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A 17-year-old Chinese badminton player died after collapsing on court during a tournament in Indonesia’s Yogyakarta province on the island of Java, officials said on Monday. Zhang Zhijie was playing against Kazuma Kawano of Japan at the Badminton Asia Junior Championships on Sunday when he collapsed and had seizures. What else do we know about Zhang’s death? The Badminton Association of Indonesia (PBSI) said medical teams treated Zhang on court, after which he was taken to hospital. Badminton players and officials in Yogyakarta held a minute of silence on the court Monday morning before the quarterfinals. “The world of badminton…

A far-right bloc consisting of the National Rally (RN) party and its allies took  33% of the vote in the first round of French parliamentary elections, according to figures released by the Interior Ministry on Monday. The leftist New Popular Front bloc came in second with 28%, while the centrist bloc Ensemble (Together), led by President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance party, gained 20%. The results are in line both with preelection surveys and exit poll results issued on Sunday evening following the vote. The RN’s success in the first round already triggered protests in the capital, Paris, and other cities on Sunday by people…

A volunteer who flew out to Tenerife to help try to find missing Jay Slater has dismissed the final police search for the British teenager as a “massive PR thing”.Paul Arnott, who has been sharing clips of his own search effort on TikTok, told Sky News last week that he flew out to Tenerife when he heard the 19-year-old’s family “needed help”.Mr Slater was last seen on Monday 17 June after he told a friend he planned to walk from the northwestern village of Masca to his holiday accommodation in Los Cristianos in the south – a journey that would…

Who says no man is a prophet in his own land? Just a few weeks ago, the senate of the German state of Hamburg decided to rename a section of a street Karl Lagerfeld Promenade. Although it’s only 150 meters (490 feet) long, it is very central and even close to Felix Jud, Lagerfeld’s favorite bookshop. The Hamburg native was known to be a book lover. Meanwhile, the French, who are usually skeptical of German fashion, have dedicated a glossy streaming series to the designer called “Becoming Karl Lagerfeld.”  Behind the project is the venerable French film group Gaumont, which was founded in 1895…

Basking in the glory of a 33.5% projected victory in the first round of French parliamentary elections on Sunday evening, youthful National Rally (RN) President Jordan Bardella used his first post-exit poll address to pitch himself as a serious statesperson who was more than just the poster boy for France’s far-right campaign. “Next Sunday, if the French people award us an absolute majority to put the country back on its feet, I intend to be the prime minister of all the French people, listening to each and every one of them, respecting the opposition and mindful of national unity,” the…

A far-right bloc consisting of the National Rally (RN) party and its allies took  33% of the vote in the first round of French parliamentary elections, according to figures released by the Interior Ministry on Monday. The leftist New Popular Front bloc came in second with 28%, while the centrist bloc Ensemble (Together), led by President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance party, gained 20%. The results are in line both with preelection surveys and exit poll results issued on Sunday evening following the vote. The RN’s success in the first round already triggered protests in the capital, Paris, and other cities on Sunday by people…

Aircraft manufacturer giant Boeing has announced plans to acquire Spirit AeroSystems for $4.7 billion in an all-stock transaction for the firm, which was already part of Boeing’s manufacturing chain. The acquisition is worth $4.7 billion, at $37.25 per share. The total deal, however, is for $8.3 billion, which includes the subcontractor’s debt, Boeing said in a statement late Sunday. “We believe this deal is in the best interest of the flying public, our airline customers, the employees of Spirit and Boeing, our shareholders and the country more broadly,” Boeing President and CEO Dave Calhoun said in the statement. Spirit was…

The search for Jay Slater in an area of Tenerife has been called off, police have said, nearly two weeks after his disappearance.The British teenager, from Oswaldtwistle, near Blackburn in Lancashire, has been missing in Tenerife since 17 June, when he vanished the morning after a rave. The Civil Guard called for volunteers to join a new search in the Masca area – near his last-known location – on Saturday.It has now confirmed to Sky News that the search has ended. Police are keeping the investigation open and could yet open up searches in the south of the island, but…

A man wielding a knife who reportedly attacked three officers in southern Germany died after police shot him at a train station on Sunday, according to a police spokesman. The man died at the scene of the incident in the Bavarian town of Lauf an der Pegnitz, despite first aid measures being initiated, according to the police spokesman. Man targeted police car before wielding knife on officers The perpetrator initially targeted a police car, the spokesman reported, and when the officers got out of the vehicle, he proceeded to attack them with a “knife.” The spokesman said the officers were unhurt in the incident, without providing details…

North Korea has launched two ballistic missiles, the South Korean military said on Monday, as Pyongyang warned of countermeasures against a joint military drill. The missiles were launched from South Hwanghae Province, South Korean news agency Yonhap reported, citing the authorities in Seoul. It said that one missile had flown about 600 kilometers (372 miles) while the second flew about 120 kilometers. “The South Korean military will maintain its capacity and posture to respond overwhelmingly to any provocation while closely monitoring North Korea’s various activities under a strong South Korea-US joint defense posture,” a military spokesperson said in a press conference.…