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The Goethe Medal for 2024 is going to three women, honoring their strength and endurance, as well as their faith in the ability of the arts to change society. The winners are theater powerhouse Carmen Romero Quero from Chile, literary translator Claudia Cabrera from Mexico, and cultural manager Iska Geshoka from North Macedonia. They’re three women who “are not discouraged by opposition and obstacles,” said Carola Lentz, president of the Goethe-Institut, told DW. The most important prize for Germany’s foreign cultural policy was awarded at a ceremony on August 28 in Weimar, the city of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. A lonely battle…

A fire erupted in a school dormitory in central Kenya, killing 17 students and injuring some 14 others, police said Friday. Rescue teams were en route to the Hillside Endarasha Academy in Nyeri, spokeswoman Resila Onyango said. “We have lost 17 pupils in the fire incident while 14 are injured,” Onyango told the Reuters news agency by telephone. “Our team is at the scene at the moment.” There were fears the death toll could rise. “The bodies recovered at the scene were burnt beyond recognition,” Onyango said. “More bodies are likely to be recovered once [the] scene is fully processed.” School fires…

“Of course it is a different feeling,” Marc-André ter Stegen told reporters at the Germany camp in Herzogenaurach, Bavaria on Thursday. He was referring to the fact that this is the first international break he’s gone into as the Nationalmannschaft’s clear No. 1, as confirmed by coach Julian Nagelsmann. “Marc-André ter Stegen deserves to be the new first-choice goalkeeper,” Nagelsmann told reporters in Herzogenaurach on Monday. “He has delivered outstanding performances at Barcelona over a number of years and simply has earned that right.” Ter Stegen described the impact of the coach’s words on him in a very German way,…

Heavy rainfall and powerful winds from Super Typhoon Yagi slammed southern China on Friday, even as the strongest storm to hit the region in a decade was yet to make landfall. Packing maximum sustained winds of 245 kilometers per hour (152 miles per hour) near its eye, Yagi is the world’s second-most powerful tropical cyclone in 2024 so far. The most powerful was the Category 5 Atlantic hurricane Beryl which swept through the Carribean islands, Mexico, parts of US and eastern Canada. Yagi gains strength Yagi’s strength has more than doubled since it devastated the Philippines last week with landslides and…

Billions of dollars are being invested in artificial intelligence, but the revolutionary applications widely associated with AI are still lacking. So, will putting money into the technology ever pay off?

Downing Street has dismissed a French minister’s accusation migrants were crossing the Channel because they are “rarely expelled” from the UK.France’s interior minister Gerald Darmanin accused the British government of making the UK attractive to illegal immigrants after 12 died trying to cross from France on Tuesday. “Often, you can work without having papers…[and] as there is no common immigration policy with the EU … people try a lot to go to Great Britain because they know that they are probably not deportable from British territory,” Mr Darmanin said, according to French media.He added people want to reach Britain to…

You might have heard speculation that electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones and wireless technologies is dangerous. The radio waves wireless technologies transmit are very weak. They do not have enough energy to damage DNA and are very unlikely to cause cancer. Nevertheless, researchers are continuing to monitor whether there are any potential long-term health risks of phone use. A new study provides comprehensive evidence that mobile phone use is not linked to cancer. The study is the largest review on the topic to date and is one in a long line of research showing that wireless technologies do not harm the human body.…

Sweden’s Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom unexpectedly announced Wednesday that he will resign from the Swedish government next week. Billstrom has been in office for nearly two years, during which time his country, traditionally a non-aligned nation, has become a NATO member. “It is with a mixture of sadness and pride that I have today informed the prime minister that I will leave the post of foreign minister at the opening of parliament next week,” Billstrom said in a post on X. Billstrom to leave politics The 50-year-old politician, who has been foreign minister since October 2022, said he would leave…

Australian Rachael “Raygun” Gunn has defended her controversial performance at the Paris Olympic Games last August. In her first interview since the Games, the 37-year-old university lecturer on Wednesday told Australia’s Channel 10 that much of the criticism she received was due to the fact that “people were not very familiar with breaking and the diversity of approaches.” “I was the top-ranked Australian B-girl in 2020, 2022, and 2023… so there’s the record. But in a battle, anything can happen,” she said. She acknowledged that she didn’t expect to perform well at the Olympic Games. “As soon as I qualified, I thought,…

Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo were expecting the arrival of the first consignment of mpox vaccines on Thursday. The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said it expected more than 99,000 doses on Thursday. A cargo plane packed with the vaccines was to leave the Danish capital, Copenhagen, on Wednesday evening and arrive at Kinshasa International Airport on Thursday at 1100 UTC/GMT. Another flight carrying the rest of the jabs — with Congo expecting a delivery of 200,000 doses this week in total — is scheduled to arrive before the end of the week, according to the Africa CDC. At a press conference…