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Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said Germany is “very well prepared” to confront any security risks during the upcoming UEFA European football championship. “We have a very high risk in abstract terms, but we have nothing concrete,” she said, adding that there was no such thing as 100% safety. The monthlong football championship, also called the Euro 2024, kicks off on Friday. “Security is the highest priority for us,” Faeser said, while visiting an international police center set up for the tournament outside the western city of Düsseldorf. “We are very, very well prepared and I therefore hope that it will be…

Four staff from a US university have been stabbed in a park in northeast China.Video on social media showed blood-stained people lying on the ground and being put into ambulances.Iowa politician Adam Zabner said his brother was among the victims and the group had been visiting a temple in Beishan Park, Jilin City.”I spoke to David… he is recovering from his injuries and doing well. My family is incredibly grateful that David survived this attack,” said Mr Zabner.The group from Iowa’s Cornell College were on a teaching exchange programme with Jilin’s Beihua university.Cornell’s president, Jonathan Bran, said the four instructors…

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…

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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…