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Syria: Iran, Russia and Turkey meet to stave off Idlib offensive Hundreds of civilians have fled the northwestern Syrian province of Idlibahead of the Syrian regimeʼs imminent military action in the rebelʼs last major bastion. The Syrian government has vowed to retake the province, which has been held by the opposition since 2015. Idlib, which is largely controlled by Hayat Tahrir alSham, an al-Qaida-affiliated Islamist alliance, is home to some three million people – around half of them displaced from other parts of the wartorn country. Aid agencies and human rights groups warned of a major humanitarian crisis should Bashar Assadʼs regime launch a military offensive against Idlibʼs rebels. The leaders of Iran, Russia and Turkey are holding talks in Tehran on Friday to discuss the situation in Idlib and find ways to avert a possible humanitarian disaster.

After Chemnitz, poll shows east-west split on migration There was a marked difference between Germanyʼs western states and those in the east on whether concerns about migration were being taken seriously by the German government, according to a DeutschlandTrend survey published on Thursday. Worries about the governmentʼs approach to migration were high across the board, with 49 percent of Germans overall feeling that the matter was not being properly addressed. However, there was a stark difference in responses, with 46 percent of respondents in the former West German states and 66 percent of respondents in the former East German states saying they were not satisfied.

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Burt Reynolds, Hollywoodʼs mustachioed heartthrob, has died He was reported to have suffered a heart attack

US actor Burt Reynolds — who starred in several of the most successful films of the 1970s — has died at the age of 82.

Italyʼs League party faces bankruptcy over embezzlement A court has ruled that millions of euros in assets can be seized from the far-right League party, now part of Italy’s ruling coalition. Party leader Matteo Salvini was defiant, saying the fraud was now history. Italyʼs right-wing Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini appeared to shrug off the news that a court had authorized the seizure of €49 million ($59 million) from the League party on Thursday. "Iʼm not the least bit upset because the trial regards things that happened eight, nine years ago," Salvini said after an appeals court in Rome accepted demands from a court

in Genoa to be able to seize whatever funds they can until the full amount is recouped. "It is a thing of the past ... if they want to strip us of everything, they can go ahead, weʼll calmly continue to do politics; we have Italians behind us." Salvini, who has turned the party into a national political force since he took over in 2013, has repeatedly said that he has never seen the missing money. "I hope that the Genoa court will spend more of its time on the matter of the collapsed bridge," Salvini said after the decision, referring to thePonte Morandi disasterlast month, which killed 43 people.

Twitter permanently bans Alex Jones and Infowars Alex Jones, the US far-right conspiracy theorist famously known for describing the Sandy Hook school shooting as a hoax, was banned from Twitter permanently on Thursday. The move comes a day after Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, had appeared before a congressional hearing where Republican lawmakers questioned him over alleged bias against conservative voices on the social platform. The company made the announcement on its @TwitterSafety account "Today, we permanently suspended @realalexjones and @infowars from Twitter and Periscope." The ban follows similar actions taken by Apple, YouTube, and Facebook, wholast month took down podcastsand channels from Jones, citing community standards. While Apple and Youtube issued a permanent ban, Facebook banned him for a short period. Twitter alsotemporarily suspendedJonesʼs account, which touts 900,000 followers, for a one week period.

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FBI recovers ʼWizard of Ozʼ ruby-red slippers in undercover operation The US Federal Bureau of Investigation on Tuesday announced that after 13 years, authorities had recovered the iconic ruby-red slippers worn by Dorothy in the classic "The Wizard of Oz" film. In 2005, the slippers were stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, in a "smash-and-grab," with only one

sequin left at the scene of the crime. Although local law enforcement followed dozens of leads over the years, they led nowhere. But that changed last year when law enforcement followed up on an extortion scheme against Markel Corporation, the insurance company that owns the shoes.

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Police identify source of deadly Novichok nerve agent in UK deaths British police announced Friday that they found a bottle containing the Novichok nerve agent in the home of one of the victims of a nerve agent poisoning in Wiltshire last month. "On Wednesday, 11 July, a small bottle was recovered during searches of Charlie Rowleyʼs house in Amesbury," police said in a statement. The statement said scientists from Porton Down defense laboratory confirmed the bottle contained the Novichok nerve agent, the same poison used against Sergei Skripal and his daughter earlier this year. "Further scientific tests will be carried out to try and establish whether it is from the same batch that contaminated Sergei and Yulia Skripal in March," the force said, adding that a link to the Skripals remained "a main line of enquiry for police." Dawn Sturgess died in a hospitalon Sunday after exposure to the nerve agent. Her partner, Rowley, isstill in critical condition, but has regained consciousness. The Foreign Office said on Friday it had invited independent technical experts from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons early next week "to independently confirm the identity of the nerve agent."

Naomi Osaka through to US Open final with win over Madison Keys Naomi Osaka has become the first Japanese woman to reach a Grand Slam final after beating American Madison Keys to set up a meeting with Serena Williams at the US Open. Osaka, 20, had never beaten Keys in their previous three meetings, but won 6-2 6-4 in New York. The 20th seed saw off 13 break points and clinically took those which came her way. She meets 23-time Grand Slam champion Williams at 21:00 BST on Saturday.

German auto companies put rivalries aside to take on tech giants Germanyʼs auto behemoths are cooperating with each other to fight back against tech companies encroaching on their territory. Is this pragmatism the beginning of an impending consolidation in the car industry? "As pioneers in automotive engineering, we will not leave the task of shaping future urban mobility to others," Daimler boss Dieter Zetsche said as his company, and arch rival BMW — the worldʼs biggest luxury carmakers — announced themerger of their carsharing and parking and charging services in March. Zetsche was referring to cash-rich technology companies such as Apple, Google and Uber, which are making serious inroads in an industry that Daimler, owner of the Mercedes

brand, BMW, and bigger rival Volkswagen have dominated for decades. Read more: The future of driving is (almost) here To fight back against the tech giants, German automakers are putting their rivalries aside and increasingly cooperating with each other to scale their less capital-intensive businesses. Daimler is reported to be in talks to buy a stake in VWʼs used car portal Heycar. The two rivals and BMW already own a majority stake in digital mapping service HERE.

The sexual revolution 50 years on In West Germany in the late 1960s, young people were demanding change – social, cultural and sexual change. What sparked the sexual revolution and what does it mean for women today? The "sexual morals" of postwar West Germany were characterized by taboos and ominous warnings. Masturbating could lead to a degenerative disease, so they said; an erection was an abnormal swelling; the female orgasm was harmful. Sexuality was simply not talked about. It was something to be ashamed of, something from which children and young people should be protected. Thatʼs how

author and journalist Ulrike Heider remembers it. She took part in the student protests that swept across West Germany in 1968 and were mirrored by similar protests elsewhere in Europe. In an interview with DW she says she will always be grateful to a student from the Socialist German Student Union who gave her her first "thorough sexual education." ʼMy mother called me a whoreʼ The social and sexual conservatism of the 1950s was no coincidence: Clearly defined gender roles and romanticized domestic ideals were an attempt to get life back on track after the turmoil of the Second World War. Going against the grain was not the done thing.

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T-Mobile reports cybersecurity incident T-Mobile US and its unit Metro PCS told customers that cybersecurity staff found and shut down unauthorized access to certain information on August 20 and immediately reported the matter to authorities. The company added that no financial data, social security numbers or passwords were compromised during the attackon its networks, admitting, though, that other personal information like names, email IDs, phone numbers as well as account numbers or account types (postpaid or prepaid) may have been exposed. T-Mobile said that about 3 percent of its 77 million customers could have been affected (roughly 2 million people potentially affected).

Hong Kong rule new Haruki Murakamiʼs novel ʼindecentʼ A backlash was growing in Hong Kong after Obscene Articles Tribunal ruled "Killing Commendatore", the 2017 novel by noted Japanese author Haruki Murakami, to be "indecent." By Thursday, more than 2,100 people had signed an online petition backed by 21 activist groups for the censors to remove the categorization Classifying the novel as indecent would "bring shame to Hong Kong people," the petition says, stressing that no other novels by the 69-year-old author have ever been classified as indecent in Hong Kong, Taiwan, or mainland China. "If this is set to be a precedent case, Hong Kong would become the most conservative Chinese area," the South China Morning Post quoted the document as saying. Read more:Hong Kongʼs democracy movement ʼneeds new ideasʼ ʼExplicit sexual detailsʼ The latest Murakami book revolves around a portrait artist whose wife unexpectedly asks for a divorce. It features occasional sex scenes, similar to the authorʼs previous works. Earlier this month, the Office of Film, Newspaper and Article Administration in Hong Kong said they had received a public complaint about "explicit sexual details" in the novel, which they passed on to the censorship board.