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Man attacking officers with knife shot dead by police in Germany
A man who reportedly attacked three police officers with a knife near Nuremberg in Germany died after police shot him near a train station on Sunday, according to a police spokesman. The 34-year-old Iranian citizen died at the scene of the shooting in the southern town of Lauf an der Pegnitz, despite immediate first aid measures being initiated, the spokesman said on Monday. The man is said to have initially targeted a police patrol car, and then tried to attack the three officers while brandishing a knife when they got out of their vehicle, according to an initial police investigation. A female federal...
South Africa's president unveils new Cabinet with 12 opposition posts
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa announced his new Cabinet on Monday, confirming the handover of 12 ministerial posts to opposition parties in a televised speech. The largest opposition party, the economically liberal Democratic Alliance (DA), will take on six positions with DA party leader, John Steenhuisen, named to head the Ministry of Agriculture, Ramaphosa said. With 20 ministries, including key ministries such as Foreign Affairs, Defence, Energy and Finance, the African National Congress (ANC) retains the lion's share of Cabinet posts. With a total of 32 ministerial posts, the Cabinet is two seats larger than in previous years. The new government consists of 11...
Expert says young voters key in second round of French election
The votes of young people could be the deciding factor in the second round of the parliamentary elections in France, according to German politician and France expert Franziska Brantner. Many are disappointed with President Emmanuel Macron, said Brantner, who is a lawmaker in the German lower house, or Bundestag, and also a deputy member of the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly, in an interview on Monday with public radio Deutschlandfunk. It now depends on whether young people who voted in favour of the left-wing alliance in the first round on Sunday are still prepared to support a candidate from Macron's alliance. "Whether the mobilization works...
Fabián Ruiz, Williams hailed as player of the tournament candidates
The middle of the Euros last 16 is a bit early for picking potential players of the tournament but a flurry of football fans on social media believe Spain duo Fabián Ruiz and Nico Williams must be in the running. The former has scored two goals at Euro 2024 already, a superb finish in the opening 3-0 win over Croatia and a crucial goal for a 2-1 lead against the Georgians. But he has also been commanding in midfield - pressing, tackling and creating in equal measure. His pass for winger Williams' first goal of the tournament in Sunday's 4-1 comeback win...
Bayern buy back Sieb and loan forward to Mainz
Bayern Munich have recalled 21-year-old striker Armindo Sieb from second tier Greuther Fürth and sent him on loan to Bundesliga rivals Mainz for two seasons, the club said on Monday. Bayern have exercised their option to re-sign Sieb after he was allowed to join Fürth in 2022. He has received a new contract in Munich until 2027. He was top scorer for Fürth last season with 12 goals. "We always followed Armindo closely during his two years in Fürth. He developed very well, especially last season - he was one of the top scorers in the second division in his age group," explained Bayern sporting director Christoph Freund. "Armindo is an extremely fast, aggressive type of player. He certainly fits in very well with Mainz with his manner and the Bundesliga is now the next logical step for him."
Work begins to set up festival grounds for Munich's famed Oktoberfest
Builders began putting up the festival grounds for Munich's famous Oktoberfest on Monday morning, about two and a half months before the beer-soaked festivities will kick off on the Theresienwiese fairgrounds, known locally as the Wiesn. Oktoberfest, which bills itself as the largest folk festival in the world and draws millions of visitors each year, is scheduled to run from September 21 to October 6. This year, set-up work began even earlier than usual, after the operators of the tents and kitchens at the festival complained that preparations have become increasingly complex. A big remaining question is how much beer will cost. City...
Expert says young voters key in second round of French election
The votes of young people could be the deciding factor in the second round of the parliamentary elections in France, according to German politician and France expert Franziska Brantner. Many are disappointed with President Emmanuel Macron, said Brantner, who is a lawmaker in the German lower house, or Bundestag, and also a deputy member of the Franco-German Parliamentary Assembly, in an interview on Monday with public radio Deutschlandfunk. It now depends on whether young people who voted in favour of the left-wing alliance in the first round on Sunday are still prepared to support a candidate from Macron's alliance. "Whether the mobilization works...
British mining firm Anglo American halts work at Queensland mine
British mining company Anglo American said on Monday that it has suspended production at a mine in Australia after an incident. The mine concerned was the Grosvenor steelmaking coal mine in Queensland, where production was suspended following an underground coal gas ignition incident. The workforce was safely evacuated from the mine, Anglo American said, adding that the mine team is working with specialist teams and the regulatory authorities to extinguish the underground fire. Anglo American said the procedures are expected to take several months as a result of the likely damage underground. The group said it will provide an update to steelmaking coal production guidance once more information is available.
Mauritanian president re-elected for second term
Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani has been re-elected to office after winning 56.12% of the vote, provisional results showed. His main rival, Biram Dah Abeid, an anti-slavery human rights activist, came in second place after winning 22% of the vote, while Hamadi Sidi Mokhtar of the Islamist Tawasul Party, got 12.76%. Elections were held on Saturday in Mauritania, a former French colony in north-west Africa. Results were announced late Sunday after 99% of the votes were counted. Before the announcement, Abeid alleged there was fraud, and riot police dispersed his supporters demonstrating against the results using tear gas, witnesses said. Mauritanians are hoping the president will work on improving their living conditions, decrease unemployment, and fight corruption and poverty. Ould Ghazouani, 67, has promised to focus on supporting the youth during his second term. Ould Ghazouani, a former defence minister, was elected in 2019 in the country's first peaceful transition of power. His predecessor Mohamed Ould Abdel-Aziz took office after a 2008 military coup.
Germany achieves 58% renewable energy share in first half of 2024
Germany achieved a new record for renewable energy generation, covering some 58% of its electricity consumption in the first half of 2024 with wind, solar, biomass and hydropower. This is the result of projections by the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research in the south-western state of Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) and the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW), which were made available to dpa on Monday. Of the 58% of Germany's renewable energy generation, 24% came from onshore wind generation, 14% from photovoltaics, 9% from biomass, 5% from hydropower, 5% from offshore wind power and 1% from electricity generation from...
Aquila Clean Energy places order for turbines with Germany's Nordex
Aquila Clean Energy has placed an order for wind turbines with a generating capacity of 123.9 megawatts (MW) in Spain with Germany's Nordex Group, Nordex announced on Monday. From summer 2025, Nordex will supply and install 21 N163/5.X turbines for the Baza cluster in the province of Granada in southern Spain, it said. The order also includes the premium service package for the turbines over a period of 20 years. "In recent years, we have been able to maintain our market share of new orders in Spain at over 30% per year," said Patxi Landa, chief sales officer of the Nordex Group.
Scientists in Switzerland race to freeze feces to improve gut health
In Switzerland, a bold initiative is underway: freezing human feces to preserve global biodiversity. However, this isn't just about safeguarding nature's diversity of plants and animals — human gut biodiversity is also at stake. "We have discovered that we are losing biodiversity in the gut," medical microbiologist Adrian Egli from the University of Zurich tells dpa. "There is much more diversity in Amazon populations compared to those in the West. This has to do with stress, antibiotics and diet." Saving the stool "There are a thousand billion bacteria in one gram of stool, 125 times as many as there are people on the planet,"...
Life blood: How a stem cell donation created a decade-long friendship
Some friendships form through shared experiences at school, others through a soccer club or workplace. For Jan Wolfenstädter and Tina Kunath, their bond began with her diagnosis. Kunath was 8 years old when doctors found she had blood cancer. She needed a stem cell donor and found one in Wolfenstädter. He also became a lifelong friend. Their friendship is extraordinary, say Tina Kunath, now 21, and Jan Wolfenstädter, now 34 years old. "You realize that you are connected in a different way," Kunath told dpa as she sipped a mint tea in Cologne. Wolfenstädter sat opposite, nodding as he nursed a double espresso. They recently met...
The ‘houseplant hotel’ that gives greenery the spa treatment
Yolanda Palmer ushers visitors throughFoliage, past towering ferns, hanging ficus, and monstera with leaves that look like Swiss cheese, to the 300-square-foot greenery hotel nestled in back of her plant boutique. Here, close to a dozen clivia, hibiscus and succulents soak in the sun under floor-to-ceiling windows. On cloudy days, high-powered, infrared grow lights help turn stalks green and lush. Palmer repots, fertilizes, and sprays neem oil so bugs don’t get too comfortable. She puts all her visiting plants on strict watering schedules — too much water is worse than too little. Bruised leaves heal. Viruses in the soil are cured. Plants...
Heroic rats - Giant hamster rats detect mines, saving life and limb
Eagerly sniffing, Baraka dashes across a stubble field. He can't see very well, but his sense of smell is extremely well-developed. Because Baraka, a giant hamster rat with an important job to do: find buried explosives. During his work, the rodent is strapped into a small harness that is connected to a long line via a wire. An animal handler dressed in mine protection gear stands at each end of the line. This is because Baraka is running across an area where landmines may be buried. The rat has already found something. He stops, sniffs intensively and scratches the earth a little. This...
Boeing to buy Spirit AeroSystems in $4.7 billion all-stock deal
US aircraft manufacturer Boeing has struck a deal to buy Spirit AeroSystems, the company announced on Monday. The all-stock deal has an equity value of about $4.7 billion or $37.25 per share, Boeing said. The total transaction value is around $8.3 billion, including Spirit's last reported net debt. Boeing's acquisition of Spirit will include substantially all Boeing-related commercial operations, as well as additional commercial, defence and aftermarket operations. Separately, Spirit and Airbus SE have also entered into a binding term sheet, under which Airbus will acquire certain commercial work packages that Spirit performs for Airbus concurrently with the closing of the Boeing-Spirit merger. In addition,...
Spain not afraid of Germany in duel of record champions at Euro 2024
Spain will enter Friday's quarter-final showdown of the joint record champions with hosts Germany full of confidence after confirming that they are the team to beat at Euro 2024. Sunday's 4-1 over Georgia was the biggest winning margin in tournament history from a goal down, and also Spain's first knock-out round win in 90 minutes since beating Italy 4-0 in the 2012 final. All following five knock-out games at Euros and the World Cup went into extra time or penalties, until they turned on the style against Georgia. The enter the duel of triple champions with Germany as the only team with four...
Euro 2024 exit with pride: 'We brought Georgian football to Europe'
Debutants Georgia finally ran out of luck in a 4-1 defeat against Spain but will leave Euro 2024 with nothing but pride after exceeding expectations in Germany with a last-16 berth. Led by Napoli star Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Georgia already impressed in their opening 3-1 defeat against Turkey where they almost levelled at 2-2 in stoppage time before being beaten for good. A 1-1 draw against the Czech Republic and they then defied the odds by beating Portugal 2-0 to get out of the group. The team coached by Frenchman Willy Sagnol took a shock lead against Spain from an own goal by Robin...
England into Euro 2024 quarters after dramatic 2-1 against Slovakia
England are into the Euro 2024 quarter-finals after Jude Bellingham and Harry Kane came to the rescue in a dramatic 2-1 comeback win against Slovakia on Sunday. Bellingham's overhead kick in the fifth minute of added time cancelled out Ivan Schranz's opener to take the game to extra time. And within the first minute, Kane headed in England's winner. "You're 30 seconds away from going home, feeling like you've let your nation down, and one kick of the ball and everything's great. It’s a feeling I don't want to be in, but when it comes, it's a great feeling," Man of the...
Spain turn on the style to beat Georgia 4-1 and set up Germany date
Spain overcame an early shock as they ended Georgia's Euro 2024 fairytale with a 4-1 statement victory on Sunday to set up a mouth-watering quarter-final date with hosts Germany. Georgia took a shock lead in the 18th minute from an own goal by Robin Le Normand, but Rodri levelled in the 39th, Fabian Ruiz headed in for 2-1 in the 51st, Nico Williams smashed the third in the 75th, and Dani Olmo wrapped up matters in the 83rd. The exciting Spanish team has impressed the most so far at the Euros, is the only one to win all four matches, and now...
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