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Greta documentary a fuller portrait of climate activist

11:40 pm September 4, 2020

Venice: A documentary on teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, making its premiere Friday at the Venice Film Festival, is seeking to remind a world consumed with the coronavirus crisis that the climate crisis is just as urgent and isn’t going away. Thunberg appeared by video conference from school on Friday for the Venice launch of […]

German prosecutors to charge mom with murder of 5 children

11:11 pm September 4, 2020

Berlin: German prosecutors said Friday they will charge a 27-year-old woman with murder after five of her young children were found dead at their home in the western city of Solingen. Heribert Kaune-Gebhardt, a prosecutor in nearby Wuppertal, told reporters that postmortem examinations on the dead children showed signs of sedation and suffocation, but it was […]

From Venice, a plea to reopen movie theaters shut by virus

4:50 pm September 4, 2020

Venice: Spanish director Pedro Almodovar has joined a chorus of voices at the Venice Film Festival urging the reopening of movie theaters after coronavirus lockdowns, saying films are meant to be seen on the big screen, not at home. Venice organisers have prided themselves on pushing ahead with the festival despite the cumbersome and costly anti-virus restrictions that include protective […]

EU unveils plan to secure raw materials, cut dependency

7:06 pm September 3, 2020

Brussels: Worried by an increasing dependency on the raw materials used to make smart phones, televisions and energy-saving lights, the European Union on Thursday launched a new strategy to secure access to rare earth minerals and to reduce reliance on suppliers like Chile, China and South Africa. The EU is predicted to need around 60 […]

German governor apologizes for 'little Merkel' comment

Merkel calls poisoning of Russia’s Navalny attempted murder

11:12 pm September 2, 2020

Berlin: German Chancellor Angela Merkel says Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was the victim of an “attempted murder by poisoning” and the aim was to silence him. Testing by a German military lab determined that Navalny was poisoned with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok. After that finding was announced Wednesday, Merkel said there are “very serious questions that only the Russian government can answer and […]