Basketball World Cup winner Dennis Schröder has said it would be a big statement for diversity if he was chosen as German flag bearer for next week's opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. Schröder captained Germany to a first-ever world title last year but also cited his African roots. "It would mean everything to me. To be able to represent Germany in that way with my background, my mum from Gambia, would be huge. It would be a statement to carry the flag as a dark-skinned person," Schröder said. "Of course I know where I come from and where my mum comes from. I think that would definitely ...
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Bundesliga runners-up VfB Stuttgart have signed forward Ermedin Demirovic from Augsburg for a reported club record fee. Stuttgart said on Tuesday that the 26-year-old Bosnia and Herzegovina international has signed a four-year contract until 2028. According to news reports, Stuttgart have to pay €21 million ($22.9 million), plus add-ons, for Demirovic, who scored 15 goals and had 10 assists for Augsburg last season. "Ermedin Demirovic has proven his special quality over several years. He is one of the top strikers in the Bundesliga," Stuttgart sporting director Fabian Wohlgemuth said. "Ermedin...
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South Africa markets itself as the "most beautiful end of the world." In any case, the country is one of huge variety that goes beyond the world-famous Kruger National Park or the Garden Route, the panoramic stretch along the southern tip of the African continent. Here are four stops for an unforgettable journey. 1. Cape Town: The colourful sides of the city on Table Mountain It is as if painters applied a thick coat of paint and emptied entire boxes of watercolours: Bo-Kaap, Cape Town's historic Cape Malay neighbourhood, looks like a large painting. The residents' ancestors were brought into ...
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A majority of Germans believe that conditions in their country have worsened since former conservative chancellor Angela Merkel's tenure ended, according to a new survey by the opinion research institute YouGov. According to the survey, 61% believe that conditions in Germany have worsened since Merkel's departure from politics in December 2021, while 25% believe that they have remained about the same. A total of 2,030 people were surveyed online between June 28 and July 3, according to YouGov. The sample was chosen to reflect population parameters such as age, gender, religion, voting behaviou...
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Nordex said on Tuesday it had installed the world's first N175/6.X wind turbine at the Burgerwindpark Janneby wind park in Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. With a rotor swept area of 24,053 square metres and a nominal capacity of up to 6.8 MW, Nordex said the N175/6.X is its most powerful turbine for medium and light wind sites. "The installation of the first N175/6.X is an important milestone for Nordex. The N175/6.X is another variant of our globally proven Delta4000 platform, using validated components," said Jose Luis Blanco, CEO of the German wind turbine maker. Nordex said the turbi...
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German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has banned the magazine Compact, considered "a mouthpiece of the far-right extremist scene," her ministry said on Tuesday. Affiliated production company Conspect Film GmbH has also been banned, according to a statement. Police have raided the outlet's premises in Falkensee, just outside Berlin, as well as the homes of leading managers and shareholders in the states of Brandenburg, Hesse, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt to confiscate assets and evidence, it said. Faeser justified the ban by saying that Compact is a "central mouthpiece of the far-right extremist sc...
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The European Parliament holds the first session of its new term in Strasbourg on Tuesday, with lawmakers expected to re-elect Malta's Roberta Metsola as president. Metsola from the centre-right European People's Party (EPP) is set to receive backing for another two-and-a-half-year term after her group won 188 seats in the European elections in June. The centre-left Socialists and Democrats (S&D) came a distant second with 136 seats while the environmentalist Greens and liberal Renew Europe groups both lost support and seats. The election result was characterized by a shift to the right in the ...
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Former US president Donald Trump has made his first public appearance since an assassination attempt, appearing at the Republican National Convention with a bandage over his right ear. Trump, who was confirmed as the Republican presidential candidate earlier on Monday, entered the convention to a standing ovation. He then posed on stage with his vice presidential running-mate JD Vance. It was Trump's first public appearance since a campaign event in Pennsylvania on Saturday, where a shooter was able to climb to an elevated position with an assault rifle and fire a number of shots at Trump, cau...
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Despite his recent appeals for unity and restraint following the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, US President Joe Biden didn't hold back in an interview on Monday and went back to accusing his Republican rival of inflammatory rhetoric. Trump "talks about there'd be a bloodbath if he loses," Biden told NBC News anchor Lester Holt, two days after Trump was injured by a shooter at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. Biden, who in the wake of the attack stressed the need "to lower the temperature in our politics," said it was Trump's own rhetoric, not his, that had heated up the campaign ahea...
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German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has banned the magazine Compact which has been classified by intelligence services as far-right extremist. Production company Conspect Film GmbH has also been banned, the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday morning. According to a ministry statement, police have been raiding the outlet's premises and the homes of leading actors, management and shareholders in the states of Brandenburg, Hesse, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt since the early hours of this morning to confiscate assets and evidence. Faeser justified the ban by saying that Compact is a "central mouthpie...
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