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Istanbul mayoral vote to be held again, election officials rule Turkeyʼs electoral authority has ordered that the vote for mayor of Istanbul be re-run, state media reported on Monday, after the March 31 vote was narrowly won by the opposition CHP party. President Recep Tayyip Erdoganʼs AKP party had filed a motion with the Supreme Electoral Council (YSK) on April 16 to nullify the election, alleging "irregularities." The objection also claimed that a margin of only 15,000 votes in a city as large as Istanbul was too close to be fair. Turkish newspaper Haberturk said that the ground given for the new vote was that some ballot box workers were not official civil servants and that some results documents were unsigned. The YSK had previously confirmed CHP candidate Ekrem Imamoglu the winner of the mayoral race in Erdoganʼs hometown, as the AKP launched its "extraordinary objection" to the results.
China warns US after warships sail in disputed South China Sea China said on Monday that it has warned two US ships sailing near disputed islands in the South China Sea to leave the area. The move comes amid heightened tension between Beijing and Washington over trade tariffs, sanctions and Taiwan. Warships in the South China Sea US guided-missile destroyers Preble and Chung-Hoon traveled within 12 nautical miles of Gaven and Johnson Reefs.The reefs form part of the Spratly Islands, a region of the South China Sea over which China claims sovereignty. The Foreign Ministry said the US vessels entered the waters without Chinese permission.
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Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex has a baby boy The baby boy will be seventh in line to the British throne
Prince Harryʼs press office said Meghan, Duchess of Sussex went into labor early Monday.
The endless talk about a shortage of skilled workers in Germany How big is the shortage of qualified workers in Germany really? In some industries, the line of job seekers is running low. In many others, the problems are not as they seem and are often homemade. Recently, Steffen Kampeter, the head of the powerful Confederation of German Employersʼ Associations (BDA), had something to say: Letting employees retire without any deductions at age 63 after working 45 years was "a heavy mortgage not only for our pension fund, but also for our labor market," adding that the shortage of skilled workers in Germanywas "fueled by a
misguided pension policy." The response from trade unions followed promptly. Verdi boss Frank Bsirske rejected the criticism, saying "I think the decision to allow retirement at 63 is right." The alternative would be to send even more people home with reduced pensions who have worked hard. "That would be unfair," he added. A gift for skilled workers This early retirement possibility is a fairly new regulation that came into force in 2014 as part of a broader pension reform plan. It is also something that almost exclusively affects skilled workers in jobs that are based on vocational training.
Where persecuted writers find refuge Rabab Haidar is one of the countless people looking for a secure life in Germany. A writer, translator and journalist, she fled Damascus in October 2018. The Syrian civil war, which has been going on for eight years, expelled her from her homeland. Haidar found refuge in Langenbroich in the region of North Rhine-Westphalia. For the past three decades, authors who can not freely write in their homelands have been
given the opportunity to stay in the former home of German writer Heinrich Böll. As one of these authors, Haidar received a one-year scholarship that has allowed her to live in peace and work on her second novel. Her first novel Land of the Pomegranate was published in 2012 and she also translated a volume of poetry by the Bahraini poet Iman Aseeri, The Book of the Female, into English.
Turkey defiant in face of criticism over gas drilling off Cyprus Turkey brushed off criticism from the European Union and the United States on Monday, defending its plans to drill fornatural gas and oil off Cyprus. "The legitimate rights of Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus over the energy resources of the Eastern Mediterranean are not debatable," Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in Ankara. He was speaking alongside NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at a North Atlantic Council Mediterranean Dialogue meeting. He urged the alliance to back Turkeyʼs claim to rights in the Mediterranean. "We expect NATO to respect Turkeyʼs rights in this process and support us in preventing tensions," Erdogan added. The issue has reignited old tensions in the eastern Mediterranean. Turkey and EU member-state Cyprus have competing claims of jurisdiction for offshore oil and gas.
Berlinʼs ʼMohammedʼ babyname trend distorted by farright and media On Thursday, the Society for the German Language (GfdS), a politically independent organization dedicated to cultivating and studying the German language, released its annual study of Germanyʼs most popular baby names. Harnessing data from over 700 civil registries across Germany, the report determined that the most popular names in Germany in 2018 overall were "Marie/Mari" for girls and "Paul" for boys. The ranking takes into account all given names.
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Auschwitz Museum asks visitors not to balance on train tracks The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museumimplored visitors to respect the memories of the 1.1 million people who were killed at the concentration camp — and not to balance on the train tracks that brought Holocaust victims to the site. "There are better places to learn how to walk on a balance beam than the site which symbolizes deportation of hundreds of thousands to their deaths," the museum wrote on Twitter. They also posted several pictures visitors had taken of themselves walking on the tracks. In recent years, numerous visitors to concentration camp museumsand other Holocaust memorialshave beencriticized for taking selfiesand other seemingly jovial pictures at the sites that remember the victims of Nazi genocide. Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest Nazi death camp, where 1.1 million victims, including some 1 million Jewish prisoners, were killed. Last year,the Auschwitz Museum saw a record number of visitors, with 2.1 million people coming to visit the site.
F1 2019 — the runners and riders Itʼs all change in the Formula 1 paddock ahead of the 2019 campaign. Three familiar teams are likely to fight it out at the front, but two of them have fresh faces behind the wheel. Mercedes seeking sixth season in charge Defending champions Mercedes are one of just two teams with an unchanged driver roster this season.
Sierenʼs China: Swine fever also has Europe over a pork barrel The current African swine fever crisis is an example of how dependent Germany is on China. If Chinese pig farmers cull their hogs the consequences are global, says DWʼs Frank Sieren. Thereʼs a German proverb that says here in Europe, we couldnʼt care less if a sack of rice falls over in China. But it doesnʼt hold true any more. Events in China have more influence on daily life in Germany than some would like these days. The latest example is the outbreak of African swine fever in China. Since August 2018, over a million hogs have been culled and the number could well rise to 200 million. Thatʼs triple the entire porcine population in the US. The consequences are already having an impact on countries far from China. The price of pigs in Germany has in-
creased by a third since the beginning of the year. For pig slaughter companies with a license to export to China this will bring in some short-term profits at least but itʼs not a good situation for medium-sized meat processing companies, which will incur additional charges. And because China has to compensate for its pork shortages with chicken and beef, since it has no other choice, the price of all meat is likely to increase. China consumes more pork than any other country — some 55 million metric tons per year, around half the global total.
An immortal Hollywood legend: Audrey Hepburn During the 1950s and 60s, Audrey Hepburn was a screen goddess. She would have turned 90 on May 4. ʼThereʼs such a lot of world to see...ʼ Audrey Hepburn became an icon in 1961 as Holly Golightly in "Breakfast at Tiffanyʼs." Her little black dress became her trademark and has been copied all over the world. However, being an extravagant party girl isnʼt all itʼs cracked up to be. Holly searches for love in New Yorkʼs nightlife and sings about it in the song "Moon River." Breakthrough with ʼGigiʼ Born on May 4, 1929, Hepburn started her acting ca-
reer at the age of 20. She would have preferred dancing and singing to acting. But then she did get a chance to do just that — on Broadway. In 1952, she even received a prestigious theater award for starring in the musical of Coletteʼs "Gigi," which drew Hollywoodʼs attention as well. Princess of the silver screen Hollywood did not hesitate very long and quickly cast the 24-year-old actress as Princess Anne in "Roman Holiday" (1953), co-starring with superstar Gregory Peck who played a reporter. She gained world fame over night, and even received her first Oscar as best actress.
Budapest cafés welcome the reusable Aussie HuskeeCup Every year, we use several billion coffee cups to go – before they go to the bin. To help java lovers reduce their ecological footprint, many Budapest cafés have introduced Aussie-created HuskeeCups: reusable, sustainable and easy to clean. The HuskeeCup is made of coffee husk, an organic waste material that’s produced at the milling stage of coffee production. Turning the hundreds of tons of discarded husks, usually dumped near factories and degrading the environment, into reusable coffee cups is a great way to keep Mother Nature just that little bit cleaner.
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Germanyʼs FlixBus in talks to buy intercity competitor Eurolines FlixBus, which offers low-cost intercity bus travel across Europe, is negotiating to buy its smaller competitor Eurolines. French transport group Transdev, which owns Eurolines, and the Munich-based Flixbus confirmed on Monday that exclusive talks were underway, without disclosing the financial details. Eurolines, whose network spans 25 countries, operates French domestic routes under the Isilines brand, which would be part of the possible deal. "With this merger, FlixBus would have an even more comprehensive and more diverse offer to attract even more passengers. We want to be the first choice for travelers across Europe," Flixbus managing director Jochen Engert said.
Airbnb cuts listings in Israeli West Bank settlements Home-rental platform Airbnb announced Monday it would no longer offer its service in Israeli settlements in the West Bank, drawing an angry response from Israel. Israel seized the West Bank in the 1967 Six-Day War, but most countries consider the Jewish settlements there to be illegal. The company said in a statement the decision would affect about 200 properties "in the occupied West Bank that are at the core of the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians." "Our hope is that someday sooner rather than later, a framework is put in place where the entire global community is aligned so there will be a resolution to this historic conflict and a clear path forward for everybody to follow," it added. Palestinian and human rights groups had long called on Airbnb to remove the settlement listings from its site. Waleed Assraf, head of a Palestinian anti-settlement group welcomed the development, saying if more companies followed it would "contribute to achieving peace." Israeli Tourism Minister Yariv Levin condemned the move as "the most wretched of wretched capitulations to the boycott efforts."