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Who is Iran’s new President-elect Ebrahim Raisi?
Ebrahim Raisi won the election by such a clear margin that a second round of voting won’t be necessary — and yet, his victory was tainted by historically low voter turnout. Many observers have said Friday’s election was tailor-made for the archconservative judiciary chief: the most promising opponents were prevented from running against him, and competitors with similar views withdrew…
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Euro 2020: Havertz, Gosen and own goals help Germany past holders Portugal
Second half goals from Kai Havertz and Robin Gosens added to two Portuguese own goals to carry Germany to a first win of Euro 2020. Cristiano Ronaldo put Joachim Löw’s team behind, but the 2016 winners were second best. SOURCE: DW News
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In Lebanon, one crisis follows the next
Many classrooms in Lebanon remain closed these days, and it has nothing to do with the coronavirus. “It is becoming more difficult for us as teachers to commute to our workplace because of the lack of gasoline,” says Taghreed Taki, who teaches at a public school in Rashaya, two hours from the capital Beirut. “If you want to get gas…
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Euro 2020: Proposal to illuminate Munich arena in LGBT colors for visit of Hungary
After the Hungarian parliament passed new anti-LGBT legislation this week, Munich councilors have put forward a motion to light up the city’s football arena in rainbow colors for Germany’s match against Hungary. SOURCE: DW News
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Juneteenth: An important holiday, that changes little
The US has made June 19, or Juneteenth, a public holiday. This second independence day, as it were, commemorates the liberation of enslaved Afro-Americans. It dates back to June 19, 1865, when Union Major General Gordon Granger proclaimed the abolition of slavery in Galveston, Texas. It brought to an end the second genocide on US soil — after the forced…
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Euro 2020: Portugal vs. Germany – buildup
After defeat to France in their opening game, life doesn’t get any easier for Germany as they prepare to face reigning European champions Portugal. Leon Goretzka could return to face Cristiano Ronaldo and co. SOURCE: DW News
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India: COVID vaccine disparity makes inoculation a challenge
As India emerges from a devastating second wave of the coronavirus, experts have warned that the country’s slow vaccination drive and the easing of restrictions could soon lead to a third wave. The vaccination campaign, which began in January this year, aimed to inoculate 300 million of India’s 1.4 billion people by August. But by May, India had only fully…
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Why are sanctions against Belarus not more effective?
Dictators like to win elections. In the past 27 years, Alexander Lukashenko has stood for election six times, and each time he was victorious. Or supposedly victorious, that is, in what has been widely seen as rigged elections. Sanctions against him have been in place for the majority of his rule, and stricter punitive measures are set to come into…
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Namibia’s Herero Chief Rukoro dies
Vekuii Reinhard Rukoro was born in Otjiwarongo, a farming town in central Namibia — then known as South West Africa — in 1954, a decade before the beginning of the armed struggle to rid Namibia of South Africa’s apartheid regime. He attended secondary school in Döbra, then a tiny settlement north of Windhoek before training to be a lawyer, first…
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Sierra Leone: Black Johnson Beach sold to China for industrial fishing harbor
Sierra Leone’s government cut a $55 million deal with China to finance the construction of a new harbor. The people living along the pristine beach fear losing their jobs and land. SOURCE: DW News
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Sierra Leone: Black Johnson Beach to become fishing harbor under China deal
Sierra Leone’s government cut a $55 million deal with China to finance the construction of a new harbor. The people living along the pristine beach fear losing their jobs and land. SOURCE: DW News
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How is Beijing reshaping Hong Kong through the national security law?
A day after 500 police officers raided its newsroom and arrested five executives, Hong Kong’s pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily printed 500,000 copies featuring the raid and the arrest on its front page. “We must press on,” read the headline, citing a passage from the paper’s CEO Cheung Kim-hung. On Friday, police formally charged Cheung and Editor-in-Chief Ryan Law with “collusion…
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Euro 2020 final: UEFA officials and VIPs may be exempted from quarantine rules
While fans likely won’t be able to watch their nation compete in the Euro 2020 final due to quarantine requirements, VIPs may be granted an exemption. The UK government is keen to ensure the final stays in London. SOURCE: DW News
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Good Morning Thailand | Situation in Hua Hin, bars petition for overturn of alcohol ban, Sandbox
Today we talk with Steve Johnston about the situation in Hua Hin, Thailand bars petitioning the government to overturn the alcohol ban, Thais unable to re-enter Thailand through the sandbox program and Indonesian workers infected with Covid.
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Euro 2020: De Bruyne and Lukaku magic elevates Belgium as Denmark honor Eriksen
Denmark produced a rousing performance five days after the collective trauma of Christian Eriksen’s on-field cardiac arrest. But inspired by Kevin de Bruyne and Romelu Lukaku, the Belgians came from behind to win. SOURCE: DW News
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A third wave of coronavirus infections hits Africa
German Development Minister Gerd Müller’s first stop on his weeklong tour of West Africa trip was Lome, the capital of the small country of Togo. As in all African countries, there is a shortage of vaccines and medical equipment. Müller came with a donation of 30 ventilators and more than 5,000 oximeters to help support the country’s efforts to combat…
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Afghanistan: District after district falls to the Taliban
The Taliban are intensifying attacks across Afghanistan to gain more territory ahead of NATO’s troop withdrawal in September. The militant group now controls vast swathes of land in the war-ravaged country. Heavy fighting in many Afghan districts in recent weeks has inflicted heavy losses on both the Taliban and Afghan forces. On Wednesday, more than 20 Afghan commandos were killed…
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Can South Korea’s archbishop help pave the way for a papal visit to North Korea?
The first Korean appointed to a senior position in the Holy See has wasted no time in announcing his plans to arrange a groundbreaking papal visit to North Korea. However, analysts and rights activists caution that there can be several hurdles associated with arranging such a visit. Pope Francis named Lazzaro You Heung-sik, the bishop of the South Korean city…
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Thailand News Today | Private vaccines, PM promises to re-open Thailand, Phuket Sandbox | June 17
Advertisements for Covid-19 vaccines by private hospitals are set to be tightly regulated to prevent exaggeration or any statements that may mislead the public, students in the Isaan province of Surin decided to go to school old style, Mortar shells and rocket-propelled grenades from Myanmar have landed in Thai border towns in the Tak and Mae Hong Son provinces and…
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Ghana is running out of time to reverse desertification
Ghana is one of the tropical countries that has suffered the most from deforestation in recent years. The area covered by forests has shrunk five times in 100 years. While the government promises measures, young people are seeking collective action to reverse desertification. SOURCE: DW News
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Euro 2020: German fans reconnect despite France loss
Germany may have lost their opening game at Euro 2020. But for those able to watch the game on the big public screen this was less about a lost game of football and more about a long absent social connection. SOURCE: DW News
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Euro 2020: Germany and Hummels caught in the eye of Pogba’s French storm
An own goal from returning defender Mats Hummels was enough to condemn Germany to defeat in their Group F opener against world champions France. With European champions Portugal up next, another early exit looms. SOURCE: DW News
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Afghanistan: Polio vaccinators killed in ‘coordinated attack’
The Taliban have denied attacking five health workers who were gunned down at three separate locations on Tuesday. Four other workers were also wounded, with two of them in critical condition. But police spokesman Farid Khan said the Taliban were ‘’targeting health workers to deprive people of polio vaccines.” The attack has now halted the inoculation drive in the city…
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Euro 2020: France vs. Germany — live
Save the best till last, they say. And that certainly applies to Group F as Germany finally get their Euro 2020 campaign underway against world champions France. Team news: recalled Mats Hummels and Thomas Müller start. SOURCE: DW News
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What can India gain from its ‘engagement’ with the Taliban?
Reports published in Indian media last week suggest that New Delhi is willing to start a dialogue with factions of the Afghan Taliban. The outreach is reported to be led by security officials and is limited to the Taliban factions that are considered “nationalist” and not under the influence of Pakistan or Iran. The reported move comes months after the…
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Burkina Faso: ‘Terror is a big part of the economy’
Burkina Faso recently lived through one of the bloodiest terrorist attacks in its history. On the first weekend of June, armed men attacked the village of Solhan in Yagha province in the north of the Sahel state, set houses on fire and killed at least 138 people. President Roch Marc Christian Kabore described the arrack as “barbaric.” Violence and insecurity…
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Japan’s enduring love affair with Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee
Every morning, as Kazunori Kamiyoshiwara starts his working day in the bustling Chuo district of Tokyo with a mug of coffee, it reminds him of the spectacular peaks of the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, where the haze creeps through the valleys and gives the region its name. It may be almost exactly 12,900 kilometers (8,015 miles) from Tokyo to the…
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Euro 2020: Slovakia smother Robert Lewandowski to upset Poland
Underdogs Slovakia played to their defensive strengths to upset Poland in their Euro 2020 opener. The Poles couldn’t get superstar striker Robert Lewandowski into dangerous areas and the Bayern Munich man drew a blank. SOURCE: DW News
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Global Media Forum highlights innovations after COVID disruption
The COVID-19 pandemic is shaping the start of this year’s Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum (GMF), which opened on Monday with a hybrid launch event held partly on site at DW’s broadcasting center in Bonn, and partly online with guests appearing via video link. German Chancellor Angela Merkel began proceedings by addressing participants in the two-day event, which included delegates…
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Myanmar: Time running out for NGOs to avoid humanitarian catastrophe
Myanmar has been in a downward spiral since the military overthrew the country’s democratically elected government in a coup on February 1. The economy has been battered and millions of people are falling into poverty. In Myanmar’s ethnic minority states, conflict between the military, known as the Tatmadaw, and armed rebel groups is quickly creating a refugee crisis. In Myanmar’s…
