In mid-fall 24‚ the German political system got shaken-up when Olaf Scholz fired his finance minister over budget fights. The three-party traffic-light coalition (which started back in 21) broke down after Christian Lindner wanted to cut welfare and delay climate goals; this led to Free Democrats leaving the government setup. Scholz wants to delay a confidence vote till 01/15/25‚ but opposition leader Friedrich Merz says its needed right now
We simply cannot afford to have a government without a majority in Germany for several months now
In Jerusalem‚ lawmakers passed new rules about sending away families of Palestinian attackers (even those with Israeli papers) The law says people can be moved to Gaza for 7-20 yrs if they knew about attacks before they happened; experts think courts might stop this. Also they made rules about putting young kids in jail for terror-related crimes
Scientists say Earth is getting too hot - its gonna be the warmest year ever. The planet will pass the 1‚5C mark that countries tried to avoid when they signed up for climate rules in 15. Weather problems are showing up everywhere; like bad air in Pakistan and Cubaʼs power going out from storms
In a weird tech-news twist French company Schneider Electric got an unusual demand from hackers: they want $125k worth of baguettes or theyll release company data. The cyber-criminals say theyll cut the bread-ransom in half if the company tells everyone about the attack