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UK ramps up provision for no-deal ʼsledgehammerʼ Brexit:

Significant risks and short-term disruption for the UK were presaged by the Brexit minister in the event of a no-deal exit from the EU. With just months to go, businesses and individuals are preparing for major changes.

Turkey sentences German taxi driver for spreading ʼterrorism propagandaʼ German national Ilhami A., from the northern German city of Hamburg, was handed a jail sentence in Turkey on Friday after being found guilty of spreading propaganda for the banned Kurdistan Workersʼ Party (PKK). The 46-year-old appeared in court in the eastern city of Elazig where he received a sentence of three years and one-and-a-half months, according to German public broadcasters NDR, WDR and the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.

Bangladesh unions reject $95 monthly wage for garment workers Hundreds of garment workers staged demonstrations in Bangladeshʼs capital, Dhaka, on Friday, after rejecting the governmentʼs plans to hike their minimum wage to Tk 8,000 ($95, €81). The new monthly pay deal, which is due to come into effect from December, marks a 51 percent rise on the current minimum wage, which was set in 2013. Bangladeshʼs Independent newspaper cited Joly Talukder, a union representative for the garment workers, as saying that the new wage is "illogical and unjust.

British Prime Minister Theresa May held a 3-hour Cabinet meetingon Thursday before her government issued a further collection of technical notices about the effects ofleaving the EU next March without a deal in place. With only months to go, there was more advice for UK individuals and businesses to prepare for major changes in their dealings with Europe as outsiders. What the UK government advisedUK manufacturers may have their export products retested by EU safety regulators.Organic food exports would be certified by a UK body, recognized and approved by Brussels.Processing times and costs for bank card payments could increase.British drivers may need to take a new driving test and obtain two new international driving licenses before taking to Europeʼs roads.Roaming charges for UK mobile phone use in Europe could be reimposed.UK passport holders should have at least six months left on their passports before crossing the Channel, or face being refused entry.Seafarer certificates of competency may no longer be valid.Businesses may need to check they can receive personal data about European customers.A delay in imports of sperm for couples seeking to conceive through artificial insemination.The UK may get less warning of falling space debris. More such advice is expected in the coming weeks. News Brexit: UK ramps up provision for no-deal ʼsledgehammerʼ Significant risks and short-term disruption

for the UK were presaged by the Brexit minister in the event of a nodeal exit from the EU. With just months to go, businesses and individuals are preparing for major changes. British Prime Minister Theresa May held a 3-hour Cabinet meetingon Thursday before her government issued a further collection of technical notices about the effects ofleaving the EU next March without a deal in place. With only months to go, there was more advice for UK individuals and businesses to prepare for major changes in their dealings with Europe as outsiders. What the UK government advised UK manufacturers may have their export products retested by EU safety regulators.Organic food exports would be certified by a UK body, recognized and approved by Brussels.Processing times and costs for bank card payments could increase.British drivers may need to take a new driving test and obtain two new international driving licenses before taking to Europeʼs roads.Roaming charges for UK mobile phone use in Europe could be reimposed.UK passport holders should have at least six months left on their passports before crossing the Channel, or face being refused entry.Seafarer certificates of competency may no longer be valid.Businesses may need to check they can receive personal data about European customers.A delay in imports of sperm for couples seeking to conceive through artificial insemination.

Hambach Forest: Battleground

Torture in Russiaʼs prisons becoming ʼmore sophisticated and brutalʼ

for climate action On Thursday morning, police moved into Germanyʼs ancient Hambach Forest toremove activists and the treehousesthey have lived in for the last six years. The forest is one of the oldest left in Europe. But underneath it lies a wealth of lignite, or brown coal — an extremely carbon-heavy fossil fuel. Police told DW they were acting on the request of local authorities to remove the tree-dwelling activists because of fire-safety concerns. But tensions have been building in the west German forest for months, as energy company RWE prepares to fell the treesin order to expand an opencast lignite mine.

In July this year, the Novaya Gazeta newspaper released footage showing Evgeny Makarov being brutally tortured by a group of guards at the Yarslavl prison in Russia. The incident reportedly occurred in 2017. Irina Biryukova works for the Public Verdict Foundation and serves as Makarovʼs lawyer. Her organization has published the names of the 18 prison guards involved in the torture of Makarov. Thirteen guards are currently in pretrial custody. Now, a second video with further evidence of torture inside a Russian jail has surfaced.

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Amnesty accuses Turkey of ʼturning blind eyeʼ to abuses in Afrin Human rights organization Amnesty International accused Turkey on Thursday of allowing Syrian armed groups to commit a wide range of violations against civilians in Afrin. Turkish forces aided by allied rebelscaptured the northern Syrian townin March from the US-backed Kurdish Peopleʼs Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara considers a terrorist group.According to Amnestyʼs research, scores of displaced residents have since returned to their homes, only to be subjected to rights abuses. Read more:Turkeyʼs military offensive against Kurdish-held Afrin: What you need to know Amnesty interviewed 32 people, both current and former Afrin residents, between May and July 2018, who said: Residents in Afrin are enduring "arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances, confiscation of property and looting."Most of the abuses were "at the hands of Syrian groups that have been equipped and armed by Turkey."Some of the rebel groups and Turkish armed forces had "taken over schools, disrupting the education for thousands of children."

Outcry in Uganda over compulsory HIV test 19-year-old Methia Nalukwago, a student at Makerere University in the capital Kampala, is excited by the proposal to have all students undergo compulsory HIV/AIDS testing. Some students, she says, have been living in denial. "Our friends, we study with them but you look at someone and you are like, ʼare you sure you are not sick or something like that?ʼ Of course you never come out to tell them but you feel it deep down inside you, this person must be sick because of the symptoms that show," Nalukwago told DW. "Compulsory testing for HIV will help us know our HIV status and where we stand." Studies conducted by the Ugandan AIDS Commission show lack of sufficient information among the youth is contributing to an increase of HIV. Jane Were, the head teacher of Forest Hill College in Mukono district located 21 kilometers (13 miles) east of Kampala, said they are grappling with HIV in schools. She said the situation has been made worse by parents who mislead their children on what they are actually suffering from. "We have situations where parents lie to students about these [anti-retroviral] drugs. There are parents who tell children they have other ailments other than HIV," 2

Learning from Lehman: Is the next crash coming? Economists warn that appearances are deceptive

A decade after the Lehman Brothersʼ bankruptcy, the US economy is growing. Americans feel safe and are even optimistic. But economists warn that appearances are deceptive. Itʼs been 10 years since the bubble burst on the US real estate market and plunged the economy into recession. The stock market crashed and nearly $7 trillion (€6 trillion) of investments went up in smoke. Within two years, nearly 9 million Americans lost their jobs. The American taxpayer paid the bill, and the legislature came up with the Dodd-Frank Act to tighten the rules for the financial industry. Central banks around the worldflooded the markets with money and cut interest rates to zeroin the hope that companies would borrow cheap money from banks in order to invest. Consumers were expected to consume which would then

German politician targeted by haters over climate refugees A member of the Green Youths has received an onslaught of online hate, including rape and death threats, after she publicly put her support behind extending citizenship to asylum seekers fleeing disasters of climate change. Earlier this month, comments made by 24-year-old Ricarda Lang (above), a spokeswoman for the political organization, were published in a number of German regional newspapers and online outlets, including ZDF, and Die Welt. "The EU should offer the citizens of island states that are threatened by climate change European citizenship and enable them to migrate with dignity," Lang told German media. In the 24 hours that followed, Lang

boost the economy. In the end, the plan worked. The US economy has grown over 4 percent in recent quarters. American companies are reporting record profits each quarter, the labor market is nearing full employment and Wall Street prices are going from one record high to the next. In the past few weeks, two US companies, Apple and Amazon, have cracked the $1 trillion market valuation ceiling. The Consumer Confidence Index is at a 10-year high and American President Donald Trump has been celebrating the great results on Twitter. Even the US Federal Reserve has repeatedly expressed optimism about the economy. saidhate messagesflooded her Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Email. "People threatened my life and commented on my body, and said how they wanted to kill or rape me," she told DW. "The first day was really hard because I kind of felt like I was alone, standing in front of this huge wall of hate."

Refugees in Italy get their hands dirty with own farm Every morning Dembo Cisse, a sturdily-built 21-year old from Guinea, waits for the car to pick him up. He and two others, who live in the same apartment that belongs to Italyʼs privatized migrant reception system, get in the vehicle. The old family car then heads from Oleggio, a small

Germanyʼs family reunification policy can leave young adults in limbo It sounds desperate, but Riham abo Staiti says she would rather die than turn 18. The 17-year-old only leaves her darkened accommodations when absolutely necessary. She lives here in a 30-square-meter (323-square-foot) portable housing unit with her father and three siblings in the Nahr alBared Refugee Camp in northern Lebanon. Yet, one important person is missing: "I just want to be with my mother," Riham says. She only speaks with her mother, who lives in a suburb of Karlsruhe, Germany, on her mobile phone. Her fear is constant when the two talk each day: "I am terrified of being left here on my own," says Riham. She has been waiting for the day she can join her mother for more than three years now. She is in a race against time, for she will likely be barred from family reunification as soon as she turns 18.

town in the northern Italian region of Piedmont, to an agricultural field nearby. But Dembo and his companions are not off to work in the food supply chain, dominated by largescale distributors who require ever lower prices and therefore cheap labor — which many of their fellow Africans provide for lack of better options. Read more: Italy tells refugees: Donʼt risk the journey The carʼs driver is Raffaele DʼAcunto, known as Lello, the areaʼs first organic farmer, now retired, who decided to set up a small-scale agricultural company to make organic produce and sell it on the local market. Lello, Dembo and four others from Mali, Senegal and Nigeria — the youngest of whom is just 19 — are to become equal partners in the budding business they have aptly named Zappa Ar‐ cobaleno, Italian for Rainbow Hoe. The company is currently caught up in the bureaucratic process awaiting official registration.

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Hungarian company wins exclusive rights to AC/DC brand

A local eyewear manufacturer is the exlcusive producer of eyewear for hard rock gods AC/DC.

Vinylize, created by local designer Zachary Tipton, recycles vinyl records into uber-premium glasses and sunglasses. Now their new collection is made out of one of the most successful albums ever: Back

in Black. Be prepared to pay premium for their products which are all handmade in their downtown workshop. Prices start at 90,000 HUF(300 euros). A visit will grant you access to their production fa-

cilites where you can even have your purchase customized. Please visit us: Tipton Budapest, 1056 Budapest, Irányi u. 20 More information: www.tipton.hu Celebrity eyewear for you!

Air guitarists compete for world title (and world peace) in Finland The elite among the international air guitar scene donʼt just gather each year in the Finnish city of Oulu to shake their long hair and jump around on stage, but also to strive for loftier humanitarian goals. According to the ideology of the Air Guitar World Championships, as stated on the official website, "wars would end, climate change stop and all bad things disappear, if all the people in the world played the air guitar." Contestants from six countries are gearing up for the final of the air guitar world championships on Friday, organizers said. Contestants are judged on their ability to pretend to strum rock or heavy metal electric guitar solos — minus the instrument. Invisible acoustic guitars are also allowed. The final features 15 contestants, including the American Matt Burns (top photo), who was crowned world champion at the 22nd edition of the annual event last year.

Szimpla Fashion - Budapest designers pop up Szimpla Kert The aim of this event is to provide a platform for Hungarian designers to present their brands and sell their products. The range is extensive, including clothes and bags as well as jewellery, beauty products, paintings and ceramics. Come and find something matching your style or take home unique souvenirs while supporting independent artists and designers.

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A new age of truth at university Anti-plagiarism tools:

In Kenya, rangers turn detectives to protect elephants Africaʼs elephants are on the road to extinction. Faye Cuevas founded the tenBonma project to secure their future by stopping poachers before they kill the animals. And that involves a lot of detective work. Project goal: tenBoma uses detective work to stop animal poachers and smugglers before they become active Project implementation: tenBoma connects local communities to regional and international agencies. In Kenya, the wildlife service and community rangers are trained to collect and analyze data to help predict a poacherʼs next strike Project partners:The Kenya Wildlife Service, rangers, local communities in

Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, nonprofit agencies, NGOs, national and international law enforcement agencies Stopping elephant poachers and smugglers before they kill. Thatʼs the aim of tenBoma, a project established by theInternational Fund of Animal Welfare(IFAW), in Kenya. tenBoma means ten houses, a name derived from the African philosophy that if ten houses look out for each other, the wider community is safer. To save highly endangered elephants, the project is training local rangers to become data analysts. Their job is to comb through information on poachers collected by the Kenyan Wildlife Services. Theyʼre also working closely with local communities such as the Maasai.

Heading to college? Then read the terms and conditions of your facultyʼs anti-plagiarism and online exam tools, and click okay. Or forgo your degree. Shudder to think: I doubt I would have got through university if then was now. I was way too busy dreaming to even write most of my essays, let alone submit them to the scrutiny of an automated, anti-plagiarism tool online. Back then … well, letʼs just say the internet was not my go-to study aid. I used my computer — a crummy Macintosh Performa 6400 series — almost exclusively for making rubbish music demos that no one

ever heard. Good job I was a dreamer, though, because I could only have dreamt of lugging that gray tower around Cologne Universityʼs equally crummy Philosophikum in my butter-stained, army-surplus rucksack. No such luck for todayʼs students. Today, you simply donʼt qualify as a student if you canʼt whip a be-stickered MacBook Pro — with Touchbar — out of some designer, skate apparel.

Reasons why you should be happy the holidays are over

New Zealand town plans to ban cats

Best time of the year? No way! Nearly 20 percent of people aged between 30 and 44 cannot relax while on holiday. This is the conclusion of a Forsa survey. Some people canʼt completely forget work because their boss wants them to be available at all times. Others have stress with their family. The holidays apparently also lead to a few extra pounds. More than 50 percent of all Germans gain weight during their vacation, usually one or two kilos, according to a representative survey by the travel site start.de. All that good food and drink has to go somewhere!

The town of Omaui is trying to go cat-free in order to stop the animals from attacking native species. Cat ownership is increasingly controversial in New Zealand due to conservation concerns. A small town in New Zealand found itself at the center of a national debate

between conservations and cat lovers on Wednesday, when a regional council announced plans to make the town of Omaui in the countryʼs Southland region completely cat-free. The biosecurity plan published by Environment Southland cites specific concerns over bengal cats, which "have the potential to breed with the existing wild population of feral cats to create a more efficient predator," and thus present a significant danger to endemic species. "Weʼre not cat haters, but we want our environment to be wildlife-rich," Omaui Landcare Charitable Trust chairman John Collins, whose organization is pushing for the ban, told the Otago Daily Times. But local cat owners told the newspaper that they would refuse to observe the ban. One resident said the rodent problem on her property was so bad, "if I cannot have a cat, it almost becomes unhealthy for me to live in my house."

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Archaeologists tap ground at worldʼs oldest brewery An early beer:

What came first, the bread or the beer? Archaeologists who found a 13,000-year-old alcohol-production site may have an answer. But the ancient brew made there bears little resemblance to todayʼs tall cold ones. An international team of archaeologists from the universities of Haifa and Stanford claimed they have found what is believed to be the worldʼs oldest site for producing beer. The team was researching the Raqefet Cave near Haifa, in what is today Israel, when they came across three stone mortars for storing, crushing and fermenting grain. Their findings were published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. Burial ritualsAnalyses of the mortars sug-

gested that the brew was developed by nomadic Natufian huntergatherers inrituals used to honor their dead, who were buried on beds of flowers nearby in the cave. The scientists say the discovery is important in that it, "indicates that making alcohol was not necessarily a result ofagricultural surplus production, but it was developed for ritual purposes and spiritual needs, at least to some extent, prior to agriculture," according to Professor Li Liu of Stanford.

Apple sticks to higher prices for iPhones in Europe Apple introduced three updated versions of its iPhone X handset and a watch that detects an irregular heartbeat on Wednesday. Appleʼs new iPhone XS Max, the largest iPhone to date and one of the biggest in the market, has a 6.5-inch (16.5-cm) display. The iPhone XS has a 5.8-inch (14.7-cm) screen. The company also introduced a lower-cost 6.1-inch (15.5 cm) iPhone XR made of aluminum and with lower screen quality. Higher prices for Europeans Apple appears set to continue its practice of higher pricing outside of the United States. The XS Max, which looks to be about the size of the iPhone 8 Plus but with a much bigger display, will become the most expensive iPhone ever, starting at $1,099 in the US and €1,249 ($1,452) in Germany. The XS will start from $999 in the US and €1,149 ($1,226) in Germany. The price of the XR will start at $749 in the US and €849 ($987)in Germany.

Leo Budapest Bar the best panoramic view of the city!

ʼOldest known drawingʼ a hashtag found in South Africa News ʼOldest known drawingʼ a hashtag found in South Africa The sketch was drawn on a tiny piece of rock some 73,000 years ago by hunter-gatherers in South Africa. The abstract design has a vague resemblance to a popular symbol of the internet age — the hashtag. Scientists have found a tiny fragment of rock marked with intersecting lines of red ocher pigment some 73,000 years ago. The discovery is the oldestknown example of drawing by humans, the scientists said. It predates the previous oldest-known drawings by at least 30,000 years. The abstract design, vaguely resembling a hashtag, was found in Blombos Cave on the southern coast of South Africa. It was

drawn by hunter-gatherers who periodically dwelled in the cave overlooking the Indian Ocean. The find points to the existence of modern cognitive abilities in our species, Homo sapiens, during the Middle Stone Age, the researchers said. ʼHesitant to call it artʼ "The abrupt termination of all lines on the fragment edges indicates that the pattern originally extended over a larger surface. The pattern was probably more complex and structured in its entirety than in this truncated form," said archaeologist Christopher Henshilwood of the University of Bergen in Norway and the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, who led the research published in thejournal Nature.

Hotel Clark, at the Buda foot of Chain Bridge, houses two outlet. Beefbar on the ground floor and, on the roof terrace, Leo Budapest named after the famous lions guarding the bridge. At the panoramic bar, you can admire the breathtaking vista of Buda Castle, the Danube, Chain Bridge and the rooftops of the riverfront while sipping on a refreshing drink. Leo offers a wide variety of wines and cocktails, and the kitchen is led by talented young chef András Sipos, also responsible for downstairs.

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Culture

Events Horizon: what’s happening in Budapest – August 2018

Festivals, cool concerts, cultural events and amazing parties – Budapest is always buzzing. Every month, we bring together all of the important happenings taking place in and around Hungary’s capital, so you can plan ahead. In August, the Sziget Festival, WAMP Design Fair and fantastic fireworks are all among the many exciting events you shouldn’t miss. Whether you would like to shake it to the coolest beats, immerse yourself in culture or give in to guilty pleasures, we present a bunch of events for the upcoming weeks. Get out there and enjoy everything that Budapest has to offer! A38 Concerts WAMP Design Fair Rigoletto Liberty Bridge Picnics Jason Derulo Sziget Festival Festival of Folk Arts CityMatiné Saint Stephen’s Day The Budapest Short International Film Festival A38 Concerts WAMP Design Fair Rigoletto Liberty Bridge Picnics Jason Derulo Sziget Festival Festival of Folk Arts CityMatiné Saint Stephen’s Day The Budapest Short International Film Festival

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Red Star, Benfica, PSV win to qualify for Champions League draw

Benfica, PSV Eindhoven and Red Star Belgrade have secured the final spots in the draw for the group stage of the Champions League. Salzburg failed in their 11th attempt to qualify for the group stage. Red Bull Salzburg, who due to UEFA rules are referred to as "FC Salzburg" in European play, blew a 2-0 lead at home to Red Star Belgrade on Wednesday, playing to a 2-2 draw, which saw the 1991 European champions advance on the away-goals rule. This was the 11th time that the Austrians have failed to advance from qualifying for the Champions League — in five of those cases they tripped at the final hurdle.

Serena Williams to play sister Venus in third round

Serena Williams and sister Venus won their US Open second-round matches to set up a 30th career meeting. Sixtime champion Serena, 36, beat German world 101 Carina Witthoft 6-2 6-2, while twice champion Venus saw off Italyʼs Camila Giorgi 6-4 7-5. The last time the Americans played each other at a Grand Slam was in the final of the 2017 Australian Open, which Serena won when eight weeks pregnant. "Weʼd rather have met later," 17th seed Serena said. Serena missed the US Open last year, giving birth to daughter Olympia shortly after the tournament started. She reached the Wimbledon final in July. 6

Aleksandar Kolarovʼs free kick stunner secures Serbia win over Costa Rica 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.

Former national team stars express cautious support for Joachim Löw A number of former German stars have expressed cautious support for the coach

Joachim Löw has received mixed reviews after he presented his analysis as to why Germany crashed out of the World Cup at the group stage. Few, if any German media outlets were particularly impressed by the analysis of what went wrong for Germany at the 2018 World Cup in Russia presented by national team head coach Joachim Löw in Munich on Wednesday. Read more: Opinion: Too little, too late and still too detached The mass circulation newspaper Bild described the self-criticism that Löw expressed at the press conference as "weak," the national broadsheet Die Welt wrote that the Ger-

many coach "lacked the strength to act," while the news magazine Spiegel found that the results of the German Football Associationʼs (DFB) analysis was "not worthy of two months of silence." German football fans will be watching Löw like a hawk when the national team faces World Cup champions France in their first match in the inaugural UEFA Nations League next Thursday, before taking on Peru in an international friendly the following Sunday.

Mick Schumacher tests DTM Mercedes at Nürburgring Michael Schumacherʼs son Mick took a time-out from his Formula 3 championship bid on Friday to test a German Touring Car (DTM) Mercedes. The 19-year-old is making steady progress through the junior ranks. Michael Schumacher rose the ranks in Mercedesʼ young driver program in the late 1980s and early 90s, also finishing his Formula 1 career with three seasons driving the Silver Arrows in F1. Now, his son Mick is progressing up the junior series, competing this year for the Formula

3 championship. Schumacher the younger took time out from his typical F3 duties on Friday, however, to try out the Mercedes DTM (German Touring Car) around the Nürburgring. "I had a lot of fun. That was a very worthwhile experience," Schumacher said after the test drive. The original plan was to allow Schumacher to drive demonstration laps in the same DTM Mercedes that Michael Schumacher raced in 1990 and 1991; but the car was ultimately not fit for use on the day.