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German mother jailed for prostituting young son online

A court in southwestern Germany on Tuesday sentenced a 48-year-old woman to 12 and a half years in prison for offering her son, now 10, up for sex on the darknet in exchange for payment. The womanʼs 39-yearold partner was given a 12-year sentence followed by preventive detention. They were themain suspects in a pedophile ringthat operated out of Staufen, near the city of Freiburg. The couple — named as Berrin T. and Christian L. — both confessed not only to pimping the victim out to a number of men, but also to carrying out abuse themselves.

How the European Union plans to get around United States sanctions on Iran

The European Unionʼs top foreign affairs representative Federica Mogherini and three EU foreign ministers, Jeremy Hunt from the UK, Jean-Yves Le Drian from France and Heiko Maas from Germany, have jointly condemned American sanctions against Iran.

While the US has withdrawn from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action — otherwise known as the Iran nuclear deal — which aims to ensure Iranʼs peaceful use of nuclear energy, the EU, China, Russia and Iran continue to uphold the agreement. Now the EU wants to circumvent the current US sanctions, which will also punish European companies that do business with Iran.

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EU defiant in face of Trump struggles to step up threats over Iran trade cyberdefense She said itʼs up to Europeans to decide who they trade with

The EU foreign affairs foreign encouraged companies to ignore US President Donald Trumpʼs threats on doing business with Iran.

German exports still defy trade worries In the first half of 2018, German trade remained on a solid growth path. But is stagnation in July a first foreboding of a slowdown caused by mounting concern over US President Donald Trumpʼs trade measures?

According to fresh trade figures released by the German statistics office, Destatis, on Tuesday, the countryʼs exports surged 3.9 percent to €662.8 billion ($788.9 billion) in the first six months of 2018 to, compared with the same period last year. Imports even climbed to a new all-time high, marking a 10.2 percent increase. Germany imported goods worth €541.3 bil-

lion in the first half of 2018, taking in goods worth €93.7 billion in June alone — the highest ever volume recorded for a single month. "Global growth and stronger demand from within the European Union are supporting German exports," said Kevin Heidenreich, trade expert at the German Chambers of Commerce and Trade (DIHK). At the same time, he warned however that there was "no reason for euphoria." Germanyʼs controversial and much-discussed trade surpluswas nearly unchanged, at €121.5 billion after reaching €121.3 billion in the first six months of the previous year.

Will Donald Trumpʼs star on Hollywood Walk of Fame be removed?

The West Hollywood City Council voted Monday evening in favor of a resolution calling for the removal of US President Donald Trumpʼs star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the media insider news outlet The Holly‐ wood Reporter said. The resolution, which the media outlet said received unanimous approval, urged the Los Angeles City Council and the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce to take

the presidentʼs star out of the pavement "due to his disturbing treatment of women and other actions that do not meet the shared values of the City of West Hollywood, the region, state and country." Trump received his star in 2007 for hiswork as a media producer on the Miss Universe Pageant and the highly popular reality TV show The Apprentice, which he also hosted.

Along a broad, tree-lined avenue near the heart of Bonn, a shimmering glass and concrete building rises above a small side street. A black iron fence, retrofitted to secure the perimeter, bears a warning: This is military territory. The office complex houses the German militaryʼs new Cyber and Information Domain Service (CIDS), a command center that oversees a vast team of soldiers and civilians defending and protecting the Bundeswehrʼs critical networks and information systems. Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen inaugurated the cyber command at a ceremony in April 2017, hailing it as a milestone in German defense ascyberattacks become a fundamental threatto security. Read more: Bundeswehr cybersecurity center trains elite counterhackers "There are daily incursions on our systems and networks, regardless of notions like peace, crisis, conflict or war.

They come from various players, private and governmental," she said.

"And to be clear: When the Bundeswehrʼs networks are attacked, we are allowed to defend ourselves."

The murky world of the darknet The so-called darknet is a cyber underworld where child prostitution and other criminal activities are advertised. Sharing of photos and videos of child sexual assault is rife. Those who access disturbing material there are usually looking for it.

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ECJ rules students cannot use online photos without consent On Tuesday, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that students may not use any image downloaded from the internet for school reportswithout permissionfrom the photographer who made it. The court in Luxembourg made the ruling in a case involving a German high school. A photographer sued the school in Waltop, in the state of North RhineWestphalia, for 400 euros ($460) in damages after he saw a photo he had taken of the Spanish city of Cordoba on its website. He also demanded the photo be removed from the schoolʼs site. The photo appeared in a report presented by one of the schoolʼs students. The student hadsimply downloadedthe picture from an online travel website and pasted it into her presentation without the photographerʼs permission. ʼPublic reproductionʼ and third-party usage The photographer claims the travel magazine alone was licensed to use his photo, which appeared on its site without a copyright attribution.

Therefore, he argued, third party usage was aninfringement of his rights, a claim with which the ECJ agreed.

Berlin hosts Europeʼs best in 2018 Athletics Championship The European Athletics Championship began in Berlin on Monday, with 1600 athletes from 51 European countries participating. Seven reigning Olympic champions, 15 world champions and 34 European champions from Amsterdam 2016 will go head to head in the 24th edition of the 84-year-old event. It will be the second part of this yearʼs newmulti-sport European Championships, co-hosted

by Glasgow and Berlin.

EU confronts member states issuing citizenship for money

The European Commission is calling on EU countries to be more cautious when granting citizenships, according to an interview with Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova published in the German daily Die Welt on Tuesday.

Jourova said an increasing number of EU member states had been issuing citizenship to third-country nationals if they had previously invested large sums of money in their respective countries. Read more: ʼGolden visasʼ: EU offers the rich bigger bang for the buck The Commission was "extremely concerned" about the escala-

tion of "golden passports," being offered, the Czech politician said. EU countries offering "golden visa" programs included: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Portugal, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Between 2013 and 2017, Hungary also ran a golden visa program. Transparency International accused them of running essentially "secret" schemes without EU oversight or disclosure of statistics, with the Schengen zone and the single European market as the key selling point.

Domino effect could heat up Earth by 5 degrees Celsius Even if the Paris agreement is successfully implemented, the planet could still heat up by 5 degrees Celsius, scientists warn. This "hothouse" climate would make parts of the world uninhabitable.

A joint study by international climate scientists from Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Australia presents a bleak prognosis: Even if the goals of the Paris climate agreement are achieved and global warming is limited to maxiumum 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) compared to pre-industrial levels, the climate sys-

tem could still pass a devastating tipping point. "Human emissions of greenhouse gas are not the sole determinant of temperature on Earth," said Will Steffen, lead author of the study and climate researcher at the Australian National University and the Swedish research institute Stockholm Resilience Centre. "Our study suggests that human-induced global warming of 2 degrees Celsius may trigger other Earth system processes, often called ʼfeedbacks,ʼ that can drive further warming — even if we stop emitting greenhouse gases," he said.

Help the planet with a strawfree August in Budapest It’s the last straw for bars and cafés in Budapest. A planet-friendly campaign is launching this weekend, requesting guests to skip the plastic straws when ordering drinks. The event kicks off at 3pm on Sunday, August 5th with a straw-free toast on Liberty Bridge, closed to traffic for one of its weekend summer picnics.

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Why higher US tariffs on car imports would backfire Having slapped higher duties on EU steel and aluminum already,US President Donald Trump is now looking to curb successful European car imports, which have long been a thorn in his side against the general backdrop of a massive US trade deficit with the bloc and Germany in particular. "We are finishing our study on cars from the EU," Trump tweeted earlier this week, saying the measures that his administration will take to rectify the imbalance will see things "evening out" fairly soon. The American president has threatened to impose a tariff of at least 20 percent on all imports of EU-assembled vehicles, a month after Washington launched an investigation into whether auto imports posed a national security threat.

India scraps controversial tax on sanitary pads India has announced that it has withdrawn a controversial tax on sanitary pads. Saturdayʼs rollback comes after a vocal campaign aimed at boosting female education, empowerment and, ultimately, job prospects.

The move is part of a bigger package of cuts toIndiaʼs Goods and Services Tax (GST). Around 90 consumer items, many of them popular with urban middleclass voters, will be impacted by the tax cut. "I think all women will be happy to know that sanitary pads will now have 100percent exemption. There will be no GST on sanitary pads," Indiaʼs Acting Finance Minister Piyush Goyal told journalists Saturday. Campaigners had seized on this issue because a lack of access to sanitary pads often forces girls to stay home during their periods. Missing school every month becomes a significant drag on girlsʼ education that ultimately hampers their job prospects as adults. Sanitary pads were taxed at 12 percent under the GST, which was launched a year ago. A national survey earlier this year found that about 60 percent of women between the age of 16 and 24 didnʼt have access to tampons. In some poorer areas of central and eastern India the figure was as high as 80 percent.