More than 1,000 seriously injured or ill Ukrainians have received medical treatment in Germany since the beginning of the Russian war in February 2022. In addition to 692 soldiers, civilians, including children, were among the patients, the Interior Mi…
Official report warns Germany’s military is ageing and shrinking
Germany’s armed forces are facing significant personnel problems as the ranks age and the military struggles to win new recruits, according to a damning report presented to parliament on Tuesday. Despite Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s announcement in 2022 of…
Germany opens programme for climate overhaul of heavy industry
Energy-intensive companies in Germany can now apply for new state energy subsidies potentially worth billions of euros. Under the climate contracts, the German government will finance investments to convert industries to new, more climate-friendly prod…
German opposition threatens inquiry into Scholz Taurus missile claims
Germany’s conservative opposition is threatening to launch a parliamentary inquiry into Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s refusal to send Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine. Scholz contends that delivering the long-range missiles to Ukraine would risk drawing Ge…
Trump pledges to pardon ‘wrongfully imprisoned’ Jan. 6 rioters as one of his ‘first acts’
Donald Trump’s critics in the legal world have been warning that if he wins the 2024 presidential election and returns to the White House in January 2025, he will use the U.S. Justice Department against his enemies while pardoning extremists who were p…
Klæbo and Skistad win cross country sprints in Drammen
Norwegian star Johannes Høsflot Klæbo claimed another sprint victory on home snow on Tuesday to keep alive his chances of beating countryman Harald Østberg Amundsen to the overall World Cup title. Multiple world and Olympic champion Klæbo coasted to hi…
Woman to be part of Iranian refereeing team for men’s Tehran derby
A woman will be part of an Iranian refereeing team at a men’s football match for the first time on Wednesday. State news agencies IRNA and ISNA reported that Mahsa Ghorbani will be used as a video assistant referee (VAR) for the Tehran derby between Es…
Portaltic.-Denuncian a Nvidia por infringir el ‘copyright’ de varios libros en entrenamiento de los LLM de NeMo Megatron
Un grupo de escritores ha presentado una demanda colectiva en la que denuncian que la firma tecnológica Nvidia infringió sus derechos de autor en el entrenamiento de los modelos de lenguaje grande (LLM, por sus siglas en inglés) sobre los que se susten…
North Norfolk District Council to ask government for more help over nearly £1million deficit in finances
A council is to meet with government representatives to lobby for more funding as it faces nearly a £1m deficit in its finances. This week, officials from the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) are to meet with North Norfolk Di…
La UCO busca a un filtrador en el seno de la Guardia Civil que habría alertado a Koldo García de que era investigado
La Unidad Central Operativa de la Guardia Civil (UCO) ha revelado en un informe elevado al juez de la Audiencia Nacional que instruye el ‘caso Koldo’, Ismael Moreno, que ha comenzado a auditar sus bases de datos para dar con el posible filtrador que al…