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147/2018 • 30 JUNE, 2018 WEEKEND ISSUE

DAILY NEWS IN ENGLISH

German court rules police in North RhineWestphalia must be 163 cm tall Police officers in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia must meet the minimum height requirement of 163 centimeters (5 feet and 3.5 inches in imperial measurements), a regional court ruled Thursday.Three female police recruits, who were 161.5 cm, 162 cm and 162.2 cm tall, had argued the regulation was discriminatory, as it was less likely that women would reach the minimum height requirement.

Sex workers leave Twitter for Switter after controversial US law Sex workers have been a mainstay on social networks for more than a decade. Twitter in particular handed escorts a number of tools that allowed them to protect themselves ― a way to screen clients, anonymity, the ability to find customers without taking to the streets or working for a pimp. But since April, sex workers have almost completely vanished from Twitter, instead flocking to the Austrian domain Switter.at.

Why? Because that was the month the US Congress passed a bill known as FOSTA/SESTA (short for Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act and Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act, respectively) which is aimed at curbing underagesex traffickingand holds internet service providers liable for what users might create on their platforms. However, the controversial law has had a series of negative consequences for adult escorts who are plying their trade willingly.

Polandʼs Jaroslaw Kaczynski renews call for German WWII reparations His comments come two days after his government watered down a controversial Holocaust law

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, head of the ruling party in Poland, has again demanded Berlin pay Warsaw World War Two compensation.

Bali: Volcano eruption forces closure of international airport, hundreds of flight cancellations Thousands of travelers are stranded on the Indonesian resort island of Bali after a volcanic eruption forced authorities to shut down its main international airport in the early hours of Friday.

Nearly 450 flights have been canceled, affecting more than 75,000 passengers, and the airport will remain closed until 7 p.m. local time (1100 UTC), a spokesman for the disaster mitigation agency said. Airlines that have canceled flights include Air Asia, Jet Star,

Qantas and Virgin. Authorities acted after Mount Agung in northeastern Bali erupted on Thursday, spewing a 2,500-meter (8,200-foot) column of ash into the surrounding air. Ash can damage aircraft engines and cooling systems and reduce visibility. Officials, who have not raised their warning alert to the maximum level, established a 4-kilometer danger zone around the volcanoʼs crater and helped evacuate some 300 nearby residents.

Wimbledon 2018: Andy Murray to play Benoit Paire in first round if fit to play Two-time champion Andy Murray will play Frenchman Benoit Paire in the first round at Wimbledon next week if he decides he is fit enough to compete. Murray, 31, has still not confirmed he will play in the Championships, which start on Monday, following long-term injury. British number one Kyle Edmund opens against Australiaʼs Alex Bolt. In the womenʼs singles, Johanna Konta - who reached the semi-finals in 2017 plays Natalia Vikhlyantseva. Seventime champion Serena Williams, who has been seeded 25th following

her return from maternity leave, plays Arantxa Rus while 2017 Wimbledon champion Garbine Muguruza will face Britainʼs Naomi Broady. Defending menʼs champion Roger Federer - who will play in his 20th Wimbledon Championship - faces Serbiaʼs Dusan Lajovic, while world number one Rafael Nadal will take on Dudi Sela of Israel. Meanwhile, three-time Grand Slam winner Stan Wawrinka, now ranked 225th in the world after knee surgeries, meets sixth seed and current ATP Finals champion Grigor Dimitrov.

US suspect in ʼCapital Gazetteʼ shooting charged with murder A man who killed five people at "The Capital Gazette" newspaper office in the US state of Maryland has been charged with murder. The man had a bitter history with the paper and police said it was a targeted attack. he suspect ina shooting rampage carried out at a newspaper in the US state of Marylandwas charged with five counts of firstdegree murder on Friday. Five people were killed and two injured in what police said was a "targeted" shooting at the offices of The Capital Gazette newspaper on Thursday.

Rescuers lower food, maps for missing children in Thai cave As rescue teams struggle to track down 12 boys and their football coach in a Thai cave, authorities have started sending in care packages into the crevice. The rescuers hope the children would stumble upon the boxes. Thailandʼs soldiers were searching for alternative entrances into Tham Luang Nang Non cave on Friday, as the search for 12 children and their football coach entered its seventh day. Thailandʼs soldiers were searching for alternative entrances into Tham Luang Nang Non cave on Friday, as the search for 12 children and their football coach entered its seventh day.

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147/2018 • 30 June, 2018 Weekend issue

Working with insects in Africa

Germany’s World Cup midsummer nightmare

We recently met with Dr. Sunday Ekesi from the center to discus their sustainability push throughout tropical Africa. The instituteʼs work is modeled around integrating human, animal, plant and environmental health issues. Its mission is to "help alleviate poverty, ensure food security and improve the overall health status of peoples of the tropics, by developing and extending management tools and strategies for harmful and useful arthropods." Sunday Ekesi: There are certain insects that are parasitic and live on invasive ones. And by bringing in some of the parasitic ones that attack the bad ones — that is one very important aspect of what we call classical biological control to bring an insect that is damaging to a very minimal level by reuniting the good and the bad one in the environment so that the population is kept at the very very minimal level without harming our crops or without harming our livestock. Insects contribute in all these ways to help improve our economy.

The ex-football and export champion now seems passive and indecisive, while others dominate the game. It is partly a leadership issue, says Joscha Weber.

Wayne Rooney: Everton striker completes move to MLS side DC United

Facebook-owned social networking platform Instagram unveiled a new video mobile app on Wednesday designed to allow for longer user-generated videos.

Everton striker Wayne Rooney has signed a three-and-a-half-year deal with Major League Soccer club DC United. He will officially complete his move when the US mid-season transfer window opens on 10 July.

There is no transfer fee but it is understood DC United have agreed a compensation package with the Toffees. The 32-year-oldʼs deal is worth £10m, meaning he becomes the highest paid player in DC Unitedʼs history. EvertonandDC Unitedmade the announcement simultaneously on Thursday afternoon. Rooney will make his debut when the club open their new 20,000-capacity Audi Field Stadium on 14 July.

Facebook-owned social networking platform Instagram unveiled a new video mobile app on Wednesday designed to allow for longer usergenerated videos. The new app, dubbed IGTV, will increase Instagramʼs video time limit from one minute to 10 minutes for most view-

On July 13, 2014 two top German managers met in the bowels of Brazilʼs Estádio Jornalista Mário Filho, better known as the Maracana stadium. They laughed and hugged and had a beer together. In retrospect, we can see that, at that moment, they were each at the pinnacle of their career. One was the coach of the German national football team, Joachim Löw, whohad just secured a fourth star for Germany in the World Cup final in Rio de Janeiro. The other was the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, who had recently started her third term in office buoyed up by the best election result her CDU party

had achieved in more than 20 years; she was held in high esteem around the world, and according to some polls, her popularity with the German people had also reached an all-time high. Germanyʼs national football team, their coach and entourage were celebrating their victory in the teamʼs white mosaic-tiled dressing room, and naturally Angela Merkel — accompanied by the then-German president, Joachim Gauck, had come to join them. Since taking office she had always sought the proximity of the national team, well aware that this constituted good PR.

Instagram launches video streaming service to rival YouTube ers. Accounts with larger audiences will be allowed to post videos up to an hour long. "Teens are now watching 40 percent less TV than they did five years ago," Instagram chief executive Kevin Systrom said at an event to announce the launch in San Francisco. "Itʼs time for video to move forward and evolve." Instagram, which was founded as a photosharing app in 2010 and was bought

by Facebook for $1 billion in 2012, has surpassed 1 billion accounts, Systrom said.

Nostalgia can be a powerful temptation. But the dozens who line up each morning at Germanyʼs central bank, the Bundesbank, are perhaps among the less sentimental. A smorgasbord of the elderly, young mothers with children in tow and students, they have one thing in common and more often than not itʼs hidden inside a heavy bag. Nearly 28 years after the complete demise of the East German mark and 16 years after the introduction of the euro, these people are patiently waiting to hand in some of the billions of old deutschmarks still in circulation. Read more: German banker takes 6 months to count 1.2 million inheritance pennies by hand Today German marks are travel souvenirs, bits of history forgotten at the back of a drawer or still stashed in safety deposit boxes. Most assuredly, marks are not an old-fashioned alternative to cryptocurrencies. Yet with so much of the cash still out there, many more Germans are holding onto the old currency than will probably ever own bitcoin, the most famous digital asset. It is no secret thatGermans love carrying and paying with wads of cash, and despite being branded with a dark history of super inflation they are also hoarding a currency that no store or taxi driver will accept. Amazingly, its limited practicality doesnʼt seem to bother Germans.

Macedonian PM Zoran Zaev: EU accession talks a ʼhistoric decisionʼ Mr. Prime Minister, there are different interpretations of the EUʼs decision to start membership talks with Macedo‐ nia and Albania. Your government claimed it as a historic success, but critics say it is another postpone‐ ment and disappointment for the coun‐ try. How do you see the decision? Zo-

Purple paradise: check out this lavender field just outside Budapest Forget Provence. A sweeping perfumed purple lavender field awaits just outside of Budapest.

Hues of indigo and mauve mingle in the rolling rows, where an afternoon stroll is a special experience. This splendid place is by the foot of NagyKevély Hill at Pilisborosjenő, half-anhour from the capital.

The never-ending story of Germanyʼs ghost money

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ran Zaev: It is a great day for the Republic of Macedonia. A great acknowledgment for our country.

The European Union and the leaders of all member states recognized the Republic of Macedonia as a country of positive changes, of dynamic reform process, inclusiveness and of open dialogue.

There is no other description for this decision: It is a historic one.

We have a date for negotiations: June 2019.