Category: Health

In Ivory Coast, President Ouattara is running for re-election on Saturday. Opponents are calling for a boycott. Dozens have already died in the election campaign.

The police station set on fire by opposition militants in the town of Bonoua on Aug. 13 Photo: Luc Ghago/reuters

BONOUA/ Fernand Wognin Sangha is busy. In the blazing midday sun, he hands out T-shirts with the portrait of President Alassane Ouattara. He checks that the white and blue plastic chairs are standing neatly and checks the music system. Two hours remain before the Ivory Coast’s health minister is due to arrive in Bonoua. An important visit for the town, thinks Fernand Wognin Sangha, youth organizer of the ruling RHDP (Rally of Houphouetists for Democracy and the People) in the town. That the 78-year-old president will not come in person is a pity, but all right, he says. "He can’t be everywhere so close to the election," says the young politician.

All of a sudden, Democrats are arguing over who is furthest left. Sanders and Warren are in form, Biden seems to have had his day.

Many expected a clash – instead, Sanders and Warren played ball with each other Photo: ap

"Fire Pantaleo," echoes through the hall as the Democratic presidential candidates debate broadcast by CNN opens in Detroit on Wednesday night. The heckling is a call to arms for New York Mayor and sideline presidential candidate Bill de Blasio, who is struggling to fire Pantaleo, the police officer in whose chokehold cigarette salesman Eric Garner died five years ago. Later, other hecklers point out the practice of deportations: "Stop the deportations," they demand. Meanwhile, on stage, the Democrats are bashing each other’s pasts.

Journalists and psychologists like to diagnose Trump with a mental disorder. This is fatal – for psychiatry and for society.

Insane or insanely rational, doing what his voters expect him to do? Donald Trump Photo: dpa

Michael Wolff’s insider report "Fire and fury. Inside the Trump White House" about Donald Trump’s unstable and immature personality has reignited the debate about the mental health of the US president. "Donald Trump is on his way to dementia," writes Jakob Augstein on Spiegel Online. Psychiatrists and psychologists comment on the question of whether Trump has a mental illness in talk and late-night shows, interviews and newspaper articles.

They have been announced for a long time. But in everyday practice, robots have so far been used almost exclusively for simple assistance.

There is still a great need for research into the use of care robots Photo: dpa

The challenge is clear: More and more people in Germany are getting older, and many of them are becoming nursing cases. What is less clear is how our society should prepare for the impending "nursing emergency." Can technology provide a solution, possibly even the use of robots to help people in need of care?

Police chief Kandt should have known that the partial evacuation of Rigaer94 was illegal. His vice president had warned early on, they say.

Demonstration in front of Riager94 in July 2016 Photo: dpa

Whether the topic of video surveillance, the establishment of a position for an independent police commissioner or the abolition of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution – there is much to discuss when the Red-Red-Green coalition meets to discuss the topic of internal security. Police Commissioner Klaus Kandt will also be discussed. With still Interior Senator Frank Henkel (CDU), Kandt is immovably linked to the scandal around Rigaer Strabe 94, which took its course in the summer.