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world news Diahuebs 12 November 2020

EU says looking forward to better ties with US under Biden

(AP) — The European “It is not a secret, (either), Borrell said. But he also al-
Union on Wednesday said that in the past 4 years things luded to the political prob-
it looked forward to better have become complicated," lems remaining in the U.S.
relations with the United Borrell told legislators at the where Trump has yet to con-
States under the leader- European Parliament. Both cede defeat. Biden is stead-
ship of President-elect Joe sides, despite being long- fastly pushing forward with
Biden, and expressed hope standing allies, disagreed over preparations for his presi-
the presidential transition key topics from trade and se- dency.
will not be “bumpy." curity to the fight against cli- “We still have to wait until
mate change. (the) 20th of January because
EU foreign affairs chief Josep The EU is expected to in- as you know very well it is a
Borrell warmly congratulated vite Biden soon to videocon- quite long transition ahead.
“Biden and Vice President- ference talks in an attempt Let’s hope it is not going to
elect Kamala Harris for their to give new impetus to the be a bumpy transition," Bor-
historic victory" and said the trans-Atlantic alliance. rell said.
27-nation bloc looked for-
ward to better relations than “You can rest assured that we Trump has variously stunned bers of the NATO military exports and pulling out of the
under President Donald are ready to engage fast with and disappointed the Euro- alliance that America leads Paris climate agreement and
Trump. the new administration," peans — most of them mem- — by slapping tariffs on EU the Iran nuclear deal.

Clashes at Poland’s Independence Day far-right march

(AP) — Polish police used ably a (case of) arson, this is tightening of an already strict
tear gas and rubber bul- how the far-right, overin- abortion law last month. The
lets in clashes with far- dulged by the ruling team, protesters are also demand-
right supporters Wednes- is observing Independence ing more rights for LGBT
day during an annual In- Day," Trzaskowski said on people and want the govern-
dependence Day march Facebook. ment to resign.
attended by thousands in Warsaw police reported a Organized by far-right
Warsaw that went ahead number of arrests and also groups, massive Indepen-
despite a ban on public said some injured police were dence Day marches have
gatherings due to the pan- hospitalized. Details are to be often led to clashes with lef-
demic. released Thursday. twing groups and the police.
The Nov. 11 national holiday
Many participants turned up Warsaw authorities had marks Poland’s regaining of
in cars and on motorbikes banned the march, which a sovereignty after World War
to observe social distancing. court also declared illegal, cit- I.
But a few thousand others ing the ban on gatherings of Other Independence Day
marched on foot, holding up went on fire, but firefighters groups ever since it took over five people intended to observances on Wednesday
downtown traffic for hours. put it out. No one was hurt. power in 2015. stop the accelerating spread included President Andrzej
Some threw firecrackers, Warsaw Mayor Rafal Trza- of the coronavirus. Duda and other leaders at-
stones and bottles at police Poland's right-wing govern- skowski said the cost of the The march came at a time tending a Catholic Mass in
in riot gear and into windows ment has been promoting damage would be known when thousands of Poles Warsaw and a ceremonial
with LGBT rainbow flags and sometimes even joining Thursday. have been holding daily na- changing of the guard at the
or signs of anti-government the march and has shown “Clashes with the police, tionwide protests against the Tomb of the Unknown Sol-
sentiment. An apartment acceptance of the far-right damage, trains held up, prob- government that backed the dier.

German court OKs police cadet's expulsion over Nazi concerns

(AP) — A German appeals court According to the Berlin-Brandenburg He was expelled from the academy In its Nov. 5 decision, the court said
has upheld the decision of the Administrative Court, the cadet after the April 2019 incident due the police department in the state
state of Brandenburg to expel a phonetically spelled the last name to “doubts about his loyalty to the that surrounds Berlin was justified
police academy cadet for using Jung with the German words constitution and character,” the in throwing the cadet out of the
Nazi-related terminology during “Jude,” “untermensch,” Nazi and court said. The cadet was not named academy. It said there was other
a class exercise on using the “gaskammer” or “genozid”: Jew, publicly in line with German privacy evidence in addition to “the serious
phonetic alphabet during radio subhuman, Nazi and gas chamber or laws. misconduct during the radio traffic
calls, authorities said Wednesday. genocide. exercise.”

Chinese shoppers spend over $100 billion in shopping fest

(AP) - Chinese consum- bao and Tmall, the e-com- On rival platform JD.com, from small online stores to has become the world’s larg-
ers spent over a hundred merce platforms operated by consumers racked up 271.5 international brands like Ap- est, regularly dwarfing Black
billion dollars during this Alibaba, China’s largest e- billion yuan ($40.9 billion) in ple, Nike and L’Oreal, partic- Friday and Cyber Monday
year’s Singles’ Day shop- commerce company. sales over the same period. ipate in the festival by slash- sales in the U.S.
ping festival, signaling a ing prices on their products.
rebound in consumption The final sales figure exceed- The annual Singles’ Day The Singles’ Day festival is
as China recovers from ed last year’s $38.4 billion shopping festival, the world’s The annual shopping festival named as such because the
the coronavirus pandem- over 24 hours, after Alibaba largest of its kind, offers is closely watched as a ba- main shopping day falls on
ic and a battering of the extended its sales period this shoppers generous discounts rometer for consumption in Nov. 11, which when written
economy. year for the first time as it on a variety of products, China. Alibaba, which pio- numerically as 11.11 resem-
sought to help boost sales from fresh produce to luxury neered the shopping festival, bles “bare branches”, a Chi-
From Nov. 1 to Nov. 11, for merchants affected by the items. held its first Singles’ Day sale nese expression for the single
shoppers spent 498.2 billion coronavirus pandemic. in 2009. Over the past de- and unattached.
yuan ($75.1 billion) on Tao- Merchants big and small, cade, the shopping bonanza