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Retired Italian football star Roberto Baggio has been robbed at gunpoint while watching the national team play Spain at Euro 2024.At least five armed robbers burst into Baggio’s villa near the northern city of Vicenza around 10pm local time (9pm BST) on Thursday, according to Italian media reports. One intruder hit the 57-year-old on the head with the butt of a gun when the former player confronted them.The robbers locked him and his family in a room while they stole jewellery, watches and cash during the raid, which reportedly lasted 40 minutes.Baggio was taken to hospital and received stitches for…

Anna Magdalena Wilcke (1701-1760) was a well-known soprano who in 1721 married the legendary classical composer, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). However, Anna Magdalena went down in music history not as a musician — but as Bach’s wife. That could be about to change. How women fell into musical oblivion It was not until the 1970s that music researchers in Europe began to focus more on women who composed and played music themselves. “Women who were associated with men, such as Anna Magdalena Bach, were the first to come into focus,” says Kerstin Wiese, director of the Bach Museum, which is part of the Bach Archive and Research…

Wildfires in southeastern Turkey have claimed the lives of at least five people and injured dozens of others, according to the country’s health minister. “Five people died and 44 were injured, 10 seriously,” when the blaze swept through two areas between the cities of Diyarbakir and Mardin, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca posted on X, formerly Twitter. Deaths in Diyarbakir and Mardin Koca offered his condolences to the victims of the fires. “Unfortunately three citizens of the Diyarbakir area and two in the Mardin area lost their lives,” he said, adding that emergency teams along with 35 ambulances had been dispatched…

South Korea’s military said on Friday that it had fired warning shots after North Korean soldiers briefly crossed the demilitarized border, the third such breach announced this month. It comes days after North Korea and Russia said they had signed a comprehensive security agreement in a move condemned by Seoul. Also on Friday, German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck visited the heavily fortified border that cuts through the Korean Peninsula during the first leg of his days-long trip to East Asia. Habeck is also stopping in China. “It is a very different border to the one we know from the German…

On the coastline of southern Italy, a small group gathered at the water’s edge.They could not go any further into the Ionian Sea although they clearly wished they could. “Is Europe worth all this trouble, I swear to God it’s not,” says a man called Setar.”Why put your wife and children through this?” Image: Setar Sheke asked ‘is Europe worth all this trouble?’ Image: Coastguard footage of the boat after it had capsized Image: Two men mourn at the water’s edge after the tragedy The shock is real, the feelings raw after the deaths of 60 or more migrants in…

Hawaii agreed Thursday to settle a lawsuit filed by 13 young people who claimed the US state violated their constitutional rights by operating a transportation system that contributes to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. The activists called their lawsuit the first youth-led climate lawsuit to seek zero-emissions transportation. Democratic Governor Josh Green called the settlement “groundbreaking.” The case had been scheduled for trial on Monday. It would have been the second case in the United States brought by young people who say their future and health are threatened by climate change and that a state’s actions violate their rights. What will…

The Slovakian parliament on Thursday approved a plan to revamp the public broadcaster RTVS and change its leadership. It will take effect in July after the president signs the bill. Some of the changes have led to public protests and concerns over political control over media freedom. The government has accused the broadcaster of being biased and ignoring opinions that vary from the mainstream. The new law would change how the oversight council for RTVS is chosen. “The draft law … has the goal of strengthening the public-law character of [the broadcaster] and ensuring respect for plurality and the principles of democracy…

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign raised substantially more money than Joe Biden’s last month, new figures show.The Republican candidate received £111m in contributions during May – with tens of millions sent after he was convicted of falsifying business records. A New York jury found Trump guilty of covering up a “hush money” payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels – with one billionaire donating £39.5m after the verdict was reached. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 1:30 Trump slams ‘rigged’ trial and ‘devil’ judge Trump’s campaign has refused to confirm how much cash it has in the…

Tech giant Amazon announced a plan to invest a further €10 billion ($10.7 billion) in Germany on Wednesday. The company said €8.8 billion will be used to expand the facilities of its cloud computing subsidiary, Amazon Web Services, around Frankfurt. The rest of the funds will go towards logistics, robotics and two new corporate offices. Amazon said its German workforce is set to grow to 40,000 permanent staff by the end of the year, up from around 36,000 employees in 2023. Scholz welcomes Amazon investment Amazon said it has already invested more than €77 billion in the country since 2010. The fresh…

As Taiwan headed to the presidential polls in January, there was widespread apprehension among the island’s population that Beijing would try to influence the vote. Their concern was not unfounded, given similar occurences during previous elections. China, which considers the self-governed island as its territory, employed several methods to ramp up support for pro-Beijing groups in Taiwan, dissuade Taiwanese people from casting their ballots in favor of pro-independence parties, and create an environment of fear among the public. “One of the methods was economic coercion,” said Yuchen Li, DW’s correspondent in Taipei, prior to the vote. “Since China is Taiwan’s biggest…