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US President Donald Trump signed an order on Monday that will see the National Guard sent to Memphis to combat what his administration says is rampant crime. Trump, who has already deployed troops to the capital, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles this year, said he also planned to take similar action in Chicago and elsewhere in the United States. “We think Chicago is going to be next, and we’ll get to St. Louis, and New Orleans,” Trump, a Republican, vowed. The cities in question are all run by Democrats.Trump sends more troops to LA in ‘authoritarian’ moveTo view this video please enable…

Watermelons are grown throughout the Middle East, and they’re a staple of Palestinian cuisine. They owe their political significance to their colors; with their green-and-white rind, red flesh, and black seeds, they recall the colors of the Palestinian flag.  ‘Why don’t you paint flowers?’ “We were not allowed to paint in red, green, black and white: The Palestinian flag was forbidden. And the colors of the Palestinian flag were forbidden,” recalled Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour in a 2021 interview with Al Jazeera+, referring to the 1980s.Palestinian artist Suleiman MansourImage: DW/S. Hofmann After some paintings were confiscated from Mansour’s gallery in Ramallah, he and a group…

US President Donald Trump and his family are pocketing billions from cryptocurrency ventures since his return to the White House, capitalizing on a loosely regulated market he has actively shaped. From meme coins to stablecoins, digital currencies designed to stay at a fixed value, the financial windfall is estimated at over $5 billion (€4.25 billion) on paper, sparking accusations of unprecedented profiteering by a sitting president. Two companies drive the Trump family’s crypto profits: World Liberty Financial (WLF), a decentralized finance platform that lets users with $WLFI tokens help shape the platform’s lending rules, and American Bitcoin Corp. (ABTC), a Nasdaq-listed bitcoin mining company. WLF has earned millions from…

Pope Leo XIV on Sunday greeted the well-wishers who came to Vatican to mark his 70th birthday. “My dears, it seems you know today I have turned 70,” said Leo, the first American to lead the Catholic Church, after the traditional Sunday Angelus prayer. “I thank the Lord, my parents and all those who remembered me in their prayers,” he added. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni sent birthday wishes to the Pope, saying that his teachings are “a solid guide in extremely complex times.”  Chicago-born Leo, whose given name is Robert Prevost, spent his birthday afternoon presiding over an ecumenical prayer service in honor…

World champions Germany beat Turkey 88-83 to win the EuroBasket 2025 final on Sunday in Riga. Turkey led for most of the match, but Germany bounced back with captain Dennis Schröder scoring the final six points. Schröder, who plays for the Sacramento Kings in the NBA, ended the game with a total of 16 points and 12 assists. He was also named the tournament’s Most Valuable Player (MVP). Former Los Angeles Laker Isaac Bonga was the top scorer for Germany with 20 points. “You realize how hard you work for this. As a child, you dream of hitting these baskets in such a match,”…

Who is German — and what exactly makes someone German? Germans have been arguing about these issues for centuries. The current German constitution, called the Basic Law, is clear and concise: a German is anyone with a German passport. Citizenship cannot be revoked. And discriminating against citizens on the basis of their religion, origin or language violates the fundamental values of the constitution. This is one of the lessons learned from the Nazi regime’s reign of terror from 1933 to 1945, which systematically disenfranchised, terrorized and murdered the Jewish German population in particular, but also Sinti and Roma, homosexuals, disabled…

Women who want to to get pregnant should refrain from using cannabis. This is the conclusion of a new study that examined the influence of the substance, and its active ingredient THC in particular, on female fertility and artificial insemination. Researchers found that cannabis can negatively affect both because it disrupts the development and stability of the egg cell. During in vitro fertilization (IVF), egg and sperm cells are brought together in a laboratory. The authors investigated both the effects of THC on isolated human eggs in the laboratory and the IVF results of patients with detectable THC in their…

One of the world’s most prestigious sporting events, the World Athletics Championships, got underway in the Japanese capital, Toyko, on Saturday. Tens of thousands of spectators gathered in the city’s National Stadium to watch the final lap of the opening 35-km (28-mile) men’s race walk ahead of the day’s other competitions. The championships, due to run till September 21, are taking place four years after Tokyo hosted the 2020 Olympics with a year’s delay under pandemic conditions that meant fans were banned from venues to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Return of controversial gender testing Ahead of the event, the World Athletics federation…

An explosion in a bar in the Spanish capital, Madrid, on Saturday killed one person and injured at least 25, authorities said. Rescue workers found the body of a man early Sunday morning during a search by local firefighters and police, Madrid’s Emergency Services said on X. The emergency services said on Saturday night that two of the victims were in a “serious” condition, while three were  “potentially serious”.  Firefighter chief Javier Romero said four people had been pulled from the rubble alive. What caused the Madrid bar explosion? Local media reported that the blast, which occurred at the “Mis Tesoros” bar at 3 p.m.…

The Turkish public has recently become familiar with a legal term that could seal the fate of the largest opposition party, the Republican People’s Party, or CHP. “Mutlak butlan” means absolute nullity, referring to a situation where something is considered completely void or invalid from the beginning. This is exactly what could happen on September 15, when the trial against the CHP comes to an end. If judges in the capital, Ankara, decide to declare the 38th party congress of the CHP null and void, the party’s entire reform-minded leadership would lose its legitimacy. Turkey’s oldest party, which has mobilized millions of people to protest…