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Germany: Russian millionaire killed in Frankfurt plane crash A pilot and two passengers believed to be Russian nationals have been killed in a small plane crash in western Germany. Russiaʼs S7 Airlines identified one of the victims as its coowner Natalia Fileva. "On March 31, 2019, S7 Airlines shareholder Natalia Fileva was killed at the age of 55 during the descent in a private Epic-LT plane to [a] Frankfurt airport. The cause of the tragedy is not yet known,” the company said in a statement. The 55-year-old was listed in 2018 by Forbes magazine as the fourth richest women in Russia with an estimated fortune of $660 million (€534 million). The small six-seater plane they were in crashed into an asparagus field south of the German city of Frankfurt around 3:30 p.m. local time (1330 UTC).

Israel reopens Gaza crossings after rocket strike Israel on Sunday reopened the Erez and Kerem Shalom crossings to the Gaza Strip after keeping them closed since a rocket fired by Palestinian militantshit a home near Tel Aviv six days earlier. The strike wounded seven Israelis and led to a serious flare-up in violence during which Israelcarried out several retaliatory attacks in the Gaza Stripon targets associated with Hamas, the Islamist group that controls the Palestinian enclave. The reopening of the crossings came just hours after more rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip into Israel overnight.

Israeli tanks fired at Hamas military posts in response. No casualties were reported on either side.

A day earlier,four Palestinians were killed by Israeli fireamid mass protests on the Gaza-Israel perimeter fence.

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Philippine police kill ʼcommunist rebelsʼ during weapons raids Police in the Philippines say they have shot and killed a group of suspected rebels

Police in the Philippines say they have shot and killed a group of suspected rebels. Rights groups have claimed the men who died were mainly elderly farmers and have slammed the "massacre."

Roundup cancer case: Monsanto ordered to pay US man $80 million In a blow to German chemical giant Bayer, a jury has ordered subsidiary Monsanto to pay $80 million to a man who said Roundup weed killer caused his cancer. Monsanto is facing hundreds of similar complaints in the US. A US jury has awarded $80 million (€71 million) in damages to a California man who blamed Roundup weed killer for causing his cancer.

The ruling is a blow to German chemical and pharmaceutical giant Bayer, whose subsidiary Monsanto makes the herbicide. The trial could pave the way for more cases linking Roundupʼs main ingredi-

ent, glyphosate, to cancer. The jury in San Franciscodecided earlier this monththat Roundup was a "substantial factor" in the 70-year-old plaintiff Edwin Hardemanʼs nonHodgkin lymphoma, finding that Roundup was defectively designed, that Monsanto failed to warn of the herbicideʼs cancer risk and that the company acted negligently. Monsanto has repeatedly pointed to studies showing glyphosate is safe. But the France-based International Agency for Research on Cancer, part of the World Health Organization, classified glyphosate as a "probable human carcinogen" in 2015.

We need men to talk about periods: Oscar winner Guneet Monga Period. End of Sentence is a documentary

about the deep-rooted stigma attached to menstruation in the village of Hapur in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. For generations, women here did not have access to sanitary pads, leading to health issues and girls dropping out from schools. Directed by award-winning Iranian-American filmmaker Rayka Zehtabchi, the film is created by The Pad Project, an organization established by a group of students at the Oakwood School in Los Angeles and their teacher, Melissa Berton. The movie has been produced

by 34-year-old Guneet Monga (pictured above), who was born in Delhi and heads the production company, Sikhya Entertainment. She has been involved in several critically acclaimed Indian movies, including Lunchbox, Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan, which won the International Jury of Film Critics Prize at Cannes in 2015. Monga is brimming with ambition and confidence after her Oscar victory and hopes the movie will help change mindsets and hard-wired attitudes, especially among males, towards menstruation.

Arab leaders slam Trumpʼs recognition of Golan Heights as Israeli The Arab League closed ranks on Sunday againstDonald Trumpʼs move to recognize Israeli sovereigntyover the Golan Heights, despite growing tensions between the 22 member states. At a one-day summit in Tunisia, Saudi Arabiaʼs King Salman bin Abdulaziz told fellow leaders his country "absolutely rejects any measures which could affect Syriaʼs sovereignty over Golan." Israel wrestled the control of the border region from Syria during the Arab-Israeli war in 1967 and annexed it 1981, although nearly all countries viewthe Golan Heights as occupied territory.

"Occupation is a crime and legalizing is a sin," Arab League chief Ahmed Abdul Gheit said on Sunday.

Ukraine: Comedian Zelensky and incumbent Poroshenko set for runoff vote Political newcomer Volodymyr Zelenskyhas won over 30 percent of the vote in Ukraineʼs presidential polls, with President Poroshenko claiming below 18 percent support, exit polls showed on Sunday evening. Another key contender, formerPrime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, scored around 14 percent. The results would put Zelensky and Poroshenko into the final vote on the 21 of April. Forty-one-yearold Zelensky is famous forplaying a character of a president in a political comedy showcalled "Servant of the People."

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Grief and shock, but ʼstill homeʼ in Christchurch the day after terror attacks Abbas Nazari first arrived in Christchurch as a child refugee from Afghanistan. He and his family were taken in after the international sea rescue standoff in 2001, known as the Tampa Affair. New Zealand gave them and fellow Afghans "a home, a place, a future, hope," he said. Now itʼs where they have also experienced terrorism. Read more: ʼStand together,ʼ urges New Zealandʼs human rights commissioner On Saturday, Nazari turned out to support the dozens of people at an emergency response center set up for friends and relatives of the victims of Fridayʼsdeadly terror attacks on two of the cityʼs mosques. Guarded by armed police, the center, along with a nearby site where people gathered to lay flowers and tributes, were busy locations in a city that was otherwise subdued. Nazari told DW that everyone in Christchurchʼs small, tight-knit Afghan community knew someone who was in the hospital or had died.

He said he came out to help them coordinate relief efforts.

Louis van Gaal on his sacking, his legacy and life in retirement

Will Germany become the worldʼs largest market for medicinal cannabis?

The use of medicinal cannabis has been allowed in Germany for two years now. But because domestic cultivation hasnʼt gotten off the ground yet, the plant has been imported, mainly from Canada. That might change soon.

As Europeʼs biggest cannabis investor conference kicks off in Berlin on Sunday, the most important topic will be the future cultivation of the plant in Germany, according to German Hemp Association (DHV) Chief Executive Georg Wurth. He finds it rather pathetic that there still is no cannabis cultivation in Europeʼs biggest economy. For two years, Germany has allowed cannabis cultivation for medical purposes. But picking suitable

growers hasnʼt been all plain sailing.

A competitive tendering process had to be started from scratch following initial procedural errors. According to the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfarM), there will be clarity in a couple of months as to which enterprises will get a license to produce cannabis at the behest of the state. Frankfurt-based entrepreneur Niklas Kouperanis believes that is an unrealistic deadline.

Between deluge and drought, freshwater sources are struggling to replenish Worldwide, heavy rainfall and flooding are wreaking havoc from Mozambique to the US. At the same time, ancient water sources are drying up. On World Water Day, DW looks at extreme weatherʼs threat to freshwater sources.

Itʼs hard to grapple with the reality of a shrinking water supply when places likeMozambiqueare saturated to the point of obliteration. In the last few days, some of the worst flooding ever recorded — triggered by cyclone Idai — has devastated southeast Africa. Storm surge floods up to six meters (about 20 feet) deep have de-

stroyed nearly 90 percent of Mozambique, as well as neighboring Zimbabwe and Malawi, decimating almost all water and power infrastructure. Between extreme floods and drought, global warming is disrupting the planetʼs water cycle. Across the Atlantic, flooding in the US state of Nebraska has been so bad an entire city was walled off from the outside world. In southeast Asia, more than 80 people have been killed in flash floodsbrought on by torrential rain in the Papua Province of Indonesia.

Some areas of the province recorded almost 200 mm (7.8 inches) of rain in 24 hours.

It is almost three years since Louis van Gaal walked into a Wembley news conference and slammed the FA Cup on to the table. The Dutchman had just completed what he regards as his greatest managerial achievement: "Winning a trophy despite having a noose round my neck for six months." Within minutes of the final whistle of Manchester Unitedʼs victory with 10 men against Crystal Palace, it was reported he would be sacked and replaced by Jose Mourinho.

I met Van Gaal in Portugal last week for his first written interview with a British journalist since that day.

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Sri Lanka seeks investment, but China questions linger You donʼt need to be an expert on international trade routes to look at a map and understandthat Sri Lankaʼs location is one of potentially serious economic advantage. The island nation — population 22 million — sits at the southern tip of India, almost as close to the Middle East and the Horn of Africa as it is to South East Asia.

The value of this location has not been lost on its northern neighbor China.Under Xi Jinpingʼs so-called ʼBelt and Road Initiative,ʼ the Chinese government has pumped billions into Sri Lanka in the form of both foreign investment and loans in recent years. This reliance on Chinese money is part of a long-standing Sri Lankan problem. With a major trade deficit, as well as crippling levels of debt, the country needs foreign money. China has rushed to fill the gap more enthusiastically than anyone else. The current Sri Lankan government came to power in 2015, when it replaced former President Mahinda Rajapaksaʼs administration. His government had been unabashedly eager to seek Chinese money, regardless of the costs, and it left the incoming government with a major web of deals — and debt — to untangle.

Dutch shipbuilder in dock over North Koreanʼs Polish slave claims The first case in the Netherlands of worker exploitation involving a Dutch company for alleged crimes committed outside the country could be nearing an end in the coming weeks, lawyers said, and if successful may open the door to more such cases. Barbara van Straaten, the lawyer representing a North Korean worker, said Dutch law criminalizes the act of profiting from exploitation. The name of the Dutch shipping company sued by the worker couldnʼt be disclosed for safety reasons, she added. Under the countryʼs anti-trafficking law, offenders can be jailed for up to 18 years and face fines of €83,000 ($95,000). The plaintiff claims he was sent to Poland by the Pyongyang regime and forced to work12-hour days for low wages in awful conditions. The lawyer did not say when this happened.