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Thailand: Boys soccer team lost in cave found alive A Thai provincial governor said 12 teenage soccer players and their coach whowent missing in a cave more nine days agowere found alive on Monday. Aninternational search effort, including experts from China, Australia, the US and Britain, had been ongoingsince the group went missing inside the Tham Luang Nang Non 10-kilometer (6-mile) underground cave complex. What we know so far Chiang Rai Governor Narongsak Osottanakorn said "Thai Navy seals have found all 13 with signs of life"Rescue workers have not yet been able to move the team A doctor will be sent in to check on themThe current plan is to drain all the flood water out of the cave before retrieving the teamAnmar Mirza, the US National Cave Rescue Commission coordinator, said many challenges are ahead for rescue diversMirza said the primary decision is whether to try and evacuate the boys

Belgium charges couple for allegedly plotting terror attack against Iranian group Belgian prosecutors suspect a married couple of "having attempted to carry out a bomb attack" at a conference of an Iranian dissident group, officials said on Monday. The 38-year-old man and the 33-year-old woman, both Belgian nationals of Iranian heritage, allegedly intended to target a militant group calledPeopleʼs Mujahedeen of Iran, also known as MEK.The controversial group, listed as a terror organization by the US from 1997 to 2012, held a summit on Saturday in the French town of Villepinte outside of Paris. Belgian police intercepted the couple ahead of the event and found about half a kilogram (one pound) of home-made explosives in their car, alongside a detonator.

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Emmanuel Macron replaces French ambassador to Hungary after pro-Orban comments He has been replaced although there is some confusion about timeline

The French ambassador to Hungary, Eric Fournier, came under fire after the publication of pro-Orban comments.

Thyssenkrupp agrees to Tata merger to become Europeʼs second-biggest steelmaker One of Germanyʼs oldest industrial giants has agreed to a merger deal with one of Indiaʼs biggest steelmakers. Thyssenkrupp sought the deal as a way to overcome challenges caused by cheap Chinese steel. Thyssenkruppʼs supervisory board signed off on Friday on a planned merger of the companyʼs steelmaking business with Indiaʼs Tata to create the second-largest steelmaker in Europe. "Itʼs good news for steel and trailblazing for our future," Thyssenkrupp Steel Europe boss Andreas Goss was quoted as saying by the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung and

Welt am Sonntag newspapers. Read more: Thyssenkrupp steelworkers

back merger with Tata Steel The two firms will each have a 50 percent share in the new company called Thyssenkrupp Tata Steel, which will be headquartered in the Netherlands and employ 48,000 people at 34 sites worldwide. "With this merger weʼre in a better position ― through better access to customers and regions," Goss said. Executives hope the move, conceived to help both companies weather a global steel glut caused by massive Chinese production, will create up to €500 million in savings ($585 million).

The killing of a sacred crow On an early summerʼs evening in Berlin, a growing crowd of crows (a "murder", if you will) are gathering, somewhat ominously, around two large trees in a small park. There are possibly 100 or more of them, but they donʼt seem happy. They are cawing and squawking loudly as they fly around, circling each other, a growing urgency in their cries. After the lengthy conference, they fly off together into the distance, the mystery

of the crow cacophony no clearer. What could explain such behavior?Despite the "bird-brained" misnomer, crows — and other members of the Corvidae family, such as ravens, rooks, jays and magpies — are intelligent creatures. Various studies have shown their ability to develop and shape their own tools for gathering food, recognize individual human faces and even learn modes of human speech.

Mexico election: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador wins presidential vote Mexican voters overwhelmingly backed Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador inSundayʼs presidential vote, with at least 53 percent of voters casting their ballot for the leftist candidate. According to the first official projection, Ricardo Anaya of the conservative National Action Party (PAN) won between 22.1 and 22.8 percent, Jose Antonio Meade of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) between 15.7 and 16.3 percent, and independent candidate Jaime Rodriguez between 5.3 and 5.5 percent. "Peace and tranquility are the fruit of justice," Lopez Obrador said as he pledged "a plan of reconciliation and peace for Mexico." He is the first presidential candidate to receive more than 50 percent of the vote in more than three decades.

Germany prosecutes female ʼIslamic Stateʼ member for the first time For the first time, German authorities are prosecuting a female citizen for overseas involvement with the "Islamic State" group. Authorities have struggled to bring cases against female IS members, but the countryʼs attorney general has vowed to step up legal action against them. Morality police officer Authorities revealed several details about the 27-year-oldʼs case: Identified only as Jennifer W., she allegedly traveled to Iraq via Syria in 2014.

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Robert Lewandowski in Niko Kovac’s Bayern Munich plans When it came to his own personal ambitions, Kovac claimed his previous experience would give him a "slight advantage”. "Iʼm hoping to repay the faith Bayern have shown in me,” said the 46-year-old, who won the league and cup double in his final season in Munich. "I know how they think and I know what it takes to be successful here. My aim is to get the very best out of every single player. Weʼll have to see what comes out of that. At the end of the day, weʼre here to win titles.” Bayern will kick off their pre-season preparations later this month. Kovac will, however, be without his World Cup stars who wonʼt start training until 25 July. As a result, they will all miss out on Bayernʼs tour of the USA at the end of the month.

Tesla finally hits Model 3 production target

US carmaker Tesla produced 5,000 Model 3 electric sedans in the last week of its second quarter, with the final car rolling off the assembly line on Sunday only a couple of hours after a deadline set by CEO Elon Musk. The chief executive confirmed in an email to workersthat the firm hit its manufacturing target of 5,000 Model 3s per week. "It was pretty hectic", said one worker who described the scene as "all hands on deck." Another employer said the Fremont, California-based factory was in a state of "mass celebra-

tion" after the 5,000th car was made. All production issues fixed? "I think we just became a real car company," CEO Elon Musk said in his email seen by Reuters. The firm hit the Model 3 markwhile also achieving its production goals of 7,000 Model S and Model X vehicles in a week. After repeatedly pushing back internal targets, Tesla vowed in January to build 5,000 units of Model 3s per week before the close of the second quarter to demonstrate it could mass-produce the battery-powered sedan.

Depictions of disasters in art Hamburgʼs Kunsthalle new exhibition, Nature Unleashed: The Image of Catastrophe since 1600, is dedicated to artwork that has visually grappled with the topic of catastrophes ever since the early 17th century. Contemporary works are also part of the show. But why has man always taken pleasure from pictures that show misfortune, tragedy and suffering? Why is it that natural disasters so entirely captivate an onlooker? "Representations of catastrophes emotionally involve the

viewer, making him or her become emotional and stirring feelings of compassion," explains Markus Bertsch, curator of the exhibition in Hamburg. A disasterʼs magnetic pull "Each person maintains a certain basic interest in catastrophes. They have a sort of magnetic effect. But after a specific point, the moral principles come into play," Bertsch says. The curator adds that thatʼs the reason why most people first look atnews, photos or videos of catastrophes, even if they actually donʼt want to, before they decide to turn away from the topic.

Nostalgia can be a powerful temptation. But the dozens who line up each morning at Germanyʼs central bank, the Bundesbank, are perhaps among the less sentimental. A smorgasbord of the elderly, young mothers with children in tow and students, they have one thing in common and more often than not itʼs hidden inside a heavy bag. Nearly 28 years after the complete demise of the East German mark and 16 years after the introduction of the euro, these people are patiently waiting to hand in some of the billions of old deutschmarks still in circulation. Read more: German banker takes 6 months to count 1.2 million inheritance pennies by hand Today German marks are travel souvenirs, bits of history forgotten at the back of a drawer or still stashed in safety deposit boxes. Most assuredly, marks are not an old-fashioned alternative to cryptocurrencies. Yet with so much of the cash still out there, many more Germans are holding onto the old currency than will probably ever own bitcoin, the most famous digital asset. It is no secret thatGermans love carrying and paying with wads of cash, and despite being branded with a dark history of super inflation they are also hoarding a currency that no store or taxi driver will accept. Amazingly, its limited practicality doesnʼt seem to bother Germans.

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Purple paradise: check out this lavender field just outside Budapest Forget Provence. A sweeping perfumed purple lavender field awaits just outside of Budapest. Hues of indigo and mauve mingle in the rolling rows, where an afternoon stroll is a special experience. This splendid place is by the foot of Nagy-Kevély Hill at Pilisborosjenő, half-an-hour from the capital.

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Despite having an area of just 1,100 square kilometers, Hong Kong is home to 7.3 million people. This makes the Asian financial hub one of the worldʼs most densely populated and expensive cities to live in. In fact, Hong Kong retained its title of "worldʼs least affordable city" for the eighth consecutive time this year. According to Demographia, an American research institute, it will now take an average income household more than 19 years to buy a place to live. That too, if they donʼt pay taxes and have no other expenses. It is not unusual for families to live in cramped "sub-divided" units where one flat is partitioned into several self-contained housing units.