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Minggu, 12 Maret 2023

Xi Jinping retains China's central bank head in boost to markets - Financial Times

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2023-03-12 05:06:11Z
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Israel protests become 'biggest in history' as Benjamin Netanyahu's government persists with reforms - The Telegraph

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis demonstrated across the country on Saturday night in the 10th consecutive week of protests against their hard-right government's controversial legal reforms.

The demonstrations come as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government prepares to press on with its legislative agenda next week, shunning calls for a pause to allow for negotiations on the divisive plan.

The judicial overhaul is a cornerstone of Mr Netanyahu's administration, an alliance with ultra-Orthodox Jewish and extreme-right parties which took office at the end of last year. Critics say it threatens democracy and would result in less checks and balances.

The latest protests saw up to 500,000 people take to the streets, according to organisers. One journalist was among the people questioned by police for making anti-Netanyahu statements and at least three protesters were arrested.

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The Israeli Haaretz newspaper reported opposition leader Yair Lapid said in a speech during demonstrations that Israel "is facing the greatest crisis in its history".

"A wave of terrorism is hitting us, our economy is crashing, money is escaping the country. Iran just signed yesterday a new agreement with Saudi Arabia. But the only thing this government cares about is crushing Israeli democracy," he said.

The biggest demonstration, in the coastal city of Tel Aviv, drew some 100,000 protesters, according to estimates given by Israeli media.

Many of them were waving blue and white Israeli flags.

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"I'm demonstrating because the measures that the new government wants to take represent a real and immediate threat to Israeli democracy," one protester, tech entrepreneur Ran Shahor, told AFP.

Demonstrations were held in other cities and towns in the country of more than nine million.

Some 50,000 Israelis protested in the northern city of Haifa and 10,000 in Beersheba - the biggest yet in both - according to Israeli media.

The rallies broke up without major incident, although police arrested three protesters who were blocking traffic on Tel Aviv's ring road. Social media also suggested one man had been arrested for confronting protesters with a hammer, while local journalists reported other onlookers through eggs at the crowds.

The chair of parliament's law committee, Simcha Rotman, has scheduled daily hearings on parts of the government's reforms from Sunday through Wednesday ahead of votes.

Justice Minister Yariv Levin has said the coalition plans to pass key elements of the reforms before parliament goes into recess on April 2.

The proposed legislation would give more weight to the government in the committee that selects judges and would deny the Supreme Court the right to strike down any amendments to so-called Basic Laws, Israel's quasi-constitution.

The government has been pushing for changes that would limit the Supreme Court’s powers to rule against the legislature and the executive, giving the Israeli parliament (the Knesset) the power to override Supreme Court decisions with a simple majority of 61 votes out of the 120-seat Knesset.

These provisions have already been endorsed by lawmakers at first reading.

Israeli President Issac Herzog - who, in his largely ceremonial role, has tried to broker dialogue - on Thursday called on the coalition the halt the legislation, dubbing it "a threat to the foundations of democracy".

Another element of the reforms would give the 120-member parliament power to overrule Supreme Court decisions with a simple majority of 61 votes.

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2023-03-12 02:25:00Z
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Sabtu, 11 Maret 2023

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Bakhmut centre now a 'killing zone' - The Telegraph

A Russian strike on the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson today left three people dead and two others wounded, authorities said.

"Russian terrorists are shelling Kherson again," Andriy Yermak, the head of Ukraine's presidential office, said on Telegram.

He posted a picture of firefighters next to a charred car.

Oleksandr Prokudin, the head of Kherson's regional military administration, said the casualties occurred when a car was hit by a shell and caught fire.

Galyna Kolisnyk, 53, said the Russians struck when she was in a store.

"When we entered, literally five minutes later this tragedy happened," she told AFP.

"Explosions began, our car got hit....This is horrible."

The strike came two days after Russian artillery fire also killed three people in Kherson.

Despite Russia's retreat from the city of Kherson late last year, it has been regularly targeted by Moscow's troops.

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2023-03-11 10:49:49Z
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Beginning of a 'new era' after White House meeting between von der Leyen and Biden - Euronews

US President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen met Friday to try to complete a plan that the White House hopes will turn the page on a spat between the US and European Union over electric vehicle tax credits.

Biden and von der Leyen opened negotiations between Washington and Brussels on a deal that could boost the use of European minerals critical in the production of electric vehicle batteries that are eligible for US tax credits through Biden's roughly € 352 billion clean energy law that passed last year.

Biden, hosting von der Leyen in the Oval Office, said the alliance to support Ukraine marked "a new era."

However, tensions are swirling in Europe over the Biden administration's landmark Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a government spending spree championing US manufacturing in climate-friendly technologies.

Speaking to reporters outside the White House following the meeting, von der Leyen said, "Today, we agreed that we will work on critical raw materials that have been sourced or processed in the European Union and give them access to the American market as if they were sourced in the American market."

The inflation reduction legislation stipulates that if US consumers want to be eligible for a tax credit of up to €7,043 on their EV purchase, the EV's battery need to largely contain minerals from the US or a country with which Washington has a free-trade agreement.

Additionally, 50% of components in batteries must be manufactured or assembled in North America by 2024, with that percentage rising gradually to 100% by 2028.

The European Commission, in part, responded by launching its own Green Deal Industrial Plan last month in response to Biden's legislation. The measure is expected to make it much easier to push through subsidies for green industries and pool EU-wide projects.

"I think for us it's very important that...we join forces because it is crucial for our future for fighting climate change and limiting global warming," von der Leyen said.

"So for us, it was and is important that we join forces, that we are complementary, that we boost the respective cleantech industry on both sides" she added.

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2023-03-11 08:21:33Z
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Jumat, 10 Maret 2023

Hamburg shooting: Seven killed in attack on Jehovah's Witness hall - BBC

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Seven people, including an unborn baby, have been killed in a shooting at a Jehovah's Witness meeting hall in the German city of Hamburg, police say.

They say the gunman acted alone in Thursday's attack, and later took his own life. His motives are unknown.

The suspect, named only as Philipp F, 35, is a former member of the religious community, who had "ill-feelings".

Dramatic footage has now emerged that appears to show the suspect firing many rounds through a window of the hall.

He is a former member of the religious community, who had "ill-feelings", the police said at a briefing.

All those shot dead were German nationals.

Officers were called at about 21:15 local time (20:15 GMT) on Thursday, to reports that shots had been fired in the building on Deelböge street, Gross Borstel district, police spokesman Holger Vehren said.

Officers who went in found people who "may have been seriously injured by firearms, some of them fatally", he said.

"The officers also heard a shot from the upper part of the building and went upstairs, where they also found a person. So far we have no indications that any perpetrators fled."

It is thought people had gathered, possibly for a Bible study, when the shooting began at around 21:00 local time.

Gregor Miesbach, who filmed the gunman shooting through a first-floor window, told the Bild newspaper: "I didn't realise what was happening. I was filming with my phone, and only realised through the zoom that someone was shooting at Jehovah's Witness.

"I heard loud gunshots... I saw a man with a firearm shooting through a window and filmed it," he said.

Lara Bauch, a 23-year-old student who lives nearby, told the DPA news agency that "there were about four bursts of gunfire - several shots were fired in each burst - with gaps lasting roughly 20 seconds to a minute".

She said that from her window she could see a person frantically running from the ground floor to the first floor. "The man was wearing dark clothing and moving fast," she added.

An alert was sent on the federal warning app, NINAwarn, at about 21:00 local time telling locals that "one or more unknown perpetrators shot at people in a church".

Local residents were told not to leave their homes amid the ongoing police operation.

Footage showed police escorting people out of the meeting hall, some to ambulances.

Hamburg's Interior Minister Andy Grote said on Twitter that police special forces and a large number of officers had been deployed to the scene.

Forensic experts work at the scene of the shooting in Hamburg, Germany

A member of a bomb disposal unit works inside a Jehovah's Witness meeting hall in Hamburg, Germany

The reasons behind the shooting were "still completely unclear".

On Friday morning, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz described it as a "brutal act of violence", saying his thoughts were with the victims and their relatives.

In a statement, the Jehovah's Witness community in Germany said it was "deeply saddened by the horrific attack on its members at the Kingdom Hall in Hamburg after a religious service".

Forensic experts in white suits worked through the night inside the brightly lit interior of the meeting house.

Jehovah's Witnesses are members of a Christian-based religious movement, founded in the US at the end of the 19th Century.

In its latest report from 2022, the movement says there are about 8.7 million Jehovah's Witnesses worldwide, including about 170,000 in Germany.

In the city of Hamburg, there are believed to be nearly 4,000 members of the organisation.

Jehovah's Witnesses are probably best known for their door-to-door evangelical work; witnessing from house to house and offering Bible literature.

Although Christian-based, the group believes that the traditional Christian Churches have deviated from the true teachings of the Bible, and do not work in full harmony with God.

Germany has some of the strictest gun laws in Europe, including a clause that anyone aged under 25 must pass a psychological evaluation before getting a gun licence.

In 2021, there were around one million private gun owners in Germany, according to the National Firearms Registry. They account for 5.7 million legal firearms and firearm parts, most of them owned by hunters.

After mass arrests were made last December in relation to a suspected plot to overthrow the government, the German authorities are planning to tighten the country's gun laws even further.

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2023-03-10 10:54:24Z
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Xi Jinping confirmed for unprecedented third term as China's president - Financial Times

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2023-03-10 08:04:40Z
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Chinese city Xi'an draws backlash with flu lockdown proposal - BBC

Empty medication shelves at a pharmacy in Xi'an

By Kelly Ng

BBC News, Singapore

Officials in the Chinese city of Xi'an have sparked a backlash by saying they may turn to lockdowns "when necessary" to combat future flu outbreaks.

Xi'an will lock down areas and shut schools if an outbreak poses a "severe threat", according to an emergency response plan published on Wednesday.

Many internet users have called the plan "excessive", especially after criticism of China's Covid controls.

Flu cases have surged across China just as its latest Covid wave is waning.

The spike in flu cases has also led to a shortage of antiviral medication at pharmacies across the country.

While there is no suggestion of an imminent lockdown in Xi'an, some have expressed fears that its plan could see a return to the zero-Covid approach, which the country abruptly abandoned in December.

Famous for the terracotta army, Xi'an experienced some of the country's strictest lockdowns during the pandemic. Locals were banned from leaving their homes - even to buy food and other basic supplies - for a month in December 2021.

One person wrote on Chinese social media platform Weibo that influenza outbreaks had always been common before Covid, but "life went on as per normal" when they hit.

Another remarked that some local governments were "addicted to sealing and controlling".

Xi'an's plan segments its response into four levels, according to severity of the situation. Lockdowns may be called for when community spread reaches an acute level.

It is not the only Chinese city that has such emergency plans. In 2015, for instance, the Shanghai government said it may stop classes and work, as well as set restrictions on gatherings, in the event of a serious influenza pandemic.

"To local residents who were traumatised by the lockdown measures not long ago, the return to the same draconian method in coping with flu outbreaks is by no means justified," Huang Yanzhong, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations, told the BBC.

But Tang Renwu, dean of Beijing Normal University's School of Government said China was not likely to see a comeback of stringent lockdown policies.

Speaking to Singapore newspaper Lianhe Zaobao, Prof Tang said other local governments may put out similar plans in the days to come - as Chinese authorities are intent on containing the seasonal flu.

"Local governments should pay attention to their wording when issuing similar documents so as not to trigger social panic," he said.