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A cooking oil contamination scandal in China that came to light earlier in July highlights the long-standing struggle to improve food safety measures.  The scandal, first revealed by state-backed media The Beijing News on July 2, involves two Chinese companies, which allegedly used fuel trucks to transport edible oil without any cleaning process between loads.  Authorities announced a high-level investigation amid public outrage. “What’s most important is how to convince the people that similar incidents will never happen again,” read one comment that got thousands of likes on the Chinese microblogging platform Weibo.  This is not the first nationwide scandal over food safety issues. In…

Kenyan police on Monday said they had arrested a man who was suspected of dumping several dismembered bodies in a Nairobi slum. The head of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations, Mohamed Amin, said the 33-year-old suspect confessed to killing 42 women, including his wife, since 2022. What else do we know about the suspected serial killer? “We are dealing with a serial killer, a psychopathic serial killer who has no respect for human life,” Amin told reporters. He said the suspect was arrested early in the morning on Monday near a Nairobi bar where he had been watching the Euro…

British passengers – including some England football fans – have had to endure delays coming home from Germany after an “undefined odour” in the cabin forced their plane to turn back around.A Eurowings flight EW8470 to Manchester took off from Berlin at around 8am local time on Monday, only to return back to the German capital around half an hour later. Image: The flight’s path. Pic: FlightRadar In a statement, Eurowings said that “an air emergency was declared”, calling it “a standard procedure to obtain a prioritised landing”.The plane “made an unscheduled return to Berlin… due to an undefined odour…

What were the standout moments? The tournament was decided by a piece of clinical Spanish brilliance, finished by substitute Mikel Oryarzabal. And it was the Spaniards who shone brightest throughout. Before that, Lamine Yamal stole the semifinal show with a spectacular effort against France that meant he became the youngest scorer in European Championship history. Just another entry for his list of records. Jude Bellingham’s overhead equalizer for England in the dying seconds of their last-16 tie with Slovakia was a moment of high drama while Kvicha Kvaratskhelia’s early solo effort set Georgia on the path to the group stage’s biggest shock —…

Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas on Monday submitted her resignation ahead of becoming the European Union’s new foreign policy chief. Kallas, who has led the small Baltic republic since 2021, handed her resignation to President Alar Karis but will remain prime minister in a caretaker capacity until early August. The 47-year-old, who will also step down as leader of the liberal Reform Party, was the first female prime minister in Estonia’s history. She was chosen by EU leaders to replace Josep Borrell as the bloc’s top diplomat after the recent EU elections. Kallas has always been a hawkish critic of what she…

Toyin Ogundeko, a resident of Lagos and a caterer by profession, lives with asthma. Her son has the condition too.  Medicines have become so expensive in Nigeria that they can’t afford the inhalers they need. Amid a worsening economic crisis, Ogundeko isn’t sure how they will get by. “With the way the economy is going things are really getting tough. You’re struggling to buy foodstuff and you’re also trying to stock up on your medication,” she told DW. “So, for me I can cut down on the inhaler for myself. I won’t cut it for my child.” What’s causing the crisis? The worst economic crisis in Nigeria in decades…

A body believed to be that of British teenager Jay Slater has been found a month after his disappearance in Tenerife.The local civil guard said on Monday they had found a “lifeless body of a young man after 29 days of constant search”. “All indications are that it could be the young British man who has been missing since 17 June, in the absence of full identification,” their statement said.The 19-year-old’s disappearance sparked a huge search effort – with the emergency services, local volunteers, and Mr Slater’s family combing a large mountainous area of the island in search of clues.Here…

Ramses II was supposed to have been quite vain. But you can afford to be vain when you’re a pharaoh, the ruler and protector of Egypt, the intermediary between man and the gods. After he died, he was embalmed and preserved for eternity — but that’s not the only reason his legacy was seared into the memory of future generations. “Ramses was a great king who was a warrior. He made many battles and was the first one to have a peace treaty,” explains Zahi Hawass, a renowned archaeologist and former antiquities minister of Egypt. “And he’s a builder —…

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock was in West Africa on Monday as instability in the Sahel threatens to spread to other regions. “If more countries in West Africa descend into instability, that will not only have dramatic consequences for the local population but also a direct impact on our security in Europe,” Baerbock said ahead of her two-day visit, which includes stops in Senegal and Ivory Coast. The two countries are some of West Africa’s last remaining democracies amid coups and outbreaks of violence that have seen many countries in the area turn their back on the West and instead seek support from Russia…

Pakistan’s Information Ministry on Monday said the government would move to ban the political party of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan. “The government has decided to move a case to ban the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, (PTI). We will consult the Cabinet and the Supreme Court if required in this case,” Atta Tarar, the information minister, told DW.  “We believe that there is credible evidence that PTI should be banned,” Tarar told reporters in Islamabad, citing allegations against Khan including leaking state secrets and inciting riots. Zulfikar Bukhari, an advisor of Imran Khan, told DW that “the government is shooting their own foot” with…