This happened most recently in Berlin at the end of July on the sidelines of Christopher Street Day. And now at a rave in small Aarau in the Swiss canton of Aargau. On the night of Saturday to Sunday, towards the end of the event with around 3,500 participants, shots were fired. A 22-year-old Italian woman living in Switzerland was fatally shot. Five other people were taken to hospital, some seriously injured, including a German.
After such terrible events, the correct and helpless statement is often made that “we” must not allow our open way of life to be taken away from us. The dancers in power. Until this situation was finalized on Sunday night, it was still completely unclear what the possible motives of the perpetrator or perpetrators could be. The search is ongoing. The Aargau cantonal police, who briefed the press several times on Sunday, have not ruled out a terrorist attack, a rampage or "a criminal event with an unknown background," as Swiss media reported. The German police are also helping with the investigation.
A camp that “definitely shouldn’t have been there,” said President Volodymyr Zelenskyj in a video speech, meaning: near populated areas. In the major fire and explosions that followed, 37 people died and dozens were injured. A nearby nursing home for seniors and disabled people was destroyed. Zelensky announced an investigation. It shouldn't be the only attack this weekend.
The summer did not bring Russia any significant successes on the front. So it is increasing the pressure on Ukraine through constant, large-scale attacks with drones, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles. Ukraine is currently unable to defend itself particularly well against the latter because it lacks Patriot interceptor missiles and its defense is overwhelmed. The EU defense ministers will have to talk about this at their informal meeting in Wicklow, Ireland from today, but the problem is: the Europeans themselves have too few interceptor missiles. Stocks are scarce, also because a large part was wasted in the war against Iran.
Part of the Russian strategy is to wear people down. Ukraine cannot allow itself to be negligent.
Today is the fifth day after the flash flood disaster in Nepal and Tibet, and hope of finding any survivors is dwindling. Nevertheless, there is always good news. For example, the rescue of a little girl, perhaps six or seven years old, who the emergency services pulled out of muddy rubble. In further footage you could see the rescue workers in camouflage bending over the small child, who was wrapped in blankets, and feeding him.
Prime Minister Balendra Shah's government needs these images to maintain morale in the wounded country. Recently, doubts arose in the disaster area as to whether the ex-rapper who came to power last year was up to the task of crisis management.
Anyone who doesn't want to leave any doubts is neighbor China. The leadership there also releases pictures - ones that show that the measures in Tibet, which is controlled by China, are running efficiently. “The information situation breaks into two parts at the border,” writes our Beijing correspondent Maria Stöhr. While independent reporting is possible in Nepal, the only source across the border is the Chinese state. Those affected by the catastrophe in Tibet hardly have a say, so that it is almost forgotten: not only Nepal, but also Tibet is affected.
...is the European Union alongside the Icelandic Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir because they obviously couldn't win the majority of Icelanders over to Brussels and negotiations to join the EU. In a referendum on the question, 53 percent of Icelanders voted against it. The people on the island in the North Atlantic are doing well economically; NATO membership and access to the EU internal market may be enough for them. It was close. And yet: perhaps it takes more than visits from top politicians from mainland Europe to convince people.
