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US and Mexico agree on NAFTA revamp, Canada ʼencouragedʼ Following afinal round of talks at the weekend, a tentative deal on crucial changes to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has apparently been reached by US and Mexican negotiators. President Donald Trump said Monday that the two sides had made the trade pact "much simpler," and that Canada was expected to join the talks in the coming days in order to reach a package for all NAFTA parties. "Itʼs a big day for trade. Itʼs a big day for our country," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, from which he held a televised phone call with his Mexican counterpart Enrique Pena Nieto. But Trump also said that he wanted the name of the 25-year old treaty to be changed because it had "negative connotations," and admitted that talks with Canada might not be easy.

Merkel slams anti-immigrant protesters in Chemnitz The eastern German city of Chemnitz is on high alert as it prepares for far-right and farleft protests and counterprotests on Monday following aspontaneous anti-immigrant demonstration the day before. The right-wing "Pro Chemnitz" movement has called for a demonstration on Facebook, prompting various leftist groups from the state of Saxony to respond with their own calls for rallies. The protest on Sunday afternoon was triggered by the fatal stabbing of a 35-year-old German in an overnight altercation.

Police said the knifing occurred after an incident involving "several people of different nationalities." Two men, a 23-year-old Syrian and a 22-year-old Iraqi, are in custody, with state prosecutors calling for an arrest warrant. The men are suspected of having stabbed the victim several times "with no justifiable reason," the prosecutors said on Monday.

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US and Mexico agree on NAFTA revamp, Canada ʼencouragedʼ US President Donald Trump has announced a breakthrough in talks on a new trade pact with Mexico

US President Donald Trump has announced a breakthrough in talks on a new trade pact with Mexico, hoping that the "really good deal" would be joined by Canada — the third NAFTA member which didnʼt take part in the talks.

Toyota, Uber join forces to push autonomous driving The news about Toyotaʼs $500 million (€427 million) investment in Uber came after the US rail-hiding service saw its efforts to go it alone derailed by a fatal collision and allegations of intellectual property theft.

Uber had turned to Toyota for help in autonomous vehiclesfive month after one of its self-driving cars ran over and killed a pedestrian crossing a dark street in Tempe, Arizona. Uberʼs expansion into self-driving technology suffered another setback when market

leader Waymo, a Google spin-off, accused it of stealing its technology, with the ride-hailing company forced to pay $245 million to settle the case.

Under the Toyota investment deal, the two partners will integrate their selfdriving technologies into purposebuilt vehicles and begin piloting the autonomous driving program on the US companyʼs ride-sharing network in 2021. The cars could eventually be owned and used by third-party fleet operators.

Dying fish and drying rivers — consequences of Europeʼs summer heat wave Although the Dreisam River is less than 30 kilometers (19 miles) long, the residents of Freiburg are still proud of their waterway. It runs right through the southern German city, carrying snow melt and providing a lovely opportunity to the residents of Freiburg to cool off in summer. But these days, the river has turned into a rocky desert wash (pictured above).

The local fishing club had preemptively caught fish and released them in other bodies of water. Peter Rudolph, an expert for aquatic biol-

ogy and environmental issues in Freiburg, has been at the ready. "We regularly measure the temperatures of lakes and rivers," Rudolph told DW. If the weather gets too dry or temperatures rise precariously, he informs authorities. Then he and other fishsavers take their electric dip nets and go to work. Such nets create a guiding current and stun fish at the same time.

With this method, large quantities of fish can be removed and transferred to other areas — without damaging the aquatic animals.

Austria to ban asylum seekers from taking up apprenticeships Asylum seekers in Austria will be no longer be able to apply for apprenticeship schemes, as part of a draft regulation presented by the government on Monday.

The legislation, which actually aims to fill vacant training places and apprenticeships, will be open to laborers from third countries but excludes to asylum seekers whose claims are being assessed, government spokesman Peter Launsky-Tieffenthal said.

The new law would overturn a 2012 policy introduced by thengovernment, led by the Social Democrats (SPÖ) aimed at integrating refugees.

Germany seeks solutions for lack of teachers in schools "We havenʼt had such a dramatic lack of teachers in Germany in three decades," Heinz-Peter Meidinger, the president of the DL teachers association, told media days before school started in many parts of the country.

"All together, 40,000 teachers are missing."

Those positions are being filled temporarily by novices, retirees and students — or they are simply vacant.

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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.

Gareth Bale also scored in the win over Getafe Gareth Bale scored for the second successive La Liga game as Real Madrid came from behind to beat Girona. The Catalan hosts took the lead when Borja Garcia rifled home from 12 yards before Sergio Ramos equalised with a penalty after Marco Asensio was fouled. Real edged ahead through another penalty won by Asensio - this time taken by Karim Benzema - before Baleʼs composed finish from Iscoʼs pass. Bale turned provider to set up Benzema to make it 4-1 from close range.

Germany recognizes more foreign qualifications

German authorities recognized 21,800 foreign professional qualifications in 2017, the Federal Statistics Office said Tuesday, an increase of 14 percent compared to the previous year. Syrians most frequently applied for recognition of their qualifications, with 3,600 requests, an increase of 80 percent compared to 2015. This was followed by 3,100 requests from Bosnia-Herzegovina and 2,400 from Serbia. Read more: German system to assess foreign doctorsʼ skills ʼtoo bu-

reaucraticʼ Of the 31,100 applications processed in 2017, 23,500 were for a health profession, including 10,700 for health and nursing staff,8,000 for doctorsand 1,100 for physiotherapists. Some 13,600 applications were considered completely equivalent and 8,200 were equivalent to a limited extent, with 930 applications withdrawn and 470 applications rejected. A decision for 8,000 of the applications had not been made at the end of 2017.

One drink a day is one too many, scientists say A study of drinking around the world warns that even an occasional glass of wine or beer can increase your chances of disease and an early death. Scientists say thereʼs no such thing as a "safe level" of alcohol.

Alcohol consumption caused almost 3 million premature deaths in 2016, according to the results of amajor study of drinkingin 195 countries. The research, published Friday in the medical journal

The Lancet, found that drinking was the

leading factor in deaths of people between the ages of 15 and 49. It also concluded that any amount of alcohol consumption, even one drink every now and again,increased the risk of health problems like cancer, cardiovascular disease and tuberculosis. "The health risks associated with alcohol are enormous," said Emmanuela Gakidou, senior author and director at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in Seattle.

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ʼYeah, nahʼ: 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."

Bavarian judges want politicians jailed for ignoring antipollution directives Bavariaʼs Administrative High Court signaled mounting judicial unrest Monday over politicians who ignore court rulings, just days after Chancellor Angela Merkel reiterated that within democracy"independent courts" must be protected. Munich ranks - alongside Stuttgart and Cologne - as top offender among65 Germany cities for illegal and unhealthy vehicle emissionsblamed largely on diesel vehicles. But the Merkel-allied Christian Social Union (CSU), who are seeking re-election in a regional vote on 14 October, have so far ignored court directives obtained by a lobby group, German Environmental Relief (DUH) to devise an anti-pollution plan for Munich. Read more: Merkel adopts anti-pollution initiative The DUH got an initial ruling mandating the plan in 2012. A judicial deadline of late 2017 expired without a scheme to lower exhaust fumes in Munich, the base of carmaker BMW, being implemented.