именины.
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Сегодня православная церковь чтит память святых мучеников Фирса, Левкия и Каленика, а также Аполлония, Ариана и Феотиха. В народе этот день называют Филимоновым.
Фирс, Левкий и Каленик пострадали за христианскую веру: Левкий был казнен после пыток, Фирс выдержал тяжелые мучения и принял крещение перед смертью, а язычник Каленик, увидев его стойкость, уверовал во Христа и также был казнен.
Мученики Аполлоний, Ариан и Феотих погибли во время гонений на христиан. По преданию, Аполлоний сначала испугался казни, но после покаяния открыто признал веру. Ариан и Феотих приняли христианство и были казнены за свою непоколебимость.Какой сегодня, 14 декабря 2025 года, день в Украине
14 декабря в Украине отмечают День участников ликвидации аварии на Чернобыльской АЭС (День ликвидатора). Эту дату выбрали для чествования людей, которые первыми встали на борьбу с последствиями катастрофы, спасая страну и мир от масштабного радиационного загрязнения.
Именно в этот день было объявлено о завершении строительства защитного саркофага над четвертым энергоблоком, поэтому ликвидаторов традиционно чествуют в эту дату еще с первых лет после аварии.
Сегодня также отмечается День благотворительности в Украине, который ежегодно приходится на второе воскресенье декабря.
Его цель — поддержать культуру благотворительности и напомнить, что помощь может быть разной: от финансовой поддержки и волонтерства до обычных ежедневных добрых дел.Кто празднует день ангела 14 декабря 2025 года
Именины в этот день отмечают Николай и Филимон.
Имя Николай традиционно связывают с мудростью и защитой, а обладатели имени Филимон чествуются в честь мученика, который принял христианство, став примером стойкости веры.
Это хороший день, чтобы поздравить близких и знакомых с этими именами и пожелать им здоровья, вдохновения и Божьей защиты.Что нельзя делать 14 декабря 2025 года
Поддаваться провокациям, гневу, агрессии.
Начинать новые дела.
Участвовать в больших собраниях людей — повышается риск конфликтов, преступлений и хулиганства.
Переедать, употреблять кофе и алкоголь.
Игнорировать утреннее умывание — по народному поверью, в этот день вода отгоняет нечистую силу.
Подбирать найденные вещи на улице – считалось, что это может привлечь несчастье.
Ругаться, ссориться или говорить плохие слова. Что можно делать сегодня
Сегодня благоприятно закрывать “хвосты” по задачам и делам. Это хорошее время для переговоров и урегулирования давних споров.
По народному поверью, в Филимонов день нечисть боится чистоплотности и воды, поэтому стоит навести порядок в доме и самому сходить в душ.Народные приметы на 14 декабря 2025 года
Иней утром — к снегу днем.
Яркие звезды на небе – будет метель.
Ветер с севера – к сильным морозам.
Тучи движутся против ветра – идет похолодание.
Теплая погода в этот день предвещает мягкую зиму.

Why celebrities are loving crypto again in Trump’s second term

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From athletes such as Tristan Thompson to artists such as Iggy Azalea, celebrities have returned to hawking crypto
From athletes such as Tristan Thompson to artists such as Iggy Azalea, celebrities have returned to hawking crypto
In 2025, crypto is back in style in Washington and among a growing set in Hollywood, where Thompson lives adjacent to the Kardashian clan, some of whom have been crypto spokespeople. Donald Trump has reversed Joe Biden’s legal offensive against crypto, debuting his own token, $Trump, before his inauguration, and rolling back government actions against the industry, which heavily supported him during his bid for the presidency. Celebrities have likewise returned to hawking cryptocurrency projects or launching tokens of their own.
Thompson is not the only pro sports figure diving in. Lamar Odom, a former basketball star, launched a crypto coin in May that partially funds addiction recovery, and Mike Tyson, the former boxing legend, is a spokesperson for Naga, a Robinhood-like trading platform that includes cryptocurrency products. Outside sports, Thomspon stands shoulder to shoulder, metaphorically speaking, with figures such as Iggy Azalea, an Australian rapper, who, in addition to her work as the spokesperson for her $MOTHER crypto token, was featured alongside Thompson and Eric Trump as a keynote speaker at the 2025 Blockchain Futurist Conference last month. At the November conference, Azalea was named the creative director of Thrust, a new platform allowing celebrities to issue their own branded meme coins, a subset of cryptocurrencies that are billed as purely speculative and are not enforced as securities. Streaming personality N3on was the first to launch his meme coin on the Thrust platform. Actor Megan Fox will be next.
“A few years ago, most celebrity crypto stuff came off like quick stunts, and now, people expect an actual plan and some kind of real value for communities, not just a splashy moment,” Azalea told the Guardian via text. “Yes, I think celebrities are still curious about the space, but are a lot more careful. No one wants to be linked to something chaotic or sloppy.”
Through limits on how token issuers can sell their own shares, the project claims to mitigate the potential for token collapses and pump-and-dump schemes. The industry may not have entirely reformed, though: Azalea’s $MOTHER meme coin faced allegations of insider trading almost as soon as it launched in May. Azalea has denied dumping $2m worth of tokens and has disclaimed any control over, or knowledge of, the people who owned them.Crypto spring
Celebrities were enamored with crypto schemes at the peak of the market in 2021, when Matt Damon appeared in a Super Bowl ad for a crypto company. But after the fraud-induced collapse of crypto exchange FTX, A-listers faced a wave of lawsuits and penalties, part of a wider regulatory crackdown on cryptocurrency under the former president. Celebrities listed as defendants in crypto-related court cases included Tom Brady, Shohei Ohtani, Steph Curry, Shaquille O’Neal, Naomi Osaka, Cristiano Ronaldo, Floyd Mayweather, and Kim Kardashian – sister to Khloé Kardashian, with whom Tristan Thompson has had a tumultuous relationship and two children. In 2022, Kim Kardashian settled with the SEC for $1.26m over charges in connection with illegally promoting a crypto security, EthereumMax.
The rich and famous backed off promoting digital currency in the ensuing years. The Kardashian case “tamped down on all celebrity involvement” in crypto, according to Dr William Mullins, a professor of finance at UC San Diego studying the effects of celebrity influence on individuals’ crypto investments. Celebrities in the crypto realm can reach hundreds of millions of followers cheaply via social media, and they can easily establish a narrative since most fiduciary advisors steer clear of the sector, he said. Directing follower attention can be incredibly lucrative, since crypto investments are largely a “coordination game” driven by demand, rather than underlying fundamentals, Mullins added, making crypto “extraordinarily vulnerable to celebrity influence”.
“A lot of people are more comfortable when the President of the United States launches a meme coin,” said Jake Antifaev, the co-founder and CEO of Thrust.
$Trump demonstrated meme coins’ lucrative potential, though its windfall may have come at the expense of other celebrities’ crypto ambitions. In May, Trump personally hosted a dinner for the 220 largest holders of $Trump, and held a private “reception” for the largest 25 buyers. These individuals collectively spent around $148m purchasing $Trump tokens, the Guardian previously reported. According to Andrew Duca, the founder of crypto-focused tax platform Awaken, the $Trump token “sucked up so much liquidity” that it caused other meme coins’ price to fall, which may have dissuaded other celebrities from launching their own tokens.
Duca said celebrity activity in crypto in 2025 is markedly different from what we saw in 2021. “Last cycle, you were getting more A-list celebs … and this cycle, you basically only saw the griftier celebs actually participate,” he said. These celebrities’ endorsements in 2025 primarily center around meme coins, rather than more traditional cryptocurrencies or crypto exchanges, Duca added.
According to Paul Afshar, chief marketing officer at Paybis, a crypto exchange, celebrities are opting for meme coin launches because “the economics are not the same” compared with the crypto-endorsement craze of 2021: major crypto companies once offered eight-figure endorsement deals, but those big-budget campaigns have dried up, as they failed to retain users and were eventually seen as too legally risky.
“So, instead of coordinated campaigns backed by crypto companies, we’ve got celebrities trying to monetize their own audiences directly through token launches,” Afshar told the Guardian via email. “It’s lower budget, higher risk, and reaches far fewer people than the 2021 celeb craze ever did.”
During his first tenure in office, Trump was a vocal crypto skeptic, calling Bitcoin “a scam against the dollar”. After entering office a second time, though, his administration rescinded a range of regulatory bulletins and policies perceived as restricting the growth of the crypto industry. His U-turn has also come with a windfall in other crypto-related deals and tie-ups for Trump family businesses – not just the $Trump meme coin, or the $Melania meme coin tied to the first lady. Estimates suggest that the September launch of another Trump-affiliated crypto token, $WLFI, may have buoyed the Trumps’ net worth by as much as $5bn, and may have become the Trump family’s most valuable asset – edging out their real estate portfolio. The Genius Act, the first major federal law to explicitly legalize blockchain-based products in the US, which Trump signed into law in July, did not bar the relatives of elected officials from engaging in crypto-related business. Karoline Leavitt, the White House spokesperson, has denied that the president ever engaged in a conflict of interest.
In an interview with the Guardian, Thompson said he thinks many figures in the crypto industry have been unfairly punished in the past, and he welcomes Trump’s enthusiasm for the industry, including his pardon in October of Changpeng Zhao, the former CEO of crypto platform Binance, who had pleaded guilty to violating anti-money-laundering laws for failing to report suspicious transactions with organizations such as al-Qaida.
Thompson is familiar with how quickly fortunes can change in the cryptocurrency industry. In February, he debuted Tracy AI, an automated sportscasting platform, and served as its chief content officer and lead adviser. The startup already appears defunct: its website no longer functions, and the company has published instructions on how to transfer $TRACY, the platform’s crypto token, into other major crypto denominations.
Additional celebrity activity in the crypto sector may come through two paths, said Duca, the crypto-taxation entrepreneur. More buttoned-up ventures, such as companies working in stablecoins, a kind of cryptocurrency pegged to a more stable asset like the dollar, may launch ad campaigns with well-regarded brand ambassadors, similar to Jennifer Garner’s deal with Capital One, he theorized. Duca also foresees celebrities tying up with prediction markets like Polymarket or Kalshi, especially sports stars, whose followers may use gambling platforms like DraftKings. Prediction-market sites have “so much cash”, and already have endorsements in play with tech figures, he added.
Thompson’s upcoming venture, Basketball.fun, is a crypto-inflected hybrid of DraftKings and Polymarket that is slated to launch early next year. In Thompson’s words, the company will “be a disruptor to traditional gambling” by adding a “prediction market component, because obviously, right now, the prediction market is going crazy”. The platform will use a fantasy league-type user experience as its foundation, minting a meme coin assigned to every player in the NBA, and allowing users on the platform to determine the value of the player by trading those currencies, rather than using the weighted scores companies like ESPN and FanDuel assign to a player. The Polymarket-esque prediction market component lets users set their predictions on the future value of players’ coins. In aggregate, Thompson thinks these efforts can help dis-intermediate the current sports-watching experience, refracted through broadcast networks.
Speaking to the Guardian the same morning, Chauncey Billups, a former NBA star, was arrested for his alleged role in an illegal gambling scheme – while several insider gambling investigations are ongoing in the NBA and Major League Baseball – Thompson emphasized that NBA players and other sports professionals should not bet on their own games. At the same time, he criticized sports networks’ prominent display of betting products during broadcasts. “Why can’t we challenge [the networks] and give the people an opportunity to be in control and take back their rights?” he asked.
Thompson, who recorded a special episode of his podcast from the White House in July, said his affinity for the Trump presidency goes beyond their shared passion for crypto: “I stand by what President Trump’s about,” he said. He cited the Trump administration’s slate of tariffs as one path towards empowerment, and pointed to the economies of Israel, Russia, and Dubai as ones where “they [successfully] keep money circulating within the country” to generate wealth.
“I believe President Trump is trying to do it when he says, ‘make America great again’,” said Thompson, who was born in Canada and became a US citizen in 2020. “And I think what he’s trying to do, it’s very similar to how it was when the early settlers came around, where the money was circulating [internally]. That’s when America was at its peak … there was so much money being made, so he’s trying to just bring that back. History repeats itself.”

Microsoft nukes popular Halo 3 mod for Counter-Strike 2 from orbit: 'It was fun while it lasted'

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«Make sure you give your thanks to Microsoft!»
Valve has removed a popular Halo 3 mod for Counter-Strike 2 from Steam, after its created was issued a DMCA takedown notice on behalf of Microsoft.
Project Misriah: Halo Ports was a collection of Counter-Strike 2 maps that recreated Halo 3’s multiplayer in Valve’s shooter sequel. Far more than just a map-pack, it aimed to replicate the specific feel of Halo 3’s multiplayer as closely as possible, Halo-fying its arsenal, adjusting mechanics like ballistics and gravity to better align with Halo’s Moon-hopping feel, and even throwing in authentic sound effects and announcer lines for good measure.
Sadly, that’s all over now. On X, Project Misriah cocreator Forddoyo posted an image of a DMCA takedown notice he had received from Microsoft via Valve. The takedown notice alleges that Misriah’s «unauthorized use of Halo game content in a workshop not associated with Halo games infringes their rights», and as such Valve had «temporarily removed your postings from Steam».
The crux of the issue here seems to be that Project Misriah uses assets from the Halo games, hence the use of the phrase «Halo game content». The Project Misriah team could theoretically file a counterclaim if it felt it could make the case that Project Misriah does not infringe upon Microsoft’s copyright. But it sounds like that isn’t going to happen. «Well…sorry guys project misriah is done! It was fun while it lasted», Froddoyo remarked in the post. «Make sure you give your thanks to Microsoft!»
The takedown has led to concerns from within the modding community that Microsoft’s move may set a precedent for taking down other Steam workshop packs, as explained by fellow Halo modder Valkyries733 in a post quoting Froddoyo’s statement. «Precedent set here impacts other workshops. Such as Left 4 Dead 2’s and Garry’s Mod’s» Valkyries733 wrote. «They could feasibly get past this by making their own assets, but obviously that’s a lot of work.»
Morgan Park took Project Misriah for a spin back in November, and thought it was an impressively accurate recreation of Halo multiplayer. «It’s delightful, evocative of the source material and legitimately fun. I played some CTF and Slayer with bots on Ghost Town and marveled at how effortlessly Halo’s old school thinking about map design, power weapons and verticality translated into 2025.»

Nachrichtenpodcast: Bald keine 80 Millionen in Deutschland mehr

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Neue Prognosen zeigen: Deutschland könnte schrumpfen. Was bedeutet das für die Zukunft? Und: Können USA, Europa und Ukraine in Berlin einen Friedensplan erreichen?
In Berlin treffen sich Vertreter Europas, der Ukraine und der USA, um über einen gemeinsamen Friedensplan zu beraten. Bislang hatten die Beteiligten unterschiedliche Vorstellungen davon, wie ein möglicher Frieden zwischen Russland und der Ukraine aussehen könnte. Nun heißt es aus dem französischen Präsidialamt, ein gemeinsames Verhandlungsangebot an Russland sei in Arbeit. Auch die USA nehmen teil: Präsident Donald Trump schickt seinen Sondergesandten Steve Witkoff und seinen Schwiegersohn Jared Kushner nach Berlin. Treffen sollen sie unter anderem europäische Vertreter und den ukrainischen Präsidenten Wolodymyr Selenskyj, der ebenfalls erwartet wird. Doch wie realistisch ist ein solcher Plan? Michael Thumann, außenpolitischer Korrespondent der ZEIT, analysiert im Podcast, wie nah die USA, Europa und die Ukraine einer Einigung sind und ob Russland sich darauf einlassen dürfte.
80 Millionen – diese Zahl steht für Deutschland. Seit der Wiedervereinigung leben mehr als 80 Millionen Menschen in dem Land. Doch womöglich nicht mehr lange. Neue Prognosen des Statistischen Bundesamts zeichnen ein anderes Bild: In den kommenden Jahrzehnten könnte die Einwohnerzahl sinken. Wie stark das Land schrumpft, hängt von Geburtenrate, Zuwanderung und Lebenserwartung ab – doch fast alle Szenarien zeigen in dieselbe Richtung. Hinzu kommt eine zunehmende Alterung der Bevölkerung: Die Zahl der Menschen über 65 Jahre dürfte deutlich steigen. Was bedeutet das für das Land? Christian Endt aus dem Datenressort der ZEIT erklärt im Podcast, auf welche Bevölkerungszahl Deutschland zusteuert und welche Folgen das für Wirtschaft, Sozialsysteme und Gesellschaft hat.
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US envoys arrive in Berlin for another round of Ukraine peace talks

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U.S. envoys are in Berlin for another round of talks intended to secure a deal to end the war
U.S. envoys arrived in Berlin Sunday morning for another round of talks intended to secure a deal to end the war in Ukraine.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner were spotted in downtown Berlin by a photographer for German news agency dpa.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukrainian, U.S. and European officials will hold a series of meetings in Berlin in the coming days.
“Most importantly, I will be meeting with envoys of President Trump, and there will also be meetings with our European partners, with many leaders, concerning the foundation of peace — a political agreement to end the war,” Zelenskyy said in an address to the nation late Saturday.
Washington has tried for months to navigate the demands of each side as Trump presses for a swift end to Russia’s war and grows increasingly exasperated by delays. The search for possible compromises has run into major obstacles, including control of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, which is mostly occupied by Russian forces, and security guarantees for Ukraine.
“The chance is considerable at this moment, and it matters for our every city, for our every Ukrainian community,” Zelenskyy said. “We are working to ensure that peace for Ukraine is dignified, and to secure a guarantee — a guarantee, above all — that Russia will not return to Ukraine for a third invasion.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has demanded that Ukraine withdraw its forces from the part of the Donetsk region still under its control and abandon its bid to join NATO among the key conditions for peace — demands Kyiv has rejected.
Putin’s foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov told the business daily Kommersant that Russian police and national guard troops would stay in parts of eastern Ukraine’s Donbas even if they become a demilitarized zone under a prospective peace plan — a demand likely to be rejected by Ukraine as U.S.-led negotiations drag on.
Ushakov warned that a search for compromise could take a long time, noting that the U.S. proposals that took into account Russian demands had been “worsened” by alterations proposed by Ukraine and its European allies.
Speaking to Russian state TV in remarks broadcast Sunday, Ushakov said that “the contribution of Ukrainians and Europeans to these documents is unlikely to be constructive», warning that Moscow will “have very strong objections.”
Ushakov added that the territorial issue was actively discussed in Moscow when Witkoff and Kushner met with Putin earlier this month. “The Americans know and understand our position», he said.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who has spearheaded European efforts to support Ukraine alongside French President Emmanuel Macron and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, said Saturday that “the decades of the ‘Pax Americana’ are largely over for us in Europe and for us in Germany as well.”
He warned that Putin’s aim is “a fundamental change to the borders in Europe, the restoration of the old Soviet Union within its borders.” “If Ukraine falls, he won’t stop,” Merz warned on Saturday during a party conference in Munich.
Putin has denied plans to restore the Soviet Union or attack any European allies.
As peace efforts continued, Russia and Ukraine exchanged another round of aerial attacks.
Ukraine’s air force said overnight Russia launched ballistic missiles and 138 attack drones at Ukraine. In its daily report, the air force said 110 had been intercepted or downed but missile and drone hits were recorded at six locations.
Zelenskyy said Sunday that hundreds of thousands of families were still without power in the south, east and north-east regions and work was continuing to restore electricity, heat and water to multiple regions following a large-scale attack the previous night.
The Ukrainian president said that in the past week, Russia had launched over 1,500 strike drones, nearly 900 guided aerial bombs and 46 missiles of various types at Ukraine.
“Ukraine needs peace on decent terms, and we are ready to work as constructively as possible. These days will be filled with diplomacy. It’s very important that it brings results,” Zelenskyy said.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said that air defenses downed 235 Ukrainian drones late Saturday and early Sunday.
In the Belgorod region, a drone injured a man and set his house ablaze in the village of Yasnye Zori, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.
Ukrainian drones struck an oil depot in Uryupinsk in the Volgograd region, triggering a fire, according to the regional governor, Andrei Bocharov.
In the Krasnodar region, the Ukrainian drones attacked the town of Afipsky, where an oil refinery is located. The authorities said that explosions shattered windows in residential buildings but didn’t report any damage to the refinery.

Hong Kong's biggest pro-democracy party votes to disband after more than 30 years of activism

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HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s biggest pro-democracy party voted Sunday to dissolve after more than 30 years of activism, marking the end of an era of the Chinese semiautonomous city ‘s once-diverse political landscape.
Hong Kong’s biggest pro-democracy party voted Sunday to dissolve after more than 30 years of activism, marking the end of an era of the Chinese semiautonomous city ‘s once-diverse political landscape.
Democratic Party chairperson Lo Kin-hei said about 97% of members’ ballots were in support of its liquidation and it is the best way forward for its members.
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“Yet as the times have shifted, we now, with deep regret, must bring this chapter to a close,” he said.
Lo earlier said the decision to move toward disbandment was made based on the current political situation and social climate. But party veterans told The Associated Press that some members were warned of consequences if the party didn’t shut down.
Its demise reflects the dwindling freedoms promised to the former British colony when it returned to China’s rule in 1997.
China imposed a national security law in June 2020, following massive anti-government protests the year before, saying it was necessary for the city’s stability. Under the law, many leading activists, including the Democratic Party’s former chairs Albert Ho and Wu Chi-wai and other former lawmakers, were arrested.
Jimmy Lai, founder of the pro-democracy Apple Daily newspaper, was also charged under the law. Lai will hear his verdict on Monday. Apple Daily was one of the vocal independent outlets shut down over the past five years.
Dozens of civil society groups have also closed, including the second-largest pro-democracy party, Civic Party and a group that organized annual vigils commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
In June, the League of Social Democrats, which had remained active in holding tiny street protests in recent years, announced its closure, citing immense political pressure.
The Democratic Party, founded in 1994, was a moderate opposition party that pushed for universal suffrage in electing the city’s leader for decades. Prominent party members include Martin Lee, nicknamed the city’s “father of democracy,” Ho, former leader of the group that organized Tiananmen vigils, and journalist-turned-activist Emily Lau.
It once held multiple legislative seats and amassed dozens of directly elected district councillors who helped residents with issues in their households and municipal matters. Some of its former members joined the government as senior officials.
Its willingness to negotiate with Beijing led to its proposal being included in a 2010 political reform package — a move that drew harsh criticism from some members and other democracy advocates who wanted more sweeping changes.
As new pro-democracy groups grew, the party’s influence declined. But when the 2019 protests swept Hong Kong, the party’s activism won widespread support again.
During Beijing’s crackdown, the Democratic Party has turned into more like a pressure group. Electoral overhauls that were designed to ensure only “patriots” administer the city effectively shut out all pro-democracy politicians in the legislature and district councils.
The party pressed on by holding news conferences on livelihood issues. It even submitted opinions on a homegrown national security legislation before it was enacted in March 2024.
Earlier this year, the party decided to set up a task force to look into the procedures involved in dissolving itself, and its leadership secured members’ mandate to move closer to this goal.

Spahn und die Masken — Grüne fordern Aufklärung

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Die Maskenbeschaffung in der Corona-Pandemie lässt dem Unionsfraktionschef keine Ruhe. Die Opposition wittert am Montag eine neue Chance, Licht ins Dunkel zu bringen.
Die Maskenbeschaffung in der Corona-Pandemie lässt dem Unionsfraktionschef keine Ruhe. Die Opposition wittert am Montag eine neue Chance, Licht ins Dunkel zu bringen.
Berlin — Zum Wochenstart steht Unionsfraktionschef Jens Spahn (CDU) im Bundestag noch einmal wegen seiner umstrittenen Rolle in der Corona-Krise im Rampenlicht. Die Grünen verlangen mehr Aufklärung als bisher. Die Anhörung der Corona-Enquete-Kommission wird von den Abgeordneten mit Spannung erwartet. Auch die ehemalige Sonderermittlerin Margaretha Sudhof ist geladen.
Infolge ihres Berichts über die Krisenbewältigung der Regierung war Spahn im Sommer unter Druck geraten. Dort heißt es, die damalige Entscheidung des CDU-Politikers, die Corona-Schutzmasken-Beschaffung allein meistern zu wollen, ziehe bis heute «erhebliche Kosten und Risiken» nach sich.
Spahn war damals Bundesgesundheitsminister. Er rechtfertigte sein Vorgehen bereits mehrfach. «Da geht es um sechs, acht Wochen, wo wir unter größter Notlage, Mangellage, sehr kurzfristig Schutzmasken besorgen mussten, während die ganze Welt sie wollte», sagte er. «Und da, ja, mussten wir auch außergewöhnlich handeln.»
Die Grünen-Obfrau der Bundestagskommission, Paula Piechotta, sagte der Deutschen Presse-Agentur: «Entscheidend ist, ob sich aus Akten und Verträgen Pflichtverletzungen, Vetternwirtschaft oder massives Missmanagement nachweisen lassen – und wer politisch die Verantwortung trägt.»
Im Zentrum der 12. Sitzung des Gremiums stehen die Beschaffung von Impfstoffen und medizinischen Materialien und die Versorgungssicherheit. Mitte 2027 soll die Kommission Erkenntnisse und Handlungsempfehlungen auch für den Fall einer weiteren Pandemie per Bericht vorlegen.
Die Opposition dürfte es dem Unionsfraktionschef nun nicht leicht machen, auch wenn die Enquete-Kommission kein Untersuchungsausschuss ist. Piechotta sagte: «Wenn Herr Spahn überzeugt ist, dass alles korrekt war, sollte er vollständige Transparenz unterstützen, statt auszuweichen.»
Mit einem riesigen Fragenkatalog wollen die Grünen die Regierung derzeit zu Antworten verpflichten. Unabhängig davon, ob sich der damalige Gesundheitsminister persönlich bereichert habe, hätte «ein Ego-Shooter wie Spahn krisenwichtige Beschaffungen» nie an sich ziehen dürfen, kritisierte Piechotta.
Spahns Ministerium habe «alles falsch gemacht, was man falsch machen kann». Verträge seien falsch abgeschlossen, Milliardenklagen ausgelöst worden. Ramsch statt Qualität und Logistik-Chaos hätten das Bild geprägt. Zu klären sei, ob «Spahns Netzwerke» durch ihn profitiert hätten. «Das werden wir herausfinden», versprach Piechotta. Gezeigt werden solle, «dass die Selbstreinigungskräfte der Demokratie funktionieren und jemand wie Jens Spahn auch Konsequenzen ziehen muss, wenn er Mist gebaut hat».
Der Bericht der Sonderermittlerin Sudhof hatte festgestellt, dass Spahn «gegen den Rat seiner Fachabteilungen» groß in die Maskenbeschaffung eingestiegen sei. Milliardenrisiken entstanden demnach, obwohl mit Beschaffung erfahrene Behörden bereitgestanden und mehrfach gewarnt hätten. Sudhof war von Spahn-Nachfolger Karl Lauterbach (SPD) beauftragt worden.
In der Folge hatte die Opposition den Druck auf Spahn erhöht. Für Grüne und Linke der Kern: Spahns enge persönliche Einbindung in die Maskendeals. Sie rufen Union und SPD seit längerem dazu auf, die Einsetzung eines Untersuchungsausschusses mitzutragen. Grüne und Linke haben dafür zu wenige Stimmen, wollen aber kein gemeinsames Vorgehen mit der AfD.
Um in der Krise ausreichend Schutzmasken zu beschaffen, hatte das Gesundheitsministerium ein besonderes Verfahren angewendet, bei dem Lieferverträge ohne weitere Verhandlungen zu festen Preisen zustande kamen. Mehr Firmen als gedacht machten bei der Ausschreibung mit. Später klagten Lieferanten wegen verweigerter Bezahlung nach Mängelbeschwerden. Spahn rechtfertigte das Vorgehen schon im Juni 2024 in einer Bundestagsdebatte: «Wir mussten in der Not entscheiden.»
Im Juli 2024 verurteilte das Oberlandesgericht Köln den Bund zur Zahlung von 86 Millionen Euro plus Zinsen an eine Handelsfirma. Der Fall liegt nun beim Bundesgerichtshof. Piechotta sagt, im Fall eines juristischen Erfolgs der Unternehmer «zahlen wir als Steuerzahler nochmal 2,5 Milliarden plus Zinsen».
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