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Greece and Macedonia strike deal on name dispute Greece and Macedonia have reached an agreement in their long-running dispute over the name of the former Yugoslav republic. Senior officials from both the EU and NATO have welcomed the agreement. Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FRYOM) on Tuesday announced an historic agreement to resolve a decades-long name dispute that has hampered relations between the two countries and left Macedonia with its rather unwieldy formal name. Ministers from the both countries agreed on "Republic of Northern Macedonia" as the Balkan countryʼs new official name. Greeceʼs Alexis Tsipras andMacedoniaʼs Zoran Zaevannounced the agreement shortly after speaking by phone. Tsipras went on to tell Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos during a televised meeting: "Iʼm happy because we have a good deal which covers all the preconditions set by the Greek side."

Italy stands by decision to reject boat of migrants as row with France escalates Italy has remained firm in its decision to shut its ports to a ship carrying more than 600 migrants. But Rome insisted it is still willing to help asylum-seekers — under certain conditions. Italy said on Wednesday that it stood behind its decision to reject port for the French NGO rescue ship Aquarius following sharp criticism from French President Emmanuel Macron, but added it would continue to allow Italian vessels carrying shipwrecked migrants in its ports. "We will not change (our position) on ships belonging to non-governmental organizations," Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who is the head of the antiimmigrant League party in Italy, said in an interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.

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USA, Canada and Mexico to host 2026 FIFA World Cup The North Americans beat out a competing bid from Morocco

Members of world footballʼs governing body FIFA have voted to award the right to host the 2026 World Cup to the United States, Mexico and Canada.

Tesla slashes 3,000 jobs in cost-cutting endeavor US electric carmaker Tesla has announced it will cut about 9 percent of its global workforce to enhance profitability. CEO Elon Musk insisted that Model 3 production would not be affected by the move. Chief Executive Elon Musk said Tuesday his company was cutting some 9 percent of jobs across the company. Teslaʼs latest annual filing last December showed it had 37,543 full-time employees. He added the move was meant

to help bring down costswithout endangering the critical ramp-up of Teslaʼs Model 3 sedan production. Musk noted the cuts were part of a simplification scheme promised last month and affecting the carmakerʼs management structure. "As part of the need to reduce costs and become profitable, we have made the difficult decision to let go of approximately 9 percent of our colleagues," Musk said in an email to staff.

A 7,000-meter-tall mountain — simulated in a laboratory This mountain has no peaks and offers no beautiful views — it is located inside a research facility in Cologne. Two mountain climbers have volunteered to spend four weeks there, under extreme atmospheric conditions. Ralf Dujmovits is the only German mountain climber who made it to all 14 mountains that are taller than 8,000 meters (26,247 feet). Since mid-May,

he and his wife — Canadian climber Nancy Hansen — have been living on top of a very special 7,000-meter-tall mountain: in an area of only 110 square meters and located in Cologne, Germany, not much above sea level. DWSports journalist and passionate climber Stefan Nestler is covering the experiment of the two at the Envihab — a medical research laboratory of the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

Berlinʼs SPD wants to fund porn to fight sexism Berlinʼs SPD has come up with a scheme to publicly fund feminist porn and distribute it for free via public broadcasters. The party wants to cater to teens who look for porn online, but donʼt always like what they find. Like most of her friends, 20-year-old student Franzi started watching porn when she was 13. "The women are so loud in porn that I felt like my partner would think I wasn’t enjoying it when we were having sex, because he would have also watched porn and would expect moaning of some sort," she says. An absence of female agency is another thing she takes issue with. "It normalizes acts like men cumming on your face and breasts, and makes girls think that they have to do certain things. For example, most girls I grew up with thought that blow jobs were just a given. Basically, male gratification is made to seem much more important than female gratification."

Yemen: Saudi-led coalition launches attack to recapture Hodeidah port city The exiled Yemeni government said the attack will "cut off the hands of Iran, which has long drowned Yemen in weapons that shed precious Yemeni blood." But a regional expert told DW the humanitarian crisis could worsen. A coalition of mostly Gulf countries led by Saudi Arabia launched an attack on Wednesday to recapture the Yemeni port city from the Iran-backed Houthi rebels.

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