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German neoNazis launch hate campaign after Syrian boy dies The small town of Schönberg in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has become the scene of an ugly neo-Nazi hate campaign after a young boy was hit by a tractor on June 20. Two men have since been identified in connection with the crime. In the weeks after the accident, swastikas were twice daubed at the site, and twice removed by local authorities. Local police reported that the 9-year-old boy had lost his balance while riding his bike on the sidewalk and had strayed onto the road, where he was hit by the tractor. He died a few days later in hospital. Two weeks later, on July 8, a local resident reported that a large swastika had been painted at the spot on the sidewalk with white paint. It was removed, but a new swastika, also in white paint, was found at the same spot on July 28, this time with "1:0" written next to it.
Staufen child sex abuse case: Spanish national sentenced to 10 years in prison
A court in southwestern Germany on Monday sentenced a Spanish national to 10 years in prison for rape, sexual abuse, forced prostitution and producing child pornography. The 33-year-old defendant had previously admitted paying to rape the 9-year-old boy for money on multiple occasions in the town of Staufen, near Freiburg and filming his crimes against the boy. He is one of eight peopleimplicated in the case, which police described as one of the worst child sex abuse cases theyʼve ever investigated.
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IMF blames German trade surplus for trade tensions Now, even the IMF sees them as a reason for current trade tensions
Germanyʼs huge surpluses in global trade are not only part of US President Donald Trumpʼs sharp rhetoric in his campaign against this countryʼs exports.
When al-Qaida brought terror to East Africa Itʼs August 7, 1998, 10:30 a.m.Two assassins detonate a tanker truckfilled with explosives in front of the US embassy in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. Only nine minutes later, another bomb explodes, this time in neighboring Tanzania in front of the US embassy in Dar es Salaam. A total of 242 people were killed in these attacks, most of them in Nairobi, where the impact of the explosion destroyed the embassy’s facade and caused a neighboring house to collapse. "The attacks on the embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam on August 7th came as a real shock to many people," recalls Murithi Mutiga, a security expert at the International Crisis Group in Nairobi. "Most Kenyans and Tanzanians could hardly comprehend what could motivate people to unleash carnage on such a scale."
New demands by US regulator threaten Linde-Praxair deal
Chicago suffers deadly wave of gun violence
Lindeʼs share price tanked 9.1 percent in morning trading at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange on Monday, following an announcement by the German industrial gases maker that new measures demanded by US regulators could exceed a "threshold" agreed with Praxair — potentially scuppering the deal. The United Statesʼ Federal Trade Commission has indicated it wants the companies to sell more assets before it approves their deal. Linde said in a statement over the weekend that efforts to win approval for the merger
Police in Chicago said that a spate of deadly shootings over the weekend left at least 10 people dead and at least 59 wounded. The violence peaked early Sunday with several shootings, including one in a courtyard on the cityʼs South Side that injured eight people. Police attributed the shootings to gangs. Patrol Chief Fred Waller said that gang members are using large summer crowds as cover in some cases. "They take advantage of that opportunity and they shoot into a crowd, no matter who they hit," he said.
could be subject to requirements "more onerous than previously expected." Demands by US regulators for further divestitures "are likely to exceed a threshold for merger clearances previously agreed between Linde and Praxair," it added. Antitrust authorities on both sides of the Atlantic are closely scrutinizing the deal, which would create the worldʼs largest industrial gases firm with annual revenues of more than $30 billion (€25.9 billion), overtaking Lindeʼs longtime French rival Air Liquide.
Artur Brauner: 100 years old with 250 film productions under his belt His life story reads like a novel. Born on August 1, 1918 to a Polish Jewish family in Lodz, Poland, Artur Brauner fled the Nazis to the Soviet Union in 1940. In 1946, after the warʼs end and despite Germanyʼs horrific crimes, he decided to found his Central Cinema Company (CCC) in Berlin, establishing his studios on the grounds of the
onetime Spandau gunpowder factory in Berlin-Haselhorst. ʼTra la laʼ to prizewinning dramas Always taking a two-track approach to filmmaking, Brauner produced both the kind of light entertainment films he himself described as "tra la la" and prizewinning dramas and films dealing with the Nazi dictatorship.
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