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Nissan board votes unanimously to remove Carlos Ghosn Public broadcaster NHK and business daily Nikkei both said Nissanʼs board had decided to remove the 64-yearold Ghosn, who led the Japanese carmaker for nearly two decades. A Nissan Motor Co spokesman declined to comment. Ghosn and Greg Kelly remain in custody in Tokyo. Neither have issued comment. Prosecutors say they have obtained a 10-day extension of custody for Ghosn. Ghosn, also in charge of Nissan allies Renault and Mitsubishi, was the architect behind the three-party Franco-Japanese car conglomerate, which employs 450,000 people globally. He was also seen as a key figure holding the alliance together. Nissan said that its alliance with Renault "remained unchanged" amid plans to remove Ghosn. Last year, the alliance combined sold 10.6 million cars, as it competes in a three-way tussle with Toyota and the Volkswagen Group to be the worldʼs most prolific car seller.
US welcomes German firmsʼ compliance on Iran sanctions The US ambassador to Berlin on Thursday said he was pleased with the actions of German companies that had stopped trading with Iran after fresh US sanctions were imposed on the country. "We are very pleased that German businesses have decided to abide by the US sanctions," Grenell told the German news agency DPA in an interview. "German business leaders have told us unequivocally that they will stop doing business with Iran and will abide by the US sanctions," he said. "So we are very pleased that the actions of the German business community have been very clear." The US reimposed sanctions on Iranian oil this month after US President Donald Trump pulled out of an international agreement on Iranʼs nuclear program.
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German retailers divided over Black Friday shopping frenzy More and more consumers are hoping to secure deals, but that doesnʼt mean everyone is happy
Special promotion days such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday have slowly but surely changed Germanyʼs retail landscape.
Dolce & Gabbana cancels China show after ʼchopstickʼ advert causes uproar The Italian luxury brand is under fire for commercials featuring a Chinese woman trying to eat pizza and spaghetti with chopsticks. Hackers apparently then intervened and poured fuel on the existing fire. Dolce & Gabbana canceled a fashion show in Shanghai on Wednesday after a series of promotional videos were criticized as racist and full of outdated stereotypes by Chinese celebrities and social media users. The controversial commercials, which have since been deleted from the companyʼs Weibo account, featured a Chinese woman
struggling to eat pizza and spaghetti with chopsticks. The row was further compounded by screenshots circulating online appearing to show cofounder Stefano Gabbana making disparaging remarks about China while defending the promotional videos in an Instagram chat. The Italian luxury fashion house apologized for the insulting remarks but said Gabbanaʼs Instagram account had been hacked and the comments were not genuine. "We are sorry for the impact and harm these untrue remarks have had on China and the Chinese people," it said.
Berlinʼs East Side Gallery saved from property investors There will be no further construction projects at Berlinʼs East Side gallery, the 1.3-kilometer remaining stretch of the Berlin Wall that has been covered with art, also known as the "worldʼs longest open-air gallery," Berlin Wall Foundation director Axel Klausmeier said at a press conference on Wednesday. Mediaspree, one of the largest property investors in Berlin, has had the strongest impact on the area surrounding the monument. Since the beginning of the 1990s, media companies, a large
concert hall as well as office buildings and a residential tower were built around the East Side Gallery, while the bank of the Spree River behind the former section of the Berlin Wall was completely modernized. Now the property surrounding the wall section has been transferred to the Berlin Wall Foundation and all development plans have been stopped. Berlin will contribute € 250,000 ($285,000) annually to the preservation of the monument and the maintenance of the area.
German nurse accused of dozens of murders apologizes nurse accused of dozens of murders apologizes A German nurse who is accused of having murdered more than 100 patients is being tried again by a court in Oldenburg, in the state of Lower Saxony. According to investigators, 41year old Niels Högel intentionally injected patients with doses of medicine liable to cause cardiac arrest, so that he could then attempt to revive them and impress his colleagues. Högelʼs killing spree is one of the most serious cases of mass murder in post-war German history. On Thursday, during a hearing of the trial which began three weeks ago, Högel apologized to the victimsʼ families, and said if there was anything he could do to help them right now, he would. "I am fully convinced now that I owe every relative an explanation," he told the court. "I am honestly sorry." He also said at the time of the murders, the killings had not affected him emotionally: "I didnʼt feel grief in that sense," he said.
Do sanctions against Russia work? The Dutch government has held talks with EU member states aimed at establishing an EU sanctions regime against Russia based on human rights violations, which is known as an EU Magnitsky Act, adding to existing sanctions. "It appears to have momentum and is going forward," Bill Browder, who hascampaigned for the legislation known as the Magnistky Act in the US, told
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Migrant caravan ʼcould not be
EU, UK agree to ʼambitiousʼ post-Brexit ties
larger giftʼ for Donald Trump
Negotiators from the EU and Britain have worked out details of a future trade relationship for leaders to assess. German Chancellor Angela Merkel was cautiously optimistic about the state of the negotiations.
"Remember the midterms", US President Donald Trump reminded his 55 million followers on Twitter on Tuesday in a sequence of tweets focused on the so-called migrant caravan that is making its way through Mexico towards the US border. If there was ever any doubt that Trump would forego the attention-grabbing visuals of thousands of Latin American migrants braving brutal conditions to trek tens of miles per day in hopes of reaching the US, a series of presidential tweets sent out in the past couple of days erased it.
Mick Schumacher, Sebastian Vettel to team up at Race of Champions Schumacher and Vettel proved a winning combination at the Race of Champions six times in the past. Now itʼs time for a new generation, as Michaelʼs son Mick Schumacher teams up with Ferrariʼs Sebastian Vettel. European Formula 3 champion Mick Schumacher announced on Tuesday that he would team up with Sebastian Vettel for Germany at the Race of Champions event in Mexico this January. The pairing restores one of the most successful combos in the eventʼs history: Vettel and Mickʼs father Michael Schumacher won the Nations Cup trophy for Team Germany six times in a row, from 2007 to 2012.
The EU and the UK have reached a deal on their post-Brexit relationship, European Council President Donald Tusk announced on Thursday. The text has been agreed to in principle by negotiators, but still requires the endorsement of the 27 remaining EU members. "The Commission president has informed me that it has been agreed at negotiatorsʼ level and agreed in principle at the political level, subject to the endorsement of the leaders," said Tusk. The document states the "parties envisage having a trading relationship
on goods that is as close as possible, with a view to facilitating the ease of legitimate trade." The draft on postBrexit ties and an agreement on exactly how the UK will withdraw from the European Union will be discussed by EU leaders at a special summit on Sunday. EU Officials described the future partnership as "ambitious, broad, deep and flexible." But work is still ongoing to resolve issues on the status of Gibraltar and on fishing rights, European Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas said.
On Black Friday your brain forgets everything else When those magic red sale signs lure you into a store, your brain forgets everything else. Need it? Not really. Want it? Yes. Shopping can be like a drug. Neuroscientist Christian Elger explains why. Days like Black Friday, are entirely devoted to shopping and scoring cheap deals and with Christmas right around the corner people are buying billions of presents around the globe. Mr. Elger, why are deals and discounts so tempting for us? Christian Elger: In our brain, we have structures called the reward system. When-
ever these structures are activated, different groups of neurons are triggered. That stimulates a pleasant feeling. And that feeling is so strong that our brain tends to forget everything else in that moment. Compared to regular prices, words like ʼsaleʼ or ʼdealʼ activate the reward system a lot more. To compensate, we have regions in our brain that are supposed to rationalize whether the purchase is necessary or not. But when being confronted with discounts, this region is barely active. You just grab and buy without properly considering factors like necessity.
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Indiaʼs currency tumbles amid rising oil prices The rupee has dropped over 12 percent against the US dollar since the beginning of 2018, earning it the unfortunate distinction of Asiaʼs worst performing currency this year. Economists blame risingglobal crude prices for the slide. India imports 80 percent of its oil needs and soaring prices have blown a hole in the nationʼs finances. The country also imports huge quantities of items like gold and electronics, swelling its import bill further. Indiaʼs current account deficit (CAD) will also likely widen to 2.8 percent of GDP in financial year 2018 — up from 1.9 percent last year — according to consultancy Nomura Research Institute. CAD is a measure of the flow of goods, services and investments in and out of the country. Still, macroeconomic problems resulting from a higher CAD and depreciating rupee are not Prime Minister Narendra Modiʼs biggest concerns. His administration is more worried about growing public discontent due to the rise in petrol and diesel prices.
Vietnamʼs dog meat culture clashes with modern tastes Hoang has been eating dog meat since he was young. He canʼt imagine there will be a time that he wonʼt be eating it at least twice a month. However, Vietnamese officials announced in September that dog and cat meat should no longer be served in the inner districts of the capital city Hanoi because itʼs offensive to tourists and can spread diseases like rabies. Read more: Illegal dog meat trade raises moral questions Dog meat lovers and restaurant owners fear that the government will try to expand the ban and decide to officially forbid eating dog and cat meat entirely. "I donʼt see how they can ban it. The demand is just too high," Hoang said at a restaurant in Vietnamʼs largest metropolis, Ho Chi Minh City. In a small alley in Ho Chi Minh City, at least four restaurants serve dog meat, or Thịt chó. People gather around small tables to dine on the canine meat, complementing it with rice wine or beer. Hoang, who declined to give his full name, is sitting at a table with three good friends. "For us itʼs a tradition to eat dog meat. Itʼs just as normal as eating seafood or chicken," he told