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When Jürgen Klopp named his oversize squad for Germany for the upcoming international break, a number of other national team coaches will have taken notice. Among them was Mohamed Ouahbi, of Morocco, who lamented that he had already had Eintracht Frankfurt striker Younes on his radar since last season. “He had a profile that interested us. I spoke to him on the phone and explained the Morocco project to him — without making any promises,” Ouahbi said. If the 23-year-old Ebnoutalib sees any action in the UEFA Nations League over the next couple of weeks, as expected, he will be…

British pop star Ed Sheeran has addressed the Israel-Palestine conflict, following a row over Macklemore’s removal as a supporting act on the tour after the US rapper made pro-Palestinian comments on stage. Performing in Philadelphia on Saturday night, the first concert since the controversy erupted, Sheeran said the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack, which killed around 1,200 people and saw dozens taken hostage, was “horrific.” He also described Israel’s subsequent war in Gaza, which killed more than 70,000 people, as “catastrophic and unjustifiable and disproportionate.” Sheeran also condemned the “systemic injustice” in the occupied West Bank, where the Israeli government is pushing to…

Germany’s famed automotive sector is facing a deep crisis, squeezed by high manufacturing costs, punitive US tariffs, intensifying competition from China and a difficult transition to electric vehicles.   Industry heavyweights such as Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and BMW have announced plans to scale back production and reduce costs. The branch is shedding jobs faster than any other industrial sector in the country. Volkswagen, for instance, is looking to cut about 15% of its workforce worldwide, or 100,000 jobs, by the end of the decade. BMW announced it will cut up to 8,000 jobs — about 5% of its workforce — by the end of 2027. Auto suppliers such as Bosch and…

Alexander Zverev has won his second Grand Slam singles title after the German top seed beat Ben Shelton in the US Open final on Sunday. Zverev beat the American, who was making his first appearance in a major final, 6-3, 7-6 (7-2), 5-7, 6-2. This success caps the best season of Zverev’s career. Not only has he now won two of the four Grand Slams in the same season, but he has become just the ninth man to reach at least the semifinals at all four majors in the same season.Zverev has a record of 25 wins and 2 losses in major matches this yearImage:…

Berlin has a reputation for being unruly. When Joseph Goebbels was appointed the Nazi Party’s district leader in 1926, he described Berlin as “the reddest city in Europe besides Moscow.” From the Tailors’ Revolution of 1830 and the barricades of 1848, to the rise of a vast industrial working class later in the 19th century, revolution, protest and rebellion run deep throughout the city’s history. While the future German philosopher and revolutionary socialist Karl Marx was still in high school in the small town of Trier in Prussia’s Rhine Province, Berlin was fast becoming a center of the country’s labor movement. It was…

Can land corridors offset the impact of the maritime blockade on Iran? The US-led maritime blockade targeting Iranian ports has severely disrupted trade through its southern ports, but it is also accelerating a strategy Tehran had discussed for years: moving more commerce through northern ports, railways and land corridors. Economy Minister Ali Madanizadeh, visiting Moscow for talks with Russian officials, said Iran should activate its northern borders and shift a significant share of imports and exports away from the country’s southern maritime routes. The idea is straightforward. Iran has seven land neighbors, access to the Caspian Sea and several routes…

The summer (June to August) of 2026 was the warmest in Europe since records began, beating the record set in 2003, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, Not only that, Germany’s DWD weather service says that there was an “unprecedented” number of hot days this year. “On average across Germany,there were about 22 hot days with temperatures of at least 30 degrees Celsius and about five very hot days with temperatures of at least 35 degrees Celsius,” the DWD wrote in in a press release at the end of August. The estimated number of heat-related deaths also reached unprecedented…

Another domestic football season is underway and already, in mid-September, the shortcomings of technology in sport are at the center of the discourse once again. The video assistant referee (VAR) is perhaps the most discussed technology in modern sport. While video replays have been in use for years in sports like American football, rugby or cricket, it has only been a decade since the International Football Association Board (IFAB), the highest regulatory authority in the sport, approved the use of VAR. With artificial intelligence (AI) reportedly reaching dangerous levels of development and technological optimization of people’s lives at an all-time high, it is perhaps a…

On Saturday, September 19, at noon, Oktoberfest will once again open with the ceremonial tapping of the keg, during which the mayor of Munich drives a tap into the first wooden barrel of beer and calls out “O’zapft is,” a Bavarian phrase that translates to “It’s tapped.” His call will be followed by 12 gunshots, a signal that lets all festival tents know that they can start serving beer. More than 6 million people are expected at the world’s largest Volksfest, which runs this year through October 4.  Oktoberfest: What to know about ‘the best party in Germany’To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that…

The industrialist Aliko Dangote is turning to Nigerians to help finance the next growth phase of his oil refinery: The richest man in Africa announced that he is seeking to attract about $1.6 billion (€1.4 billion) by going public. This initial public offering of Dangote Industries is intended to help support a $14.3 billion expansion, which would more than double the refinery’s production capacity. In absolute numbers, it would increase capacity from 700,000 barrels per day (bpd) to 1.4 million bpd. It would also include new petrochemical and refining units designed to reduce Nigeria’s reliance on imports of some petrochemical…