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Insects perish at the frontlines of humansʼ war with nature Insects can sting, bite and carry diseases. Some of us would be happy if there werenʼt any mosquitoes, horseflies and cockroaches left to bother us. But what about butterflies and bumblebees? Wouldnʼt we miss them if they were gone? Conservationists have been voicing their concern that all insects — including those that we love so much — are slipping away. "In the summer, there were hundreds of butterflies, especially monarch butterflies, where I grew up," Scott Black, executive director of the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation in Portland, Oregon, tells DW. "Now, youʼre lucky to find a dozen." Studies by Xerces Society and the scientific network NatureServe confirm that the population of themonarch butterflyhas fallen on average about 80 percentacross North America from the mid-1990s to 2015.

Turkey blocks German MP from vote observer role Turkey has blocked a German parliamentarian from traveling to the country to be an election observer ahead of this Sundayʼs vote. Andrej Hunko, a member of the German Bundestag for The Left party (Die Linke), was set to travel to Turkey before being notified by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) that he would be denied entry. Hunko told Germanyʼs dpa news agency that the OSCE informed him of the Turkish ambassadorʼs declaration shortly before his flight from Vienna to Ankara was to depart. Hunko, who is also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) for The Left party, participated as an OSCE election observer in the April 2017 constitutional referendum in Turkey.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuʼs wife charged with fraud Netanyahu had been the focus of a long investigation into misuse of state funds

Sara Netanyahu, the wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, has been charged with fraud and breaches of trust.

Daimler, Volvo: Tariffs threaten earnings and jobs The US-China trade row has seen carmakers worrying about their exports to the worldʼs second-largest economy. German auto manufacturers are particularly concerned and suggest removing industry tariffs completely. German luxury carmaker Daimler has cut its profit forecast for 2018. One would think this was because of its involvement in the Dieselgate emissions-cheating scandal, with the company ordered to recall 774,000 vehicles across Europe for installing what authorities have called illegal defeat devices to rig emissions tests. But it appears that Daimler is more worried about the long-term impact of the current trade spat between the United

States and China. Last week, US President Donald Trump announced 25percent tariffs on $50 billion (€43 billion) in Chinese imports,prompting Beijing to retaliate by matching duties on US goods, including cars. Asset mangers AllianceBernstein (AB) pointed out in a recent study that German carmakers with big US operations such as Daimler and BMW would be hit hardest by Chinese import tariffs on cars, much harder than American firms like Tesla. "Fewerthan-expected SUV sales and higherthan-expected costs not completely passed on to customers must be assumed because of increased import tariffs for US vehicles into the Chinese market," Daimler concluded.

Paper cups: A silent killer of Indiaʼs honeybees? Paper cups are killing Indiaʼs honeybees, two studies show. The important pollinators are attracted to the sugary residue left behind by beverages. Small changes could make a big difference in saving Indiaʼs bees. Chandrasekaran found that paper cups filled with sugary liquid are a lethal trap for honeybees As Sivagnanam Chandrasekaran sat sipping chai at a small roadside tea stand in southern India, he noticed something unusual:

honey bees hovering en masse around discarded paper cups. That might not strike the untrained eye as strange bee behavior. But for Chandrasekaran, a professor of plant biology at Madurai Kamaraj University, it posed some questions: Why were the insects not off flitting from flower to flower instead? Was this an anomaly, or part of a bigger picture? And could this be yet another factor in the important pollinatorʼs decline?

Trumpʼs migrant family separations reversal too little, too late Hours after US PresidentDonald Trump backtracked on his administrationʼs practiceof intentionally separating migrant children from their parents, Hugo Castro joined other activists coloring in the lines of protest placards reading, "Families Belong Together." He said that despite the reversal, he was still planning to attend a demonstration expected to draw thousands in San Diego this weekend. "Itʼs not enough," said the Tijuana coordinator for Border Angels, an organization that offers free legal consultations for immigrants and delivers water to hot stretches of desert where people make often deadly journeys to cross from Mexico into the US.

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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.

Sami Khedira handed fake boarding pass for Germany squad

EU to impose countertariffs on US products as of Friday A raft of retaliatory tariffs from the European Union on US products will come into effect on June 22. The EUʼs list of targets reads like a summary of emblematic American exports, including motorbikes and jeans. EU countertariffs on a list of US products would come into force on Friday, the European Commission said Wednesday. The retaliatory measure comes in response to US tariff hikes on steel and aluminumthat were imposed on EU member countries on June 1, with the White House citing grounds of national security. "We did not want to be in this position," EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malm-

strom said in a statement. "However, the unilateral and unjustified decision of the United States to impose steel and aluminum tariffs on the EU means that we are left with no other choice." ʼDoing nothing no optionʼ The agreed EU countermeasures will initially target a list of US goods worth $3.2 billion (€2.8 billion), most of which will be hit with import duties of 25 percent.

Paul McCartneyʼs to release first album in 5 years Describing it as a musical travelogue, musician Paul McCartney says each song on his new album, Egypt Station, explores a different area. Paul McCartneyʼs first album in five years is due out on September 7, but two tracks have already been released, a peppy pop song called "Come on to Me" and the ballad "I

Donʼt Know." While there is little explicit connection to Egypt, McCartney has described it nonetheless as a kind of musical travelogue. "Egypt Sta‐ tion starts off at the station on the first song and then each song is like a different station. So it gave us some idea to base all the songs around that," he said in a statement. "I think of it as a dream location that the music emanates from."

A Swedish journalist pranked Germany midfielder Sami Khedira by giving him a homemade return ticket from the World Cup for the entire squad. The 2014 winners started the tournament with ashock 1-0 defeat by Mexico,and a second loss against Sweden on Saturday could send them out in the group stage.

Nostalgia can be a powerful temptation. But the dozens who line up each morning at Germanyʼs central bank, the Bundesbank, are perhaps among the less sentimental. A smorgasbord of the elderly, young mothers with children in tow and students, they have one thing in common and more often than not itʼs hidden inside a heavy bag. Nearly 28 years after the complete demise of the East German mark and 16 years after the introduction of the euro, these people are patiently waiting to hand in some of the billions of old deutschmarks still in circulation. Read more: German banker takes 6 months to count 1.2 million inheritance pennies by hand Today German marks are travel souvenirs, bits of history forgotten at the back of a drawer or still stashed in safety deposit boxes. Most assuredly, marks are not an old-fashioned alternative to cryptocurrencies. Yet with so much of the cash still out there, many more Germans are holding onto the old currency than will probably ever own bitcoin, the most famous digital asset. It is no secret thatGermans love carrying and paying with wads of cash, and despite being branded with a dark history of super inflation they are also hoarding a currency that no store or taxi driver will accept. Amazingly, its limited practicality doesnʼt seem to bother Germans.

Is China building ʼpolitical reeducationʼ camps for Muslim minorities?

Nicki Minaj and Future confirmed for Budapest Queen of rap Nicki Minaj and influential American hip-hop artist Future are coming to Budapest. The singer of 2014 hit ‘Anaconda’ has just announced that the pair will be touching down in the UK and Europe as part of her NICKIHNDRXX tour, a global series of live shows kicking off in North America this September. The Budapest leg takes place at the Papp László Sport Aréna on February 25th, 2019. Tickets are already on sale. The tour will promote Nicki’s new album ‘Queen’, due for release on August 10th.

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Adrian Zenz: The most important sources are government reports that are often published by local media. These include official government documents, for example travel reports from top officials, or budgetary reports that outline expenditures for facilities. Read more: Chinaʼs Xinjiang Muslims ʼrequire DNA samplesʼ for travel documents Muslim Uighurs are in‐

creasingly being persecuted. Do the reports specifically say: ʼWe are plan‐ ning a reeducation camp here?ʼ Ab-

solutely.