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Medical school in Japan manipulating exam scores to fail women Tokyo Medical University found itself as the center of a scandal on Thursday, being accused by multiple media reports of having systematically skewed entrance exam results to favor male applicants. Separate reports by the Yomiuri newspaper, public broadcaster NHK and Kyodo news all said that the school had been cutting womenʼs scores by up to 10 percent over concerns that female doctors quit working when they start families. Although Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has declared it a priority of his to create a society "where women can shine," but that has yet to manifest itself in reality. In Japan, although many women have university degrees, they still face discriminatory hiring practices and lower wages, coupled with long working hours andlittle domestic help from their husbands.
Jerusalem Gay Pride held amid threats from hardline groups Some 30,000 people are expeted to take part inJerusalemʼs annual gay pride paradeon Thursday under heavy police security. At least 2,500 police officials will be deployed to protect the parade participants from hardline religious groups. In 2015,an ultra-Orthodox zealot stabbed to death a gay pride marcherand injured several other people. Organizers say the theme of the march is to honor elderly members and pioneers of Israelʼs LGBT community, but a new government law on surrogacy parenthood rights has overshadowed the event. The bill expanded surrogacy rights to single females, but excluded single men. At least 100,000 people took to the streets to protest the law thateffectively prevented gay couples from having a child through surrogacy.
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Pope Francis makes seismic shift to Catholic Church policy Death penalty:
The Vatican has announced that it will pursue the worldwide abolition of the death penalty. Pope Francis has argued that capital punishment denies the dignity inherent in all humans.
EU reaps healthy yield from US-China soybean spat EU chief Juncker last week grandly promised US President Trump that Europe would buy more US soybeans and gas. In return the US would step back on car tariffs. But is the EU offering anything more than todayʼs reality? European Commission figures released this week showed that 37 percent of the EUʼs soybean imports in June came from the US, compared with 9 percent in July 2017. It sounds impressive and while the EU has traditionally been the second-biggest buyer of US soyabeans, it remains a distant second to China, which bought $12.3 billion (€10.2 billion) of US soybeans in 2017 compared with $1.6 billion exported to the EU. Furthermore, one
month does not a summer make. "Possibly as soon as late next month we expect China to resume purchases of US soybeans although less than in previous years," Michael Magdovitz, an oilseeds analyst at Rabobank International, told DW. He added that even if the EU bought soybeans only from the US, it would add about 10 million tons of demand and offset only about 35 percent of the 27 million tons of demand lost from China if Beijing put a total stop to American purchases. The EU heralded the rise as "the first concrete follow-up to the EU-US joint statement agreed in Washington between European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and US President Donald Trump."
Fabled Nazi gold train: Is the hunt over? The two amateur historians had boundless faith that they would one day find the legendary "treasure train" believed to be hidden by Nazi troops in an underground mountain tunnel as the Germans fled the area between Wroclaw and Walbrzych in southwestern Poland at the end of WW II. Two years after grabbing the attention of the international media with their spectacularly ambitious hunt, Andreas Richter ended the joint search with
Piotr Koper. ʼ95 percent sure it existsʼ Itʼs over, Richter told the DPA press agency, arguing that while he hadnʼt lost belief in the trainʼs existence – "I am 95 percent sure it exists" –, he was frustrated by "inaccuracies" in the excavation procedure. The initial excavation didnʼt go deep enough, he said, adding that a second attempt never materialized because his partner kept on postponing. At some point, Richter was fed up.
Zimbabwe election fuels further political crisis On July 30, Zimbabwe held its first presidential election since autocratic ruler Robert Mugabe (pictured casting his vote) was forced to step down following a brief military takeover in November last year. Many hoped the vote would usher in a new, peaceful and democratic era in the African country after years of repression under Mugabe, who ruled the country from 1980 to 2017. The controversial vote, which EU observers criticized for an "unlevel playing field and lack of trust" in the run up to the election, saw the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF) secure the most seats in the countryʼs parliament. But fraud claims and a delay in issuing official results sparked violent protests in the country.
Church sex scandals shake Indiaʼs Kerala state Wracked by a rash of sex scandals, the church is facing one of its lowest moments in the southern state of Kerala. Four priests of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church are currently facing charges of raping and blackmailing a woman in a cycle of abuse and threats lasting almost 20 years. The woman told police that her ordeal began while still a minor in the 1990s when an Orthodox priest at a church forced her into sex.
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Roma Holocaust Memorial Day: Auschwitz survivor Mano Höllenreiner recalls Nazi ʼGypsy Campʼ The "Gypsy Camp" at AuschwitzBirkenau wasclosed on the night of August 2, 1944. That night thousands of men, women and children were killed in the campʼs gas chambers and their bodies burnt. Recently, historians at the Auschwitz Museum discovered that before the sun came up on August 3, at least 4,000 people died, far more than the 2,900 previously thought to have been murdered. Shortly before this took place, Mano had been transferred with his parents and his sister Josefine, nicknamed Lilly, to the Ravensbrück concentration camp. He lost many relatives at Auschwitz: Cousins and their children, aunts and "my poor old grandmother, who I loved dearly — was also gassed." The Höllenreiner family lost 36 members to Nazi persecution. His mother also had Jewish ancestors; more than 100 members of her family were killed. The 84-year-old says he no longer returns to Auschwitz it is too much for him to bear.
Max Meyer gets his big money move to the Premier League. But at what cost?
Google reportedly working on censored search engine for China
Women entrepreneurs paying their dues
Don’t be evil, says Google. The corporate motto may suggest a desire to be seen as virtuous but that desire will look hollow if reports that the search giant is willing to bow to Chinese censorship demands are true.
It all started in Lund, a Swedish university town near Malmo. About 90,000 people live in the town, almost 50,000 of them are students, among them Julia Beyer. The young woman from Munich is earning her masterʼs degree in entrepreneurship and innovation. She always knew that she wanted to start her own company but even she is stunned that at age 25, her first product is already available throughout Europe. "I do a lot of sports and spend a lot of time outside. I like to surf, which means I then have to protect my skin against the sun. But the available sunscreens usually contain very harmful substances." Read more: Germanyʼs corporate battle of the sexes This realization was the spark that led to the establishment of her company, Suntribe, which she founded with her fellow students, Karl Roos and Hampus TarrasWahlberg. Her goal was to develop a non-toxic sunscreen, thereby protect the environment and sell the lotion throughout the world. "Chemical UVfilters are allegedly responsible for damaging coral reefs. That was another reason why we wanted an environmentally friendly alternative," Beyer explains enthusiastically.
Multiple media sources are reporting that Google is working on a search service for the Chinese market,specifically modified to meet the censorship demands of the countryʼs governing Communist Party. Chinese state media has denied the claims, with the stateowned publication China Securities Daily, run by the countryʼs state securities regulator, saying the reports are "not true". However, news website The Inter‐ cept and later The New York Times reported on Wednesday that the
California-based search giant is working on a mobile search app and search software that would leave out websites and search terms blacklisted by the Chinese government. The New York Times said its report was based on information provided to it by two people — who spoke on condition of anonymity — with knowledge of Googleʼs plans. They claim that Google has already demonstrated the service to the Chinese government, with negotiations between them ongoing.
King penguin die-off: ʼTheyʼre more or less stuck thereʼ Roughly 90 percent of king penguins on an island between South Africa and Antarctica are estimated to have died over the past few decades.
the Antarctic polar front, which is an area south of Crozet. And due to global warming, they will have to travel farther and farther south as this border moves south.Iʼve seen other
Klemens Pütz: I was actually a bit surprised by this development because elsewhere king penguins are doing fine. That said, we have anticipated that, due to climate change, the king penguins on Crozet [islands] would not do very well in the future. Why those ones specifically? Because theyʼre used to getting their food at
prised if itʼs cats and mice, because they coexist with king penguins elsewhere quite happily. But, of course, individuals, or populations [of cats], can learn to attack king penguins — and particularly their chicks. So we will have to find out by going there.
people wondering whether disease or even cats could have played a part in this die-off. Is that possible? I would be sur-
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Outcry in Uganda over compulsory HIV test 19-year-old Methia Nalukwago, a student at Makerere University in the capital Kampala, is excited by the proposal to have all students undergo compulsory HIV/AIDS testing. Some students, she says, have been living in denial. "Our friends, we study with them but you look at someone and you are like, ʼare you sure you are not sick or something like that?ʼ Of course you never come out to tell them but you feel it deep down inside you, this person must be sick because of the symptoms that show," Nalukwago told DW. "Compulsory testing for HIV will help us know our HIV status and where we stand." Studies conducted by the Ugandan AIDS Commission show lack of sufficient information among the youth is contributing to an increase of HIV. Jane Were, the head teacher of Forest Hill College in Mukono district located 21 kilometers (13 miles) east of Kampala, said they are grappling with HIV in schools.