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No more tobacco trade, make oil imports more difficult: the government in Washington wants to tighten the punitive measures against North Korea. China and Russia are likely to veto. After North Korea tested a suspected ICBM, the United States called a UN Security Council vote on tougher sanctions against the communist country. The goal is to weaken the regime in Pyongyang to such an extent that it can no longer continue "its illegal programs for weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles." Further restrictions on the country's oil imports are under discussion. The draft resolution, which is also available to the dpa news agency, also provides for a complete stop to the North Korean tobacco trade; this source of income is to be dried up. Sanctions are also planned against the North Korean hacker group Lazarus, whose assets are to be frozen. Where Guns Count More Than Children's Lives North Korea had previously fired three missiles immediately after US President...

19 elementary school students shot dead by a youth: another killing spree horrifies the United States. Nothing will change how much this country loves its right to guns. How do you put into words what is hard to put into words? 19 elementary school students are dead, shot by a gunman at their school in Uvalde, Texas . They were seven, eight, nine years old. Went to second, third, and fourth grade. Summer vacation started for them on Thursday. The teacher Eva Mireles, who is said to have tried to save the children, died with them. For the second time in a few days, a double-digit number of people have been killed by gun violence in the USA; the victims of the racist attack on a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, are not all buried yet. Both perpetrators were only 18 years old. Both allegedly used firearms, some of which they had illegally converted and thus made even more deadly, but legally acquired and owned. It has now been read as the deadliest mass shootings this year so far. The fa...