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Due to the ongoing uncertain situation in the Middle East, the Lufthansa Group has cancelled additional flights to the region. All flights to and from Tel Aviv, Tehran, Beirut, Amman and Erbil in the Kurdistan region of Iraq will remain suspended until next Monday, August 26, the company announced in Frankfurt. Until then, the group's airlines will also avoid using the airspace over Iraq and Iran. The previous flight stoppage was in effect until Wednesday. The reason for the ban is the tensions between Israel and Iran, which are feared to potentially lead to a wider war far beyond the Gaza Str...
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Berlin (dpa) — Ever wanted to look up directions on your iPhone, but haven't been able to use mobile data or wi-fi? As of iOS 17, Apple Maps now lets you save maps for offline use, a useful feature that you previously needed to use Google Maps for, and that is likely to be handy if you’re going to be travelling somewhere that doesn’t have good internet or that has high roaming costs. To download a map, open the Maps app and click on the icon with your name on it to the right of the search field. Then select Offline Maps > Download > Download New Map. In the search box type the name of the plac...
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All five people aboard a helicopter belonging to Air Dynasty are confirmed dead following a crash in central Nepal on Wednesday. The aircraft crashed near Shivapuri National Park while en route from Kathmandu to Syabrubesi, police said. The deceased include a Nepalese pilot and four Chinese nationals, one of whom was a woman, according to Nepalese police spokesperson Dan Bahadur Karki. "Our team has reached the crash site and confirmed that there are no survivors. The bodies have been collected," Karki told dpa. Syabrubesi, located about 80 kilometres north-west of Kathmandu near the Tibetan b...
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Police prevented a climate blockade at Hamburg Airport early on Friday morning, they said in a statement. A patrol car crew became aware of a group of cyclists near the airport, the police said. When the cyclists noticed the police, they reportedly fled. Four of them were stopped and checked a short time later, while one person fled unidentified, the police said. The suspects allegedly had extensive equipment in their bags, "which suggested an intended blockade action at the airport." Among the items were bolt cutters, vests, posters and a sand-resin mixture, the police said. The four suspects...
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Severe storms caused widespread diruptions to a section of France's high-speed rail network on Wednesday. Traffic on the South-East line, which connects Paris with Marseille and Montpellier, is seeing major service interruptions, national rail operator SNCF said. A TGV train crashed into trees lying on the tracks between Paris and Dijon. There were no injuries, but this incident has led to 80,000 passengers being affected by delays and cancellations. Last week, arson attacks on the French high-speed network severely disrupted rail traffic shortly before the start of the Olympic Games. It is no...
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An arson attack caused damaged to the train line between Hamburg and Bremen but no one was injured, German police said on Monday. Early in the morning, unknown perpetrators deliberately set fire to a cable shaft on the railway embankment near Bremen's Bürgerpark using an incendiary agent, police said. Germany's state security agency is investigating whether the crime was politically motivated. Initially, no high-speed trains between the western state of North Rhine Westphalia and Hamburg were able to travel via Bremen Central Station. Later, long-distance trains travelling to North Rhine Westp...
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Fencer Matyas Szabo cannot understand the complaints from other German Olympians about poor food and transport difficulties at the Paris Games. "We don't normally have a cook or a shuttle service for the fencers. For me, these are luxury problems," the 32-year-old told reporters. "I really can't complain." On Saturday, the German hockey team slammed the quality and quantity of the food in the Olympic Village canteen. "The food is a disaster, to say the least," player Christopher Rühr told dpa. Table tennis ace Dimitrij Ovtcharov meanwhile has criticized the time-consuming journey to competitio...
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Transport difficulties at the Olympic swimming venue in Paris have been widely criticized on the first day of competition. "The transport has not been as it should be the last few days. It's all a bit chaotic," German 100 metres butterfly world champion Angelina Köhler told reporters on Saturday having also had issues during training. She said some swimmers had to sit on the floor of buses. "That's why it's sometimes a bit difficult. But everyone has that problem. So we'll see how things go from here," Köhler added. According to a report in the Korea Times, swimmers from South Korea have even ...
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Germany's Cabinet has decided to tighten the country's Aviation Security Act in order to prevent radical climate activists and others from carrying out dangerous actions at airports. "Anyone who trespasses on airport premises, glues themselves to taxiways and thus massively obstructs air traffic is not just risking their own life," Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said on Wednesday. Such incidents are also dangerous for many bystanders. Transport Minister Volker Wissing said that he hoped "this tightening of the law will deter activists and that there will be no disruptions during the current pe...
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The German government plans to prevent radical climate activists and other protestors from carrying out dangerous actions at German airports by tightening Germany's Aviation Security Act. According to government sources, a draft bill from Interior Minister Nancy Faeser will be discussed by the Cabinet on Wednesday. The core of the planned reform, which will still have to be agreed by the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament, is the creation of a new regulation that makes "intentional, unauthorized intrusion" onto the tarmac and runways a punishable offence if it impairs the safety of...
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