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The US electric car manufacturer Tesla has criticized the protests by environmental activists in Germany and accused them of misinformation. From Wednesday to Sunday, hundreds of activists protested in front of Tesla's factory near Berlin against the company's planned expansion. They warned of environmental hazards and criticized water consumption. "From our point of view, it is regrettable that the situation on site has been dominated over the last few days by activists, some of whom are prepared to use violence," Tesla announced on Monday. According to the company, an objective, fact-based d...
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Expansion of Tesla's large electric car plant to the south-east of Berlin is to come up for decision by the relevant local authority on Thursday. "There will be a final discussion and a resolution," Pamela Eichmann, the head of the Grünheide municipality in the state of Brandenburg, told dpa on Monday. Eichmann declined to predict the outcome. The US automaker plans to expand the site to construct a freight rail siding and storage space, but the plans have run into strong opposition from environmental activists in particular. According to the original plans, more than 100 hectares of woodland ...
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Four police officers were injured during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Berlin at the weekend, a police spokeswoman said on Sunday. A total of 49 police officers were also deprived of their liberty during the demonstration on Saturday, she added, noting that 39 criminal proceedings against demonstrators were initiated. At the rally in the districts of Neukölln and Kreuzberg, which was attended by around 1,500 people at its peak, participants repeatedly chanted pro-Palestinian slogans. Police said what they described as an anti-Semitic statement was also shouted loudly over a loudspeaker va...
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Hours before the final of the Eurovision Song Contest, pro-Palestinian demonstrators have demanded Finnish broadcaster Yle boycott the show on Saturday. Some 40 people gathered in the broadcaster's lobby, holding up protest posters and Palestinian flags, Yle reported. An Israeli contestant, Eden Golan, has reached the semifinals but there has been increasing controversy about the inclusion of Israel in the contest as the humanitarian situation in Gaza worsens. Demonstrator Wilhelm Blomberg told Hufvudstadsbladet newspaper that they would not prevent Yle's employees from doing their work, but w...
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Argentinian trade union federation CGT brought public transport and air traffic to a standstill on Thursday in a nationwide general strike protesting against the austerity policies of libertarian President Javier Milei. With employees unable to reach their workplaces, many shops remained closed. The strike affected banks, supermarkets, schools, universities, transport, waste collection and the postal services. The government criticized the second general strike in five months. "They should stop being annoying and start working," said Security Minister Patricia Bullrich, calling the industrial ...
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A pro-Palestinian protest encampment on the campus of George Washington University in the US capital was cleared by police early Wednesday. Pamela Smith, the chief of police in Washington, said officers arrested 33 people who ignored six "dispersal announcements," but that most of the protesters had followed orders to leave the site. "They begin very peacefully. But over the past few days we begin to see an escalation in the volatility of the protest," Smith said at a press conference. The protest at George Washington University began on April 25. Recently there had been more confrontations be...
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German police were clearing pro-Palestinian activists on Tuesday evening after they occupied the main lecture hall at Leipzig University in the east of the country. Leipzig University had decided in favour of an eviction and had informed the police, the university announced in the evening, adding that the police operation was currently under way. "We will not tolerate the violent disruption of teaching activities and the seizure of university premises," the statement said. The decision to clear the protesters was unavoidable, as there was an imminent danger to the safety of all students and le...
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German police have broken up a pro-Palestinian student protest which was set up early Tuesday at Berlin's Free University. Around 150 activists of the Student Coalition Berlin group occupied the university courtyard with tents on Tuesday morning in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. The activists of the Student Coalition Berlin group had said they were "occupying Freie Universität Berlin," called for the occupation of other German universities and demanded an end to "colonial oppression." The university had announced it would swiftly put a halt to the protest and called the police...
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Police have begun to break up a pro-Palestinian student protest at Berlin's Free University. Around 100 activists of the Student Coalition Berlin group occupied the university courtyard with tents on Tuesday morning in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza. Police began removing individual groups of demonstrators from the site in the early afternoon. The officers had previously cut off additional support from the activists. The protestors were told by a police announcement to end the occupation and clear the site. Earlier, the university announced it would swiftly put a halt to the protest. "Th...
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Several thousand people demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Saturday evening in favour of a negotiated solution for the release of Israeli hostages held by the militant Islamist group Hamas. There was also loud criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and calls for new elections. Protesters held banners and signs aloft reading "Negotiate now, resign later." The father of one of the Israeli hostages criticised that the government's own survival seemed more important than the hostages. He called on the government to agree to a ceasefire in exchange for the return of the hostages. Israeli t...
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