Maduro excludes opposition parties from presidential elections

Maduro excludes opposition parties from presidential elections

Venezuela’s head of state nicolas maduro wants to exclude the main opposition parties from next year’s presidential election.

The boycott by three of the main opposition parties in sunday’s municipal elections automatically disqualifies them from participating in the next elections, maduro declared after casting his vote in caracas. He will stand for re-election and win the election, he stressed.

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Ft commentary: forchheim’s mayor uwe kirschstein reacts intransparently and powerlessly to stadtwerke complaint

Ft commentary: forchheim's mayor uwe kirschstein reacts intransparently and powerlessly to stadtwerke complaint

Suddenly the sparks are flying in forchheim city politics. But OB kirschstein lacks the energy to even take a stand. What an impotent and non-transparent performance by the mayor of the city of forchheim.

After muller-eichtmayer’s non-public expulsion from the municipal utility supervisory board, the greens are now under pressure and are rightly calling for light to be shed on the dubious process. But the mayor, in view of his short-circuited reaction – there is no other way to understand the threat of the police – would rather continue to act unmolested in the darkness.

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Savings bank president to resign by tuesday

savings bank president to resign by tuesday

Georg fahrenschon’s days at the helm of the german savings banks and giro association (dsgv) are probably over. In view of the tax affair of the top savings bank boss, the regional associations are exerting a lot of pressure behind the scenes.

As the german press agency learned on sunday from savings bank circles, the 49-year-old is to draw the consequences and resign from his office. "He has received the clear signal that things can’t go on like this," it hailed. Decision expected from powerful association president by tuesday.

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Haas and lisicki in the eighth finals at wimbledon

Haas and lisicki in the eighth finals at wimbledon

The last german hopefuls tommy haas and sabine lisicki are in the eighth finals at wimbledon.

The 35-year-old tennis veteran beat spanish player feliciano lopez 4:6, 6:2, 7:5, 6:4 to reach the final of his 14th tournament. Wimbledon participation for the third time the round of the best 16. Lisicki won 4:6, 6:2, 6:1 against former US open winner samantha stosur after a nervous start and losing the first set as well. The 23-year-old from berlin celebrated her second victory on center court after 100 minutes in her sixth duel with the australian.

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The ebern outdoor pool is in good shape

The open-air swimming pool in ebern is rustet for the coming swimming season. The building committee of the city council of ebern was convinced of this in its meeting on wednesday evening. Pool attendant klaus hanke informed the board during a site inspection. The construction site at the former vocational school between mozart- and albrecht-durer-strabe was also inspected.

"Preliminary work and the winterization of our outdoor pool have been completed to a large extent", said mayor jurgen hennemann (SPD) and continued: "we can be proud of our now 49 year old outdoor pool, it is still in very good shape." However, one must tremble that no rough investments become necessary. "We can’t afford a comprehensive renovation at the moment", so the mayor.

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Ex-secretary of state ulrich lorenz found dead in kiel harbor

ex-secretary of state ulrich lorenz found dead in kiel harbor

Former schleswig-holstein secretary of the interior ulrich lorenz was found dead in the port of kiel on monday. Police divers recover the body of the 57-year-old lawyer, who had been missing since the day before. The cause of death – whether accident, crime or suicide – initially remained unclear, as a police spokesman in neumunster said. Minister president torsten albig, interior minister andreas breitner and the state chairman of the SPD, ralf stegner, reacted with dismay to the news of the death.

Lorenz had left his home in felde on sunday morning to take the train to kiel and visit his office. According to initial investigations, the criminal investigation department assumed that lorenz had left his home at 6.Got off the train at keel's main station at 53 a.M. "His trail is lost there", announced the police. The body was discovered in the horn, the last part of the kieler forde in the inner city area. Lorenz was placed on temporary retirement in 2009 after the breakup of the grand coalition. He then worked as a lawyer in a kieler sozietat.

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Berlin: new corona warning lights and new quarantine rules

Berlin: new corona warning lights and new quarantine rules

In the future, the berlin corona warning light will take into account how many people need to be treated in hospital after a covid illness. This was decided by the senate on tuesday.

The aim was to further develop the traffic lights that berlin had already introduced in may 2020, said health senator dilek kalayci (SPD). According to the senate’s resolution, three indicators will remain in place.

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School students dance “dance street vii” in the kronach kreiskulturraum

school students dance

The preparations are in the final phase. The visitors are told about the 27. June to 7. July seven evenings a musical journey full of surprises with dance, acrobatics, music and singing offered.
Although the director of dance street, petra mahr-richter, who is now organizing this event for the seventh time, has a certain, yet joyful, excitement about her. In the visitors' room of the kaspar-zeub-gymnasium it begins to pay off.

She has been teaching sports at the kaspar-zeub-gymnasium for 24 years. Dancing has been a topic since she was a child. If you listen to her, it's not surprising that she founded a dance group at her school and has successfully participated with her girls in championships in upper franconia and bavaria.
Later, she had the idea of integrating boys into her dance group. That was the starting signal for "dance street". In the meantime, these performances have become an integral part of the school's annual program.

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Traustadt loses to stadtlauringen and has to go down to the a-class

With a 2-1 victory over SG traustadt/donnersdorf, the SG stadtlauringen/ballingshausen won promotion to the district league in the relegation match in sylbach. Nearly 500 spectators saw in high summer temperatures a mabiges play, with which one did not have the feeling that it went here around class preservation or promotion. It was only in the last half hour, after the traustadt team had scored the final goal to make it 2-1, that things got exciting. However, this did not change the result.

SG stadtlauringen/B. II –
SG traustadt/donn. 2:1
the relegation match between the SG traustadt/donnersdorf and the SG stadtlauringen/ballingshausen, who are now promoted to the A-class, resulted in a 2:1 victory in the 6th minute. In the first minute the 1:0 lead for stadtlauringen through lukas eich. In the 20. In the second minute, jannik scheuring shot at goal, but the traustadt keeper philipp schenk was on the spot. Otherwise there was not much going on: it did not feel like a deciding game. In the 30. In the second minute, it was again jannik scheuring who failed to score against the traustadt goalkeeper. In turn, udo mauer had a very good chance, but missed as well.
Traustadt put on more pressure in the second half. There were opportunities on both sides, but only in the 61. In the 18th minute, the bell rang again: jannik scheuring from stadtlauring broke through on the left wing and shot flat into the far corner from 18 meters to make it 2:0. Now the game seemed to be over.
The team from traustadt mobilized their strength once again, got in front of the opponent’s goal more often and scored several free kicks and corner balls. More scenes were now taking place in the stadtlauringer penalty area and, after a cross, cedric wolf scored the final goal ten minutes before the end. In this phase, the traustadter had quite a few opportunities – especially udo mauer. But they could also be glad that the people of stadtlauringer acted too unfocused in some counterattacks. The SG stadtlauringen/ballingshausen won the relegation match 2:1 and will now be promoted to the district class, while the SG traustadt has to go down to the A-class. Gg

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