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The Trump administration is offering unaccompanied migrant children $2,500 (€2,129) to voluntarily return to their home countries, according to a letter sent to migrant shelters and confirmed by immigration authorities. According to the letter sent by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Refugee Resettlement, the department will provide a “one-time resettlement support stipend of $2,500” to unaccompanied children 14 or older. Trump allocated $250 million for voluntary deportations Under US federal law, migrant children who cross the border without a parent or legal guardian are classified as unaccompanied and placed in federal shelters until they can be released to…

A Jewish congregant, killed during an attack on a Manchester synagogue on Thursday, may have died from police gunfire, authorities said in a statement on Friday. One of the wounded was also shot during the emergency response, the statement added. What did the police say? Two people were killed and three people were seriously wounded in Thursday’s attack on the Heaton Park Congregation Synagogue in Crumpsall, north Manchester. It happened on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Authorities identified the perpetrator as a 35-year-old Syrian-born British citizen, who drove into pedestrians outside the synagogue and attacked with…

Following the end of World War II in 1945, a defeated Germany was divided into four occupation zones, controlled by the Allied powers: the United States, France, Great Britain and the Soviet Union. In 1949, two states emerged: the democratic Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) in the West, and the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the East, with the latter being under Soviet control. From that point on, Germany was divided. Citizens of East Germany were only allowed to travel to the West under strict conditions. The GDR’s borders were heavily guarded, and a massive wall was built around…

Every October, a handful of scientists get woken up by a phone call to find out they’ve won a Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, physics or chemistry. Startled and bleary-eyed, they throw a shirt on over their pajamas, join a video call to Stockholm and try to explain a lifetime’s worth of research to the world’s media in a few short minutes. Journalists then desperately try to understand what “quantum dots,” or “entangled photons” are, file their reports, then breathe a sigh of relief that it’s all over until next year. By the following week everyone’s forgotten — another flash in…

Last month, Matthias Blübaum did something no other German chess player had in 35 years by qualifying for the World Championship Candidates Tournament. The 28-year-old did so by coming second at the FIDE Grand Swiss Tournament, held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. This means he will be competing against seven other elite players for the right to take on current world champion Gukesh Dommaraju for the title. In his run in Uzbekistan, Blübaum outshone many of the biggest names in chess, including the world champion and his highly touted Indian compatriots Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa and Erigaisi Arjun. Only the winner, the Netherlands’ top-ranked player, Anish…

Munich airport said early on Friday that drone sightings on Thursday evening had forced air traffic control to halt operations. What has been the disruption to Munich airport? This had prompted the cancellation of 17 flights, disrupting travel for nearly 3,000 passengers at the airport in the southern German state of Bavaria. Another 15 arriving flights were diverted to Stuttgart, Nuremberg, Vienna and Frankfurt, the airport said in a statement. German police said the airport’s runways were closed late in the evening as a precaution.  Police officers searched the area for suspicious individuals but found nothing. A police helicopter was also deployed. Munich airport…

Following the end of World War II in 1945, a defeated Germany was divided into four occupation zones, controlled by the Allied powers: the United States, France, Great Britain and the Soviet Union. In 1949, two states emerged: the democratic Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) in the West, and the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the East, with the latter being under Soviet control. From that point on, Germany was divided. Citizens of East Germany were only allowed to travel to the West under strict conditions. The GDR’s borders were heavily guarded, and a massive wall was built around…

Flying is just not what it used to be. Long lines to go through security, cyberattacks on airport check-in systems, labor strikes, lost bags and cancellations. Now on top of all that, there is a global shortage of pilots and airlines are feeling the pinch.During and after the COVID-19 pandemic, pilot training was put on hold in many places as companies waited to see what the pandemic would do to the travel industry. Today, as air travel rebounds, there is a training backlog, and schools are struggling to get new pilots in the air.Job prospects for pilots are better than ever…

A vaccine administered to adolescent girls and boys has been so successful that herd immunity against a virus that causes cervical cancer is within reach, at least in the United States. However, sustaining community resistance to the human papillomavirus (HPV) will depend on whether the US can maintain high vaccination rates. HPV is the world’s most common sexually transmitted infection . Vaccines against certain strains of HPV, of which there are hundreds, have existed for almost two decades. Currently a “nine-valent” vaccine — protecting against nine strains of HPV that together account for 90% of cervical cancers — is licensed in the…

When the league stage of the UEFA Women’s Champions League begins on October 7, it will do so without the game’s most expensive player. France midfielder, Grace Geyoro, signed for newly-promoted London City Lionesses (owned by wealthy businesswoman and serial football investor, Michelle Kang) in September for a fee of about €1.6 million ($1.9 million). Geyoro’s move was the fifth to break the world transfer record in 2025, with each player moving to either the NWSL in the USA or the WSL in England. “It is a very good sign,” women’s football agent Jasmina Covic told DW. “The record is being…