Riots and sexual assaults overshadow a folk festival in Swabia. Women are harassed, have been pelted with bottles, the police. Police temporarily loses control of the situation – and draws parallels to the New Year’s Eve in Cologne. At a festival in Baden-Württemberg Schorndorf weekend violence has escalated: Up to 1,000 teenagers and young adults were throwing bottles at the police and festival participants. According to police, it was for many to migrants. Source Panorama
Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP) says it has suspended the delivery of aircraft engines to “countries with unclear usage” in the wake of reports that some of those engines are being used on Turkish combat drones deployed by Azerbaijan in fighting against Armenian forces in Nagorno-Karabakh. Source CBC
Protesters turned out by the hundreds in Turin, Milan and other Italian cities to vent their anger, sometimes violently, at the latest pandemic restrictions. Source Cumnock Chronicle
The number of Chinese boats allegedly illegally fishing for flying squid has been increasing rapidly in Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) off Ishikawa Prefecture’s Noto Peninsula.
In the first nine months of this year, 2,586 Chinese fishing boats received warnings from the Fisheries Agency to leave the Yamatotai area in the Sea of Japan, nearly four times more than a year before. Source Japan Times
