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According to reports, after Shinzo Abe's death, there will be an investigation into whether there are enough precautions. The perpetrator reportedly harbored grudges against a religious group. According to media reports, after the assassination of Japan's ex-Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the National Police Authority wants to review its security protocol for prominent personalities for deficiencies. Among other things, experts are concerned with why the security personnel at the site of the election campaign could not prevent the attack with a self-made firearm. "I don't think there are enough firearm precautions in Japan with its strict gun laws," the Nikkei newspaper quoted a personal protection expert as saying. The day before, a 41-year-old Japanese man approached Abe from behind during an election campaign speech in the city of Nara and shot the politician twice from a few meters away. The 67-year-old Abe died a little later in a hospital. Resentment of religiou...

Before a visit by the UN human rights commissioner, a data leak reveals brutal conditions in Chinese camps. Uyghurs Abroad Warn About China's Propaganda. Shortly before the visit of UN Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet to Xinjiang, China, several media outlets published further evidence of the mass internment of Uyghurs in the region. According to this, photos, speeches and official instructions prove that the camps are not – as claimed by the Chinese government – ​​“professional training institutions”. The Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) and the Spiegel were involved in the research. According to the reports, the dataset includes a previously unknown speech by the former party leader of the Xinjiang region in 2017, which said that any prisoner who tried to escape even a few steps was to be "shooted". Pictures showed security forces with assault rifles. A photo also shows a prisoner in a so-called tiger chair - a torture device in which the legs are overstretched. US ...

In 2018, then-President Donald Trump imposed punitive tariffs on Chinese imports. The US government now wants to abolish this again – because of the high inflation. In view of the high rate of inflation, the US government is considering abolishing some of the punitive tariffs on imports from China introduced by then-President Donald Trump. "I'm considering it," President Joe Biden said during his visit to Tokyo. "We didn't impose any of these tariffs, they were imposed by the last government," he added, adding that he will discuss the matter with Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen when he returns from Asia. The USA is currently suffering from high inflation, which was 8.3 percent most recently. The US Federal Reserve therefore recently took the largest interest rate hike in 22 years – an increase of half a percentage point to the new interest rate range of 0.75 to 1.00 percent. According to Treasury Secretary Yellen, the government in Washington is considering ...

According to the Ukrainian army, Russian soldiers have been stopped in several places. The convoy in front of Kyiv is scattered.  According to the Ukrainian army, it held back and slowed down attacks by Russian units in several places. In the north of the country, Russian troops have been stopped from advancing into the city of Chernihiv, according to a report by the Ukrainian General Staff published on Facebook. Around the city of Kharkiv in the east of the country, Russia is continuing its attempts to blockade the city from the north - these are still unsuccessful. The Army's claims cannot be independently verified. According to the General Staff, the weather conditions in the theaters of operation on the Black and Azov Seas have forced ships of the Russian Navy to return to their bases. In the south, the occupiers also tried to gain control of the city of Mykolayiv and develop an offensive towards Zaporizhia and Kryvyi Rih, the report said. The Russian troops were stopped and su...