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Bavarian ʼtough dogʼ tipped to lead Germanyʼs BAMF refugee agency A Bavarian official known as a "tough dog" for taking a harder line against asylum-seekers is reportedly set to take over at BAMF. The agencyʼs former head was fired on Friday over an asylum application scandal.

Hans-Eckhard Sommer, a Bavarian ally of Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, is set to take over as head of Germanyʼs embattled Federal Office of Migration and Refugees(BAMF), German media reported on Sunday.

News outlet Focus Online and the DPA news agency reported the move, citing anonymous government sources. The German Interior Ministry in Berlin said it would not "speculate" about personnel decisions.

Sommer, reportedly known as a "harter Hund" (tough dog) in government circles, is currently responsible for foreigner and asylum law at the regional Interior Ministry in the southern state of Bavaria. He favors stronger screening of refugeesʼ possible terrorist connections and speeding up deportations of failed asylumseekers, according to Focus Online.

Donald Trump claims Germans are turning against government over migration The US President has waded into the ongoing stand-off between Chancellor Angela Merkel and her interior minister over migration.

He said it was a "big mistake" to allow millions of refugees into Europe. US President Donald Trump on Monday claimed that Germanyʼs leaders were losing the support of the public over the migration issue. His untimely comments come amid a deepening split between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the leader of her coalition ally, Horst Seehofer, over asylum policy and border controls. Trump told his Twitter followers: "The people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition."

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Angela Merkel buys time in government crisis over asylum His asylum reform plan could threaten the EU immigration system

Refugee stands trial in Germany over alleged murder of teen Fifteen-year-old Mia was stabbed to death in the southwestern town of Kandel last December. Her ex-boyfriend, a refugee, has been charged with her murder, triggering a series of anti-migrant protests. A refugee, who is reportedly from Afghanistan, is on trial for themurder of Mia, a 15-year-old teenager from Kandel with whom he had been in a short relationship. The murder trial, which is being held in the southwestern city of Landau, is not open to the public as the suspect is being tried as a minor.

US lawmakers, Melania Trump call for end to migrant family separations Chancellor Angela Merkel has got her Interior Minister Horst Seehofer to agree to wait for an upcoming EU summit before imposing new border controls.

Putting female entrepreneurs in the digital fast lane Digitalization and e-commerce have created a whole new wave of entrepreneurship and women are part of the revolution. A new initiative for female entrepreneurs aims to provide them with the necessary digital training.

It has been quite a working life for Ines Spanier. The 52-year-old from the German state of Saxony worked in the former East Germany as an agricultural engineer for a huge, state-owned production co-operative. As you might ex-

pect, entrepreneurial freedom was not part of her job spec. A future as a budding digital entrepreneur did not look very likely back then. Yet she entered the e-commerce worlda few months ago and sells her goods via Amazon, eBay and her own online shop. "Everything is so fast," she says. She can barely keep up with the names of all the new staff working for her. She has just hired a student to help with the digital side of things, hot on the heels of two other new recruits a few weeks ago.

German president to attend opening of Thomas Mann House in LA Two years ago, the Californian villa formerly belonging to Nobel Prize laureate Thomas Mann was to be sold and demolished; the news caused outcry among German authors, publishers and artists. President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, then Germanyʼs foreign minister, and the commissioner for culture and the media, Monika Grütters, backed the idea of having the building located at 1550 San Remo

Drive bought by the German state in order to turn it into a meeting location and memorial site. Dubbed the "white house of exile" by Steinmeier, theacquisition of the villa cost around nearly $13 million (€11 million).

President Steinmeier, accompanied by numerous fellow campaigners, has now come to visit "his" work for the opening ceremony of the restored house held on Monday.

A White House policy that has split nearly 2,000 migrant children from their families has drawn outrage nationwide, including a rare public comment from Melania Trump. The UN called the practice "unconscionable."

President Donald Trump is set to meet with House Republicans this week to discussimmigration legislation, facing pressure over his administrationʼs policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the US-Mexico border. The controversial policy has drawn public and political backlash nationwide and has also been criticized by the United Nations. UN human rights chief Zeid Raʼad Al Hussein urged the US to stop the family separations in his opening remarks on Monday, at a meeting of the UN Human Rights council in Geneva, Switzerland. "The thought that any state would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable," Zeid said.

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ʼThe life I have lived has tortured me,ʼ says male prostitute in Mombasa Martin Kyana was brought up as an altar boy in western Kenya. He is now 37 and has been living with the HIV virus for 14 years. He is bisexual and started experimenting with his male primary school friend at the age of 11 but his parents found out and chased him from home; he was then left to fend for himself. "When I was growing up I came to realize that I have feelings for both men and women. When I was in class seven I had sexual intercourse with a male classmate who had came to our house to help me with my homework. That is when my brothers caught me and started shouting. We were beaten thoroughly, that boy said that I brought him to my house so that we could have sex. My parents were very ashamed of me." Martin thinks that it was because his mother was a church member and their family had a relatively high standing in the church that he was sent away.

US Open: Brooks Koepka wins back-to-back titles Brooks Koepka has won the US Open golf title for the second straight year, becoming only the seventh player to do so. He closed with a 2-under 68 to become the first US Open repeat champion in 29 years. American Brooks Koepka has successfully defended his US Open golf title, narrowly beating Englishman Tommy Fleetwood, who matched the lowest score in the tournamentʼs history, a seven-under-par 63. Koepka shot a closing 68 to finish at one-over 281.

General Electric faces French fine over job policy US engineering giant General Electric needs to brace for hefty penalties if it fails to uphold a job creation pledge in France. The company made the promise when taking over Alstomʼs power business in 2014.

The French government said US conglomerate General Electric would have to pay millions of euros in penalties, should it not be able to live up to its promise of creating 1,000 new jobs in France by the end of the year. GE made the promise as part of its 2014 purchase of Alstomʼs power and electrical grid businesses, including its prized gas turbine operations.

The transaction was valued at $14.4 billion (€12.4 billion). Shortly after closing the deal,GE announced plans to cut 6,500 power jobs in Europe because of falling oil and gas prices.

Later on, it planned a further 12,000 job cuts in the sector. Unfavorable business environment CEO John Flannery told the French Finance Ministry last week that he could not honor the French hiring pledge, which had so far led to just 323 new jobs in the country. "The contract called for a € 50,000 penalty for every job not created," Labor Minister Muriel Penicaud told BFM television. "If no new jobs are created by the end of the year,GE could be facing a fine of nearly €34 million."

Stephen Hawkingʼs voice to be beamed into space during burial service His daughter said it was "a message of peace and hope, about unity and the need for us to live together in harmony."

The voice of late British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking will be beamed into space as his ashes are buried at Londonʼs Westminster Abbey during a memorial service on Friday. One of the worldʼs best-known scientists,Hawking died on March 14 at the age of 76after a lifetime spent probing the origins of the universe, the mysteries of black holes and the nature of time itself. Read more: How Stephen

Hawking became a pop culture star As the ashes of the British theoretical physicist are interred, a recording of Hawkingʼs voice accompanied by music written by Greek composer Vangelis will be sent towards the nearest black hole by the European Space Agency. He will be buried by the graves of fellow scientists Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. "This is a beautiful and symbolic gesture that creates a link between our fatherʼs presence on this planet, his wish to go into space and his explorations of the universe in his mind," Hawkingʼs daughter Lucy said.

Nicki Minaj and Future confirmed for Budapest Queen of rap Nicki Minaj and influential American hip-hop artist Future are coming to Budapest. The singer of 2014 hit ‘Anaconda’ has just announced that the pair will be touching down in the UK and Europe as part of her NICKIHNDRXX tour, a global series of live shows kicking off in North America this September.

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Australia and EU eye new trade deal European trade commissioner, Cecilia Malmstrom, on a two-day visit to Australia, said on Monday "there is a lot of global momentum for trade liberalization." The new deal is expected to upgrade an existing agreement between the EU and Australia, which is governed by a 2008 partnership framework designed to reduce technical barriers to trade. It is expected to see the removal of customs duties and simpler procedures for product testing. Read more: Macron begins Australia visit, focused on submarines, trade Brexit and growing protectionist impulses in the US have galvanized Canberra to seek to bind the EU into a new trade deal, which could see Australia gaining more access to EU markets, something the Antipodean nation has been seeking or decades, in particular increasing food and agricultural exports. Concerns in Europe center on Australian cheese,wine and meat. Canberra also wants to up opportunities for Australian services exporters, mainly in education, financial and professional services. Negotiators meet again in Brussels in early July to finalize the talks.

Compulsive gaming recognized as disease by WHO The World Health Organization has included addiction to video games in its list of mental health conditions. The move will help with diagnosis and treatment options for health-care professionals. The Word Health Organization has included "gaming disorder" in its reference list of recognizable and diagnosable diseases known as the International Classification of Diseases (ICD).

The latest update to the international reference list means the diagnosis and funding for the treatment ofpeople addicted to playing video gamesshould become more widely available and "serve a public health purpose for countries to be better prepared to identify this issue," according to the UNʼs health agency. The ICD is also used by health insurers whose reimbursements depend on its classifications.