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EU fails to agree on glyphosate license renewal

ICC war crimes judges approve Burundi investigation

The European Commission has again hit a wall in renewing the approval for the weedkiller glyphosate.

The vote comes after 18 months of agonizing over the controversial herbicide. The European Union on Thursday voted on whether to prolong the use of the common but controversial herbicide glyphosate within its borders, but failed to reach a consensus.

The proposal to renew the EU license for glyphosate for another five years failed to a reach a qualified majority, meaning a decision has again been postponed, according to lawmakers. The current license is due to expire on December 15, but there is an 18 month grace period.

Fourteen countries voted in favor of the renewal, nine against, while five, including Germany, abstained from voting. The proposal could now be referred to an appeal committee, or alternatively the Commission could draw up a new proposal to be voted upon.

Judges in The Hague have approved a full investigation into alleged crimes against humanity in Burundi, the first country to leave the International Criminal Court.

Paradise Papers: Apple shifted billions offshore to avoid tax New relevations about Appleʼs tax avoidance strategy are making headlines as the Paradise Papers scandal unfolds further. EU finance ministers are due to discuss the issue during talks in Brussels on Tuesday. Apple has denied accusations inthe Paradise Papers investigationthat it moved its operations from Ireland to an offshore center to avoid tax.

Documents cited by German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung on Monday suggested that offshore law firm Appleby, which is based in multiple tax havens, helped the iPhone maker move billions of dollars in revenues collected in Ireland to the Channel Islands to head off increased European Union scrutiny of its tax affairs in Dublin.

Hundreds of people have been killed since 2015

Snap shares take a dive on disappointing results Snapchat is currently getting a redesign to make it easier to use. But the new look will not make the latest earnings report from its parent company any prettier for investors who had hoped for much better results. Shares in California-based Snap were down more than 16 percent in after-hours trading after the company posted yet another quarter of disappointing growth. The firm, whichbecame popular among young smartphone users for its disappearing messages, said it logged a loss of $443.2 million (€382.6 million) in its third quarter on revenues of $207.9 million, up from $128.2 mil-

lion a year ago. Analysts said Snap needed to show stronger growth to keep pace in the rapidly evolving social media sector dominated by Facebook. The company added 4.5 million daily users in the third quarter to 178 million, amounting to 3-percent growth — too little to impress investors. Snap does not report monthly user figures. CEO Evan Spiegel (picured above) said Snapchatneeded to grow its user base beyond 13-to-34year-olds in the US, France, the UK and Australia. "This includes Android users, people older than 34 andrest-ofworld markets," he said in a statement.

Self-driving bus starts first route in Germany German railway company Deutsche Bahn has introduced an autonomous bus to drive passengers along a pre-programmed route in Bavaria. In case of an emergency, a human driver can take control with a joystick.

The electric vehicle delivered its first passengers on Wednesday in Bad Birnach, Bavaria, starting on its eightminute route from the townʼs hot springs to the central area and the railway station. The EZ10 bus has six places to sit and can take in a further six standing passengers, and the ride is free of charge. Itʼs the first time a self-driving bus has been incorporated in Germanyʼs public trans-

port system. Among the first group to ride the self-driving bus was Richard Lutz, the head of the German railway giant Deutsche Bahn (DB), the company behind the pilot project. "Weʼve just driven, completely autonomously, into a new era of transport," he said in a statement after the first trip. The bus was developed by the French start-up EasyMile. It is equipped with sensors which can detect obstacles and activate brakes.The vehicle moves along a pre-programmed route with its speed initially limited to 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) per hour on a road with a 30 kph speed limit. Also, the bus is not yet capable of avoiding obstacles on its own.

US absence felt on first day of UN climate summit As the 23rd annual UN climate conference kicks off in Bonn, people are already jostling to fill the climate power vacuum left by a retreating United States. The small city of Bonn, Germany, was inundated with thousands of delegates today for this yearʼs UN climate summit. Over the coming two weeks, negotiators will hammer out the rule book for the Paris climate agreement reached two years ago.

The VIPs will not arrive until next week for the intensive final days of the summit. But already, the politicians are gearing up for a battle between people claiming to speak for the United States. Donald Trump announced earlier this year he will pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement. However, the withdrawal process takes three years, leaving the United States in as a signatory until then. President Trump is sending a small delegation to Bonn that will try to continue to shape the rules of the agreement.

Scottish parliament evacuated after suspicious package found The Scottish parliament building has been evacuated following the discovery of packages containing white powder. Parliament later announced that afternoon sessions would go ahead as planned. Scotlandʼs parliament building was evacuated on Tuesday after at least one package containing white powder was found.

A package containing white powder was sent to a Conservative Party lawmaker, a source at the parliament told Reuters news agency.

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Anti-Semitic Anne Frank football stickers appear in Germany Stickers displaying Anne Frank wearing football jerseys have appeared in Germany as an antiSemitic provocation by neo-Nazi fans. Dortmund and Leipzig ultra groups appear to be copying their Italian counterparts.

An anti-Semitic campaign by far-right Italian football supporters appears to have spread to Germany, after stickers featuring murdered Jewish child diarist Anne Frank wearing a Schalke 04 football jersey have appeared in social media posts and stuck up around Düsseldorf, near the cities of Dortmund and Gelsenkirchen, where the club Schalke is based. The fake Panini-style stickers were first reported by local blog Ruhrbarone, which published a photo of them it said had been found on the Facebook profile of a neo-Nazi active in the local far-right scene. No one has taken responsibility for creating the image, but the fact that Anne Frank is pictured wearing the jersey of Schalke 04, biggest rival of football club Borussia Dortmund (BVB), seems to corroborate Ruhrbaroneʼs speculation that the neo-Nazis are BVB supporters.

Player power boosted by new FIFA contract rules A new "wide-ranging" agreement between FIFA and FIFPro aimed at protecting the rights of professional players was announced on Monday.

Sports Player power boosted by new FIFA contract rules A new "wideranging" agreement between FIFA and FIFPro aimed at protecting the rights of professional players was announced on Monday. World football governing body FIFA and players union FIFPro have reached an agreement on a "wide-ranging six-year cooperation" aimed at improving the rights of professional players.

Siemens plans ʼpainfulʼ revamp of power business

Climate change: World way off

The German engineering giant has revealed the scale of difficulties faced by its power and gas unit, where profits fell 40 percent in Q4.

Up to 6,000 job losses have been announced at its wind turbine business.

Existing national goals will only meet one-third of the Paris climate target, according to a UN report.

The study comes less than a week before the world climate conference kicks off in Bonn.

As the United Nations prepares to welcomedelegates from across the world to Bonnon Monday for the twoweek COP23 climate summit, it released a stark warning today. The national pledges currently on the table by the signatory countries will only bring a third of the reduction in emissions required by 2030 to meet global climate targets. The biggest roadblock is not with national governments, says the United Nations Environment Program report. Rather, the private sector and regional governments arenʼt increasing their climate action at a rate that would help close this gap. The Paris goal is to limit global warming to at least under 2 degrees Celsius — and to 1.5 degrees if possible — in order to avoid catastrophic climate change.

German conglomerate Siemens saw a 10 percent drop in industrial profit in its fiscal fourth quarter due to its power and wind turbine businesses struggling with price pressure and overcapacity, the company admitted on Thursday. Industrial profit, which excludes earnings from its financial and corporate activities, fell to €2.2 billion euros ($2.6 billion) in the quarter to September, against expecta-

tions of about €2.49 billion. Profit from Siemens Power and Gas, dropped 40 percent to €303 million, forcing the firmʼs CEO Jo Kaeser to admit to a "painful" restructuring of the unit. "Our power and gas division has been struggling for some time with very difficult market conditions and structural challenges," Kaeser told a press conference in Munich on Thursday.

Kevin Spacey cut from a new Ridley Scott movie a month before release After the cancellation of the TV show "House of Cards," Kevin Spacey will be replaced in Scottʼs completed movie, "All the Money in the World," due in December.

According to reports released on Wednesday night, Spacey is being cut from Ridley Scottʼs already completed thriller, "All the Money in the World," just a month before its planned release in December. According to insider sources which had to stay anonymous, Canadian actor Christopher Plummer was cast to reshoot scenes in the role of the billion-

aire J. Paul Getty. The film tells the story of the 1973 abduction of Gettyʼs grandson, John Paul Getty III. Last week, American entertainment company Netflix announced it wassevering ties with the actor and canceled the widely popular series "House of Cards,"in which Spacey portrayed the protagonist and acted as one of the producers. But it seems to have been just the beginning of the fall of one of the most popular Hollywood actors after actor Anthony Rapp alleged that Spacey, while appearing drunk, made sexual advances towards him in 1986, when Rapp was 14.

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German police detain Syrian for ʼpreparingʼ explosives attack A 19-year-old Syrian has been detained on suspicion of planning to carry out a terror attack in Germany. The man was ready to carry out the attack using highly explosive materials, according to prosecutors.

A Syrian man suspected of planning a terror attack was detained in the northern German city of Schwerin, the Federal Prosecutorʼs Office said on Tuesday in a statement.

The suspect, identified as 19-yearold Yamen A., was taken into police custody. Prosecutors said in a statement that the teen is "strongly suspected of having planned an Islamist-motivated attack" that involved "highly explosive" materials. Authorities added that Yamen A. had already "concretely prepared" the attack. In July this year, the suspect made the decision to detonate an explosive device in Germany "in order to kill and injure as many people as possible," the statement read. Yamen A. then began to procure components to make an explosive device, including chemicals. It was not initially clear whether the suspect had selected a location to carry out the attack, prosecutors said.