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When Nomine Fabian made her way to a beach on the coast of Föhr in the North Sea for her first sailing lesson of the year, she did so in a wheelchair. She was accompanied by Dirk Hückstädt, her coach, who runs a surfing and sailing school on the small German island. The two know each other well, as Hückstadt started teaching Nomine how to sail some six years ago, when she was only five. A first for the coach “Nomi was the first wheelchair user who came to us wanting to learn to sail,” Hückstädt told DW. “At the time,…

More than 17,000 people in Canada’s Manitoba province were being evacuated on Wednesday as wildfires raged. “The Manitoba government has declared a province-wide state of emergency due to the wildfire situation,” Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew told a news conference. “This is the largest evacuation Manitoba will have seen in most people’s living memory,” he added. Military assistance requested Kinew said he had asked Prime Minister Mark Carney to deploy the military to assist with both the evacuation process and the firefighting efforts to quell the fires. According to Kinew, military aircraft would be deployed “imminently” to help evacuate residents in endangered remote…

On May 22, the Danish parliament passed legislation raising the retirement age. The law, approved by 81 lawmakers with 21 voting against, sets the retirement age at 70 for all citizens born after December 31, 1970. Currently, the retirement age in Denmark is 67. By 2030, it will rise to 68, and by 2035 to 69. Last year, 47-year-old Social Democratic Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen stated she would be open to reviewing the system once the official retirement age reached 70.In Denmark, more elderly people are returning to workTo view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a…

Hamas’s Gaza chief Mohammed Sinwar has been “eliminated”, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said – but Israeli military sources say they are not yet able to confirm the death.Sinwar was one of Israel’s most wanted and the younger brother of the militant group’s former leader Yahya Sinwar, who was killed in a gun battle with Israeli troops last year. Speaking to parliament on Wednesday, Mr Netanyahu included Mohammed Sinwar in a list of Hamas leaders killed in Israeli strikes. Later, IDF sources aid they were not yet able to confirm the death.He had been the target of an Israeli…

When Donald Trump announced plans to impose a 100% tariff on any film “produced in foreign lands,” a globalized US film industry began to panic. Shares in major production companies like Netflix and Disney immediately fell due to an assumed rise in costs when productions can no longer profit from cheaper overseas locations. In recent decades, American films and TV series have benefited from generous tax incentives for shooting in Europe, Canada or Australia, making Hollywood locations comparatively expensive. At the same time, the film and content industry has become highly decentralized, with international co-productions able to share resources and access funding across multiple countries.Trump pushes levy on foreign-made…

The chance that average warming from 2025 to 2029 is to exceed the 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) benchmark stands at 70%, the United Nations (UN) said. As a result, the Earth is expected to remain at historic levels of warming. This comes after the planet experienced the two hottest years ever recorded in 2023 and 2024, according to a report published by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the UN’s climate agency. WMO deputy secretary-general Ko Barrett said the past ten years have been the “the warmest on record,” adding a warning that no respite is expected. “This means…

The trial of health care workers who treated late Argentine footballer Diego Maradona shortly before his death could be thrown out after a key judge stepped down Tuesday. Julieta Makintach recused herself after it was revealed that she has been taking part in a documentary about the high-profile case. The case was adjourned last week after a series of police raids which led to Makintach, 47, being accused on Tuesday of violating impartiality rules, of influence peddling and bribery over her role in the “Divine Justice” miniseries.The prosecution and the defense supported Makintach’s removal from the case Image: Gustavo Garello/AP/dpa/picture…

Never before had Germany’s new Chancellor Friedrich Merz expressed himself so clearly on the situation in the war in Gaza. “What the Israeli army is now doing in the Gaza Strip, I frankly no longer understand with what goal,” Merz said at the Re:publica digital conference in Berlin on Monday. Merz added that in his view, a line had been crossed and international humanitarian law had been breached. To cause such suffering to the civilian population “can no longer be justified as a fight against Hamas terrorism,” he said. Germany’s “reason of state” Since the attack on Israel by Islamist…

The European Union and the UK are pushing for a lowering of the oil price cap — a key economic sanction against Russia. The price cap is currently set at $60 (€52.7) per barrel of oil and has been in place since December 2022. Its provisions mean shipping and insurances services from G7 group of advanced economies and EU nations, which dominate global shipping, are not provided for the transit of Russian oil unless the oil is being sold at or below the level of the cap. The EU is currently working on an 18th package of sanctions against Russia, having released its 17th…

A veteran Sherpa guide has scaled Mount Everest for the 31st time, beating his own record.Kami Rita, who first climbed Everest in 1994, reached the summit of the world’s highest mountain on Tuesday. The Nepali guided a group of clients and reached the summit in the early morning, according to Kathmandu-based Seven Summits Treks.Before embarking on the record-breaking climb, the 55-year-old told the Associated Press news agency he would possibly even climb to the top for the 32nd time, after he made two successful climbs last year.He is one of many Sherpa guides whose expertise and skills are vital to…