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Borussia Dortmund announced on Friday that the club’s former player Nuri Sahin had signed a three-year contract to replace Edin Terzic as head coach.  Sahin had been part of Dortmund’s coaching staff this season as Terzic’s assistant. “We are convinced that Nuri is the right coach for us,” new sporting director Lars Ricken said of the appointment. “He has been intensively preparing himself for a coaching career in recent years, will take on his new job with great dedication and develop our team further.”  Dortmund academy product taking reins of the team Rather like Terzic before him, the 35-year-old Sahin…

President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia would cease-fire and enter peace talks if Ukraine withdrew its forces from four regions claimed by Moscow. Putin also said Kyiv would need to relinquish any ambitions of joining NATO for peace to be achieved. Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, called Putin’s suggestions “offensive to common sense.” He said the proposal was not a serious attempt to agree on peace and was irrelevant to any negotiations.US and Ukraine sign long-term security dealTo view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Ukraine rejects…

South Africa’s newly elected parliament convened in Cape Town after two weeks of intensive behind-the-scenes talks with other parties regarding a government of national unity (GNU). The ANC announced a day before the sitting of the National Assembly it had reached a coalition agreement with the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), which is popular with white voters and several other smaller parties.  DA leader John Steenhuisen confirmed that the basis of the agreed document is the constitution and the Bill of Rights, which recognizes South Africa in all its diversity. Ramaphosa’s African National Congress party has been weakened after losing its long-held majority…

As ever with Vladimir Putin, timing is everything.It’s no coincidence his latest speech was made on the eve of the Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland. Russia won’t be there as it hasn’t been invited. So this was about putting Moscow’s side across first and undermining the summit’s legitimacy before it has even begun.Putin has said Russia would be ready for peace talks “tomorrow” if Ukrainian troops withdraw from the Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Donetsk and Luhansk regions – and if Ukraine gives up its plan to join NATO.If Ukraine agrees, Putin said Russia would cease fire and begin negotiations. But is his…

Publishing rights are a lucrative business, as Michael Jackson found out after he acquired 251 Beatles songs for more than $47 million in 1985 ($116 million at today’s rate; €100 million) and doubled his money 10 years later. But that catalog was cheap by today’s standards. Bob Dylan sold all his song rights to Universal Music for what Rolling Stone magazine estimates to be between $300 million-$400 million in late 2020. Dylan had been one of the few artists who had retained the rights to their own catalog. But the balladeer has joined a slew of top-selling music artists who have recently made…

Germans invented cars — and by the time Carl Benz patented the “vehicle powered by a gas engine” in 1886, he already knew that selling them would become an international business. His company’s first customer was the sultan of Morocco, Hassan I. And his first car reached China only a few years later, in 1901, as a birthday gift to the mother of the reigning emperor. However, Carl Benz had no way of knowing that 120 years later China’s domestic automobile industry would grow to become the biggest rival of German car manufacturers. The two countries cooperated closely for decades, with Volkswagen entering a joint…

The United States Supreme Court on Friday struck down a Trump-era federal ban on “bump stocks,” which are gun accessories that enable semi-automatic rifles to fire more quickly. The rule was imposed after the devices were used during a 2017 mass shooting that killed 58 people at a Las Vegas country music festival. In a 6-3 ruling on ideological lines with the court’s conservatives in the majority upheld a lower court’s decision siding with Michael Cargill, a gun shop owner and gun rights advocate from Austin, Texas, who challenged the ban. More to come… Please refresh your browser for updates.…

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed to Southeast Asian countries to participate in a Switzerland-led peace summit taking place on Saturday and Sunday. “We want Asia to know what is going on in Ukraine; Asia to support the end of the war,” Zelenskyy said during a surprise visit to Singapore late last month for the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual security conference. “We want Asian leaders to attend the peace summit.” The Summit on Peace in Ukraine — which is being held at the swanky Bürgenstock Resort that overlooks Lake Lucerne in the Swiss village of Obbürgen — is aimed at building on Zelenskyy’s…