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Car ploughs into London pedestrians in suspected terror attack At least three people were injured after a car smashed into the barriers outside the UKʼs Houses of Parliament in London on Tuesday morning. Armed police descended on the scene, removing the driver out at gunpoint. He was arrested on suspicion of terrorism. "Given that this appears to be a deliberate act, the method, and this being an iconic site, we are treating it as a terrorist incident," London Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu told reporters. What we know so far: A silver Ford Fiesta collided with the barriers outside the UK Parliament at 7:37 a.m. local time (0637 UTC).Photographs on social media showed the alleged driver in handcuffs being escorted away by heavily armed police.Several eye witness reports said it appeared the driver intentionally raced down the road towards the parliament building and failed to stop after hitting pedestrians.None of the injured are believed to be in life-threatening condition, according to London police.
Erdogan: Turkey can do without US electronic goods The Turkish president has repeatedly been photographed while using Apple products such as iPhones and iPads. And he made his now famous speech on the night of the July 2016 failed coup calling citizens out into the streets through Facetime, an iPhone app. But in a televised speech on Tuesday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan didnʼt want to be reminded of that while announcing a move to shun US electronic goods in the future. "We will boycott electronic goods from the United States," the president said,raising the stakes in a spat with Washington following the detention of US pastor Andrew Brunson on terror-related charges.
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Italy: Motorway bridge collapses over Genoa Italyʼs deputy transport minister has said at least 22 people have died in the tragedy
A motorway bridge, reported to reach around 50 meters over the northwestern city, has collapsed.
France to introduce plastic packaging tax Products that donʼt use recycled plastic will cost 10 percent more in the future, according to a government plan. The proposed initiative is one part of a series of measures to get the country to recycle all its plastic. France plans to introduce a penalty system for consumer goods that are packaged with non-recycled plastic, an Environment Ministry official said in a newspaper interview on Sunday. The French government has pledged to transition the country to recycling 100 percent of its plastic by 2025 to reduce the vast amount of plastic finding its way into oceans. How
France will promote recycled plastic Brune Poirson, secretary of state for ecological transition, told Journal du Dimanche newspaper that the government would introduce a series of measures: From 2019 products without recycled plastic packaging will cost up to 10 percent more.A depositrefund scheme for plastic bottles will be introduced.Taxes on burying trash in landfill will increase, while taxes for recycling operations will be cut.Superfluous and substitutable plastic products such as straws, cups and plates will be banned by 2020.The color of recycling bins will be standardized across the country.
Israel boycott impacts Berlin music festival as several acts cancel One has to scroll down the website of Berlinʼs Pop-Kultur festival to see the "offending" item, the emblem of the Israeli Embassy — one of six state sponsors of the three-day event, which opens Wednesday. After the embassy awarded three Israeli artists 1,200 € ($1,370) towards their travel and accommodation costs, the BDS movement — a global campaign to boycott Israeli products and services — demanded a boycott of the popular
music and arts festival. US musician John Maus, Scottish singersongwriter Alun Woodward, English musician Nadine Shah and her countryman Richard Dawson, the postpunk trio Shopping, and Welsh artist Gwenno seem to have heeded the call. Theyʼve cancelled their appearances at Pop-Kultur, justifying their decision with the current political situation involving Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Denmark to build controversial German border fence Denmark gave final approval on Tuesday to the building of a controversial 68-kilometer (42-mile) fence along the border with Germany to protect its giant pork industry from wild boar that could carry African swine flu. Critics say the € 11 million ($10 million) fence is a waste of money that doesnʼt work against a problem that doesnʼt exist, while environmentalists have raised concerns about its effect on the ecosystem. The fence may also be symbolic for the Danish right-wingers keen on hard borders and keeping migrants out. The 1.5 meter tall and half-meter deep fence will run along the entirety of the Danish-German border, from the Wadden Sea in the west to the Flensburg Fjord in the east.
Turkeyʼs currency crisis explained The Turkish lira crash is threatening to turn into a debt and liquidity crisis. DW explains how the lira got to this point. Turkey is in the throes of a full-blown currency crisis, with the Turkish lira losing nearly 45 percent of its value since the start of the year. The currency crisis threatens to plunge the worldʼs 18th-largest economy into a financial crisis and trigger contagion in emerging markets and Europe.
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German police set up fake traffic accident to test how many will stop German police set up a fake road accident on national road safety day to test the response of passing traffic, they said on Wednesday. Police in Oberhavel, in the eastern German state of Brandenburg, teamed up with a local media agency to stage a fake car accident complete with two victims. They wanted to see how many people would stop to help the two young ladies who were still in the vehicle. The actresses and the car itself were smeared in blood to make it seem more realistic. Seven hidden cameras were trained on the scene as police hid further up the road and pulled over cars that didnʼt stop to help. Police did not inform duped drivers who had stopped that it was fake until they were well into the process of helping. One helper even ended up in tears, according to thepress release. One couple pulled over, called the 112 emergency number, and were comforting the young actresses, according to local newspaper Märkische Allgemeine.
Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson difficult to leave out By having Brooks Koepka as their top qualifier, the United States Ryder Cup team can boast 2018ʼs most devastating golfer among its ranks. The 28year-old from Florida has been celebrating a stunningPGA Championship win- one that will live long in the memory despite the one-dimensional nature of the long and soft Bellerive course that staged last weekʼs tournament.
South Korea bans recalled BMWs over fire fears South Korea is banning all recalled BMW cars that have not passed new safety checks after the German cars suffered a series of engine fires. Anyone found violating the ban could face up to a year in prison. South Korea on Tuesday announced it was banning some 20,000 recalled BMW vehicles from its roadsfollowing a number of engine fires. Drivers will be barred from using their cars unless they are taking them to a safety check. Anyone found violating the ban could face up to a year in jail. South Koreaʼs Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said the ban would persuade BMW owners to have their cars checked as soon as possible. BMWʼs South Korean unit said the company had currently secured more than 14,000 cars it would lend to af-
fected drivers for free until their vehicles were cleared to be driven again. "We will do our best with the safety checks to reduce the number of drivers affected by the ban," the manufacturer said. Nearly 40 fires in BMW cars this year aresuspected to have been caused by engine problems. Some parking lots reportedly refused to let in BMW drivers. The German carmaker last month recalled some 106,000 vehicles from 42 different models. It identified the cause of the engine fires as leaks of glycol coolant in their exhaust gas recirculation system.
More hot years ahead, study says While an extreme heat wave sweeps the globe this summer, a forecast by researchers brings little hope for cooling in the near future. Thereʼs a high chance it will be "anomalously warm" until at least 2022, they say. Sweating a lot this summer? You might have to learn to cope with the heat: Scientists say another four hot years are probably pending. French and Dutch researchers predict a "coming warm period" with "increased likelihood of intense to extreme temperatures." Florian Sévellec of the Laboratory of Ocean Physics and Remote Sensing at University Brest in France, and Sybren Drijfhout at the Royal Nether-
lands Meteorological Institute in De Bilt, in the Netherlands, developed a new statistical model toforecast mean global temperatures in the near future. In their forecast for 2018 to 2022, they found a 58 percent likelihood that it will be warmer than the average trend. For the years 2018 to 2021, that likelihood is 72 percent. "We are not predicting another heat wave — a warmer year doesnʼt always mean [that]," Florian Sévellec clarified in an interview with DW. Thatʼs because the forecast only covers global mean temperatures, not regional temperatures in certain parts of the world. But "overall, itʼs more likely to be warm than cold," Sévellec said.
The faces of Bowie at Várkert Bazaar In this documentary movie about the exhibition of the David Bowie Archive, curators Vicky Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh talk about Bowie’s exceptionally colourful body of work and major impact on the music industry. Featuring lyrics, manuscripts, personal objects, costumes, archive photos and videos, the documentary takes a close look at the star’s legacy. Within the movie, famous collaborators also get to talk about their memories, such as legendary fashion designer Kansai Yamamoto and Jarvis Cocker, frontman of Pulp. The movie is screened in English with Hungarian subtitles.
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Kiwi startup defies German giantʼs order to stop saying ʼhelloʼ New Zealand startup My Food Bag, which delivers fresh ready-to-cook ingredients, issued a tongue-in-cheek response to a cease-and-desist notice from Berlin-based Hello Fresh. Hello Fresh had taken issue with its Kiwi competitor using the phrase "Hello Fresh." The letter, published in the New Zealand Herald and other domestic media, is replete with Kiwi colloquialisms and phrases in the countryʼs indigenous Maori language. The response, from Aotearoa, the Maori name for New Zealand, begins with a Maori greeting, to HelloFresh executives Thomas Griesel and Dr. Christian Ries. "Kia ora" is translated as "hello." "Kia ora Herr Griesel and Herr Ries, Greetings from Aotearoa. We donʼt often get heavyweight German multina‐ tional corporations taking the time to write to us Kiwis."
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 Israel-Gaza 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.