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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 fired warning shots after about 20 North Korean soldiers briefly crossed the border over the weekend, officials said.North Korean troops in the Demilitarised Zone that separates the two countries crossed the demarcation line on Sunday afternoon, Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said on Tuesday. It comes amid a recent rise in tension over North Korea’s launch of balloons carrying trash into the South.Colonel Lee Sung-jun said the military did not consider the recent breach to be intentional as the area was densely forested, obscuring border markings or any roads.”They headed north immediately after our military’s warning…

May was another particularly challenging month for Ukraine, as Russia escalated its war of aggression against its neighbor. Many Ukrainians are nevertheless already planning their postwar future. Representatives of the country’s museums met at the end of the month for a two-day conference held in Berlin. Called “From Crisis to Future: New Responsibilities for Museums in Ukraine,” the conference was initiated by OBMIN, a Warsaw-based foundation set up in 2022 that serves as a platform for more than 100 museums from all parts of Ukraine. The event, described as the largest gathering of Ukrainian museum workers since Russia launched its full-scale…

Last May was another particularly challenging month for Ukraine, as Russia escalated its war of aggression against its neighbor. Many Ukrainians are nevertheless already planning their postwar future. Representatives of the country’s museums met at the end of the month for a two-day conference held in Berlin. Called “From Crisis to Future: New Responsibilities for Museums in Ukraine,” the conference was initiated by OBMIN, a Warsaw-based foundation that was set up in 2022 and serves as a platform for more than 100 museums from all parts of Ukraine. The event, described as the largest gathering of Ukrainian museum workers since…

“It’s a little bit strange,” one passerby, a man called Jean-Paul, told DW in downtown Paris. “It was very surprising that Macron decided to close the parliament. I don’t know what to think.” Jean-Paul was not alone in his bemusement on Monday. President Emmanuel Macron caught the nation, including many in his own Renaissance party, off guard on Sunday when he dissolved the French Parliament and called snap legislative elections. They will take place in two rounds on June 30 and July 7. The surprise move came after Macron’s staunchly pro-EU Renaissance party, formerly known as La France En Marche! (France on…

Singapore Airlines is offering injured passengers compensation after a flight from London to Singapore was hit by severe turbulence last month.One man died and dozens suffered injuries on the Boeing 777 Singapore Airlines flight on 21 May after the plane hit turbulence so bad it dropped 54m in just four seconds. People described “launching into the ceiling” as more than 100 passengers and staff were left needing hospital treatment, with some undergoing serious “spinal operations”.In a post on social media on Tuesday, the airline outlined the compensation offers it was making to passengers on board the flight. Image: Pic: Reuters…

When they were born, the war had just ended. A quarter of a century later, young people from Serbia and Kosovo are working to envision a shared future. Source link

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…

Germany is ramping up security ahead of the start of Euro 2024, with England’s tie against Serbia seen by police as high risk. Source link

Germany’s government had hesitated for a long time: Should it allow Ukraine to use German weapons to strike targets in Russia? Officials were concerned that that might make Germany a party to the war in the Kremlin’s eyes. But, after the United States gave Ukraine authorization to use its weaponry for cross-border strikes, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz backed down from his reservations. Securing peace means “that we support Ukraine,” Scholz said. He emphasized that it was important to weigh all the risks and consult closely with allies before making “such far-reaching decisions” and then he approved the use of German weapons to strike targets in…