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#MeToo claims rejected by Indian minister, former editor The 67-year-old Akbar threatened legal action against his accusers Sunday on his return from a trip to Nigeria, while Prime Minister Narendra Modiʼs government remained silent. "The allegations of misconduct made against me are false and fabricated, spiced up by innuendo and malice," said Akbar in a statement issued in New Delhi, asserting that he was facing an "agenda" just months before Indiaʼs general election. "I could not reply earlier as I was on an official tour abroad," he added. Timeline: one year of #MeToo Sundayʼs Asian Ageheadlined its coverage: "False and fabricated, will take legal action: MJ Akbar on #MeToo charges" Congress, Indiaʼs main opposition party, had already called for Akbarʼs resignation. Claims against Akbar have mounted since a tweet on October 8 from journalist Priya Ramani, who said Akbar was the man she mentioned in a Vogue India article a year ago. Journalist Ghazala Wahab later said in an online post on The Wire that Akbar had "sexually harassed and molested" her, describing her last 6 months at The Asian Age as "pure hell with repeated physical advances."
Germany book trade Peace Prize winners slam the AfD Aleida and Jan Assmann stressed the importance of collective memory and warned against "excessive patriotism," in a speech they gave to accept the German book tradeʼs Peace Prize awardin Frankfurt on Sunday. "In democracy, thought cannot be delegated and left up to experts, performers or demagogues," the couple said, speaking at Frankfurtʼs historic St Paulʼs Church. Aleida Assmann, a 71-year-old literary scholar and her 80-year-old husband, Jan, an Egyptologist, have both studied the question of how identity and consciousness in human cultures and societies are formed.
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Meghan Markle pregnant as she and Prince Harry arrive in Australia The news comes as she and Prince Harry start a more than twoweek Pacific tour in Australia
Kensington Palace has announced that the Duchess of Sussex is expecting a child due in spring 2019.
Open source pharma: How to stop the rot in drug discovery Thereʼs something rotten in the state of pharma — greed, secrecy, inefficiency — itʼs all there. And thereʼs no easy fix. But moves toward a more caring, sharing industry through "open source pharma" may be a start. Hereʼs the case for a more caring, sharing pharmaceutical industry — one that works with academia, and other public bodies, in the public interest to discover the medicinal drugs and vaccines our global society urgently needs. And not just for the interests of shareholders. Itʼs a model for open source pharma — an alternative way of funding and working in drug discovery. For some itʼs a naive
idea, for others itʼs the only way forward, and has been for some time. "Thinking in particular about neglected diseases, or poverty-related diseases, we have long accepted that there is a need for alternative models," says Els Torreele, executive director of Medecins Sans Frontieresʼ Access Campaign. "And in fact for the last 20 years there have been several successful experiments in piloting different ways of doing research and development to ensure drugs are developed even where thereʼs no market incentive." That includes ensuring the drugs are affordable and available to those that need them.
Things you can do to avoid climate catastrophe Weʼve already warmed the world about 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times — with disastrous effects. Sea levels are rising, coral reefs are dying, species are going extinct and extreme weather is on the increase. A newreport by the United Nationsʼ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)reveals what life on Earth would look like if temperatures were to rise another 0.5 to 1.5 degrees Celsius. It also paints a picture of what a
2-degree warmer world would look like. In the report, more than 90 scientists from 40 countries agree that itʼs still possible to remain under 1.5 degrees of global warming — at least technologically — and outlined what we must do to make that happen. However, a lot of political will be required. But there are also things that normal people can do to avoid climate catastrophe. Here are six concrete ways you can take action on climate change.
UK, Germany, France press Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi disappearance In a joint statement on Sunday, France, Germany, and the UK said that "light must be shed" on the disappearance of the US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who had not been seen since entering the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul earlier this month. Turkish officials suspect that the Washington Post columnist was killed and dismembered inside the building. Riyadh rejects the allegations. Khashoggiʼs disappearance has sparked global outrage and demands for an explanation from top international officials. "There needs to be a credible investigation to establish the truth about what happened, and – if relevant – to identify those bearing responsibility for the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, and ensure that they are held to account," the three European powers said on Sunday.
Botched plane landing kills three in Germany A Cessna plane crashed through a barrier and hit two women and a child during a botched landing on Sunday, killing all three, German police said. It was not immediately known if the victims were related. The pilot of the sports aircraft was apparently attempting to land on the mountain of Wasserkuppe in the central German state of Hesse.
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Germanyʼs political center sways
Chinaʼs trade surplus with the US hits another record high
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Chinaʼs vast export engine unexpectedly accelerated in September, producing a record trade surplus with the United States that could worsen already strained relations between Beijing and Washington.
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Populist attitudes are on the rise in Germany, particularly from within the political center. One in three voters now sympathizes with populist policies, according to a new study by the Bertelsmann Foundation. Germanyʼs political center risks hollowing out as more voters admit embracing populist sympathies, according to a study published Monday by the Bertelsmann Foundation, a progressive think tank, in conjunction with the Berlin Social Science Center. The latest "Populism Barometer" found that almost every third German voter sympathizes to some degree with populist anti-establishment policies, whether on the left- or rightwing of the political spectrum. At the same time, the number of sampled voters who identify as politically centrist has decreased by four percentage points, to just 32.8 percent. The survey, which sampled 3,400 voters in May and August, measured populist attitudes around an individualʼs tendency to sympathize with three core factors: anti-establishment attitudes, anti-pluralism and the desire for more "sovereignty."
Usain Bolt questions why he is being drug tested as he is not yet a professional footballer sain Bolt has questioned why he has received a notice for a drugs test from Australiaʼs anti-doping authority (Asada), saying he is not yet a professional footballer. The eight-time Olympic sprint championhas been on trialwith A-League club Central Coast Mariners andscored twice on his first start in a friendly on Friday.
Chinaʼs trade surplus with the United States ballooned to a record $34.1 billion in September —surpassing the previous all-time high of $31.05 billion set in August— despite a raft of US tariffs imposed by the Trump administration under efforts to pluck the trade gap. According to data released by the Chinese Customs Office on Friday, this was the result of a surprise jump in September exports to the US, which grew to $46.7 billion (€40.3 billion). At the same time, Chinese imports from the US slumped to $12.6 billion from the pre-
vious month. Analysts have said the strong export growth in the worldʼs second largest economy is indicating that high US tariffs on Chinese goods are not biting yet. Julian EvansPritchard, China economist at Capital Economics, said in a note to investors that exports were probably also supported by a recent weakening in the Chinese currency against the US dollar, and added: "With global growth likely to cool further in the coming quarters and US tariffs set to become more punishing, the recent resilience of exports is unlikely to be sustained."
Are astronauts stuck on the ISS? The only rocket that takes humans to space has been grounded. Until "spring." That has all sorts of consequences for the astronauts on the space station. Does Alexander Gerst and the crew of the ISS have enough food? Yes. They have plenty of food. They will not starve. And it is good food. Can they still get home? Yes. Thereʼs a Soyuz spacecraft attached to the ISS thatʼs just begging to take them all back to Earth. And they can go when‐ ever theyʼd like. Yes, yes, yes, this is the same spacecraft that once had a two-millimeter hole in it. But that hole was in a section that has no rele‐ vance whatsoever to the crewʼs reentry. Itʼd be like discovering a hole at the airport near your gate, then
boarding your perfectly safe airplane and leaving that hole far behind. So whatʼs the big deal then? Right now there is no operational rocket on Earth that can bring people to the ISS. Thatʼs just... spooky, isnʼt it? Thereʼs no way to get up there. It just feels like weʼve lost an important lifeline, even if temporarily. Thatʼs how dependent we were on the Soyuz, which remains the worldʼs most "robust, reliable and sound" manned rocket, as Thomas Reiter, the German astronaut who advises ESAʼs director general, told DW after the failed launch. In the tweet below, the head of Roscosmos (pictured center) loosely identifies "spring" as the time the Russian space agency hopes to fly the two crewmembers to the ISS. Thatʼs... quite a while.
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The "Vektra" building in Podgorica is considered the business core of the Montenegrin capital and the meeting point for businessmen, politicians, as well as people simply wanting to be seen. Amid the bustling crowd, the newly opened "Istanbul Corner" restaurant is an island of calm, standing out from the modern-looking cafes nearby. The owner, 31-year-old Kaya Dogus, greets DW with a smile and a cup of Turkish tea. "Iʼve been living in Montenegro for nearly a year," Kaya says. "I moved here completely by accident. | came in to buy an apartment in Budva and just thought I could live here and start a business," he told DW. "I like it, because itʼs peaceful and safe. My wife and children are now with me." Kaya is just one of around 2,500 Turkish citizens living in Montenegro, which has a population of about 620,000. Most of Kajaʼs compatriots arrived over the last two years, fleeing the worsening political and economic crises in Turkey.
Whatʼs behind Chinaʼs ʼnon-interferenceʼ in Africa? President Xi Jinping told African leaders on Monday that Chinaʼs investments on the continent have "no political strings attached," pledging $60 billion (€51.6 billion) in new development financing, even as Beijing is increasingly criticized over its debt-heavy projects abroad. Xi offered the funding at the start of a two-day China-Africa summit that focused on his cherished Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The money — to be spent over the next three years — comes on top of $60 billion Beijing offered in 2015. Read more: Second-hand clothes, smuggling and the US-China trade war in Africa The massive BRI scheme is aimed at improving Chinese access to foreign markets and resources, and boosting Beijingʼs influence abroad. China has poured billions in loans for roads, railways, ports and other major infrastructure projects in Asia and Africa. But critics warn that the Chinese leaderʼs pet project is burying some countries under massive debt. In a DW interview, Professor Helmut Asche says Chinaʼs development cooperation is overshadowing Western cooperation in terms of the speed of delivery, coverage and scope of infrastructure funding.