It took years for Tenzing Norgay to secure his place in history as the man who, alongside New Zealander Edmund Hillary, first reached the summit of Mount Everest. And it has taken far longer for the story of his feat to be memorialized in film.”I don’t know why it took so long to tell this […]
Read MoreGerman voters go to the polls Sunday in two state elections where far-right and far-left gains could send new shock waves to Berlin and rock the government of embattled Chancellor Friedrich Merz. Merz, 70, has scheduled a crisis meeting of his centre-right CDU party leadership to discuss first results as they come in from the […]
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The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Houthis said Saturday that the Iran-backed group fired a ballistic missile at Riyadh at dawn, after a fire broke out near the Saudi capital’s international airport. Firefighters extinguished a blaze on a fuel tank with the logo of Saudi oil giant Aramco at a fuel depot near Riyadh’s King Khalid […]
Read MoreDie Wirtschaftsweise Veronika Grimm hat die Entscheidung der Bundesregierung für einen neuen Tankrabatt scharf kritisiert. Es sei “zynisch”, auf Kosten der jungen Generation das Fahren von Autos mit Verbrennungsmotor zu subventionieren, sagte die Ökonomin dem “Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger” (Sonntagsausgabe). Durch opportunistische Politik werde versucht, die Wähler nicht zu verprellen, “aber am Ende führt es nur dazu, dass […]
Read MoreChanting protesters greeted concertgoers Saturday in Philadelphia ahead of pop superstar Ed Sheeran’s first show since his tour plunged into turmoil ignited by his opening act’s pro-Palestinian comments. Rapper Macklemore was booted from Sheeran’s US Loop Tour on Monday after the owners of stadiums hosting upcoming shows objected to his shouting “Free Palestine” onstage in […]
Read MoreDenmark on Saturday hailed a “binding” deal announced by US President Donald Trump to give Washington “permanent control” over Greenland’s security and bar Russian and Chinese bases from the Arctic territory. Since returning to the White House in January 2025, Trump has repeatedly insisted that the United States needed to control Greenland for strategic reasons, […]
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Einen Tag nach einem von US-Präsident Donald Trump Hausverbot hat das Weiße Haus Ernst gemacht und Journalisten des Nachrichtensenders CNN und zweier weiterer Medien den Zutritt verwehrt. Mitarbeiterinnen von CNN, des Senders MS NOW und des Nachrichtenportals Politico wurden am Samstag an den Zugängen zum Weißen Haus abgewiesen, ihre Zutrittsausweise wurden ihnen abgenommen. Der Verband […]
Read MoreTwo Germans were arrested Saturday after they stuck two paintings on a wall of the hall that hosts the Mona Lisa in Paris’s Louvre museum, police sources said. The two men used sticky tape to stick the two paintings — measuring 30 by 40 cm — in the hall where visitors flock to see Leonardo […]
Read MoreFrance’s debt mountain is growing and will this year be at its highest level since 1978 because of a soaring deficit, the country’s finance ministry said Saturday. A ministry source told reporters the public debt would reach 119.3 percent of GDP in 2026 and 121.7 percent in 2027 — more than double the 60-percent-of-GDP reference […]
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