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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has decried Germany’s broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) as a “Nazi” media outlet. Maduro made the comments on Monday during his weekly program on Venezuelan state TV after DW released a report on corruption in the South American country. DW was removed from cable programing by two main local cable operators, according to Venezuela’s National Union of Press Workers. The group added it was still looking into whether DW had been removed from the program of other services. The corruption video focuses on graft in several Latin American countries, including Venezuela, and looks into possible connections between politicians and organized…

US President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump swept to victory in statewide nomination contests on Tuesday, setting up a historic rematch in November’s election.On a day traditionally dubbed Super Tuesday – when the most states choose who they think should be candidates – both virtually secured the nomination for their respective parties. Republican Mr Trump won in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia, brushing aside Nikki Haley.Meanwhile, Mr Biden appeared to win easily in 14 states, but lost in the US territory of American Samoa and faces a potentially sizeable protest…

Menstruation has been stigmatized for millennia. The Old Testament refers to menstruation as the ‘infectious time,’ while Hinduism calls it ‘asaucha,’ which has connotations of impurity or shame. “You’d think this means we’d have a big celebration when menopause comes, as we’re not unclean anymore. But this isn’t the case,” said Rachel Weiss, a psychosocial counselor in the UK, told DW. Menopause is still a taboo subject today. Weiss said the first time she saw it mentioned on TV was in 2017 in a BBC documentary called “The Menopause and Me,” and it taught her a lot about the many ways menopause can…

Which teams are involved? On Wednesday, March 6, it will be exactly 100 days until Euro 2024 starts. Twenty-one of the 24 nations competing have already qualified. Germany is hosting and 20 others have confirmed their spots through qualification. Germany face Scotland, Hungary and Switzerland in their group. Some teams who missed out on automatic qualification can still secure a spot through the playoffs. Twelve nations — Poland, Estonia, Wales, Finland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Israel, Iceland, Ukraine, Georgia, Luxembourg, Greece and Kazakhstan — will compete in the playoffs at the end of March in hope of booking the last three spots. What’s…

When German conservative politician Ursula von der Leyen took over at the helm of the EU executive branch in late 2019, she vowed to make the European Commission a more “geopolitical” force. Little did she know what lay ahead. The outbreak of war on the European Union’s doorstep in Ukraine, and the rush to arm Kyiv against Moscow in many ways overturned the EU’s traditional image as a peace project.  “In the last years, many European illusions have been shattered,” von der Leyen told the European Parliament last week, presenting plans to massively boost EU weapons production capacity. “The world is as dangerous…

Elon Musk, Tesla’s visionary CEO, has long emphasized the significance of the Grünheide Gigafactory in advancing the company’s mission. Musk declared during the factory’s opening in 2022 that the new Gigafactory would be “crucial for accelerating the production of affordable electric vehicles, bringing us closer to our goal of making sustainable transportation accessible to all.” The facility, strategically located just 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) from Berlin, currently employs over 12,500 workers and has been instrumental in Tesla’s efforts to meet the growing demand for electric vehicles in the European market. With a production capacity aiming for 500,000 cars annually, Musk…

Moscow plans to contribute its expertise in “nuclear space energy” to a joint lunar program with China, including a nuclear power plant on the moon,  Russia’s space agency chief Yuri Borisov said on Monday. Borisov warned that solar panels would not be enough to ensure a reliable supply of electricity to potential lunar settlements. “Today we are seriously considering a project — somewhere at the turn of 2033-2035 — to deliver and install a power unit on the lunar surface together with our Chinese colleagues,” Borisov said during a youth event. Borisov (r) served as Russia’s deputy prime minister before taking…

A luxury hotel is offering a free night’s stay to guests if their trip is ruined by too much rain.The five-star InterContinental in Singapore said its “rain resist bliss” package would act as a form of insurance for holidaymakers thinking of staying in the city state. However, it is reportedly only available for customers who book one of the hotel’s suites – with prices ranging from £500 to £2,635 a night. Image: The Intercontinental Hotel in Singapore. Pic: Alamy For the offer to be claimed, it must also rain for a total of 120 cumulative minutes within any four-hour period…

An official probe into the sexual misconduct allegations at Tour du Rwanda has been launched. The Rwandan Investigations Bureau (RIB) says it is taking the recently surfaced claims of sexual abuse and exploitation of young women working during the prestigious cycling event seriously. However, rumors of alleged abuses taking place during the race had persisted for years, without anyone coming as a whistle-blower to file any oficial report. Rwandan authorities are hoping this finally might change now. The Tour du Rwanda is an annual international competition for top cyclists in the world.Judoka Marie Dinkel: ‘I thought I couldn’t speak up’To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports…

Containing the rise of China — then already threatening to dethrone the United States as the world’s largest economy — was a key campaign promise by Donald Trump ahead of the 2016 US presidential election. Citing Beijing’s unfair trade practices that included dumping cheap products on the global market, obstructing access to China’s domestic market and stealing intellectual property, Trump vowed to levy tariffs on his Asian rival and bring manufacturing jobs back to the US. The first measures started to take effect a year into Trump’s presidency, initially on Chinese solar panels and washing machines, before expanding to thousands of Chinese-made…