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The regional arbitration court of the Berlin SPD has excluded the author and former finance senator Thilo Sarrazin from the party.

GenevaThe United Nations Human Rights Committee has ruled that global warming can serve as a reason for asylum seekers to stay. Governments should not deport people who are exposed to "life-threatening risks" due to climate change in their home countries, the committee said.

ParisA year after French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner announced a more frequent use of this type of device, a French newspaper exposed the fact that the body cams have not been used.

AthensMass protests against the admission of asylum seekers began on the Greek islands on Wednesday. The motto: "We want our islands back, we want our lives back."

The feminist and author Verena Brunschweiger once again called for no children for climate protection reasons. “It's nothing less than saving the world, to which everyone should contribute.

ParisEurostat recently asked France to review its fake figures for asylum seekers. And according to the Interior Ministry at Place Beauvau, their numbers were up 7,3 percent in 2019.

New YorkOn November 23, WikiLeaks published information from an OPCW employee, a member of its fact finding mission to Douma, Syria, expressing “his gravest concern over intentional bias introduced to a redacted version of the report he co-authored”.

BonnThe number has therefore doubled compared to 2018 and tripled compared to 2017. At that time, 6 100 letters were received. Most often, the public complained about letters arriving late or not arriving at all.

Iran has indicated that it will pursue war-crimes charges against President Donald Trump at the International Criminal Court in the Hague over this month's assassination of General Qassem Soleimani.

RomeAn Italian Senate panel on Monday voted to lift former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini's parliamentary immunity. He will be facing trial in the alleged "kidnapping" of some 100 migrants aboard a coast guard ship last July.