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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...

In the south and east of the country, the Kremlin has tested the use of nuclear-capable missiles. Ukraine does not want to be provoked by this. In the midst of the Ukraine conflict, Russia has started a large-scale military exercise with nuclear-capable missiles, according to Russian news agencies. According to the Kremlin, the aim of the maneuver is to test the reliability of strategic nuclear weapons.  One exercise was held at a test site in the Astrakhan region in the south of the country, another on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the east. In addition, warships of the Black Sea Fleet and the Northern Fleet were involved. The exercise was followed from the Kremlin by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko; Lukashenko had already traveled to Moscow for talks on Friday. According to its President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine does not want to be provoked. "We do not react to provocations and strive to create peace exclusively through diplomacy,...

The Ukrainian ambassador in Berlin has requested 12,000 anti-tank missiles. Secret services assume a Russian attack could be imminent. Before Chancellor Olaf Scholz's visit to Kiev, the Ukrainian ambassador in Berlin renewed the demand for heavy weapons from Germany. At Bild-TV, Andrij Melnyk demanded the immediate delivery of 12,000 anti-tank missiles in order to be able to fend off a possible Russian ground offensive against Ukraine. "The situation is dramatic," he said. "What we have to be prepared for today is the worst possible scenario." The German's refuses to supply deadly weapons to Ukraine. However, it is considering making armaments available below this threshold. On a February 3 wish list from the Ukrainian embassy are a number of armaments that are clearly not lethal weapons. These include electronic tracking systems, mine clearance equipment, protective suits, digital radios, radar stations and night vision devices. Anti-tank missiles are not o...