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European Parliament approves controversial new copyright law in blow to tech firms A multi-year battle that saw media organizations and creative individuals seeking content protection face off against against big tech and internetfreedom activists came to a head in Strasbourg on Wednesday, when the European Parliament voted toupdate copyright legislationfor the age of content-sharing platforms. MEPs voted 438-226 with 39 abstentions in favor of the EU Copyright Directive that is set to give more power to artists, news and traditional media companies as opposed to tech giants like Facebook, Microsoft and Google.

"This is a good sign for Europeʼs creative industry," said German MEP Axel Voss, who helped move the bill along through parliament. MEPs voted on a range of conflicting amendments prior to the vote, making the make-up of the final draft law not immediately clear.

China: German theater group barred from staging Ibsen play Berlinʼs famous Schaubühne theater troupe has been barred from continuing to perform a play by Norwegian master Henrik Ibsen in China, German public broadcaster ARD reported on Wednesday. The Schaubühne team was told that the stages they were meant to perform on in the city of Nanjing are broken, but the theatre is suspicious that it has something to do with the content of the play. "An Enemy of the People,"written by Ibsen in 1882, deals with how truths and ideas of morality are manipulated for public consumption. The troupe was meant to conduct a discussion about the playʼs themes after the performances.

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ʼCredible deterrenceʼ needed to prevent gas attack in Syria German defense minister:

The possibility of German troops joining airstrikes in Syria if chemical weapons are used is causing a rift in Angela Merkelʼs government. The conflict has reached the Bundestag — and the statements are getting stronger.

Anti-corruption watchdog: Top exporters fail to punish bribery About two dozen countries accounting for almost half of global exports impose "little or no enforcement" of foreign bribery laws, Transparency International report.

The worldʼs top exporter received particular criticism.

Countries that account for nearly 40 percent of global exports fail to enforce laws and conventions against bribery, anti-corruption group Transparency International (TI) said in report on Wednesday. The Berlin-based watchdog assessed enforcement of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Developmentʼs (OECD) Anti-Bribery Convention, which commits signatories to criminalize bribery of foreign officials. Read more: More than two-thirds of all countries corrupt, TI report says Key find-

ings The report focused on 44 countries that account for 65 percent of world exports and found: 22 countries accounting for about 40 percent of global exports had "little or no enforcement" to deter foreign bribery.Some of the worst enforcers were Mexico, Finland, Japan, South Korea, Turkey and Russia, as well as non-signatories to the OECD convention, China and India.Seven countries accounting for 27 percent of global exports were deemed "active" enforcers of anti-bribery laws. The US, Germany, Britain, Israel, Switzerland, Norway and Italy received this highest rating. Australia, Brazil, Portugal and Sweden were the four countries that had "moderate enforcement."Eleven countries accounting for 12.3 percent of global exports had "limited enforcement."

Climate finance poses hurdle ahead of COP24 This yearʼs UN global climate talks in Katowice, Poland are being billed as the most important Conference of the Parties (COP) since Paris in 2015, when the landmarkParis Agreement on climate changewas agreed upon. In the French capital, almost 200 countries pledged to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit). How the worldʼs nations

will actually do that is supposed to be decided in Katowice this year. Member states are expected to adopt a rule book outlining how countries monitor their greenhouse gas emissions and report their climate protection efforts, as well as how much money industrialized nationswill give to poorer countriesto help them reduce their emissions and adapt to a warmer world.

Israelis and Palestinians lament Oslo Accord deadlock, 25 years on In September 1993, people across Israel and Palestinian territories celebrated in newly gained hope that they would have a permanent peace agreement within five years. "We were dreaming, we were fighting," said Munther Amira, a Palestinian activist now in his 40s. "We wanted peace and to have our own state like any other nation, to have our determination. We thought Oslo would do all these things for us." Read more: ʼDeal of the centuryʼ: US pushes Israeli-Palestinian plan Oslo, shorthand for the Oslo Accord, brokered by Norway and signed between the Israeli government and thePalestinian Liberation Organization(PLO) on September 13, 1993, established a framework intended to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The agreement created an interim Palestinian government, the Palestinian National Authority (PA) and also initiated the withdrawal of Israel Defense Forces (IDF) from Gaza and Jericho in the West Bank.

Vladimir Putin: Skripal poisoning suspects were ʼciviliansʼ Speaking at an economic forum in the port city of Vladivostok, President Putin rejected suspicions of Kremlin involvement in the poisoning former double agent Sergei Skripal. His daughter Yulia was also poisoned in the attack, which took place in the English city of Salisbury in March. Last week,British prosecutors identified two alleged Russian military officials, who they said were operating under aliases – Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov.

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How dangerous are Austriaʼs farright hipsters?

It was the middle of the night when a group of young Austrians used a crane to dress Viennaʼs 65-foot (20meter) statue of Empress Maria Theresa in a niqab. The stunt was accompanied by a poster that read "Islamization? No thanks!" The act was committed by the Austrian branch of the Identitarian movement, branded Europeʼs "hipster right." Identitarians are the new, media-friendly face of far-right nationalism and Europeʼs answer to the USʼs alt-right. But where the alt-right has succeeded online, Austriaʼs Identitarians use the internet to promote their actions on the streets — imitating the tactics of leftist activist groups such as Greenpeace and generating news headlines in the process.

Gennady Golovkin v Saul ʼCaneloʼ Alvarez Golovkin relishes rematch Gennady Golovkin says Saturdayʼs rematch with Saul ʼCaneloʼ Alvarez is "100% the biggest fight of my career". The middleweight pairʼs first fight, in September 2017, wascontroversially scored a draw,with Golovkin landing more punches and considered the stronger fighter by many pundits.

"I hope it is going to be a better fight than the first one," said the 36-yearold Kazakh. A May rematch was postponed after Alvarez, 28, failed two drugs tests. The Mexican blamed his positive test for clenbuterol - an asthma medication that can also help build muscle and burn fat -on eating contaminated meat. The drug is sometimes illegally mixed into livestock feed to make meat leaner.

Migrant adults less likely to be employed in Germany — OECD

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published itsextensive annual education studyon Tuesday. "Education at a Glance" covers the state of education around the world, including the 36 OECD countries, as well as a number of partner countries such as China, Russia, India, Saudi Arabia and South Africa. The report reveals that in most OECD countries, foreign-

born adults are more likely to be neither employed nor in education or training (NEET). Austria and Germany are the two countries with the largest differences in the share of NEETs among foreign-born and indigenous 15-29 year-olds: In Germany, 24 percent of foreign-born 15-29 year-olds are NEET, compared with 7 percent of German native 15-29 year-olds.

The worldʼs deadliest hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones Tropical storms are seasonal weather events. But they never fail to shock us with the destruction they wreak.

Thereʼs a reason some parts of the world get hit by hurricanes more than others — itʼs built into the weather system. Places in the US like Galveston, Texas, or New Orleans in Louisiana have seen their fair share of tropical storms. The same is true for other parts of the American eastern seaboard and beyond — from Florida down to the Bahamas, Mexico, andPuerto Rico.

In the Pacific and Indian Oceans, the

usual targets are Bangladesh, the Philippines, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Japan and India. And weʼll get to some of the worst storms in a moment. First, though, a word about our terms and weather conditions: We often talk abouthurricanes and typhoons as though they were the same thing. And technically, they are the same. Read more: Japan slowly cleans up Typhoon Jebi damage Meteorologists use the term tropical cyclone to describe any rotating system of clouds and thunderstorms that originates over tropical or subtropical waters and which has a closed, lowlevel circulation.

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US loses its shine as investment location for German firms Presenting the results of a poll among its member companies, the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany on Tuesday said German firms had become less confident in doing business in the United States. It said that over two-fifths of the companies polled stated the US had become less attractive as a business location in the wake of a trans-Atlantic trade conflictthat looks defused for the moment, but by no means resolved.

While 82 percent of respondents acknowledged that economic relations between the US and Germany were still "strong or very strong," 42 percent of the German firms polled said the US had lost some of its former attractiveness to them. Only 20 percent of the US firms polled said the same about Germany.

Ceasefire on Israel-Gaza border largely holds as UN warns sides are on ʼbrink of warʼ A ceasefire announced by Hamas largely held along the IsraelGaza border on Sunday, a day after the most intense exchange of fire between Israel and the Palestinian group since the 2014 Gaza war. Israeli warplanes carried out dozens of airstrikes in the densely populated Gaza Strip on Saturday on what it said were Hamas military, training and supply targets, while Hamas and Islamic Jihad fired nearly 200 rockets and mortars at Israel.

Read more: Israel and Gazaʼs militant groups agree to ceasefire The Israeli airstrikes wounded more than 20 people and killed two teenage boys, Palestinian health officials said, while a Hamas rocket injured four Israelis. Hamas, which has ruled the Gaza Strip since 2007, and Islamic Jihad announced the Egyptian and UN-brokered ceasefire late Saturday. The Israeli military said its response would depend on the situation on the ground. After the ceasefire announcement, four mortars were fired into Israel early Sunday. In response, Israeli planes destroy at least one launch site. Israel also carried out three airstrikes later in the day on what it said were Hamas squads launching incendiary balloons and kites across the border.