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US Attorney General Jeff Sessions claims Nazis did not deport Jews The Nazis "were keeping Jews from leaving the country," Jeff Sessions has claimed. Meanwhile, US President Trump doubled-down on false claims about rising crime in Germany due to immigration. Thrice in two days has the administration of US President Donald Trumpmade misleading claims about Germany. Just a few hours after the president falsely stated that the crime rate in Germany had risen and that Germans were scared of immigrants, Attorney General Jeff Sessions mistakenly told an interview that the camps for migrant children at the US-Mexico border should not be compared to Nazi concentration camps because the Nazis "were keeping the Jews from leaving the country." The fact notwithstanding that many Germans find any comparison to the Holocaust anathema, considering it an event so singular and horrific that making analogies to it is disrepectful to its victims, the reaction in Germany is sure to be one of swift condemnation, just as it was to Trumpʼs tweet about crime on Monday.
Dutch police use DNA evidence to arrest 3 men with suspected links to Islamic State Authorities in the Netherlands have detained three men using DNA evidence found at a weapons cache in France. The arrests were linked to a Parisian apartment rented by a French jihadist. Dutch authorities said DNA traces of three men arrested on Monday had been found on weapons discovered at an Islamic State-linked hideout in Paris. The investigation dates back to the Brussels airport and metro bombings of March 2016which killed 32 people.
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European court rules Marine Le Pen must repay €300,000 in misspent funds The EU funds Le Pen has been ordered to repay relate to money she claimed for a parliamentary secret
The court said Le Pen "has not been able to prove that her assistant performed actual work for her."
Bram Schot appointed interim chief of Audi, after arrest of CEO The German premium carmaker has moved rapidly to fill the gap left by chief executive Rupert Stadler, who was detained on Monday in connection with his role in Audiʼs emissions-cheating scandal in the US and Europe. Audi has named Bram Schot as interim chief on Tuesday, replacing CEO Rupert Stadler, who was detained on Monday on fraud charges, in connection with the emisssions-cheating scandal at Audiʼs parent company Volkswagen. The 56-year-old Netherlands-born manager was previously at the head of Audiʼs sales and
marketing division. "The supervisory board of Audi AG has decided to transfer the duties of the board of management chairman (chief executive) to Abraham Schot on a temporary basis with immediate effect," the German carmaker said in a statement, adding that it had complied with Stadlerʼs request to be temporarily relieved of his duties. Stadler had headed Audi for 11 years and was the first senior executive to be detained in the Dieselgate scandal. On Monday, prosecutors in Munich said that Stadler had appeared before the investigating judge, who ordered him to be remanded in custody.
French author Edouard Louis: Why Macron will lead voters to the far right Edouard Louis: The world is currently saturated with fiction; itʼs already structured by lies and fabrications. One of the reasons why people like Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange are persecuted is because they have showed us that governments are lying to us. When the French government claims that we
canʼt welcome migrants, itʼs a lie. Why donʼt they just say, "We donʼt want to welcome migrants," instead? That would be the truth. I am personally affected by the fact that these fictions are structuring our lives. Thatʼs why when I write, I believe it should be a space of resistance and therefore a space of truth.
Germany: Syrian man faces charges for kippah attack The attack on two men wearing kippahs — also known as yarmulkes — on a street in Berlin caused outrage in Germany. The suspect is in court on charges of hate speech and grievous bodily harm. The trial against a 19year-old Syrian man who attacked two men wearing kippahs, the traditional male Jewish head coverings also known as yarmulkes, began on Tuesday in Berlin. The attack, which wascaught on video, took place in April in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg. The disjointed images show three suspects, one of which hurled verbal abuse and struck one of the victims with his belt. The man also yelled the word "Jew" in Arabic. The attackerturned himself into authorities days later. The victims, one of whom shot the video, were not in fact Jewish. One of them, who identified himself as Adam, spoke to DW in April about the incident and explained thatthe kippahhad been a gift from a friend who had told him it was "unsafe" to wear out in the open.
Death of a young girl wakes Japan up to child abuse Yua Funato was repeatedly beaten and starved, but the pleading messages she left her mother and stepfather have shaken a nation that used to pride itself on the importance of family and community. A heartbreaking case of child abuse has rocked a nation that has traditionally prided itself on the concept of family and taking care of the most vulnerable members of society.
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Bayerʼs remorse? Über-acquisition
Merkel, Macron announce plans for new eurozone budget
brings über-headaches as Monsanto
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her French counterpart have vowed to introduce a single eurozone budget and emergency funding as part of far-reaching reforms. They also agreed to reduce the refugee flow to Europe.
trial opens German chemical giant Bayer’s $63 billion purchase of US firm Monsanto is the largest ever by a German of a non-German company. But Bayer also takes on Monsanto’s problems, which the trial of Lee Johnson highlights. US citizen Lee Johnson claims exposure to glyphosate, the key ingredient in the Roundup weed killer made by Monsanto, caused his deadly cancer. As groundskeeper for the school district in Benicia, California, Johnson handled hundreds of gallons of Roundup and was diagnosed with cancer in 2014. He was given six months to live. His case, which started on Monday in San Francisco state court against Roundupʼs maker,Monsanto, is pivotal to the fate of German chemicals giant, Bayer, which paid $63 billion (€56 billion) for the US firm in May. The 46-yearold is the first to go to trial against the St. Louis, Missouri-based company, with thousands of others in the US also blaming the companyʼs herbicide for their illnesses and likely to litigate if the ruling goes against the company.
Kevin Kuranyi: ʼJoachim Löw must find the right wordsʼ Onto planes, off planes, flights here, flights there — Iʼve traveled a lot aroung Russia over the last few days. No matter where Iʼve been, be it Sochi, Moscow or St. Petersburg, Iʼve met locals who are proud of this World Cup. Everyone is happy that the games are finally taking place and that the Sbornaja (Russiaʼs national team) had such an excellent start with that 5-0 win against Saudi Arabia.
Germany and France have agreed to "open a new chapter" in European Union relations, after Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron met to finalize plans for sweeping reforms of the 19member eurozone, including a new parallel budget. Tuesdayʼs talks, at Meseberg castle, outside Berlin, have a lot riding on them; Merkelʼs political survival rests on her finding a European solution to prevent another influx of migrants to Germany, while both leaders have staked their reputation on fur-
ther reworking the eurozone. The EU will set up a single eurozone budget to boost investment and promote economic convergence among all 19 member states.The new budget will be put in place by 2021, but details on how it will be financed still need to be worked out.The current European Stability Mechanism (ESM), introduced in 2012 to deal with the eurozone crisis, will be turned into a European monetary fund, which can offer loans to struggling EU countries, and better insulate the single currency from future crises.
Tiny bees buzz to the rescue as elephants wreak havoc Elephant numbers in South Africaʼs Kruger National Park are rising — which is good news. But the prominent pachyderms are destroying habitat for other animals. Project size: 100 beehives in total — 50 are inhabited, the other 50 are empty to act as a control. The test area including all the hives and trees measures about 30 hectars Elephant population: Kruger National Park is home to about 17,000 elephants. The population increases by nearly 600 animals every year Project partners: EMS Foundation South Africa, and
the Elephants and Bees Project in Kenya Elephants are terrified of bee stings. As soon as they hear the buzz of the tiny insects, the huge pachyderms will turn on their heels. That gave conservationist Robin Cook an idea. Heʼs been housing bees in marula trees in South Africaʼs Kruger National Park for a year. The elephants eat the trees clean and uproot them. And since elephant numbers have risen steadily in the past few years, more and more trees have been falling victim to a flattening — and birds such as vultures are losing nesting space.
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. The Budapest leg takes place at the Papp László Sport Aréna on February 25th, 2019.
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Teslaʼs Elon Musk slams ʼemployee sabotageʼ In an email to staff, Tesla CEO Elon Musk accused an unnamed employee of extensive and damaging sabotage that had harmed the companyʼs operations. Musk spoke ofunspecified code changes to Teslaʼs manufacturing operating systemand the sending of sensitive corporate data to unnamed third parties. "The full extent of his actions are not yet clear, but what he has admitted to so far is pretty bad," the CEO wrote. "His stated motivation is that he wanted a promotion that he did not receive." ʼMany want us to dieʼ Musk added the company would be investigating the matter this week, emphasizing that the firm needed to determine if the person had acted alone or in concert with "any outside organizations." "As you know, there is a long list of organizations that want Tesla to die," Musk wrote, mentioning Wall Street short-sellers, oil and gas companies and rival car manufacturers, but naming none.
Yemen: Government forces storm Hodeida airport Troops loyal to the Yemeni government entered the airport in the city of Hodeida on Tuesday. The move is part ofa major offensive that began on June 13 to retake the Red Sea port. "With the participation and support of the Emirati armed forces, the joint Yemeni resistance (army) entered Hodeida airport," the UAE state news agency WAM said in a tweet, backing up the reports given to DPA. Capturing the airport would mark a crucial gain in the governmentʼs struggle against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, as approximately 80 percent of imports andaid suppliesthat reach Yemen enter Hodeidaʼs port. Read more: Assault on Yemenʼs Hodeida will bring ʼfamineʼ and ʼdevastationʼ The airport is located around 14 kilometers (8 miles) from the cityʼs harbor. The city of Hodeida has been under the control of Houthi militia since late 2014, when the rebels overran Yemenʼs capital Sanaʼa.