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A total of 24 European countries will be competing in the men’s Euro 2024 tournament and more than 650,000 foreign football fans are expected to visit Germany. It will be a once-in-a-lifetime event for many, but could quickly turn into a nightmare if you fall for fakes and scams online. Several social media postsand articlessuggest that football fans could face fines of thousands of euros if caught wearing counterfeit jerseys, citing “specific German laws to combat the spread of fake goods.” German footballer Christoph Kramer, a member of the 2014 World Cup-winning team, was recently spotted wearing a fake jersey of…

Some of South Africa’s major opposition parties have said they are considering a proposal by the African National Congress (ANC) to form a national unity government. The ANC won most of the seats in the country’s recent election. When announcing the proposal last week, ANC leader and current President Cyril Ramaphosa said banding together with a broad group of parties was the “best option” to move South Africa forward for the next five-year term. The ANC remains the biggest party in the National Assembly after winning 40% of the vote and gaining 159 of 400 seats in the National Assembly. However,…

President Joe Biden so often talks about “inflection points'”.He has repeatedly framed his own presidency through a series of global inflection points – era-defining moments in which he has tried to cast himself as the sober voice of calm leadership. His life story too has been defined by a series of personal and tragic inflection points which have shaped his political journey: the death of his first wife and baby daughter in a car crash in 1972, the death of his elder son Beau from cancer in 2015.Now, the criminal conviction of his son Hunter is without question another deeply…

A total of 24 European countries will be competing in the men’s Euro 2024 tournament and more than 650,000 foreign football fans are expected to visit Germany. It will be a once-in-a-lifetime event for many, but could quickly turn into a nightmare if you fall for fakes and scams online. Several social media postsand articlessuggest that football fans could face fines of thousands of euros if caught wearing counterfeit jerseys, citing “specific German laws to combat the spread of fake goods.” German footballer Christoph Kramer, a member of the 2014 World Cup-winning team, was recently spotted wearing a fake jersey of…

The top takeaway from the European Drug Report 2024 : Drug users in Europe are increasingly using more than one drug at the same time — a practice known as “polydrug” or “polysubstance” use. And synthetic opioids remain a top-level concern for drug monitoring and drug addiction agencies. These trends may or may not be voluntary as potent synthetic opioids are often being mis-sold or mixed with medicines and other drugs, and cannabis products are being adulterated with synthetic cannabinoids — so users don’t always know what they are taking. Polydrug use is the use of two or more psychoactive substances, licit…

Some of South Africa’s major opposition parties have said they are considering a proposal by the African National Congress (ANC) to form a national unity government. The ANC won most of the seats in the country’s recent election. When announcing the proposal last week, ANC leader and current President Cyril Ramaphosa said banding together with a broad group of parties was the “best option” to move South Africa forward for the next five-year term. The ANC remains the biggest party in the National Assembly after winning 40% of the vote and gaining 159 of 400 seats in the National Assembly. However,…

It is another moment without precedent for America. The son of a sitting president has been convicted on three felony counts in a federal court.Beyond the seriousness of the crime itself, the trial has lifted a lid on the layered struggles and tragedies of one family. It could be any number of American families – except it is the nation’s first family. At its heart, it is a story of addiction, loss and grief which led to a criminal conviction. But because it’s about the Bidens, it is also, inevitably, a story of politics and scandal. Image: Hunter Biden talks…

Football fans at Euro 2024 can expect to experience the full gamut of emotions as their teams bid for glory in Germany. However, the stakes are much higher off the pitch. With 51 games taking place in 10 cities and attracting millions of viewers, the tournament’s profile and scale make it both a major challenge to security forces and an attractive target for agitators. “Everyone is going to look at Germany during those couple of weeks when we have the championship here,” Hans-Jakob Schindler of the Counter Extremism Project told DW. “That means our adversaries are going to try to do…

South Korea’s military said on Tuesday that it had fired warning shots at the weekend after some North Korean soldiers briefly crossed the border. “Some North Korean soldiers working within the DMZ on the central front briefly crossed the Military Demarcation Line,” the South Korean joint chiefs of staff (JCS) said in a statement. It was referring to the line of control in the heavily fortified border between the two Koreas. “After our military issued warning broadcasts and warning shots, they retreated northward,” it said, adding the incident happened June 9. “Apart from the immediate retreat of the North Korean soldiers…

The outcome of the 2024 European Parliament elections will play out in the coming weeks, with perhaps the biggest question being whether Ursula von der Leyen, the incumbent European Commission president, can secure a second term at the helm of the EU executive arm. This will have implications for Southeast Asia, which has increasingly aligned with the EU and now considers the European bloc a “strategic partner” of its own regional alliance. According to analysts, the substantial losses resulting from Europe’s green and liberal policies may undermine European involvement in Southeast Asia’s environmental initiatives and impede free trade. More than 180 million…