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It all started so well for Germany. Lea Schüller had twice gone close before she dropped deep and found Carlotta Wamser, replacing injured captain Giulia Gwinn at right back, who weighted a perfect through ball for Jule Brand to score the seventh minute opener. With Klara Bühl a constant threat, Germany’s attack was fluid and menacing. Less than half an hour later, nobody was thinking about their attack. First, a heavy touch from Wamser and a total dereliction of duty from the rest of the German defense allowed Stina Blackstenius to run unchallenged in to the box and score. Next,…

Two people were missing Saturday after torrential rains and floods in Catalonia in northeastern Spain. Firefighters said they were searching along the banks and mouth of the Foix river for two people who went missing near the town of Cubelles, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Barcelona. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called for “great caution” and urged people to avoid unnecessary travel in 10 northern and eastern regions that were on high alert on Saturday. “We are closely monitoring the situation in several communities with warnings for heavy rains and storms,” Sanchez wrote on X. The prime minister said…

Malaysia’s political landscape has experienced significant change in recent years, marked by the rise of Islamic-oriented parties. Though it is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in Southeast Asia, rising public dissatisfaction with the ruling coalition’s perceived liberal agenda poses a significant challenge to Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s hold on power. The opposition Perikatan Nasional (PN), or National Alliance, coalition — a five-party grouping that includes the Malaysian Islamic Party (Parti Islam Se Malaysia, or PAS) — has been gaining popularity and electoral ground over the past decade.  It achieved an astonishing electoral success in the 2023 state elections, winning…

The US is set to impose a 30% tariff on all goods from the European Union from August 1, 2025. US President Donald Trump announced his Truth Social platform, with the EU having readied itself to see what the tariff rate would be. The 27-member bloc and the US failed to reach an agreement to strike a comprehensive trade deal, including zero-for-zero tariffs on industrial goods.  In addition to the tariffs on EU goods, Trump posted another letter to his platform, declaring a 30% tariff rate on goods from Mexico beginning August 1 as well. Follow our live blog for the latest EU reactions to Trump’s announcement.…

Prada announced plans Friday to partner with Indian artisanal footwear makers, just two weeks after the luxury fashion house sparked controversy by showcasing sandals critics said closely resembled traditional Indian designs. Prada held a meeting Friday with the Maharashtra Chamber of Commerce, which represents 3,000 Kolhapuri sandal artisans, to discuss potential opportunities for future collaboration, the company said in a statement to Reuters. “The next step will be for Prada’s supply chain team to meet a range of artisanal footwear manufacturers,” the company said. The Chamber shared photos from the virtual meeting in a post on X and said, “This initiative…

Beyond the fact that this is the third known interstellar object to have entered our solar system, “we don’t know very much,” said Larry Denneau, co-principle investigator at ATLAS, a telescope in Chile that spotted 3I/ATLAS on July 1, 2025. It’s not exactly reassuring when scientists say “we don’t know,” but at least it’s honest. Astronomers do know that 3I/ATLAS is a comet that’s about 670 million kilometers (416 million miles) away from the sun. Based on current projections, it poses no danger to planet Earth. “Scientists are still determining the velocity and trajectory to a degree that will allow accurate predictions…

Russians with direct links to the military will be free to compete at the world fencing championships in July after the sport’s governing body abandoned independent vetting of Russian and Belarusian athletes. Under the International Fencing Federation’s (FIE) new neutrality policy, being affiliated with military clubs is no longer a disqualifying factor for fencers who wish to obtain neutral status. That decision has allowed five-time Olympic medalist Sofya Velikaya, a major in the Russian army by virtue of her membership of the army club CSKA, to enter the 2025 world championships, which start in Tbilisi, Georgia, on July 22. Many sports organizations…

United States President Donald Trump visited parts of Texas on Friday that were affected by deadly flash floods a week ago. At least 120 people, including many children, have died after a river overflowed on July 4. The flood swept away homes, cabins, vehicles, and people. Search teams are still looking for 170 people who are missing. Speaking in central Texas’s Hill Country after he and First Lady Melania Trump had met with first responders, local officials, and victims’ families, Trump said, “this is a tough one.” “I’ve never seen anything like this,” Trump said at a roundtable meeting in Kerrville,…

Former Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s son, Ovidio Guzman Lopez, has pleaded guilty to four drug trafficking and organized crime charges in a US federal court, prosecutors said Friday. Prosecutors accused Guzman Lopez of succeeding his father, who was arrested in 2016 and later extradited to the United States, as one of the leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico. Guzman Lopez, also known as “El Raton” (Spanish for “The Mouse”), “pleaded guilty to two counts of drug conspiracy and two counts of knowingly engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise,” the US Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Illinois said in…

What determines who holds power in the boardrooms of Germany’s biggest companies? Is it performance? Or do factors such as social background play a bigger role? The sociologist Michael Hartmann, an emeritus professor at Darmstadt University of Technology, has studied Germany’s executive class as it evolved over the past 150 years, trying to figure out who ends up in top corporate positions and why. Hartmann told DW that the results surprised him. “To this day, more than four-fifths of Germany’s economic elite come from the top three to four percent of the population,” he said.During the early 20th century, Germans were…