UN Supreme Court: Russia must stop the war

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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Russia to end military violence in Ukraine immediately. On Wednesday, the United Nations’ highest court in The Hague upheld a lawsuit filed by Ukraine against Russia. Ukraine accused Russia of violating the 1948 Genocide Convention and wanted the court to end the violence. The judges and justices were also expected to declare no legal basis for the war. Russia had boycotted the March 7 hearing in the case. Rulings by the UN’s highest court are binding, to be sure. But the court has…

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Vienna could adopt its Corona measures on Thursday

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Vienna will discuss the current Corona situation on Thursday, a spokesman for Mayor Michael Ludwig (SPÖ) told APA on Wednesday. City Health Councillor Peter Hacker also harshly criticized the federal government’s actions – which has announced the relaxation of quarantine rules and the reduction of tests – at the club meeting of the Vienna SPÖ. “I am speechless at the moment and also a bit stunned how an experiment is being carried out here on more than eight million Austrians,” Hacker said on Wednesday afternoon. For example, he said it…

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Kyiv: More than 100 children killed so far

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According to Kyiv, more than 100 children have been killed since the Russian attack on Ukraine began nearly three weeks ago. “A bloody line was crossed today,” the Ukrainian Defense Ministry tweeted today. “Every minute a child leaves Ukraine to escape the war. Russia will be held accountable and will pay for everything,” the Defense Ministry said at the same time as it published the casualty figure. Earlier, Ukrainian authorities had reported hundreds of school facilities were destroyed. The figures cannot be independently verified. The UN Office of the High…

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New record: almost 60,000 new infections in Austria

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There are also 28 new deaths associated with Covid 19 infection. Wednesday has often brought a new high, but it even breaks the 50,000 mark this week. From Tuesday to Wednesday, 58,583 new infections were registered in Austria. This is well above the average of 44,458 over the past seven days. Currently, 416,899 people in Austria are actively infected with the coronavirus. This is also a new record, as never before have so many people in Austria been infected with Covid-19 at the same time. The seven-day incidence is 3,496.3.…

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Ukraine refugees: Busy time at Vienna’s Austria Center

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129,000 Ukrainian refugees had reached Austria by Tuesday – around 85 percent are traveling to other countries, the Interior Ministry said in a background interview. Nevertheless, a lot is going on in Vienna’s Austria Center. After the federal states, the Vienna police have also started the registration process. On Tuesday, about 4,000 people were registered. While the counseling center in Vienna’s Austria Center is busy, a registration center is being set up at the Messe Wien. Only months ago, people waited in queues for their Corona vaccination. Now primarily, women…

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Daylight saving time begins on March 27

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On 27 March 2022, the clock will be turned again: the hands will jump from 2.00 to 3.00 a.m. in Europe. The ball is still in the court of the EU Council of Ministers, which last discussed the abolition of the twice-yearly time change in June 2019; the transport ministers are responsible. Time change should be abolished In March 2019, the European Parliament had voted by a large majority in favor of abolishing daylight saving time as of 2021 – or one year later if there were difficulties for the…

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Austria one of the corona infections frontrunners in Europe

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More than 300,000 people were infected with the CoV virus last week. This puts Austria in the front rank in a European comparison. Only Iceland and Liechtenstein currently have a higher seven-day incidence. More than 300,000 people have been infected with the Coronavirus in this country in the past week. This puts Austria among the absolute frontrunner in Europe. According to the statistics portal Statista, which refers to data from Johns Hopkins University and the Robert Koch Institute, of 46 European countries, only Iceland and Liechtenstein had more officially confirmed…

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The government says goodbye to permanent free tests

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The government says goodbye to permanent free tests The federal government is saying goodbye to the permanent free-of-charge testing at the end of March. Instead, these will be limited to a quota of five free PCR tests and five antigen tests per month, said Health Minister Johannes Rauch (Greens) at a press conference on Tuesday: “Anyone who wants to be tested can continue to do so.” It remained open how it continues with the school tests. Rauch referred here to the responsibility of the Ministry of Education. With the “good…

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Tuesday: 37,125 new infections in Austria

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From yesterday to today, 40 new deaths related to Covid-19 were registered in Austria. It’s been ten days since largely all Corona protections fell in Austria. Since then, the number of cases has been rising rapidly. Yesterday, for example, 34,220 cases were recorded, the highest Monday figure since the pandemic began more than two years ago. The days before, unprecedented highs were recorded with almost 50,000 new cases on three consecutive days. From Monday to Tuesday, 37,125 new infections were registered in Austria. This represents the highest ever on a…

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