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Germany records hottest April ever The National Meteorological Service reports that April 2018 was the warmest April in the recorded history of German weather. Average temperatures were 5 degrees higher than during the comparison period from 1981 to 2010. 2018 saw the warmest recorded April in German history, beating the previous record set in 2009, the National Meteorological Service (DWD) reported on Monday. At a projected 12.4 degrees Celsius (54 F), the average temperature proved 5 degrees Celsius (9 F) higher than the April value from the internationally valid comparison period from 1961-1990 and 4 degrees higher than the figure from 1981-2010.
US border authorities block Central American migrant caravan US officials have told would-be asylum seekers at the Mexican border that the crossing is too full to process their cases. The migrants have already drawn the wrath of US President Trump during their trek through Mexico.More than a hundred migrants from Central American countries have camped out at the US-Mexican border after being told by US border inspectors on Sunday that a crossing facility had no capacity for them. It was not immediately clear whether the migrants, who have traveled 3,200 kilometers (2,000 miles) through Mexico to the border at Tijuana, would be turned back or allowed in later. More than a hundred migrants from Central American countries have camped out at the US-Mexican border after being told by US border inspectors on Sunday that a crossing facility had no capacity for them. It was not immediately clear whether the migrants, who have traveled 3,200 kilometers (2,000 miles) through Mexico to the border at Tijuana, would be turned back or allowed in later.
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Catalan secessionists back absent ex-leader Carles Puigdemont for regional president The move would be in defiance of Spainʼs wishes
Pro-independence Catalan politicians hope to nominate exiled former leader Carles Puigdemont to head their regional government again.
Miracle or mirage? Bosch’s diesel ʼbreakthroughʼ World-leading auto supplier Bosch recently announced a bright future for diesel, claiming dramatic new innovations which would slash emissions. Too good to be true? Or can we dare to dream of a diesel future? "Success has a thousand fathers and failure is an orphan" — at some point in our lives, most of us have reflected on the essential truth behind the aphorism. The biggest recent failure of Germanyʼs mammoth engineering industry is ʼDieselgateʼ, the emissionscheating scandal that became public knowledge in 2015 and which has wrought dramatic changes in Germanyʼs darling car and engineering in-
dustries ever since. When the depth of that scandal became fully apparent, many ran for the hills. Volkswagen, the main offender, had nowhere to hide and bore the brunt of the backlash. Yet itʼs important to remember that manymore titans of German engineering were involved, not least the famed Bosch company,which admitted supplying a component (ʼelectronic diesel control unit 17ʼ) that helped VW diesels cheat the emissions tests. In 2017, Bosch agreed to pay $327.5 million (€271.1 million) in damages to some who were affected by their behavior in the US. In Germany, prosecutors in Stuttgart are still examining the role played by Bosch in the scandal.
German university hospital defends auto firmsʼ nitrogen dioxide test ethics No experiments on animals or humans can take place in Germany without a go from an authorized ethics committee. Dr. Thomas Kraus from Aachen University Hospital says this was the case in the most recent NO2 scandal. The European Research Group on Environment and Health in the Transport Sector (EUGT) "did not impinge in any way on the nitrogen dioxide (NO2) research it commissioned Aachen University Hospital to do," Professor Thomas Kraus from the
hospital told the German press agency DPA on Monday. The EUGT is a now defunct organization that was funded by German carmakers Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW plus partsmaker Bosch, thus raising questions of possible conflicts of interest. In 2013, 25 healthy volunteers were exposed to NO2 pollution for three hours, Kraus said. "None of them had any negative health effects," he went on, adding that the tests were meant to measure the impact of pollutants in the workplace.
German police arrest elderly babysitter after suspicious child death A 69-year-old woman has been detained by police after a 7-year-old boy in her care was found dead, apparently strangled. The boy is said to have had a warm relationship with the babysitter. German police say they have detained a 69-year-old woman in the southern German town of Künzelsau, not far from Stuttgart, after a 7-year-old boy whom she had been babysitting overnight in her house was found lying dead in a bathtub. The woman was arrested on Saturday evening after a short police search and has since been remanded in custody. The boy had been spending the night with the woman as he had done many times before. When his parents came to pick him up on Saturday morning, no one came to the door. They used a neighborʼs key to enter the house, where the father discovered his son dead in the bath.
Catholic cardinal rebukes Bavaria for ordering crosses in state buildings Cardinal Reinhard Marx has said directing all state buildings to hang crosses amounts to "expropriating the cross in the name of the state." Bavarian Premier Markus Söder sparked nationwide criticism for the move. The head of the German Bishopsʼ Conference has sharply criticized the premier of the southern German state of Bavaria for ordering Christian crosses to be hung in all state buildings.
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