Alternative for Germany, or AfD, has established itself as a significant political force in the 13 years since its founding, but it has never been part of any state or federal government. That’s a result of what is often called a “firewall” against cooperation with the anti-immigrant, far-right party. France 24’s Philip Turle explains. Source link
LONDON, June 9 : Reigning Queen’s Club champion Tatjana Maria said she should have been given more respect after being forced to qualify for the WTA grasscourt tournament this week. The German, then 37, won the title last year when the women’s tour returned to the venue after a 52-year absence. She was the oldest winner of a WTA 500 tournament. But she had to come through the qualifying tournament this year after not receiving one of the four wildcards, all of which were handed to lower-ranked British players. “It feels almost like a normal tournament because I had to start over again in qualifying,” Maria, who was made an honorary life member at the London club after her title run last year, told BBC Sport. “Already what I did last year was amazing and to be a champion here, I thought I deserved a wildcard and to get a little bit of respect.” Wildcards, awarded at organisers’ discretion to players whose ranking does not merit main-draw entry, are often reserved for home players. “I …
Two people were killed and three others were seriously injured on Monday when a car drove into a central pedestrian zone of the eastern German city of Leipzig, Mayor Burkhard Jung said, the latest in a spate of such incidents in recent years in Germany. Police arrested the driver, identifying him as a 33-year-old man with German citizenship. Source link
Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Big developments are underway in Tennessee and Alabama. Over the next five years, the joint Japanese-American project will bring several so-called small modular reactors (SMRs) of the BWRX-300 type online. Almost one percent of U.S. electricity production—slightly more than three gigawatts—will be added to the existing energy mix by reactors designed by Hitachi and GE Vernova. A caveat for purists of market economics: this is a hybrid project. While the majority is privately financed, export support from Japan as well as offtake guarantees and credit facilities accounting for roughly one percent of the total volume come from the U.S. Overall, this project represents an investment of $40 billion. It joins a number of major initiatives currently being driven largely by the private sector in the U.S. Major platform operators and tech giants—Google, Meta, and Microsoft—are deeply involved in building new nuclear capacities. This disproves, above all, the claims of most German ideologues who insist that nuclear power has no future worldwide. The fog has lifted. The truth is indisputably on the …
