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Thailand cave rescue: First boys rescued from trapped soccer team The first members ofa youth soccer team trapped with their coachin a flooded cave in northern Thailand have been rescued and are on their way to hospital, local officials said on Sunday. Four out of the 12 boys made it out of the Tham Luang Nang Non cave complex, Narongsak Osottanakorn, the governor of Chiang Rai province and the head of the rescue mission, told reporters in the evening.

Other Thai officials initially told reporters that six boys had been rescued. The rescue mission was due to resume on Monday and would be conducted by the same diving team that retrieved the first four boys, Interior Minister Anupong Paojinda said Monday. Anupong said divers needed to place more air canisters along the underwater route to where the boys and their coach are located — a process that can take several hours.

German government distances itself from Interior Minister Horst Seehofer The German government took the unusual step of distancing itself from German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer after he requested the EU strive for "unconditional security cooperation" with Britainafter it leaves the bloc, German daily newspaper Süd‐ deutsche Zeitung reported on Monday. His move has angered the EU Commission, which is trying to present a united European front in the Brexit negotiations.

Seehofer made the request in a letter to the EU Commission, the blocʼs executive arm that has been leading negotiations for EU national governments, in late June.

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Brexit Secretary David Davis resigns His move comes days after May announced sheʼd united her Cabinet behind an EU exit plan

Chief Brexit negotiator David Davis wrote in a letter to Prime Minister Theresa May that he no longer wanted to be her "conscript."

Volkswagen loses bid to block investigators German carmaker Volkswagen has lost a legal challenge to prevent prosecutors from examining unpublished documents about its pollution scandal. The files in question had been seized from a US law firm.

Germanyʼs top court ruled Friday that filesrelated to Volkswagenʼs emissions-cheating scandaland seized from a US law firm may be reviewed by prosecutors. The decision means that the information

from the files may be made public as part of any criminal proceedings against the carmaker, thusproviding more ammunition for shareholders and car owners seeking damages. Shortly after the pollution scandal broke in September 2015, VW hired law firm Jones Day and advisory firm Deloitte to investigate the issue and look at who was responsible. But the carmaker never published the findings of the Jones Day probe.

Ex-Thailand navy SEAL dies while working to save boys from cave The long-running effort to save children in Thailandʼs Tham Luang Nang Non cave claimed its first victim on Friday, when a former Thai Navy SEALs member died of lack of oxygen. The rescuer, identified as a 37year-old Samarn Poonan, was working as a volunteer, SEAL commander

Arpakorn Yookongkaew told a news conference on Friday morning. Samarn died while diving to place oxygen canisters along a potential route forthe upcoming extraction attempt. However, he ran out of oxygen himself and lost consciousness while trying to return.

Italy to block naval vessels carrying migrants from docking Italyʼshardline Interior Minister, Matteo Salvini,vowed on Sunday to stop foreign naval vessels that have saved migrants in the Mediterranean Sea from docking in Italian ports, extending a ban first placed on ships chartered by charities. Foreign naval ships participating in European Union and NATO-sponsored search-and-rescue missions transfer many migrants to land at Italian ports. On Sunday, Irish navy ship Samuel Beckett landed in Sicily with 106 migrants on board.

Announcing his decision on social media, Salvini said he would inform his counterparts from other European Union countries about the move at an upcoming EU meeting in Austria.

British woman exposed to Novichok nerve agent dies British police on Sunday said a woman who wasexposed to the nerve agent Novichokin Amesbury, near the southwestern city of Salisbury, had died. Londonʼs Metropolitan Police said 44-year-old Dawn Sturgess died on Sunday in a Salisbury hospital and the case had now become a homicide investigation . Police said Sturgess and 45-year-old Charlie Rowley, who remains in critical condition in hospital,were exposed to Novichok, the same type of nerve agent used to poisonformer Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury In March. UK Prime Theresa May said she was "appalled and shocked" by the death.

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The English Patientʼ voted best Man Booker Prize novel

Germany, China seek alliance over trade spat with US

Michael Ondaatjeʼs book "The English Patient" was voted the best novel to have won the Man Booker Prize in 50 years on Sunday. The Canadian writerʼs book, which tells a tale of love and conflict during World War II, was awarded theGolden Man Booker Prizefor fiction after winning a month-long public vote. The award is a special one-off honor to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Man Booker Prize. The book won the Man Booker Prize in 1992 and was made into a film starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche in 1996 that won nine Academy Awards. A panel of judges selected five books from the 51 winners of the Booker Prize, with one from each decade. The 1970s finalist was "In a Free State" by Trinidad-born V.S. Naipaul, while "Moon Tiger" by British writer Penelope Lively was the 1980s choice. Hilary Mantelʼs Tudor saga "Wolf Hall" and George Saundersʼ US Civil War symphony "Lincoln in the Bardo" were the finalists from the 2000s and 2010s.

Government consultations between Germany and China in Berlin on Monday aim to send a signal of closer bilateral cooperation in light of a worsened trade spat with the US. But some hurdles have yet to be overcome.

World Cup 2018: Fernando Hierro steps down from Spain role

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang are holding talks on closer economic cooperation in Berlin on Mondayas the two countries seek a coordinated strategy in response to the US administrationʼs protectionist agenda.

Last week saw a worsening of the already severe trade conflict between Washington and Beijing, with the US imposing higher tariffs on a wide range of technological goods imported from

China. Beijing immediately reacted to the measure by slapping higher tariffs on predominantly agricultural products from the US in a bid to harm US President Donald Trumpʼs voters in rural areas. Both sides are also mulling imposing higher duties on imported cars — a measure that would also hurt Germany with carmakers such as BMW and Daimler shipping a considerable amount of vehicles to China from their production facilities in the US.

The fiber optic cables that deliver your internet can also detect earthquakes Seismographs are highly sensitive devices, and they do a good job of registering earthquakes at specific locations. But fiber optic cables — the data lines that delivered these words — can do much, much better.

A trembling needle moves slowly over a roll of paper. If a truck rumbles by, the amplitude gets stronger. If an earth-

quake occurs — or if someone sets off an atomic bomb underground — the needle will vibrate even more, registering the strength and duration of the event. This is how seismographs have worked for centuries. Nowadays, seismometer data isnʼt recorded on paper.

The information is transferred directly to computers worldwide in a matter of seconds, at which point earthquake researchers can analyze it.

Fernando Hierro, who led Spain at the 2018 World Cup, has stepped down as coach and will not return to his former role as sporting director. Hierro was placed in temporary charge of the team afterJulen Lopetegui was sackedon the eve of the tournament. However, the 2010 world champions wereknocked out on penaltiesby hosts Russia in the last 16. Hierro, 50, has decided to "seek new horizons", according to the Spanish football federation (RFEF).

Three years ago, Beijing unveiled its landmark plan to move up the value chain by transitioning from laborintense production to "smart manufacturing." Where does China now stand in terms of implementing its strategy? After months of intense negotiation and deal-making, on Friday the US and China slapped tit-for-tat tariffs on $34 billion worth of the otherʼs imports, setting the stage for a full-blown trade conflict between the worldʼs top two economies. US President Donald Trump has also put pressure on Beijing by banning Chinese companies from investing in US tech firms and blocking tech exports to China. The Trump administration has long accused Beijing of using unfair means to overtake Americaʼs technological supremacy. The main source of Washingtonʼs grumbling appears to be Beijingʼs "Made in China 2025" initiative, an ambitious plan to close the Asian giantʼs technology gap with the West. First unveiled in 2015, the initiative seeks to turn China from being the worldʼs factory into a global technology leader, including in biotech, robotics, aerospace and clean-energy cars.

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The death toll in western Japan continued to climb on Monday, after days of unrelenting rain caused severe flooding and triggered landslides. The city of Kurashiki and the Hiroshima prefecture are among the affected areas.

The heavy rainfall stemmed from the remnants of a typhoon that hit south-western Japan last week. Since Thursday, landslides and flooded rivers have trapped many people in their houses or on rooftops.

More than 100 people have died or been presumed dead since Thursday, Japanʼs government said Monday. Dozens of people were missing.Around 73,000 police, firemen and soldiers are taking part in the rescue effort.In Kurashiki, 2,310 people have been rescued by authorities and the search still continues.