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Emrah Erken criticized the UN Human Rights Council and Navi Pillay. He wrote that the body had condemned Israel for human rights violations a total of 116 times since its founding in 2006, while China, Turkey, and Qatar had not been condemned even once. The United Nations, he claimed, had turned human rights into a weapon against the West, particularly Israel. Pillay served as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2008 to 2014. During this time, the Human Rights Council never condemned China, Erken wrote. UN Watch and former UN employee Emma Reilly accused Pillay of having passed the names of more than 50 dissidents, including Uighurs, to China under her leadership. Additionally, Pillay stayed away from the Nobel Prize ceremony in 2010 in honor of the imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo. Erken further wrote that Pillay later led a UN commission of inquiry that accused Israel of genocide and previously signed calls for sanctions against Israel. In 2012, she criticized the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo for its Muhammad cartoons, describing the drawings as malicious and intentionally provocative. Critics also accused her of opting for appeasement and restrictions on freedom of expression rather than defending it in the debate over Muhammad cartoons. Erken called it a shame that Pillay would receive this year's Nobel Peace Prize, and expressed opposition to post-colonialism, the "Woke Left," and Pillay. #Menschenrechte #UN #Israel (translated)

Regina Laska wrote that CDA chairman Dennis Radtke (CDU) referred to Gerhard Schröder's recent appearance in Moscow in the Tagesspiegel as a "case of moral bankruptcy" and called on the SPD to expel the former chancellor from the party. Laska agreed with him. Schröder was too ill to testify before a parliamentary inquiry but fit enough to celebrate Vladimir Putin's birthday in Moscow and accept a new supervisory board position in Russia. According to Laska, the SPD state chairpersons in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg are now also demanding a new expulsion procedure. The SPD district of Upper Palatinate voted unanimously in favor of it on Saturday. Schleswig-Holstein's SPD leader Ulf Kämpfer stated that the paths of the party and Schröder had parted ways many years ago. Laska asked why Schröder was still a member of the SPD. Previous expulsion procedures had failed in 2022 and 2023. It is not only about Schröder's differing stance on Russia policy, Laska wrote, but also about his demonstrative loyalty to Putin, who has been waging a war of annihilation against Ukraine for more than four and a half years. She also pointed out that SPD foreign policy expert Ralf Stegner had praised Schröder's visit to Putin. Pierre Orthen, chairman of the SPD local club in Baden-Württemberg's Leutenbach, publicly questioned whether this was in line with the responsibilities of a member of the Bundestag's Foreign Affairs Committee. Laska wrote that Stegner had held talks with Kremlin-affiliated representatives in Baku in April 2025. It apparently concerned the future of the Petersburg Dialogue, which Schröder co-founded with Putin in 2001. In June 2026, Stegner was said to have praised Schröder's connection to Putin; now he had attended Putin's birthday party. Laska asked what these contacts had achieved for peace in Ukraine and wrote that anyone justifying such talks as efforts for peace must also be able to explain what they had accomplished. #Schröder #Ukraine #SPD (translated)

The user wrote to Norbert Röttgen that Schröder is trying to initiate peace negotiations with Russia while the CDU under Friedrich Merz is preparing for a war with Russia. In his assessment, the party will not last much longer like this. #Frieden #Russland #Politik #RU (translated)

This intervention is the recognition of the central place that sport occupies in the identity of Braga and the realization of a long-held ambition by successive directions of ABC, by athletes, fans, and by all those who have always believed that the ‘cathedral of Portuguese handball’ deserved conditions worthy of its greatness. "The Flávio Sá Leite Pavilion is part of the history of Braga and the pride of several generations, and this is the moment to ensure it a future worthy of its importance," says the mayor, João Rodrigues. #Andebol #Braga #Desporto (translated)

Yvonne Kussmann reported, citing the spokesperson for the Ministry of the Interior of Baden-Württemberg, that the 27-year-old Afghan entered Germany in December 2015 and applied for asylum. The BAMF rejected the application in January 2018 and threatened deportation to Afghanistan. A lawsuit by the man was dismissed by the administrative court in July 2021. Since then, he has been subject to enforceable deportation. Because deportations to Afghanistan were suspended from August 2021, he initially remained in Germany. After the federal government, under Interior Minister Dobrindt, organized regular deportations to Afghanistan again and obtained replacement documents more frequently, the government presidency of Karlsruhe initiated a passport procurement procedure for the man. His identity had been unclear until then. In early October, the local regulatory office delivered him a letter asking him to report to the General Consulate of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in mid-October. This did not happen. It is still unclear whether this is related to the incident in the Tuttlingen town hall, where the man appeared with a firearm and was shot by police officers after allegedly firing at them first, Kussmann wrote. According to Kussmann, the man had been convicted in Germany of bodily harm, trespassing, property damage, theft, and threats, resulting in fines. From October 2025 to April 2026, he served a substitute prison sentence. He was not registered with the special unit for dangerous foreigners in Baden-Württemberg. #Tuttlingen #Asylrecht #InnereSicherheit (translated)

It is striking that Harald Christ is friends with the head of the Federal Employment Agency, as he himself admits, and this Federal Employment Agency has awarded lucrative contracts to companies that he represents as a lobbyist through his agencies. #HaraldChrist #Lobbyismus #Interessenkonflikt (translated)

Evelyn Palla, who has been leading the Deutsche Bahn for a year, faces significant challenges, including delayed trains and dilapidated tracks, while she promises to make the railway more reliable and modern, but the progress still needs to be reflected in customer perception. #DeutscheBahn #EvelynPalla #ZugPünktlichkeit (translated)

Georg Restle leads the ARD studio in Nairobi and discusses in this 11KM episode the role that Ethiopia's Prime Minister and Nobel Prize winner Abiy Ahmed plays, who has which interests in the region, and why a possible war would also have significant global consequences. #Äthiopien #Bürgerkrieg #HornvonAfrika (translated)

Carlos Bolsonaro stated that he had been discussing with Flávio Bolsonaro, whom he called the future president, the difficulties faced by milk producers in Santa Catarina. According to Carlos, Flávio had said he would act against the entry of foreign products sold below cost, a measure that, according to him, would seek to do justice to producers rather than promote protectionism. Carlos also said he had discussed with Flávio the reduction of bureaucracy, costs, and interest rates on rural credit, the expansion of agricultural insurance and storage capacity, the strengthening of family farming, and the reduction of dependence on imported fertilizers. He stated that he was bringing the demands of the producers from Santa Catarina to the discussions and that the work had already begun. #Agronegócio #SantaCatarina #ProduçãoLeiteira (translated)

Franca Lehfeldt agreed with Merz's assessment that a failure of the government would have immeasurable consequences for all of Europe. However, she accused him of deriving the wrong policy from this: what is needed is a strong economy and a weak AfD, while the opposite is currently the case. #maischberger https://t.co/KcvspQqULF #Politik #Deutschland #Wirtschaft (translated)

The author wrote that the experience from the USA should serve as a guide for German conservative-liberal voters. He warned that Alice Weidel could evolve from a "comrade of the bosses" to a "comrade of the people" under the influence of Chrupalla and Höcke. #Politik #Deutschland #Wahlen #DE #US (translated)