Six people have died in the #floods these last days in #germany.
Three drowned in their cellars, a woman drowned when her car was swept into the water, another woman has found dead in a channel & a firefighter died in a boat accident on the way to rescue a stranded family.
Patriot Missiles Can Target Jets Inside Russia Now
by #JakeBroe
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The new policy of Western weapons being allowed to be used on the territory of Russia continues to be clarified as #Germany has confirmed that #Patriot launchers can be used to shoot down planes dropping bombs in the area of #Kharkiv.
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Jake Broe is a US Air Force veteran covering the Russian war in #Ukraine several times a week since February 2022.
Yesterday, 🇸🇮 #Slovenia, too, formally recognized the #State of #Palestine as a sovereign state, resulting in now 75% (146 of 193) 🇺🇳 #UN member states doing so.
A 32-year-old woman was rescued today from a tree near Neu-Ulm after 52 hours trapped.
A police drone team found the woman, who had been missing since around midnight on Sunday.
According to police, the woman was largely uninjured.
Two people have been arrested after the Brexit architect,British right wing politician Nigel Farage, had a milkshake thrown over him while launching his personal election campaign. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6pp7yg0y3po
To back this up with some more data on the example of #Germany:
Violent assaults on politicians have been rising in recent years and are now even higher than in p
Prepandemic (2019) times:
#Ukraine's use of German and other Western-supplied weapons to strike targets in #Russia will not "contribute to escalation," German Chancellor Olaf #Scholz told the Antenne Bayern radio station.
#Berlin has long opposed lifting the ban on Ukraine's use of Western weapons to target Russia, but reversed course at the end of May amid growing calls from Western leaders to lift the restrictions.