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Syrian refugees in Germany required to renew passports at pro-Assad embassies Of thehundreds of thousands of displaced Syrianswho have come to Germany since 2014, many enjoy only "subsidiary protection" and not full refugee status. Among other things, this means that they are dependent on embassies loyal to the regime of President Bashar Assad. Under German law, people with various levels of political asylum or similar protection in Germany have to actively cooperate in procuring identity documentation, including passports. Andmore and more Syrians are being granted only subsidiaryrather than full refugee status. Whereas 99.7 percent of Syrians coming to Germany in 2015 were classed as full refugees, last year only 38.2 percent were — with 61 percent enjoying only subsidiary protection.

The situation, say activists, is unacceptable. "Itʼs a scandal," Jens-Martin Rode of the Association of GermanSyrian Assistance Groups, told DW.

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Xi Jinping says no one can ʼdictateʼ Chinaʼs economic path Though he vowed to further open up China, he offered no new specific measures to do so

More journalists killed globally in 2018, report says

Speaking on the 40th anniversary of Chinaʼs economic reforms, Xi made it clear that Beijing wonʼt take orders from other countries.

A total of 80 journalists were killed in the first 11 months of 2018, while 348 were in prison and 60 more were being held hostage, according to figures from Reporters Without Borders (RSF).The RSF report, which was released on Tuesday, said 49 of those killed between January 1 and the start of December had been murdered or were deliberately targeted with violence. Read more: World Press Freedom Index 2018: Europe turning into crisis region for journalists The nongovernmental organization said the murders ofSaudi journalist Jamal KhashoggiandSlovak data journalist Jan Kuciak"highlighted the lengths to which press freedomʼs enemies are prepared to go." "Violence against journalists has reached unprecedented levels this year, and the situation is now critical," the organizationʼs head, Christophe Deloire, said in a statement which accompanied the reportʼs release.

In a highly anticipated speech at the Great Hall of the People on Tuesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping hailedthe 40th anniversary of Chinaʼs "reform and opening up" policy, while also making it clear that Beijing would not diverge from its one-party system. The 1978 reforms by former Communist leader Deng Xiaoping marked Chinaʼs move towards economic liberalization and helped transform the country from one of the worldʼs poorest to the worldʼs secondlargest economy. "We have made a historic transition from a closed and semi-closed country to one that embraces overall opening up," Xi said. He added, however, that "no one is in a position to dictate to the Chinese people what should or should not be done." Although Xi vowed to implement economic reforms, he did not offer any new specific measures in his speech.

Xiʼs speech comes as China is in the midst of a trade war with the United States, which is already im-

pacting Chinaʼs economy and is expected to affect economic growth around the world. Some Chinese government advisers and entrepreneurs in the country have called for faster economic reforms and loosening up the private sector, which has been stifled by state controls. In a bid to quell concerns about Chinaʼs economic influence, he said that Beijing would not develop itself "at the expense of other countriesʼ interests." However, he added: "We must resolutely reform what should and can be changed, we must resolutely not reform what shouldnʼt and canʼt be changed."

Earlier this month, US President Donald Trump and Xiagreed to a 90-day trucein the trade dispute to give both sides timeto continue negotiations. The US has imposed tariffs on $250 billion (€194 billion) worth of Chinese goods, while China responded with duties on $110 billion of US imports. The truce halted a threatened escalation of the tariffs.

Dutch church holds never-ending vigil to protect family from deportation On a quiet and peaceful residential street in The Hague, Netherlands, something extraordinary is happening on Tuesday. And it has been going on 24 hours a day, for the last seven weeks. Here at the Bethel Church, the church service never ends. This small red brick Protestant community center is using a loophole in Dutch law to protect the Tamrazyan family from beingdeported to Armenia. "We have more than 650 pastors from dozens of denominations, from all over the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany who have signed up to do the ʼshiftsʼ of services," a church spokeswoman tells me. "And weʼve had over 6,000 visitors, mostly from the Netherlands, but from all over the world, come to pray with us."

Russian cargo ship ʼfreedʼ from British coast off Cornwall British rescuers have refloated a Russian ship with 18 sailors trapped on board after it dragged its anchor and grounded off the southwest coast of England. A lifeboat has been standing by for the beached crew. A Russian cargo ship dragged its anchor in strong winds off the coast of the Falmouth, Cornwall on Tuesday, relocating the 180-meter vessel to within a few meters of the coast. Dramatic footage posted on social media showed a rescuer from the local coastguard rescue team being lowered onto the huge ship during the operation to re-float it.

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UN warns migrant children are missing out on education

In a report released in Berlin on Tuesday, the UN agency for culture and education, UNESCO, warned that far too manyrefugee children are still being denied access to quality education. The 2019 Global Education Monitoring Report, Migration, displacement and education, shows that a shortage of trained teachers and funding is hampering efforts to integrate migrant students. The key takeaways Half of the worldʼs forcibly displaced people are under the age of 18.Often they have limited access to the education systems of the countries where they are seeking asylum.Low- and middle-income countries host 89 percent of refugees but often lack the funds to support their education.Shortfalls in teaching staff also pose huge obstacles — even Germany would need 42,000 new teachers to properly educate the refugee children it has taken in. The report said low-income countries Chad, Ethiopia and Uganda were "champions" when it came to integrating refugees into schools.It also praised Canada and Ireland as "global leaders" in implementing inclusive education policies.The report urges donors to triple funding for refugee education.

Airbnb cuts listings in Israeli West Bank settlements Home-rental platform Airbnb announced Monday it would no longer offer its service in Israeli settlements in the West Bank, drawing an angry response from Israel. Israel seized the West Bank in the 1967 Six-Day War, but most countries consider the Jewish settlements there to be illegal. The company said in a statement the decision would affect about 200 properties "in the occupied West Bank that are at the core of the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians." "Our hope is that someday sooner rather than later, a framework is put in place where the entire global community is aligned so there will be a resolution to this historic conflict and a clear path forward for everybody to follow," it added. Palestinian and human rights groups had long called on Airbnb to remove the settlement listings from its site. Waleed Assraf, head of a Palestinian antisettlement group welcomed the development, saying if more companies followed it would "contribute to achieving peace." Israeli Tourism Minister Yariv Levin condemned the move as "the most wretched of wretched capitulations to the boycott efforts."

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Trump Foundation agrees to shut down under court supervision The US president is under scrutiny in several state and federal investigations

Donald Trumpʼs personal charity had engaged in "persistently illegal conduct," according to prosecutors.

New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood said on Tuesday that the Trump Foundation had agreed to dissolve itself under scrutiny from legal authorities in the US. Trumpʼs personal charity was accused of engaging in "persistently illegal conduct," according to federal prosecutors. Underwood said that the foundation functioned as "little more than a checkbook to serve Mr. Trumpʼs business and political interests." "Our petition de-

Mythical sex scene fresco discovered in Pompeii Archaeologists have discovered a fresco in an ancient Pompeii bedroom that depicts a sensual scene between the Greek god Zeus — or his Roman equivalent, Jupiter — disguised as a swan, and Leda, a legendary Spartan queen from Greek mythology, the Pompeii administration said Monday.

Such iconography showing the mythological figure of Leda being impregnated by the god in swan form was a fairly common decoration in homes in Pompeii and Herculaneum, two towns near present-day Naples that were destroyed in A.D. 79 by the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Still the fresco remains an exceptional find, according to Pompeii archaeological park director Massimo Osanna, who pointed out that Leda was painted in an

tailed a shocking pattern of illegality involving the Trump Foundation – including unlawful coordination with the Trump presidential campaign, repeated and willful selfdealing and much more," said Underwood. Underwood had filed a lawsuit against Trump and his adult children, including White House advisor Ivanka Trump, following a 21month probe into the foundation and its activities involving Trumpʼs presidential campaign. unusual way, making her look directly at anyone who saw the fresco upon entering the bedroom. "Leda watches the spectator with a sensuality thatʼs absolutely pronounced," Osanna told Italian news agency ANSA. In the scene, Leda protects the swan with her cloak as the bird sits on her lap. Osanna noted that the fresco celebrates the Greek "myth of love, with an explicit sensuality in a bedroom where, obviously beside sleep, there could be other activities."

Gender equality: ʼBattle for fundamental human rightsʼ Katrin Jakobsdottir: I have often said that while we are proud of our place at the top of the World Economic Forumʼs Global Gender Gap list, women

Chicago hospital shooting leaves four dead An argument outside Chicagoʼs Mercy Hospital led to the shooting of an emergency-room doctor, a pharmacy resident and a police officer. The shooter was also killed.

Four people, including the shooter, died after a gunman opened fire in the parking lot at Mercy Hospital in Chicago on Monday. Authorities said the gunman started shooting after a "verbal altercation" with an emergency room doctor with whom he was in a domestic relationship. The shooter then ran into the hospital and killed two more people before dying himself. Authorities received reports between 3:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. local time (900 and 930 UTC) of shots being fired near Mercy Hospital, located in the northern part of Chicagoʼs South Side, and required a "heavy police response."Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson said the events started to unfold in the hospital parking lot, where the gunman began a "verbal altercation" with Tamara OʼNeal, 38, an emergency room doctor and, according to Chicago media, his former fiancee.As the fight with OʼNeal escalated, the shooter pulled out a handgun and killed the doctor.

Police have defined this first killing as an act of domestic violence. When officers arrived, the gunman fired at the squad and ran into the hospital.

There, he exchanged fire with the officers and killed Dayna Less, 25, a first year pharmacy resident and police officer Samuel Jimenez, 28.

in Iceland are also very aware that even we — in this top global position of the "gender paradise" as Iceland is sometimes called — have work to do. While there is a difference in degree between womenʼs equality in Iceland and some other corners of the world, the nature of the discrimination is the same.

The gender pay gap still exists in Iceland, women still donʼt have equal power in Icelandʼs corporate and financial world, and we also have the serious problem of gender-based violence and sexual violence and harassment in Iceland, as most recently revealed by the #MeToo movement. No. The fight for gender equality wonʼt be "over" or "sufficient" until we have eliminated gender-based discrimination in Iceland and across the world.

Even though we reach a milestone here and there, we must never think that because of those milestones or goals reached, the fight for gender equality is something that we can allow ourselves to put on the backburner.

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Nissan shares tumble after chairmanʼs arrest Shares of Nissan Motor Co. dipped 5.5 percent in Tokyo and Renaultʼs fell 8 percent in Paris on Tuesday, a day after high-flying chairman Carlos Ghosnwas arrested on suspicion of falsifying financial reports and other misconduct.

The 64-year-old Ghosn was arrested on Monday in Tokyo and is being held as prosecutors conduct an investigation into allegations that he underreported his income by around 5 billion yen ($44.5 million, €38.8 million) over five years. Nissan and Mitsubishi, two parts of the NissanMitsubishi-Renault alliance Ghosn led, have announced their intention to remove him as chairman. Franceʼs finance minister Bruno Le Maire said

on Tuesday that after his arrest, Ghosn was no longer fit to be at the helm of Renault. "Carlos Ghosn is no longer in a position capable of leading Renault," Le Maire told France Info radio. He said Franceʼs priority was to ensure continuity and stable governance of the French car giant. The French automaker announced it would be holding a board meeting later on Tuesday to discuss interim management while Ghosn is detained.

UK prepares for no-deal Brexit German customs agents release thousands of confiscated eels into the Rhine River German customs agents released some 5,000 confiscated baby eels into the Rhine River near Mainz on Tuesday. Authorities found the fish in a bag checked at Frankfurt Airport by a 47-year-old Malaysian woman en route to Vietnam in late November. Read more: Forty years of fighting for endangered species Customs agents say the eels, known as glass eels due to their transparent state, were packed in waterfilled plastic bags inside Styrofoam boxes in the womanʼs suitcase. The woman will not face charges as the discovery was made after her flight had already taken off. with her bag impounded in Frankfurt. It is unclear where exactly the woman got the tiny fish but authorities suggest they may have come from estuaries in southwestern Europe. Glass eels are a protected species and cannot be exported without special permission.

The government has "now reached the point where we need to ramp up these preparations" in case the UK crashes out of the EU. Without certainty, businesses in the UK are hurting, said the British Chambers of Commerce. The British government on Tuesday announced it would bolster preparations for a no-deal Brexit a day after Prime MinisterTheresa May set a tentative date for her draft withdrawal deal.

"With just over three months until our exit from the European Union, we have now reached the point where we need to ramp up these preparations," said Mayʼs spokesman. "This means

we will now set in motion the remaining element of our no-deal plans." Part of the preparation includes putting 3,500 British troops on standby to prevent public order from deteriorating and to assist in thepotential chaos of a no-deal Brexit, said British Defense Minister Gavin Williamson. After the meeting, Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay said preparing for a no-deal Brexit needs to be "much more of a priority for businesses up and down the country." Over the coming days, businesses are expected to receive emails with resources to prepare them in the event the UK crashes of the EU.

Sicilian police arrest alleged Mafia boss in major swoop Italian police said on Tuesday they dismantled the upper echelons of the Sicilian Mafia by apprehending 49 people, including the newly-elected chairman of the Sicilian Mafiaʼs top executive body, the Palermo Provincial Commission.

The 80-year-old Settimino Mineo has a long criminal record but his name was not previously known to a wider public.

His role had been to help the Cosa Nostra regain its strength and act as a power-broker between crime families. Mineo was detained in a raid that led to the other arrests. Police said he was heir to notorious Mafia boss Toto Riina, who died in prison last year.

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How will the EU-Italy budget standoff be resolved?

After weeks of tug-of-war games, Italyʼs coalition government — made up of the populist 5-Star Movement and the right-wing Northern League party — last week approved their first budget. Under the proposals, the countryʼs deficit will rise to 2.4 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2019. New social security benefits are also planned, on the orders of 5-Star leader Luigi Di Maio, who is also the labor and social policy minister. Cuts to the countryʼs tax system, demanded by Northern League party leader Matteo Salvini, are also in the bag. The introduction of two tax bands of 15 and 20 percent are meant to boost the economy but could mean considerable revenue losses. In addition, costly pension reforms — which have not yet been factored into this budget — are being readied, following a promise by Italian Prime Minister Guiseppe Conte. A further sweetener will see the coalition drop a long-planned increase in the countryʼs sales tax (VAT), which analysts say will only widen the hole in the countryʼs finances. Even so, Finance Minister Giovanni Tria, an economics professor not aligned to either party, has tried to limit public spending. He pushed for the deficit to rise to a maximum of 1.6 percent. Apparently, he initially threatened to resign after pressure to further boost the stateʼs debt levels but is now likely to remain in office.

Car rental company under fire after ad jokes about hitting cyclists The 2017 Palme dʼOr-winning Swedish satirical film The Squarehas a memorable sequence about the lengths advertising agencies will go to in order to grab attention for a product, however vacuous the campaign — or indeed the product — is. Needing to whip up interest in a patently ridiculous modern art exhibition called "The Square," the advertising men come up with a YouTube video portraying an impoverished child being killed in an explosion after entering the exhibition, supposedly a haven of peace. The clip draws widespread condemnation but also goes viral, stirring mass interest in something which hardly warrants it. As one of the worldʼs biggest car rental companies, you might think Sixt has no major need for such advertising gimmicks. Yet in recent years, the Munich-based company has tried to cultivate something of an image around its use of banter and humor in its advertising campaigns.

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Malaysia files criminal charges against Goldman Sachs over 1MDB scandal Goldman subsidiaries and two of the bankʼs former employees were accused of misappropriating $2.7 billion from Malaysian fund 1MDB. The US bank has also been accused of benefiting from $600 million in inflated fees.

Malaysia on Monday filed criminal charges against Goldman Sachs and four other individuals as part of an investigation into a multibillon-dollar scandal involving the 1 Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) state investment fund. The US bank has been under scrutiny for its role in helping raise $6.5 billion (€5.7 billion) through three bond offerings for 1MDB, a fund launched in 2009 by former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak to promote economic development in the country.

Attorney General Tommy Thomas said criminal charges were filed Monday

Eastern German states demand €60 billion for coal phaseout Very few people in the Western world work directly with coal anymore, but fears engendered by the phase-out of this fossil fuel in favor of cleaner energy sources remain politically potent.

Thatʼs especially apparent in eastern Germany, where, following US President Donald Trumpʼs lead, far-right populists are seeking to harness antienvironmentalism and anxiety about the economic future in the countryʼs poorest region. That was the backdrop to a press conference in Berlin on Friday at which the leaders of the three eastern German coal mining states — Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg — demanded a whopping €60 billion ($69 billion) in federal aid to stop producing lignite. They saidthe economic interests of those facing unemployment should take precedenceover environmental protection.

"We owe it to the people in our regions that the path is new jobs first, then the phaseout and then the discontinuation of existing production," said Saxony State Premier Michael Kretschmer of the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU).

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Chinaʼs GDP growth slows to lowest rate in years Chinaʼs economic growth has slowed to its lowest rate in nine years during the third quarter of 2018, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Friday. The numbers showed the effects of Beijingʼs mounting debt as well astrade disputes with the United States. "Faced with an extremely complex environment abroad and the daunting task of reform and development at home," Chinaʼs growth has still managed to remain relatively steady, said NBS spokesman Mao Shengyong. The worldʼs secondlargest economy experienced 6.5 percent growth compared to the same quarter last year, but was slightly behind the first two quarters of 2018, which were 6.8 percent and 6.7 percent, respectively. Although exports have long been a staple of Chinaʼs economy, US tariffs targeting machinery, electronics, cars and appliances have decreased foreign investmentin these sectors. The US has accused China of pressuring foreign companies with Chinese offices to hand over protected technologies, if not outright stealing them.

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against Goldman Sachs, ex-bankers Tim Leissner and Ng Chong Hwa (also known as Roger Ng), Malaysian financier Low Take Jho (also known as Jho Low) and former 1MDB employee Jasmine Loo. All are accused of making false statements in order to "dishonestly misappropriate $2.7 million" from the proceeds of the three bonds.

Thomas said the four individuals are accused of conspiring to "bribe Malaysian public officials in order to procure the selection, involvement and participation of Goldman Sachs in the bond issuances."

German Amazon workers take preChristmas strike action

Verdi, one of Germanyʼs biggest trade unions, has been calling on Amazon to conduct collective bargaining for its 16,000 workers. The US giant says only 350 workers had joined the stoppage.

Workers at the Amazon distribution centers at Leipzig in eastern Germany and Werne in the west, walked off the job in the early hours of Monday as part of alongrunning campaign for better pay and conditions. They are demanding collective bargaining on pay and conditions, a Verdi trade union spokesman said. The Leipzig workers are expected to strike until December 24, and the Werne workers until Tuesday evening. The actions are the latest in a campaign of frequent strikes the union has organized since 2013. "We have repeatedly given Amazon more time to react to our demands," Verdiʼs Thomas Schneider said, adding it was a "provocation" that Amazon refused to negotiate. "We will see whether their promises to customers to deliver parcels punctually by Christmas Eve can be met." He warned that the action could extend to other Amazon centers in Germany.

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Climate change threatens Germanyʼs Christmas trees But new techniques could help detect crop death early

cause chaos in northern Germany Giant South American flightless birds are causing chaos in northern Germany after their population more than doubled, farming groups announced this week. The autumn census of Europeʼs only wild rhea population, at the border of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein, found numbers had jumped from 205 birds in spring to 566, according to the Ministry of Agriculture. The population explosion of greater rheas came despite population control efforts in the Schaalsee Biosphere Reserve. Almost 300 of the counted birds were juveniles born this year, presumably due to the uncharacteristically warm and dry summer. Who let the fox out? If you suddenly come face-to-face with a fox after a night out clubbing in Berlin, donʼt worry youʼre not hallucinating. The entire city of Berlin has become a habitat for foxes, says conservationist and wild animal consultant Katrin Koch.

In fact, studies show that there are now more fox dens in the city than in forests.

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one million-plus spruce trees — one of the most popular varieties for the Yuletide centerpiece — died. According to Bertram Leder at the North Rhine-Westphalia forest department, many more are at risk.

"The reason the trees are dying is the complex effect of storms, heat and drought, lack of precipitation, and the spruce bark beetle," Leder explained.

3 ways you could die while riding a hyperloop Could anyone survive a hyperloop pileup at 1,200 kilometers per hour? And what if someone attacks a hyperloop tunnel from the outside, or my pod gets a hole?

For some, the idea of traveling at 1,200 kilometers per hour (750 miles per hour), all while floating on magnets, is the stuff of dreams. Itʼs also rich fodder for catastrophe physics.

So — what are some of the ways you could die while riding a hyperloop,

and how likely is it that one of those scenarios will occur? Sucked into the void Nightmare scenario 1: If youʼve watched a film set in space, youʼve probably seen an otherwise happy spacefarer get sucked into outer space and die there. It usually happens when the ship gets punctured, or an airlock opens, and — poof! — the passenger tumbles tragically and permanently into the blackness (unless sheʼs Princess Leia).

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Renovated Museum of Fine Arts to Open on 31 October AFTER MORE THAN THREE YEARS OF RENOVATION, THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BUDAPEST WILL OPEN ON 31 OCTOBER. NOW OPEN TO PUBLIC

Drought killed around a million trees in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia last summer, putting pressure on Christmas tree farmers. But new techniques could help detect crop death early.

With the holiday season getting into swing, millions of people across Germany are picking out their Christmas trees. Winterʼs biting cold has set in, and theheatwave that scorched Europeseems a distant memory. But it has left its mark on Germanyʼs Christmas tree plantations. In North Rhine-Westphalia, up to 30 percent of Christmas tree crops failed this year. An estimated

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The Advent Fair by St Stephen’s Basilica is one of the most atmospheric in Budapest.

Centrepieced by a towering Christmas tree and a free ice-rink for kids, stalls offer delicious dishes and all things jolly, while special light shows projected onto the façade of the Basilica make every night special. See below for tips on what to eat, drink and buy – and find out what film star Antonio Banderas was up to here last year! Right in the city centre, this Christmas fair has been improving year upon year, offering an enchanted experience for all ages. The main attraction is a recent one, illuminated visuals projected onto the façade of the historic Basilica.

Thanks to the largest-scale and most comprehensive reconstruction project in the museum’s history, the museum building has been renewed, and, returning to the collection’s first concept, the museum’s permanent exhibitions will also be rearranged. Besides the new permanent exhibitions, the revamped museum will welcome visitors with a chamber exhibition titled Leonardo & the Budapest Horse and Rider. The museum reconstruction, implemented within the framework of the Liget Budapest Project, included the restoration of the Romanesque Hall, which sustained severe damage in World War II and since then had been only partially renovated and used as a storage area, along with the modernisation of the building’s obsolete heating system, the installation of air conditioning in some of the exhibition halls, the renewal of a large part of the roof structure, as well as the addition of new exhibition spaces, visitor areas and modern storage facilities.

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IAAF upholds Russiaʼs doping suspension

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Council agreed at a meeting in Monaco on Tuesday to accept the recommendation of its Russia Taskforce not to reinstate the Russian Athletics Federation (RusAF). The head of the Taskforce, Rune Andersen, said that before RusAF could be brought back into the fold it must meet two conditions: First it needs to grant the Taskforce access to data from the testing of samples at a Moscow laboratory between 2011 and 2015; and second, it needs to pay the costs Taskforceʼs costs and those incurred in bringing or defending Russian cases at the Court of Arbitration of Sport (CAS).

Former world champion boxer Markus Beyer dies

German regional public broadcaster MDR reported on Tuesday that Markus Beyer had passed away at the age of 47 in a Berlin hospital on Monday. It said he had died after a short battle with a serious illness, without providing further details. "We were given the news by a member of his family," MDRʼs program director, Wolf Dieter Jacobi told the DPA news agency. "We know about his illness and had hoped that he would beat it." Before turning professional, Beyer, who represented Germany at both the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics, competed in the light middleweight division, winning a bronze mdeal at the 1996 World Amateur Boxing Championships and silver at the 1996 European Amateur Boxing Championships.

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Aleksandar Kolarovʼs free kick stunner secures Serbia win over Costa Rica

Jose Mourinho leaves Manchester United with immediate effect

A brilliant second half free kick from captain Aleksandar Kolarov led Serbia to a deserved win over Costa Rica. Serbia were wasteful in front of goal but did enough to secure three vital points in Group E. Another World Cup day, another sublime freekick. If Cristiano Ronaldo’s ice-cold effort tosnatch a point against arch-rivals Spain on day two was the current goal of the tournament front-runner, the Portuguese may have just met his match. Aleksandar Kolarov, take a bow. A combination of poor finishing and sublime goalkeeping had kept the scores level until Serbia’s no.11 produced his moment of magic. Kolarov’s powerful left foot is no secret, but few inside the stadium would have expected such a thunderous strike when the Roma defender stood over a free kick midway through the second half. His shot was unstoppable; a side-footed missile which screamed into the top corner of the Costa Rica net.

Kaylor Navas, who kept his team in the game with several crucial saves either side of half time, was nowhere near it.

A caretaker manager is to take charge of the team until the end of the current season

The English Premier League club has announced that the Portuguese manager has left the club.

Manchester United announced the departure of Jose Mourinho, 55, in a short statement posted on the clubʼs official website on Tuesday. "Manchester United announces that manager Jose Mourinho has left the club with immediate effect," the statement said. "The club would like to thank Jose for his work during his time at Manchester United and to wish him success in the future. The club added that a caretaker manager would run United until the end of the current season "while the club

conducts a thorough recruitment process for a new, full-time manager." Mourinho leaves with United in sixth place in the table on 26 points from 17 matches, including their 3-1 defeat by league leaders Liverpool on Sunday, which left them 19 points adrift of leaders and rivals Liverpool. Mourinho won theEuropa Leagueand the League Cup in hisfirst seasonwith the club, 2016-17, before guiding the team to second in the league and reaching the FA Cup final last season.

Angelique Kerber, Patrick Lange named German athletes of the year Tennis player Angelique Kerber and triathlete Patrick Lange have been named Germanyʼs athletes at an annual gala in Baden-Baden.

Tennis player Angelique Kerber and triathlete Patrick Lange have been named Germanyʼs athletes at an annual gala in Baden-Baden. Kerber won Wimbledon this year while Lange won Hawaiiʼs Ironman competition, the first person to do so in less than eight hours. But Germanyʼs record 14 Winter Olympic champions

from Pyeongchang left the awards empty-handed. Itʼs the second time Kerber has won the award, after a grand slam win in 2016. This year she edged out multiple track cycling world champion Kristina Vogel, who became paraplegic after a training accident in June. "You are a role model for so many people. You have shown so much willpower," Kerber told Vogel at the ceremony on Sunday. Twotime Olympic biathlon champion Laura Dahlmeier came in third.