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Tourists injured in Venice cruise ship crash An amateur video posted on Twitter showed tourists running away and some falling into the water as the 65,591-ton MSC Opera cruise ship rammed into a parked tourist boat on the Giudecca canal in Venice on Sunday. The 274-meter (899foot) cruise ship crashed into the smaller Michelangelo tourist boat as it lost control before docking in San Basilio-Zattere terminal in the ancient lagoon city in Italy. Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro confirmed on Twitter that a ship had rammed into the wharf. Local media reported that at least four of the smaller boatʼs passengers sustained minor injuries. The female tourists, aged between 67 and 72, were from Australia, New Zealand and the United States.

UK intercepts 74 migrants crossing English Channel British authorities intercepted eight vessels carrying some 74 migrants, including minors, across the English Channel on Saturday. French authorities reportedly caught two additional boats. Coastguard officials said the boats were found along Britainʼs southeast coast, stretching from the port of Dover to Winchelsea Beach near Hastings, some 50 miles (80 kilometers) away. Home Secretary Sajid Javid said the situation was "alarming."

He added that he would work with French authorities to stop human trafficking across the channel. A criminal investigation is now underway. "Those who choose to make this dangerous journey across one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world are putting their lives in grave danger — and I will continue to do all I can to stop them," Javid said Saturday night.

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US President Donald Trump to visit Britain in stasis Trump will be met with wide-scale protests and a febrile political climate

In London, US President Donald Trump will be met with wide-scale protests and a febrile political climate. Outgoing Prime Minister Theresa May issued the invitation before her time in office was genuinely numbered.

Uber reports $1B loss as revenue rises Car-sharing giant Uber has met its first quarter forecast, with a loss of $1 billion but increasing revenue and users. The losses were the result of big spending in the lead-up to its IPO earlier in May. Ride-share company Uber on Thursday reported a $1 billion (€898 million) loss in the first quarter of this year, despite rising revenue and monthly users. In its first earnings report as a publicly traded company, Uber said revenue climbed 20% to $3.1 billion from the same quarter last

year, matching its forecast. The loss of $1.0 billion also fell within the companyʼs forecast range of $1.0 billion to $1.11 billion. "In the first quarter, engagement across our platform was higher than ever, with an average of 17 million trips per day and an annualized gross bookings run-rate of $59 billion," said Uber chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi.

Gross bookings, a measure of the total value of rides before driver costs and other expenses, rose 34% from a year ago to $14.6 billion.

Fighting the spread of illegal landfills in France as trash piles up in ʼsea of wasteʼ A strong wind ruffles Alban Bernardʼs short, gray hair as he strolls along what looks like an unspoiled path a couple of hundred meters from the town of Carrieres-sous-Poissy. But itʼs not quite as bucolic as it seems at first glance. He is, in fact, walking toward what he has dubbed "the sea of waste." Less than a kilometer away from this Parisian suburb, an estimated 36 tons oftrash have been dumped illegally. In some place, the heaps of sofas,

glass, shoes, trash bags and other debris in this otherwise empty field reach the height of two men. Bernard discovered the landfill site while walking his dog in January last year. A resident of Carrieres-sous-Poissy for the past 10 years, it was the first time heʼd noticed thewastehidden behind the foliage. "It was horrifying," he recalled. "I thought I would faint. There was an ocean of waste in front of me, stretching as far as the eye could see."

Trade war ʼhasnʼt made America great again,ʼ says China The Chinese government on Sunday issued a white paper claiming the trade dispute between Washington and Beijing was hurting the US economy. "The [US] tariff measures have not boosted American economic growth. Instead, they have done serious harm to the US economy," the Chinese report said, pointing to what it described as a rise in production costs and consumer prices in the US. "The trade war has not ʼmade America great again,ʼ" it said, referring to US President Donald Trumpʼs 2016 election slogan.

The Chinese white paper came just daysafter Beijing imposed retaliatory tariffs on US goods. Beijing on Friday said it would create a blacklist of "unreliable" foreign firms and individuals, marking a new escalation in the increasingly acrimonious trade dispute between the US and China.

China says Tiananmen crackdown was ʼcorrectʼ Chinese Defense Minister General Wei Fenghe on Sunday defended the bloodycrackdown on protesters Tiananmen Squarealmost three decades after it took place. The response was a rare acknowledgment of the killings, which had followed seven weeks of protests in 1989 by students and workers calling for democracy and an end to corruption.

Hundreds, possibly more than 1,000 people were killed when soldiers and tanks chased protesters and onlookers in the streets around the square.

One secret British diplomatic cable put the possible number of dead at up to 10,000.

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Muslim fashion for women exhibition stirs controversy in Germany Muslim head coverings have always been a controversial topic, as they embody so many issues, whether womenʼs rights worldwide or Western prejudice and discrimination against Muslims. Now that the first exhibition dedicated to fashion consciousness of women in Islam is opening at Frankfurtʼs Museum Angwandte Kunst, the debate surrounding headscarves has been rekindled in Germany. Titled "Contemporary Muslim Fashions" and first shown at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco, the exhibition, however, does not aim to answer the numerous political and social questions related to hijabs or burkinis. "The focus of the exhibition is really fashionable modest dress and what weʼre trying to show in the exhibition is that there is a lot of choice for the mass of Muslim women," said Jill DʼAlessandro, curator of the "Contemporary Muslim Fashions" exhibition in San Francisco.

Brazilʼs Neymar accused of rape in Paris An unidentified woman has accused Brazilian soccer star Neymar of raping her in Paris last month, according to a Brazilian police report seen by Reuters and The Associated Press. In a complaint filed with police in the Brazilian city of Sau Paulo on Friday, the woman reportedly said the incident took place in a hotel room on May 15 at 8:20 p.m. some twenty minutes after Neymar had arrived in an "apparently drunk" state.

The woman told police that they "touched each other, but in a given moment Neymar became aggressive and, with violence, had sexual intercourse against the victimʼs will," according to The Associated Press.

US vows tariffs on Mexico until it stops border crossings

E-scooters can hit German streets

Donald Trumpʼs new trade deal with Mexico and Canada awaits ratification and yet he has scheduled fresh tariffs on Mexican goods.

He warned he would steadily jack up tariffs unless Mexico stops border crossings.

The German Bundesrat has voted to allow electric scooters on the countryʼs roads and bike paths. The UK is now the only major European country yet to approve their use. Germanyʼs upper house of Parliament, the Bundesrat, on Friday voted to allow the use of electric scooterswith a top speed of 20 kilometers (12 miles) per hour on roads and bike paths. The approval by the chamber enables e-scooter sharing firms to offer the vehicles for rent on city streets. Critics fear that this could lead to anoverburdening of cycle lanes and roadsand a high risk of injury both to riders and pedestrians. What was decided E-scooters may use cycle paths, but not sidewalks;The minimum age for using e-scooters is 14;The wearing of helmets is not obligatory;Users will not require a driving license;Scooters will be restricted to a maximum speed of 20 km/h (12 mph)

The US on Thursday vowed to impose a 5% tariff on all goods coming in from Mexico in retaliation foruncontrolled migration over their shared border. US President Donald Trump said he would increase the tariff until Mexico was able to stop people illegally crossing into the US via the countriesʼ shared border. Border control was one of Trumpʼs key election promises, and centers on constructing a physical barrier. Trump announced the policy in typical fashion, with a post on a Twitter. He later said in a statement: "If the illegal migration

crisis is alleviated through effective actions taken by Mexico, to be determined in our sole discretion and judgment, the tariffs will be removed."

"Mexicoʼs passive cooperation in allowing this mass incursion constitutes an emergency and extraordinary threat to the national security and economy of the United States." Officials said the tariffs would apply to all goods. The announcement came after he shared surveillance footage purporting to show a large group of illegal migrants crossing a border fence into El Paso.

The curious early history of apples As mundane as the apple may seem, its history involves enormous animals, the Ice Age, the Silk Road and a huge role in the stories we tell.

Within the first few days of Economics 101, one can expect to learn about the global supply chain. This is the first time many begin to understand that, for example, the apples in their fruit bowl didnʼt magically materialize on the shelves of their local grocery store

but rather through a complex system of coordination. The apples in your grandmotherʼs pie could have been harvested on a Chinese farm, for example. But what about the trees on that Chinese farm? They didnʼt magically materialize either. While most can grasp the supply chain nature of our produce, few understand its evolutionary nature Researcher Robert Spengler has spent a decade and a half searching for apple seeds in an attempt to answer this question.

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 Aussiecreated 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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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 antisettlement 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." "Our ministry has started to prepare immediate measures to limit Airbnbʼs activities" in Israel, he said, adding that the government was prepared to back lawsuits launched by affected property owners against Airbnb in US courts.