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Killing of two Ukrainian soldiers in Germany may be political, prosecutors say
Flowers and candles are placed at the scene, as residents mourn the death of two Ukrainian soldiers in the small southern town of Murnau, Germany, April 29, 2024. The two soldiers were on rehabilitation in Germany and allegedly stabbed on Saturday, April 27, 2024 by a Russian in front of a shopping centre, according to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. The suspect was arrested by German police shortly after the stabbing. REUTERS/Christine Uyanik/File Photo
world
Russian court rejects appeal by detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom at the First Appeals Court of General Jurisdiction in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. A court will considers an appeal against the arrest of WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich who was detained on espionage charges in Yekaterinburg last year. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
world
EU parliament staffer arrested in Germany for allegedly spying for China
FILE - A country's flag flies in front of the embassy of China in Berlin, Germany, Monday, April 22, 2024. A man who works for a German lawmaker in the European Parliament was arrested on suspicion of spying for China, German prosecutors said Tuesday, April 23. (Hannes P. Albert/dpa via AP, File)
world
Three Germans arrested on suspicion of spying for China
The town sign of Bad Homburg in the Taunus, Germany, Monday April 22, 2024. Three people suspected of spying for China and facilitating the transfer of information on technology with potential military uses were arrested in Germany on Monday. The homes and offices of the suspects, who were arrested in Duesseldorf and in Bad Homburg, near Frankfurt, were searched. (Boris Roessler/dpa via AP)
world
Germany arrests two men for allegedly spying for Russia, plotting sabotage to undermine Ukraine aid
Police say there is no threat to the public after two people were found dead inside a home west of Toronto early Wednesday.
world
Middle East, Ukraine wars cast shadow over G7 foreign ministers meeting
Italian Foreign Affairs Minister Antonio Tajani waits for ministers before the G7 foreign affairs ministers meeting at the Certosa di San Giacomo on the small island of Capri on April 17, 2024. (Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP) (Photo by TIZIANA FABI/AFP via Getty Images)
basketball
Canada beats Italy 72-60 to earn Paralympic men’s wheelchair basketball berth
Canada team player Patrick Anderson (C-2) controls the ball between US team players Ian Lynch (L) and Steve Serio during their IWBF Men's American Cup of Wheelchair Basketball final on August 30, 2017, in Cali, Colombia. The United States team won the tournament, Canada team was second and Argentina team was third. / AFP PHOTO / LUIS ROBAYO (Photo credit should read LUIS ROBAYO/AFP via Getty Images)
energy and resources
BP’s EV charging arm cuts jobs, reduces global ambitions
FILE PHOTO: A BP Pulse electric vehicle charging point is seen in London, Britain, July 16, 2021. Picture taken July 16, 2021. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls/File Photo
hockey
Canada and U.S. win semifinals to set up 22nd gold-medal showdown at women’s hockey championships
United States forward Kendall Coyne Schofield (26) is tripped by Finland defensewoman Siiri Yrjola (5) during the second period in the semifinals at the IIHF women's world hockey championships in Utica, N.Y., Saturday, April 13, 2024. Yrjola was called for holding on the play. (AP Photo/Adrian Kraus)
world
Russian opposition politician Navalny wrote memoir before death, says widow
FILE PHOTO: People lay flowers at the grave of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny following his funeral at the Borisovskoye cemetery in Moscow, Russia, March 1, 2024. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo
world
Germany rejects allegations that it’s facilitating acts of genocide in Gaza at UN court
Germany's Director General of Legal Affairs Tania von Uslar-Gleichen (C) speaks to the press after the first hearing of the ICJ in a case filed by Nicaragua against Germany demanding judges impose emergency measures to stop Berlin providing Israel with weapons and other assistance, in the Hague on April 8, 2024. Germany faces charges from Nicaragua at the top UN court on April 8, 2024, that it is "facilitating the commission of genocide" against Palestinians with its military and political support for Israel. Nicaragua has hauled Germany before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), demanding judges impose emergency measures to stop Berlin providing Israel with weapons and other assistance. (Photo by Robin van Lonkhuijsen / ANP / AFP) / Netherlands OUT (Photo by ROBIN VAN LONKHUIJSEN/ANP/AFP via Getty Images)
european business
German employers, union agree in principle to end airport security strikes
The empty take off hall is seen during an all-day strike of security staff demanding an increase in wages called by German union Verdi at Konrad Adenauer Airport in Cologne, Germany, March 14, 2024. REUTERS/Jana Rodenbusch/File Photo
world
World court hears case accusing Germany of facilitating Israel’s Gaza war
A person demonstrates in support of Palestinians, as Nicaragua is set to ask the International Court of Justice to order Berlin to halt military arms exports to Israel and reverse its decision to stop funding U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, outside the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands, April 8, 2024. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw
energy and resources
German coalition agrees on financing details of hydrogen network
FILE PHOTO: German Economy and Climate Minister Robert Habeck points at a map showing Germany's hydrogen network during a press conference in Berlin, Germany, November 14, 2023. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch/File Photo
sports
Canada thumps Japan 9-3 in six ends at world men’s curling championship
Canada's Brad Gushue releases the rock during a match against Sweden at the men's curling world championship at the IWC Arena in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Thursday, April 4, 2024. (Ennio Leanza/Keystone via AP)
international business
EV sales in India expected to rise 66% this year after nearly doubling in 2023, report says
FILE PHOTO: An electric vehicle (EV) is driven on the road near India Gate in New Delhi, India, August 28, 2023. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis/File Photo
world
Russian-Canadian Pussy Riot activist sentenced to eight years for Ukraine ‘war fakes’ by Moscow court
FILE - In this Thursday, June 25, 2020 file photo, Pyotr Verzilov, prominent member of the protest group Pussy Riot waits for his court hearing in a court in Moscow, Russia. In 2018, the founder of the protest group Pussy Riot, fell severely ill and also was flown to Berlin, where doctors said poisoning was "highly plausible." He eventually recovered. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File)
sports
Brad Gushue loses to Italy’s Retornaz at world men’s curling championship
Canada's skip Brad Gushue delivers a stone against the Czech Republic at the men's Curling World Championships in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Saturday, March 30, 2024. (Michael Buholzer/Keystone via AP)
world
Kremlin dismisses report Russia behind ‘Havana Syndrome’
Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to Georgy Filimonov, the acting Governor of Vologda Oblast during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, April 1, 2024. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
world
Bulgarian cruise ship crashes into wall on Danube in Austria, injuring 11
An aerial photo shows a Bulgarian cruise ship in the lock area after it crashed into a concrete wall in the night of March 29, 2024, in Aschach an der Donau, upper Austria. 17 of the about 160 passengers were injured and eleven were taken to the hospital. The ship was travelling from Bavaria towards Linz when it was apparently briefly unable to manoeuvre. (Photo by MARTIN SCHARINGER/TEAM FOTOKERSCHI / APA / AFP) / Austria OUT (Photo by MARTIN SCHARINGER/TEAM FOTOKERSCHI/APA/AFP via Getty Images)
soccer
Canadian U-20 women’s squad to face elite opposition in U.S. and Germany next month
Canadian forward Amanda Allen, as shown in this handout photo at Exploria Stadium, who plays professionally for the Orlando Pride of the National Women’s Soccer League, is among the 24 players called up by Canadian under-20 coach Cindy Tye for internationals against Germany and the U.S. on April 7 and 9, 2024, respectively. Exploria Stadium, the home of the Pride now known as Inter & Co Stadium. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Orlando Pride **MANDATORY CREDIT**
world
Elite Russian hackers targeting German politicians, Google warns
The flags of Russia, Germany, France and Turkey, fly over a conference centre where Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron and President Vladimir Putin were to have a summit on Syria, , in Istanbul, Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018. Turkey will press for a clear outline of steps toward a political resolution of the conflict in Syria during a summit gathering the leaders of Turkey, France, Germany and Russia, a top official said Friday. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
globe investor
The great central bank policy reversal kicks off
A view of the headquarters of the Swiss National Bank (SNB), before a press conference in Zurich, Switzerland, March 21, 2024.
international business
BioNTech shifts focus toward cancer drug development after earnings, revenue plunge
FILE PHOTO: The logo of BioNTech is pictured at Biontech's research laboratory for individualised vaccines against cancer in Mainz, Germany, July 27, 2023. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay/File Photo
canada
Morning Update: House passes motion after NDP removes call to recognize Palestine as a state
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh pays tribute to the late prime minister Brian Mulroney in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, March 18, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
energy and resources
Ottawa signs memorandum of understanding with Germany for Canadian hydrogen
Canada and Germany have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a trade program to sell hydrogen produced in Atlantic Canada. The agreement signed in Germany by federal Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, shown in this Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024 file photo, and German Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck is to secure early access to the German market for Canadian hydrogen producers. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
world
World cannot stand by as Palestinians risk starvation in Gaza, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attends a press statement with French President Emmanuel Macron and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, ahead of their trilateral meeting of the consultation forum 'Weimar Triangle', at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany March 15, 2024.
energy and resources
Nord Stream sues insurers in London over 2022 pipeline explosions
Gas leak from Nord Stream 2 pipeline as seen from an Danish F-16 interceptor jet over Bornholm island, Denmark, September 27, 2022. Danish Defence Command/Forsvaret Ritzau Scanpix/via REUTERS/File Photo
energy and resources
Germany launches bidding process for subsidies to support climate-friendly industrial production
Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection Robert Habeck talks about the first bidding process for climate protection contracts with a total volume of up to 4 billion euros, in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday March 12, 2024. Germany is the first EU member state to use this new instrument to decarbonize its industry. (Britta Pedersen/dpa via AP)
world
U.S. man sentenced to life in prison for murder, rape in attack on two American women in Germany
FILE - A view of the Pollat gorge with the Neuschwanstein castle, in background in Schwangau, Germany, June 16, 2023. An American man was convicted of murder and other charges on Monday March 11, 2024 for attacking two women from the U.S. near Neuschwanstein castle in southern Germany last summer and pushing them into a ravine, fatally injuring one of them. He was sentenced to life in prison. (Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/dpa via AP, File)
european business
Tesla says German plant power outage to continue until end of next week
Members of the media stand outside the building of Tesla's production plant in Gruenheide outside Berlin, Germany, March 5, 2024, after the site lost power following a suspected arson attack on a nearby pylon. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner
world
Germany accuses Russia of ‘information war’ after military recording
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius arrives to give a statement at the Defence Ministry in Berlin on March 3, 2024 following leaks of secret Ukraine war talks. A spokeswoman for the German defence ministry on March 2, 2024 confirmed that a secret air force conversation had been tapped after an apparent recording of German army talks on Ukraine was leaked on social media. (Photo by Tobias SCHWARZ / AFP) (Photo by TOBIAS SCHWARZ/AFP via Getty Images)
tennis
Canada’s Fernandez retires due to injury during first-round match at San Diego Open
Leylah Fernandez of Canada plays a backhand return to Alycia Parks of the U.S. during their second round match at the Australian Open tennis championships at Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
world
Navalny aides say the Russian opposition leader was close to being freed before his death
A person gestures in front of portraits of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny as people attend a protest and vigil held in front of the Russian embassy following the death of Navalny, in Kappara, Malta, February 19, 2024. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi/File Photo
report on business
Germany decriminalizes recreational cannabis, but falls short of initial plans to open market quickly
A display explaining the medical uses of cannabis features a container inscribed with the word "Hashish" in Berlin's Hemp Museum as the Bundestag (German lower house of parliament) is scheduled to vote on the decriminalisation of cannabis, on February 23, 2024. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP) (Photo by JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images)
opinion
Is Germany falling apart?
Frank Trentmann