Afternoon News

The boss of the airline Ryanair: “Germany is fucked”. The Irish low-cost airline is therefore planning to reduce the number of flights in Germany. From the summer, the number of flights from Hamburg will be cut by 60% and from Berlin by 20%. There will be no more flights at all to Dortmund, Dresden and Leipzig.

President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan explained that there are now only two heads of state in the world with many years of experience in politics - him and Vladimir Putin. “Among the world's heads of state, only I and Putin are left. Your humble servant has been [in power] for 22 years, Putin for just as long,” he emphasized. Erdoğan also pointed out that the next two to three months will be very important for the world. He did not specify which specific processes were involved.

Mohamed al-Bashir was appointed caretaker prime minister of the Syrian transitional government until March 1, 2025. Al-Bashir was governor of Idlib during Assad's rule.

Turkish military convoy reaches Jarabulus, direction Manbij, northern Syria.

In the center of Berlin, several thousand migrants celebrate the takeover of power in Syria by “progressive” jihadists

Wuhan is now called Kwango and is located in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Disease X is said to have broken out there, with deaths reported. The pandemic apparatus is slowly warming up: An Italian is in hospital with “symptoms”. But we don't know what the disease is. Disease X can be anything.

Former Navy veteran Daniel Penny was acquitted in New York of the charge of negligent homicide in the death of African-American Jordan Neely. The case, which attracted national and international attention, led to strong reactions, particularly from the Black Lives Matter movement.

Neely was killed on a New York subway in May 2023 by Penny's intervention after he appeared aggressive and threatening, according to passengers. Penny, who had Neely in a chokehold, defended himself in court with the intention of protecting fellow passengers. The jury found in favor of the defense, which emphasized that Penny had no intent to kill.