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Tens of thousands rally in Munich against far-right and new police laws Tens of thousands of people celebrated German Unity Day by taking to the streets of Munich to rally against the regional government, less than two weeks before Bavarian state elections. Marching under the banner "Jetzt Giltʼs" (roughly translated as "Now itʼs time"), activists protested against thelocal Christian Social Union (CSU) governmentand its shift to the right amid the rise of the populist AfD. Demonstrators also denounced the stateʼs hard-line police bill that came into effect back in May.Authorities said at least 21,000 people took part in the demonstrations, although organizers placed the number at around 40,000.

ʼRolls-Royceʼ of whisky fetches record $1 million at auction One of the worldʼs most indemand whiskies has been auctioned off in Edinburgh, Scotland, with the buyer shelling out a record-breaking £848,750 ($1.1 million, €957,800) for the distilled spirit. The Scotch whisky, a Macallan Valerio Adami 1926, was one of just 24 bottles produced by the Macallan distillery in 1986. Distilled in 1926, the whisky spent 60 years aging in a cask before being bottled.

"Itʼs the Rolls-Royce of malts," said Martin Green, the whisky specialist at Bonhams, the luxury auction house that offered up the bottle on Wednesday. A private buyer from Asia placed the winning bid on the bottle via phone, Bonhams said. Bonhams drink expert Richard Harvey told the AFP news agency that interest from Asia in whisky is booming.

About "a third to 40 percent of our sales go out to buyers in the Far East," Harvey said.

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Irish authority investigates security failure Facebook data breach:

Irelandʼs data protection authority has launched a probe into the Facebook security breach that affected some 50 million users. The move could see EU law — and strict fines — come to bear on the social media giant.

Proportion of misspent EU funds falling The latest annual report of EU finance auditors has shown that the blocʼs budget misspending is steadily decreasing. Irregularities and fraud attempts are still in place, but accountability pressures are rising.

The level of irregularities in EU budget spending dropped again throughout 2017,the European Court of Auditors (ECA) said in its latest annual report on Thursday. The ECA is an independent audit institution of the European Union,with its regular reports being an essential element of the blocʼs accountability chain. The auditors said EU spending totaled €137.4 billion ($157.7 billion), or around €270 for every citizen in the 28-

member bloc. This amounted to just 0.9 percent of EU gross national income and represented roughly 2 percent of total public spending in member states. ECAʼs 2017 report said it found 13 instances of suspected fraud out of some 700 transactions audited last year. It said the cases were forwarded to the EUʼs anti-fraud office, OLAF. The survey emphasized that overall, the level of irregularities in EU spending reached 2.4 percent in 2017, down from 3.1 percent in 2016 and 3.8 percent in 2015. It noted that sufficient information was available from member statesto prevent or detect and correct a significant proportion of errors, for example in rural development payments.

A Germany Year in the US: Opening up the conversation They are very important to us.

German-American cultural relations continue to be very intense. They rest on a stable foundation. Postwar German culture was heavily influenced

by America and remains so to this day. For example, Iʼm going to see the newSpike Lee movie with my kids tonight... At the same time, important German cultural voices have been heard in the US — fromJoseph Beuys toGerhard Richter, to

name just two. And when Germanyʼs president recently opened a new place of intellectual exchange, the Thomas Mann House in Los Angeles, it was warmly received. Of course, people working in the field of culture and those interested in culture in the US tend to be critical of the countryʼs current administration. We know that we only reach part of the population through cultural ties. But those relations are very close and intact.

Peru revokes Alberto Fujimoriʼs pardon as ex-president hospitalized Alberto Fujimori has been taken to a hospital, just hours after the countryʼs top court annulled a pardon granted to the ex-president last year that protected him from prosecution for human rights crimes. Earlier Wednesday, Supreme Court Judge Hugo Nunez ruled that Fujimori was to serve out the remainder of his 25year prison sentence because the pardon he received in December was incompatible with the American Convention on Human Rights, to which Peru is a signatory. This decision is inhuman, itʼs unjust," Fujimoriʼs daughter, opposition politician Keiko Fujimori, said after the court ordered her father back to jail.

UK, Australia blame Russia for series of global cyberattacks Britain has said Russiaʼs military intelligence agency GRU was "almost certainly" behind a campaign of online attacks targeting political institutions, businesses, media and sport bodies around the world. Attacks the UK has linked to Moscow include the 2017 BadRabbit ransomware attack that targeted an airport in Odessa and the Kyiv subway system, as well as media outlets in Russia, and the attempted hacking of the World Anti-Doping Agency in 2017 in Switzerland . Other incidents include the hack of theUS Democratic National Committee in 2016and the theft of emails from a UK-based TV station in 2015.

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Police identify source of deadly Novichok nerve agent in UK deaths British police announced Friday that they found a bottle containing the Novichok nerve agent in the home of one of the victims of a nerve agent poisoning in Wiltshire last month.

"On Wednesday, 11 July, a small bottle was recovered during searches of Charlie Rowleyʼs house in Amesbury," police said in a statement. The statement said scientists from Porton Down defense laboratory confirmed the bottle contained the Novichok nerve agent, the same poison used against Sergei Skripal and his daughter earlier this year. "Further scientific tests will be carried out to try and establish whether it is from the same batch that contaminated Sergei and Yulia Skripal in March," the force said, adding that a link to the Skripals remained "a main line of enquiry for police." Dawn Sturgess died in a hospitalon Sunday after exposure to the nerve agent. Her partner, Rowley, isstill in critical condition, but has regained consciousness. The Foreign Office said on Friday it had invited independent technical experts from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons early next week "to independently confirm the identity of the nerve agent."

Croatian court rejects perjury charge against Luka Modric A Croatian court has rejected a charge of perjury against Luka Modric, recently named as the best football player in the world. Croatian prosecutors have accused him of giving false testimony at the trial of an exexecutive of his former club Dinamo Zagreb. It related to Mr Modricʼs transfer to Tottenham Hotspur in 2008.

German firm fined millions in ʼsausage cartelʼ case Sausage prices had been artificially inflated in Germany for decades, according to the nationʼs anti-cartel authority. Food producer Wiltmann faces a large fine after refusing to hide behind the "sausage loophole."

Germanyʼs "sausage cartel" included over 20 companies that had conspired to keep sausage prices high by using their "sandwich position" between meat suppliers and supermarkets, a regional court in Düsseldorf ruled on Tuesday. The court rejectedthe appeal of food producing company Wiltmannand ordered it to pay a fine of €6.5 million ($7.5 million) for price fixing.

Company executive Wolfgang Ingold should personally dish out €350,000. The court found that the north German company was involved

in the scheme between 1997 and 2009, but Germanyʼs anti-cartel watchdog believes that the conspiracy first started in the early 1980s. "The cartel was set up to last," presiding judge Ulrich Egger said on Tuesday, comparing the sausage producers to a "small family." According to the judge, the firmsʼ representatives would consult by telephone and agree on raising the prices of their products.

"It was also determined who would lead the way, based on tactical reasons," the court said.

Study shows glyphosate may be killing honeybees Glyphosate, the worldʼs most widely used weed killer, has caused concerns over its potential risk to human health and the environment for decades.

Brand-new research from the University of Texas at Austin shows that glyphosate is hazardous for bees. For this study, scientists exposed honeybees to glyphosate at levels known to occur in crop fields, yards and roadsides. The researchers painted the beesʼ backs with colored dots so they could be tracked and later recaptured. Three

days later, they observed that the honeybees exposed to glyphosate lost some of the beneficial bacteria in their guts and were more susceptible to infection and death from harmful bacteria. Their conclusionis that by altering a beeʼs gut microbiome — the ecosystem of bacteria living in the beeʼs digestive tract, including those that protect it from harmful bacteria — glyphosate compromises its ability to fight infection. And that, scientists believe, is evidence that glyphosate might be contributing to the decline of honeybees and native bees around the world.

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T-Mobile reports cybersecurity incident T-Mobile US and its unit Metro PCS told customers that cybersecurity staff found and shut down unauthorized access to certain information on August 20 and immediately reported the matter to authorities. The company added that no financial data, social security numbers or passwords were compromised during the attackon its networks, admitting, though, that other personal information like names, email IDs, phone numbers as well as account numbers or account types (postpaid or prepaid) may have been exposed. T-Mobile said that about 3 percent of its 77 million customers could have been affected (roughly 2 million people potentially affected).

Geely the car industryʼs rising ʼprofitability starʼ Ferdinand Dudenhöffer from the CAR Center Automotive Research at Germanyʼs DuisburgEssen University called Chinese auto manufacturer Geely "the profitability star of the worldʼs car industry." A fresh study by the center points out that on average, a Geely car costs just €9,529 ($10,942), but the companysecures a 14.4 percent profit from revenues before tax and interest. Dudenhöffer says thatʼs a lot more than, say, the profit margins of foreign rivals BMW, Toyota or PSA-Opel. The worldʼs largest carmaker, Wolfsburg-based Volkswagen, logs a profit margin of only 8.2 percent, the survey says. Geely is part of the Zhejiang Geely Holding,which also owns Volvo Cars, London EV-Taxi and Lotus.The holding has also acquired a 10 percent stake in Daimler.

According to the CAR researchers, Geelyʼs rapid rise is based on its successful compact car platform, which it developed together with Sweden-based Volvo.

"What Ferdinand Piëch managed to implement at VW from 1993 with the help of his platform strategyis in a way being copied now by Geelyʼs main shareholder and founder, Li Shufu," said Ferdinand Dudenhöffer, adding that the Chinese were becoming major players in the global auto market.