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Chemnitz braces for further protests after fatal knifing The eastern German city of Chemitz is on high alert as it prepares for farright and far-left protests and counterprotests on Monday following aspontaneous anti-immigrant demonstration the day before. The right-wing "Pro Chemnitz" movement has called for a demonstration on Facebook, leading to various leftist groups from the state of Saxony responding with their own calls for rallies. The protest on Sunday afternoon was triggered after a 35-year-old German was stabbed to death in an overnight altercation. Police said the knifing occurred after an incident involving "several people of different nationalities." Two men, a 23-year-old Syrian and a 22-year-old Iraqi, are in custody, with state prosecutors calling for an arrest warrant. The men are suspected of having stabbed the victim several times "with no justifiable reason," the prosecutors said on Monday.
Bavarian lawmakers laud their new border police force Bavarian lawmakers applauded the stateʼsnewly established border police forceon Monday, as they announced that officers had logged some 1,750 civil and criminal indictments in just the past month. According to official figures presented by Bavariaʼs Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann, officers patrolling the German-Austrian border detained more than 500 wanted persons and prevented around 220 illegal migration infringements, including several instances of human trafficking. Herrmann was joined by Horst Seehofer, Germanyʼs Federal Interior Minister and leader of the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU), at a police post in the border town of Freilassing.
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EU ʼcan no longer rely on US,ʼ says Franceʼs Macron Macron said he would unveil proposals to bolster EU security in the coming months
As Washington doubts its relationship with the EU, more European officials have called for lessening the blocʼs reliance on the US. Macron said he would unveil proposals to bolster EU security "in the coming months."
T-Mobile reports cybersecurity incident T-Mobile US has informed customers about a potential security breach. The telecoms company said it had discovered a fresh attack, but was able to quickly shut down unauthorized access to personal information. T-Mobile US and its unit Metro PCS told customers that cybersecurity staff found and shut down unauthorized access to certain information on August 20 and immediately reported the matter to authorities. The company added that no financial data, social security numbers or passwords were compromised during the attackon its networks, admitting, though, that
other personal information like names, email IDs, phone numbers as well as account numbers or account types (postpaid or prepaid) may have been exposed. T-Mobile said that about 3 percent of its 77 million customers could have been affected (roughly 2 million people potentially affected). Who did it? A spokesperson for the telecoms firm saidthe incident occurred after hackers compromised its servers through an API, an application programming interface as a set of routines, protocols and tools for building software applications. T-Mobile did not specify whether it knew who was behind the intrusion.
The Festival of German Films Ludwigshafen embraces its new role Cinema, and in particular film festivals, are an excellent illustration of the changing cultural landscape. Once essentially seen as exhibitions of the film industry, such festivals have in recent years begun to accept and embrace their new role — as champions of the cinema-going experience. Michael Kötz is the director of the Festival of
German Films, which has been held annually since 2005 in Ludwigshafen, the city opposite Mannheim along the Rhine River. He says festivals used to provide the space for a "specialist, critical discussion" about new films and were in part responsible for "determining the economic value of cinematic products."
Morocco: Teen rape survivor calls for ʼjustice to be doneʼ As of Monday afternoon, more than 15,000 people had signed apetition to Moroccan King Mohammed VIto provide support for a young woman who was tortured and held captive for two months. "During her captivity, she was subjected to every torture imaginable: She was repeatedly raped by 15 men, beaten, deprived of food and basic sanitary needs, and had her body forcibly tattooed by her captors," petition organizers wrote. The 17-year-old told the Moroccan broadcaster Chouf TV that she was kidnapped in June and held for two months by a gang of men in Oulad Ayad, a small town about 150 kilometers (90 miles) northeast of Marrakesh.
DNA drive catches 1998 child murder suspect The suspect in the 1998 murder of a Dutch boy agreed on Monday to be extradited back to the Netherlands, a day after he was arrested by police outside of Barcelona following a decades-long search. Suspect Jos B. was escorted to a tribunal in the city of Granollers, where he told a Madrid High Court judge via video link that he agreed to be handed over to Dutch authorities. The 55-year-old faces charges of murder, sexual aggression and kidnapping. He will remain in detention until his extradition, the court said.
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Police identify source of deadly Novichok nerve agent in UK deaths British police announced Friday that they found a bottle containing the Novichok nerve agent in the home of one of the victims of a nerve agent poisoning in Wiltshire last month. "On Wednesday, 11 July, a small bottle was recovered during searches of Charlie Rowleyʼs house in Amesbury," police said in a statement. The statement said scientists from Porton Down defense laboratory confirmed the bottle contained the Novichok nerve agent, the same poison used against Sergei Skripal and his daughter earlier this year. "Further scientific tests will be carried out to try and establish whether it is from the same batch that contaminated Sergei and Yulia Skripal in March," the force said, adding that a link to the Skripals remained "a main line of enquiry for police." Dawn Sturgess died in a hospitalon Sunday after exposure to the nerve agent. Her partner, Rowley, isstill in critical condition, but has regained consciousness. The Foreign Office said on Friday it had invited independent technical experts from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons early next week "to independently confirm the identity of the nerve agent."
Gareth Bale also scored in the win over Getafe Gareth Bale scored for the second successive La Liga game as Real Madrid came from behind to beat Girona. The Catalan hosts took the lead when Borja Garcia rifled home from 12 yards before Sergio Ramos equalised with a penalty after Marco Asensio was fouled. Real edged ahead through another penalty won by Asensio - this time taken by Karim Benzema - before Baleʼs composed finish from Iscoʼs pass. Bale turned provider to set up Benzema to make it 4-1 from close range.
Nissan launches first low-cost electric car in China
The start of production Monday by Nissanʼs joint venture with Dongfeng Motor Group, Dongfeng Nissan Passenger Vehicle, came as the two partners had reached another milestone, having built 10 million cars in China since they joined forces. Automotive magazine Autocar Professional said thatas Nissanʼs first all-electric vehicle built in China, the Sylphy Zero Emission "promised to usher in a new era of electrification in the worldʼs largest automotive market." The low-
cost model isa combination of the worldʼs best-selling electric car, the Nissan Leaf, and the best-selling Nissan sedan in China called Sylghy. Au‐ tocar Processional quoted Nissan CEO Hiroto Saikawa as saying that "China is expected to lead the world in the adoption and spread of EVs in the coming years." "Weʼre confident that the Sylphy Zero Emission rolling off the production line today will become a main player in the EV market here," he added.
Why Germanyʼs clichés can help improve ties with the US "Wunderbar Together"? Ahead of the upcoming Year of GermanAmerican Friendship, observers with a deep experience of both countries discussed how Germany can reach out to Trumpʼs America. Are Germany and the United States really "Wunderbar Together"? Thatʼs a least the slogan of the upcoming Year of German-American Friendship ("Deutschlandjahr USA"), a year-long series of events initiated by the German Federal Foreign Office to promote transatlantic rela-
tions in all fields of society. Even though the Deutschlandjahr USA campaign aims to go beyond being a direct reaction to the developments in the country since Trumpʼs election, the current situation shows that German-US relations canʼt be taken for granted. Introducing the program ahead of its official launch on October 3, a discussion was held in Berlin on Saturday under the title "Germany and the USA — foreign friends? What politics, economy and culture have to do now."
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Can Germany conquer global e-car markets? Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), a division of Bloomberg focused on research and analysis of energy investment, carbon markets, and low-carbon energy solutions, has released its 2018 global long-term "Electric Vehicle Outlook" report which forecasts electric vehicle (EV) trends to 2040. One take-home message that emerges from the report is that the future of EV is bright, with rapid increases in battery electric vehicle (BEV) production volume expected in coming years. BNEF estimates that e-cars are likely to reach unsubsidized price parity with comparable internal combustion engine powered vehicles (ICEVs) by about 2024, as battery-pack prices continue to drop. Another insight provided by Bloombergʼs data is that although German carmakers have until recently been slow and reluctant to move away from ICEVs and toward EV production, in the past couple of years, they have begun shifting gears.
Hong Kong rule new Haruki Murakamiʼs novel ʼindecentʼ A backlash was growing in Hong Kong after Obscene Articles Tribunal ruled "Killing Commendatore", the 2017 novel by noted Japanese author Haruki Murakami, to be "indecent." By Thursday, more than 2,100 people had signed an online petition backed by 21 activist groups for the censors to remove the categorization Classifying the novel as indecent would "bring shame to Hong Kong people," the petition says, stressing that no other novels by the 69-year-old author have ever been classified as indecent in Hong Kong, Taiwan, or mainland China. "If this is set to be a precedent case, Hong Kong would become the most conservative Chinese area," the South China Morning Post quoted the document as saying. Read more:Hong Kongʼs democracy movement ʼneeds new ideasʼ ʼExplicit sexual detailsʼ The latest Murakami book revolves around a portrait artist whose wife unexpectedly asks for a divorce. It features occasional sex scenes, similar to the authorʼs previous works. Earlier this month, the Office of Film, Newspaper and Article Administration in Hong Kong said they had received a public complaint about "explicit sexual details" in the novel, which they passed on to the censorship board.