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Who Was Jina Mahsa Amini?
Her death has triggered the largest wave of protests against Iran's Islamist regime in decades. DER SPIEGEL set out to learn more about Jina Mahsa Amini, how she lived and what dreams she held dear.
It’s a Tuesday in late October, 39 days after her death, when Diako Aili, her cousin, in a town not far from the Norwegian city of Bergen, sits down on a sofa and opens up the photo album. It is bound in black, the photos protected by transparent film. He points to one of the photos: "Here," he says. "That’s her. Jina." A young girl in floral pants, her thick and shiny black hair cascading down her neck. He pulls a second photo from the album, showing her squatting barefoot on the living room carpet of her parent’s home in Saqqez, her eyelashes delicate and long, her T-shirt emblazoned with the word "Flower" in glittery beads. She is looking over her shoulder into the camera.
Economists hail end to zero Covid in China but huge human toll is feared
Low rate of vaccination of elderly and a lack of natural immunity mean country may be in for a bumpy ride
Beijing’s abrupt dismantling of zero-Covid controls has been welcomed by economists, even as the country braces itself for the human impact of letting the disease spread through a vulnerable population.
The leadership’s abrupt U-turn on how it handles the pandemic appears to have been triggered by protests against controls that began last month, a nationwide show of discontent on a scale China had not seen in decades.
But that unrest came after growing concern about the toll that isolation and regular harsh lockdowns were having on the country’s economy.
At least 74 arrested after football fans clash with police in Paris after France beat England in World Cup
Around 20,000 people took to the streets to celebrate the France’s victory over England and Morocco besting Portgual
At least 74 football fans were reportedly arrested in Paris last night after France’s 2-1 victory over England and Morocco’s 1-0 success over Portgual.
Around 20,000 people took to the streets to celebrate the wins that catapulted Les Blues and the Atlas Lions into the semi-finals of the tournament in Qatar.
The mood was at first celebratory as fans for both national sides cheered and paraded in the capital, but then trouble flared and fireworks were reportedly thrown at police officers, reports Le Parisien.
Libyan who allegedly built Lockerbie bomb is in US custody
A Libyan man accused of making the bomb that killed 270 people after it blew up Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland in 1988 is in custody in the United States, Scottish prosecutors said Sunday.
The country's Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) said the families of those killed in the bombing had been informed that Abu Agila Mohammad Mas'ud Kheir al-Marimi was now under arrest.
He had previously been held in Libya for his alleged involvement in a 1986 attack on a Berlin nightclub.
The US Justice Department confirmed the development, adding that Mas'ud is expected to make his initial appearance in court in Washington, DC.
Biodiversity: 'A victim of global warming and one of the major tools to fight against it'
After the COP27 climate conference, representatives from around the world gathered in Montreal this week for the COP15 meeting dedicated to biodiversity. Scientists say leaders face a crucial challenge: agreeing on a common way forward to safeguard biodiversity by 2030 in order to preserve plant and animal life and help combat climate imbalance.
Wildlife populations have fallen by 69 percent globally in the past 50 years, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said in an October 2022 report. At the same time, land degradation – including deforestation, soil erosion and loss of natural areas – now affects up to 40 percent of the Earth’s land and half of humanity, according to the UN. These alarming figures are the backdrop for the COP15 conference on biodiversity that began on December 7 in Montreal with an ambitious objective: to agree a new global framework for safeguarding the natural world.
Ukraine launches missile attack on Russian-occupied Melitopol, explosions reported in Donetsk and Crimea
Multiple explosions have been reported in the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol in southern Ukraine, in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic and in annexed Crimea – including at a Russian military barracks.
The explosions in Melitopol came amid reports from officials on both sides that Ukraine had launched a missile attack on the city on Saturday, while Russian state media said 20 missiles hit the Donetsk People’s Republic on Sunday morning.
Separately, reports also emerged of multiple explosions in Russian-annexed Crimea, including at a military barracks in Sovietske.
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