sentence: "the relevant correspondence was received by the district of Viersen in the last week," declared a spokesperson.

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sentence: the district is taking it as a reason to investigate the matter afresh.

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however, it is not expected to lead to a stop in proceedings.


sentence: with a view to the proceedings underway at the administrative court, the district did not want to comment on Thursday on the content of the arguments put forward by the association "Boisheim wehrt sich."

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sentence: new Re, a subsidiary of NEW, is planning construction of four wind turbines, each 200 metres high, on a plot by Bosheimer Nette.

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sentence: the company, in which the city of Viersen holds indirect participating interests, had concluded lease agreements with the owner of the roughly 65-hectare site last year already.

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sentence: the construction of the four wind turbines should cover the energy requirements of around 11,400 households - that equates to around a fifth of the energy requirements of all Viersen households.

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new Re wants to invest around 20 million euros.


sentence: last summer, Viersen city council gave the green light for the purchase of three wind turbines in the Linnich wind park near Aachen, as well as a share in a wind energy plant in Übachpalenberg in the district of Heinsberg.

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sentence: car and tractor crash together: woman dies in terrible accident

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a terrible accident occurred on Friday morning at around 10am on the L 333 between Niederwallmenach and bogel (Rhein-Lahn district).


sentence: in it, a woman was fatally injured.


two other people were mildly injured.


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sentence: according to police information, a 17-year-old woman from Bornich, practising accompanied driving in her car with her 53-year old mother, the accompanying driver, was using the L 333 in the direction of bogel.

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sentence: town and dealers plan "hometown shopping" weekend

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sentence: bad Langensalzaer and people from the region are to newly discover the shopping opportunities in their town centre in September.

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sentence: the trade association and town authorities want to use the weekend of the 8th and 9th September to entice residents to a shopping spree in the town centre.


sentence: as chairman of the trade association Christian König announced, the "home-town shopping" weekend is meant to make customers aware of what offers their own town has available aside from the usual supermarket goods.

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sentence: a market with local suppliers is thus planned, similar to the weekly market.

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sentence: in addition, homegrown companies are to give showcases, with their apprenticeship places.

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sentence: furthermore, the businesses in the town centre are to invite people to come "midnight shopping."

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sentence: the campaign is not only for residents of the town and the nearby region.


sentence: adverts on the radio, an online video and printed bags that allude to the campaign weekend are in preparation, Christian König tells us.

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town authorities and the trade association are cooperating with the Chamber of Industry and Commerce.


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sentence: to this belong new offerings such as the first "active day" for the fountain festival along with Sunday trading, talks with all the traders and proprietors to induce people to actively participate.

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sentence: attractive offers on the Saturday and waiving of parking fees on this day are also part of the concept.

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in addition, new and existing customer bases can be developed.


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but many locals too had lost sight of the town centre for shopping.


sentence: ultimately, it all has to contribute to breathing life into the town centre - right up to landlords, businesses across the whole town and associations.

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sentence: we have to overcome the lethargy with a network that has partly built up, König had said in the spring.

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sentence: Brigit Streich, head of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce centre in Mühlhausen communicated that five Thüringen towns are taking part in the nation's third "hometown shopping" day.

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alongside Bad Lagensalza, these are Weimar, Sömmerda, Heiligenstadt and Bleicherode.


sentence: the day is intended to "promote appreciation for local trade and emphasise more strongly its importance for the common good of our towns," said Streich.

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sentence: the campaign, under the leadership of the Chamber for Industry and Commerce and with many partners, also brings home that all citizens can themselves influence their immediate environment with their shopping behaviour.

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sentence: two dead and several injured after explosion in US school

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sentence: during construction works, there was a huge gas explosion in the school building.

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another nine people were wounded.


sentence: at a gas explosion in the US city of Minneapolis, two people have died and nine others have been injured, some of which seriously.

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according to information from the fire department, one injured person was still in a critical condition on Wednesday (local time).


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someone initially classed as missing was later also recovered dead.


sentence: the dead were employees at the school.


sentence: authorities suspected works on a gas pipe to be the cause of the accident.

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sentence: being holiday time, only a few people were in the Minnehaha Academy building.

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sentence: Trump pressured Mexico on border wall payment according to leaked phone call transcripts

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sentence: transcripts of phone calls between US President Donald Trump and leaders of Mexico and Australia have been leaked by the Washington Post.

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sentence: on 27th January in a phone call to Mexican president, Enrique Pena Nieto, Trump urged him to stop publicly saying he would not pay for a proposed border wall.

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sentence: the US President berated him for publicly denouncing the wall, reportedly saying to him "You cannot say that to the press."

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sentence: Trump launched his presidential campaign on a promise to build a wall along the US southern border and vowed to make Mexico pay for the project.

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sentence: transcripts of his first call with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull were also published revealing a tense exchange.

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sentence: Mr Trump told Mr Turnbull a deal for the US to take on refugees headed for Australia was "ridiculous," "rotten" and "stupid," insisting the deal, brokered under the Obama administration, would make him look like "a dope" after he had proposed a ban on refugee resettlement in the US.

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sentence: Mr Trump ended the call after telling Mr Turnbull "this is the most unpleasant call all day."


sentence: Moore's Ford Massacre: activists reenact Racist Lynching as a Call for Justice

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sentence: a 1948 Ford Mercury passed through a group of onlookers in rural Monroe, Georgia, and rumbled toward the small Moore's Ford Bridge.

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sentence: the leader of the mob - a middle aged man in a pinstriped suit - took a long drag on his cigar and peered through the windshield.

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sentence: inside, the occupants reeled in fear.

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sentence: "we want that n----r Roger!" the man barked.


sentence: "get him out of the car!"


sentence: screams ripped through the silence as a young black man was dragged from the front passenger seat.

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sentence: fortunately, this horrific scene, which played out on July 22, is just a reenactment.

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sentence: but when a noose is thrown around the neck of "Roger," nearly everyone in the audience let out very real gasps.

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sentence: since 2005, civil rights activists have returned to the Moore's Ford Bridge to recreate the night two black couples - Roger and Dorothy Malcom, and George and Mae Murray Dorsey - were lynched by the Ku Klux Klan in 1946.

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sentence: no one has ever been charged with the murders.

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sentence: "it's mind boggling that all of these years, not a single person has been arrested - even though we see them in our communities; even though we know who they are," said Tyrone Brooks, who helps organize the reenactment.

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sentence: "it's a stain on a history, but it's a burden on our souls."

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sentence: Brooks is a 71-year-old former Georgia state congressman and lifelong civil rights activist.

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sentence: for him, the reenactment serves as a dramatic call to action and an annual reminder to the Monroe community that an injustice has never been corrected.

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sentence: "we want prosecution, we want closure, we want healing, we want reconciliation, but we have to have justice first," he said.

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sentence: "we can't get to healing and reconciliation until we get justice."


sentence: a coroner places a sheet over the body of one of the victims of the Moore's Ford lynching on July 27, 1946.

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sentence: according to FBI files obtained by NBC News, more than 50 men from Monroe and the surrounding counties were suspected in the lynching.

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but not one was ever prosecuted.


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sentence: in April 1946, a Supreme Court ruling enabled black citizens in Georgia to cast ballots for the first time during the primary race later that summer.

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sentence: around the same time of the election, according to the FBI, black sharecropper Roger Malcom stabbed Barnett Hester, a white landowner, during a fight - ostensibly over a woman.

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sentence: Brooks said the town rumor was that Hester had been sleeping with Malcom's wife, Dorothy, and that the baby she was carrying was not her husband's.

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sentence: on July 25, 1946, Loy Harrison, a prominent white landowner, paid $600 to bail Malcom out of jail, according to the FBI.

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sentence: he was accompanied to the prison by Dorothy, and their cousins, Mae Murray and George Dorsey.

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sentence: but, driving away from the jail, as they approached Moore's Ford Bridge, a lynch mob surrounded the car.

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sentence: "as it turns out it was Harrison who set up and ordered the murders," one FBI report concludes.

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sentence: "it is also apparent that there was a conspiracy among state and local law enforcement, who not only took part in the murders, disposed of evidence and concealed the identity of witnesses."

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Brooks put it more succinctly.


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sentence: "they were all killed to send a message to black people in this community: 'if you register and if you vote, this is what will happen to you.'"

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sentence: for nearly a decade, Cassandra Greene has directed the annual reenactment of the Moore's Ford Bridge lynchings.

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sentence: her performance is graphic, gripping and grounded in a kind of deep racism that many would like to believe no longer exists in America.

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sentence: it's difficult to watch, and even more difficult to look away, but Greene said that's the point.

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sentence: "we don't want to talk about the lynching because it makes us face the ugliness in all of us," she said.

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"but I can't build a relationship with you, if you won't hear me, or hear what I've been through."


sentence: rehearsals for this year's production began in June, and on the first day nearly 30 actors - a dozen white and the rest black - crowded into a room and listened as Greene launched into a well-rehearsed overview of the play.

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Wade Marbaugh serves as Greene's co-director.


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"I feel dirty because this is not who I am," said Marbaugh.


sentence: "but I think it's very important to keep this history alive because we don't want to go back to those times."

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sentence: across the room, actors Darrius Bradshaw and Nick Rascona, who play Roger Malcom and Barnett Hester, rehearsed their lines.


sentence: the play begins with Malcom shouting and shoving Hester, livid that he's been sleeping with his wife, Dorothy.

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sentence: "I said n---a, get off my property!"

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Rascona fires back.


there's a beat.


sentence: and then everyone (at least all the black actors) bursts into laughter.


Greene laughs the hardest.


"what?!," Rascona asked.


he's alarmed, confused.


did I go too hard?


"no," Greene said through chuckles.


sentence: "I just don't think white people back then said 'n---a.'"

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"yea," one of the other black cast members quipped.


"you have to hit the hard 'R.'"


sentence: and just like that the energy in the room shifts; a sense of camaraderie replaces the discomfort.

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everyone is dedicated to getting this right, not only for the sake of the play, but also for the memory of the four people killed.


sentence: the scene begins again.

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this time, when Rascona says the N-word, it's sharp and emphatic.


absolutely no one laughs.


the reenactment ends violently and quickly.


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sentence: a woman dressed in funeral black, stands over the actors bodies and performs Billie Holiday's mournful eulogy, "Strange Fruit."

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sentence: her voice breaks on every other word.

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sentence: a hundred yards back, a group of about four dozen spectators wipe sweat and tears away from their eyes.

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sentence: the audience is almost evenly split between black and white.

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sentence: one couple has traveled from Ithaca, New York, to see the performance, many are from just down the road.

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sentence: they've all weathered Georgia's oppressive humidity for the nearly eight hours as Brooks lead them on a pilgrimage to the grave sites of the Malcoms and Dorseys.

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sentence: up until this point, the murders have remained an anecdote, but now, standing on the same land where the lynchings took place, the air feels haunted.

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sentence: as the final notes of the song fade, Greene invites the crowd to move closer and inspect the bodies.

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sentence: children crouch by their heads, take in the fake blood and still bodies, and whisper to each other.

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sentence: "they're not really dead," one little boy mutters, as if to remind himself.

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sentence: after a few minutes Greene thanks the crowd, and suddenly it's over.

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sentence: the actors throw off the lynching rope and wipe away tears.

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sentence: Bradshaw hugs Marbaugh, the man in the suit who played the head Klansman.

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sentence: Nick Rascona hugs two of his castmates, and then breaks down crying in their arms; the emotional toll of the performance finally getting to him.

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sentence: "it's okay," one of the women whispers.

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sentence: "we know that's not what's in your heart.

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sentence: you did this for a reason. "

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sentence: later, the audience sits down to dinner with the actors.

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sentence: at one table, a white couple from Atlanta chats animatedly about the reenactment with a black couple they just met.

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sentence: Denise Duplinski struggled to find words for how the performance made her feel.

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sentence: "it's hard to hear those horrible awful words, and deeds... come out of people that look like you and who do it because they look like you," she said.

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sentence: "what this really does to me is make me think that lynchings are still going on," she added, "they're just called police shootings now."

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sentence: across the room, Tyrone Brooks holds court at his table, eating and reminiscing about civil rights.

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sentence: he said he's already begun planning for next year's performance.

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sentence: "the reenactment is inspirational in a way because it describes the horror of what we endured, but it also is a teaching moment," he said.

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"it's like, if you don't learn from this, it can happen again.


sentence: those who don't study their history, those who do not know their history, are doomed to repeat it. "

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"Götterdämmerung" propitiates Wagnerians in Bayreuth


sentence: in the fourth part of Richard Wagner's monumental work, director Frank Castorf again focusses on a colourful and frivolous production, set against a giant, six-storey backdrop.

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sentence: the revolving stage (designed by Aleksandar Denic) shows either a shabby street corner, complete with remains of the Wall and kebab shop in Berlin, a "Plaste und Elaste" logo from the DDR times, or the New York stock exchange.

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in front is parked an open vintage Mercedes car, in which the Rhinemaidens pose like rocker girls, or alternatively, an Isetta.


sentence: stacked oil barrels are reminiscent of Castorf's leitmotif - gold, power and greed - that runs through his production of the "Ring."

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the three Rhinemaidens - sung by Stephanie Houtzeel, Wiebke Lehmkuhl and Alexandra Steiner - work wonderfully together, as they did already in "Rheingold."


sentence: they saucily seduce Siegfried (Stefan Vinke), lug a body in the boot in Hollywood manner, and play the riotous clique.

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sentence: Stephen Milling sings the part of the superbly nasty Hagen, who has the aura of a heavy-weight boxer.

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sentence: the scene where he slays Siegfried is brutal.

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later, Gunther (Markus Eiche) cops it too.


sentence: the audience thanks the ensemble with mighty applause.

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sentence: there is a rapturous reception for Foster, Milling, Vinke and conductor Janowski, who effaces himself and bows his hands, forming a Merkel diamond.

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sentence: there is huge applause for the Festival Orchestra, who appear on stage for the first time - in casual leisurewear in view of the high heat.

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sentence: the performance from Frank Castorf and his directing team had been awaited with excitement.

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sentence: even if in 2013 he had had to endure another hall full of shrill catcalls, five years later there were great cheers, which drowned out the isolated boos.

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Festival head Katharina Wagner will likely have been delighted.


sentence: "once can see that the audience has in some way grown into the" Ring, "" she had said shortly before the performance from the dpa.

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I see positive results.


Max Menge works as volunteer


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what are all the different places?


sentence: Menge: normally in Steinfurt in the furniture exchange, and once a week I help out here in Greven in the Möbelbrücke.

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sentence: and I have also worked at the full-day school in their supplementary activities.

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sentence: what are your experiences of that?

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sentence: Menge: it is a nice, broad spectrum that I see here.

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sentence: I deal with different people: with adolescents, with refugees, with young adults.

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sentence: you are 26 years old now, so a volunteer with a late-calling.


how did that come about?


Menge: I did my Abitur exams.


and then I successfully abandoned, shall we say, a civil engineering course of studies.


I recognised that it is not right for me and that I want to do something else, work with people.


and then I asked myself, what do you do?


sentence: do a social year, you can get an insight, can see what it is really like on site, in the thick of things too perhaps.

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and was it like that?


Menge: I gathered great insights.


I will start my studies in social affairs in the winter semester.


I will study in dual, probably do an apprenticeship as a welfare worker at the Herne child protective services and study in Hamm at the university of applied sciences.


is it not somewhat unusual to have several different work locations during the voluntary service?


Menge: yes, it is very variable.


it always depends on where one is doing their voluntary service year.


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in my case, it was very varied.


I was also sometimes at the open full-day schools, that is, for the afternoon care.


for me that was exactly the right thing, the thing that got me fired up.


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differently from when doing the civil engineering studies?


Menge: yeah, sure; here it's not about working out statistics.


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sentence: whether it's a refugee or an adolescent who has been pulled out of their family - you always have to approach it individually.

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very interesting.


and they didn't have any fear of contact?


Menge: I'm not the kind of guy for that.


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sentence: a lot of love, a lot of friendliness.

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sentence: there are negative moments too sometimes, but that's just life.

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sentence: Pearson cuts another 3,000 jobs, slashes dividend to revive business

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sentence: British education group Pearson said on Friday it would cut another 3,000 jobs and slash its interim dividend by 72 per cent as it started another restructuring programme to tackle the pressures facing its business.

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sentence: the job cuts, which Chief Executive John Fallon said will mostly come late in 2018 and in early 2019, are in addition to 4,000 roles lost in its previous restructuring.

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sentence: Pearson announced a plan to cut costs by another 300 million pounds ($394-million U.S.) in May in a third cost-cutting programme to try to revive a business hit by the rapid move to digital learning.

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sentence: the company, which agreed to sell its stake in Penguin Random House to partner Bertelsmann last month, said its outlook for the year was unchanged after it reported a 1 per cent rise in underlying sales in the first half to 2.05 billion pounds.

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sentence: Kabul convoy attack: NATO soldier killed in suicide blast

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sentence: a suicide bomber has attacked a military convoy in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing a Nato soldier and wounding several others, officials say.

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sentence: five soldiers and an interpreter were injured, a Nato statement said.

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sentence: unconfirmed local reports say three civilians also died in the incident in the city's Qarabagh district.

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sentence: the bombing is the latest violence to have hit Afghanistan this month - on Tuesday more than 30 people were killed in a mosque blast in Herat.

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sentence: on Monday a suicide bomber killed two people near the Iraqi embassy in Kabul.

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a Nato statement said that Thursday evening's blast happened when a joint patrol with the Afghan army was attacked by a "personnel-borne improvised explosive device."


sentence: the statement said that all those injured are in a stable condition and are being treated at the US military hospital at Bagram airfield.

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sentence: correspondents say the growing strength of the Taliban and the group known as so-called Islamic State (IS) in Qarabagh is a major source of concern to Nato forces based in nearby Bagram.

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sentence: according to the United Nations, Afghanistan saw at least 1,662 civilian deaths in the first half of 2017, with about 20% of those in the capital.


sentence: at the end of July, a suicide car bomb killed at least 30 people in a mainly Shia district of Kabul.

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sentence: the Taliban said they had carried out that attack.

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sentence: on 31 May, a huge bombing in the centre of the city killed more than 150 people, the deadliest militant attack in the country since US-led forces ousted the Taliban from power in 2001.

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sentence: the violence underlines the precarious security situation in Afghanistan as US President Donald Trump weighs up whether to increase the number of US troops aiding the military and police in the country.

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sentence: correspondents say the suicide bombings in Kabul in recent weeks have also created a crisis of public confidence in the government, its policies and in particular the reputation of President Ashraf Ghani.

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sentence: EPA reverses decision to delay smog rule after lawsuits

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sentence: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reversed a decision to delay an Obama-era rule requiring states to curb smog-causing emissions, one day after 15 states sued the agency over the move.

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sentence: the EPA announced the decision to go ahead with the so-called "2015 Ozone Designations" late on Wednesday, saying it showed the agency's commitment to working with states.


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sentence: Pruitt in June had announced the EPA's intention to delay the ozone designations - in which existing smog pollution is measured in parts of the country to determine where cuts must be made to meet tougher air quality standard - by one year to October 2018.

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sentence: a group of 15 mostly Democratic states, along with the District of Columbia, filed a suit on Tuesday saying the effort was illegal.

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sentence: the administration of President Donald Trump has been seeking to roll back a wide array of environmental regulations imposed by former President Barack Obama, as part of a broader agenda Trump says is aimed at sparking economic growth.

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sentence: but the efforts have triggered pushback by Democratics and conservation groups who are concerned about the impact of greater emissions on public health.

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sentence: the EPA's website says breathing air containing ozone "can reduce lung function and increase respiratory symptoms" like asthma.

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municipal council wants common room


sentence: in the end, the decision was clear: with two dissenting votes, the municipal council of Fluorn-Winzeln passed a resolution for a common room in the future retirement home.

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sentence: ahead of the debate, there is an important piece of information to be had: the purchase contract for the as yet still needed plot section has been signed, reports mayor Bernhard Tjaden.

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sentence: admittedly it will still be a while until the plot, which up until now has belonged to the church parish, comes into the possession of the municipality, but nevertheless, there are now no longer any planning obstacles for the project that has to be materialised by a private investor.

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that is why there is a debate concerning a common room.


sentence: one of the two investors that are still on board has offered to accommodate the municipality.

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sentence: for a special price, it would provide a living space - of around 55 square metres - and an adjacent terrace with no less than 70 square metres on the ground floor.

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sentence: what the management and the majority of the municipal council have in mind is not simply to set aside such a common room as a meeting place only for the residents of the senior citizens' accommodation, but for it to be open to the community.

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sentence: talk of a "knitting café" was making the rounds, for example.

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sentence: the decision, which was already pre-determined last Autumn through the allocation of resources for the current budget, is sweetened by funding opportunities.

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sentence: the building is in an area for redevelopment.

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the construction of a common room would be eligible for financial support, reports Tjaden, with 60 per cent of 30 per cent.


sentence: so as to signal to the investor that no-one wants to put a spoke in their wheel, the proposed resolution makes allowances for the determination that both a saddled roof - based on the surrounding buildings - and a mono-pitch roof - which reduces the height of the eaves and makes the building more economical - would be possible.


an uneccessary addition, thinks not only Wilfried Sohmer.


if it helps: it passes through the committee unanimously.


it's not so easy with the common room.


sentence: Daniela Ruf points to their many owned buildings that are not really being forged ahead, but instead they are going out of their way with the common room: "I have difficulty with that," she says.

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Yvonne Staiger declares herself to be unequivocally in favour of the common room - but absolutely against an investment from the municipality.


sentence: she views that as a hidden subsidy to already wealthy, or even foreign, investors.

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that is simply not true according to the counterargument, for by purchasing the plot they are not giving away any grants, but are rather getting a genuine, when in doubt saleable, equivalent in value.


Staiger's proposal, to split up the proposed resolution accordingly, has three supporters.


sentence: so, with two dissenting votes, they are sticking with the original programme, which Stefan Haller summed up as follows: "if we pass the resolution as so, we make a huge step towards plugging a huge gap in our infrastructure."

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sentence: collision with a car: cyclist hurled onto the road

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sentence: the 82-year-old cyclist was hit by a car whilst crossing the road in Garath on Wednesday and was seriously injured.


sentence: according to police reports, the 82-year-old from Langenfeld was travelling on his bicycle on the Schwarzer Weg cycle lane at around 12.20pm, coming from the direction of Hilden.

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sentence: the senior citizen wanted to cross the lane of traffic up where the street Am Buchholzer Busch is.

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sentence: a woman driving a car in the same direction gave way to him.

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sentence: however, as the man from Langenfeld cycled onto the road, he evidently did not pay attention to the oncoming traffic.


sentence: he collided with a car being driven by a 66-year-old woman from Hilden.


sentence: the man was hurled onto the road.

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sentence: he suffered serious injuries and was brought to hospital in an ambulance.

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FC Bayern Munich have to do without David Alaba and Thiago for the Super Cup against Borussia Dortmund


sentence: the Super Cup is happening without him: David Alaba has to skip the game against Dortmund.

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sentence: with squad concerns, FC Bayern are travelling to Dortmund for the first competitive match of the new season.

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the title-defender is missing seven of its pros in the Super Cup against the cup winners.


sentence: the squad concerns are getting even bigger for the German football record champions Bayern Munich ahead of the Super Cup on Saturday (8.30pm / ZDF and Eurosport) at cup winners Borussia Dortmund.

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sentence: coach Carlo Ancelotti has to also do without David Alaba in the duel with the BVB.

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the Italian confirmed that on Friday.


in addition, the Munich team is missing Manuel Neuer, James, Thiago, Jerome Boateng, Arjen Robben and Juan Bernat.


sentence: Ancelotti blamed the physical state of his team and the lack of balance in their game for their five defeats in the past six friendlies.

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sentence: "we know that we are not in the best physical condition," said Ancelotti, adding, "The most important point is the balance in the team.

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that has not been good recently. "


sentence: however, the 58-year-old believes that they can improve their performance in the first official competitive game of the season.


sentence: "football is also tactics, strategy, personality and motivation.

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sentence: I have great confidence that my team exhibits these qualities.

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sentence: the team is ready.


sentence: we want to play intelligently, "said Ancelotti, who is expecting a" difficult, intense game. "


sentence: the duel between the two German football heavyweights is captivating the fans.

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with 81,360 spectators, the game is sold out, shared the German football league (DFL) on Friday.


sentence: wandering from star to star in the Harz

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the nation's first "astral path" is to come to life in the Harz.


sentence: it is being planned by the Sankt Andreasberg Observatory society.

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there has been a planetary trail in Göttingen since 2003.


an "astral path" satisfies many Harz visitors' need for information, it is said.


sentence: it combines nature, science, exercise and athletic performance.

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sentence: members want to set up plaques along the planned route and put information about stars and constellations on them.

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sentence: in a first phase, until 2018, the association is planning "easily accessible installations in five to six locations" in the Upper Harz.

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in the running are St. Andreasberg, Braunlage, Hohegeiss and Sieber.


sentence: the information on the plaques is to be expanded upon online.

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sentence: so good mobile network reception plays a part in the selection of locations.

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sentence: accessibility is also a criterion.

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the astral path is later to be extended, step by step.


sentence: "spectators will gain lots of useful knowledge on the astral path, for example about the physics of the individual stars," explained the society.

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sentence: in addition, they will learn why stars have different colours, or why one star shines more brightly than another, although it is significantly further away.

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sentence: it will also teach which constellation a selected star is located in, and when the best time to see it is.

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sentence: the society has been operating the highest observatory in Northern Germany, in the small mountain town of St. Andreasberg, since 2014 already.

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sentence: the location in the middle of the Harz national park is among the six darkest regions in Germany, according to information from the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation.

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sentence: one can regularly clearly see the Milky Way, and even the Andromeda Galaxy, from there with naked eyes.

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sentence: the university town, on the initiative of the Göttingen Planetarium friends' association, has had something similar to the astral path since 2013 - the planetary trail.

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sentence: starting at Gebhards Hotel in Goethealle, which forms the centre of our solar system, the planetary trail leads with its steles up to Hainberg and the observatory - as well as an "extra-terrestrial" location in Diemarden (Municipality of Gleichen) with the planet Sedna.

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sentence: the steles with the individual planets - including Pluto, which was downgraded to a dwarf planet, at the end point - are set up at exact intervals and on a scale of one to two billion.

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sentence: the Earth thus shrinks to a ball with a diameter of 6.5 millimetres, while the sun, standing exactly 75 metres away, measures 70 centimetres.

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sentence: the total distance covered by the planetary trail is a good four kilometres.

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sentence: while the light of the sun needs around eight hours to reach Pluto, pedestrians need a good hour to get to the stele with Pluto.

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sentence: so, pedestrians are faster than light in space.

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sentence: the trek to the nearest fixed star would take another half a year though.

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Mikey Garcia and Vasyl Lomachenko meet for the first time, discuss a possible showdown


sentence: Vasyl Lomachenko and Mikey Garcia, who should be on a collision course to stage the most compelling boxing match under 147 pounds in the near future, met each other for the first time Thursday.

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sentence: they were in separate rooms at ESPN offices in Los Angeles until Garcia, the unbeaten World Boxing Council lightweight champion, walked down the hallway to greet Lomachenko, the World Boxing Organization super-featherweight champion.

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sentence: after Garcia's victory by unanimous decision over former four-division world champion Adrien Broner on Saturday on Showtime, both fighters are members of the top-five pound-for-pound list.

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sentence: Garcia extended his right hand and said, "How you doing, champ?

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sentence: best of luck to you. "

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sentence: Lomachenko defends his belt against Miguel Marriaga on Saturday night at 7 on ESPN.

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sentence: as the pair posed for photos, Lomachenko manager Egis Klimas noted that a potential showdown between the fighters would be "perfect sizing."

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"I'm a former featherweight," Garcia reminded.


sentence: "I moved up for Broner [at 140 pounds], but I'm not that big.


I'm small for 140.


I want to come down to lightweight.


sentence: and he's got to move up to lightweight [135 pounds] and then we have a fight.


sentence: that's what the fans are asking for.

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let's give them that. "


Lomachenko agreed.


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sentence: Klimas asked if it should be on pay-per-view, part of a strategy he has to have Lomachenko fight a 135-pound debut bout later this year to set up a date next summer with Garcia (37-0, 30 knockouts), who also has interest in fighting the Jorge Linares-Luke Campbell winner following their Sept. 23 lightweight title bout at the Forum.

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sentence: "this fight could be on pay-per-view because all the fans have been asking about it," Garcia said, later expressing openness to fighting on whatever network offers the best financial package.

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"we're the main names.


sentence: no other names can generate that kind of attention.

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whenever they're ready.... "


sentence: Garcia said he appreciates Lomachenko as "a tremendous fighter," and may attend his Saturday bout.

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sentence: but Lomachenko paused at lavish praise for Garcia, saying he thought the three-division champion from Riverside looked "very slow, sorry Mikey... you wanted the knockout."

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sentence: Garcia said the focus was to show punching strength, then box.

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they both said they can feel the momentum building for their own bout.


sentence: "this is the fight to be made.


sentence: no other fight creates as much attention and buzz.


I'm more than happy to work at it, "Garcia said.


sentence: said Lomachenko: "I've waited for the top fighters, and this is Mikey.

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sentence: it will be a great fight. "


four injured after burst tyre


sentence: in an accident on the A7 on Thursday afternoon, four people were injured, some severely.

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sentence: according to initial reports, the driver of an Opel Zaifra lost control of his vehicle at around 4.30pm, shortly before the Marktbreit junction, after a burst tyre.

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sentence: the car slid right into the embankment, where it overturned and then lay on its roof, on the grass verge.

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sentence: the four passengers - two adults and two children - were, in part, severely injured in the accident.

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sentence: while first aid was being given to the injured by the emergency services, the A7 was closed for around an hour in the northerly direction, before traffic was able to be led round the site of the accident in the left lane.

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Fortunas Hoffmann: "three at the back works better"


sentence: Andre Hoffmann hopes after the 2: 2 to kick off the season against Braunschweig that the optimisation of the defence formation will bring points in Aue.

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sentence: Andre Hoffmann was content with the first game of the season, and with the result too, were it not for the two own goals in the 2: 2 against Braunschweig.

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sentence: "that was two own goals too many, and in Aue, we have to take better care still," says the defender from Fortuna Düsseldorf.

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the line of three at the back is to be optimised even further in the Ore mountains.


sentence: and the Fortunas don't want to let in any more goals after free kicks either.

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sentence: "in future, no-one will stand on the line next to Michael (Rensing) any more."

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sentence: Hoffmann is convinced that his team manages better with the three-at-the-back formation, even after the experiences in the build-up.

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sentence: "I don't know yet how we will play in Aue," said the coach Friedhelm Funkel, but Hoachmann is sure of himself, "because in Kaan Ayhan and Niko Gießelmann, we particularly have players in the back three in the half positions that can build well," said Hoffmann.

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"however, a prerequisite is that we harmonise even better together and don't commit so many passing errors in the build up."


sentence: naturally, Hoffmann is also travelling to Aue to win the game.

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sentence: "whether after one draw though one can talk of a failed start, I don't know.

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the performance could by all means be okay, "said Hoffmann.


sentence: "however, if we're standing there on Sunday with four points and can concentrate on the cup, we'll certainly be able to talk of a decent season kick-off."

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sentence: his coach didn't want to hear any of that.


sentence: "I will first judge our start to the season after six to eight matches," said Friedhelm Funkel, who did not wish to talk of an advantage over Aue just because the Saxony team's game in Heidenhelm had to be cut-off early due to a storm.

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sentence: "now they are effectively able to start the season with a home game," said Funkel, and Hoffman believes that the players from Aue could perhaps even be somewhat fresher, since they don't have any difficult and full games like Fortuna against one of the promotion favourites resting in their bones.

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"but they don't know 100 per cent where they stand at the moment," says the Fortuna central defender.


sentence: admittedly, the guests from the Rhineland go into the encounter on Sunday in the finally (almost) finished Aue stadium as slight favourites.

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sentence: "that we are going to sweep them away just because we can claim a place amongst the top six is ridiculous," says Funkel, whose balance sheet against Aue, with only one defeat in nine games, is thoroughly positive.

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sentence: "there is no team in the second Bundesliga that one has to beat from the outset," explains Fortuna's head coach.


sentence: "to give such a statement would be arrogant and presumptuous."

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sentence: and Funkel does not under any circumstances want to see his players like that on Sunday.


sentence: new results of Sweden's asylum age assessment tests released

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sentence: the latest results of tests on asylum seekers in Sweden subjected to a new method of medically assessing their age show that over 80 percent tested were judged to be older than 18, but not everyone has faith in their accuracy.

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sentence: Sweden's national Forensic Medicine Agency (Rättsmedicinalverket) started carrying out the tests earlier year.

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sentence: they are designed to make age assessment during the asylum process more accurate after the Swedish Migration Agency (Migrationsverket) was criticized for failings in assessing the correct age of some refugees claiming to be underage.


sentence: to date Migrationsverket has sent 6,880 cases to be tested, and the Forensic Medicine Agency has now released the results of a total of 2,481 tests from the period between mid March until July 31st, 2017.

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sentence: eighty percent (2002) were judged to be 18 or over, while in a further 25 cases the Forensic Medicine Agency judged that the subject was "possibly 18 or over."


sentence: in 432 cases the conclusion was that the person is "possibly under 18."

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sentence: the tests are only carried out in cases where the person's age is in question.

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sentence: according to Johan Göransson from the Forensic Medicine Agency, the results are consistent with previous months.

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sentence: "we see no big difference in the statistics from previous months, the numbers are quite consistent," he told The Local.

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sentence: the high proportion of cases judged to be over 18 does not necessarily mean that the asylum seeker lied about their age.

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sentence: in May, the agency released the results of 581 tests and said that there were 442 instances that "suggest the person examined is 18 years or older."

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sentence: when newspaper Svenska Dagbladet investigated the 581 results released however it found that in 243 of the cases the person had openly stated that they turn 18 this year.

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sentence: the method of medical age assessment, which consists of taking X-rays of wisdom teeth and MRI scans of knee joints, then having dentists and radiologists analyse them, has also been criticised in some quarters.


sentence: one sceptic is Karolinska Institute endocrinologist Claude Marcus, whose work includes assessing the biological maturity of people to see if they went through puberty earlier or later than usual.

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sentence: "I've had reason to think about this, and I don't think the type of measurement being used should be.

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sentence: judging biological age in this way is very uncertain.

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sentence: if we can't say it for sure we shouldn't pretend that we can, "he told newspaper Metro.


sentence: the Forensic Medicine Agency's Göransson defended the accuracy of the tests however: "in general you can say that the risk of inaccurately judging a child to be an adult is small.

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sentence: the biggest risk is if the person is just under 18, in which case it's around 10 percent. "

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right on target


sentence: the works on the three bridges of the L 108 road, between Lauterbach and Schramberg, are progressing well.

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sentence: on Wednesday, a seven-tonne piece of concrete was installed at the bridge at the East entrance to the town of Lauterbach.

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sentence: "we're doing very well for time - it's going great," says Reinhold Leicht, site manager at the department of road engineering and transport in the Freiburg local government.

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sentence: in April, works began on all three bridges in need of refurbishment between Schramberg and Lauterbach at the same time.


sentence: the works are scheduled to be completed in October, and Leicht is certain that the timetable will be stuck to.

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sentence: the first bridge, coming from Schramberg, leads over the Trombach.


sentence: it is a vaulted arch bridge made of concrete that is covered in red variegated sandstone and has a total length of 4.80 metres.

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it was built in 1900.


sentence: like the other two bridges, it is old by now.


in order to ensure their stability and road safety, the three structures now have to be thoroughly renovated.


sentence: the two other bridges lead over the Lauterbach.


they are made of variegated sandstone.


sentence: both were erected in 1939 and they are twelve and 10.60 metres high, respectively.


sentence: the bridge at the East entrance to the town of Lauterbach has now - as of Wednesday morning - been given a 1.30-metre-wide and seven-tonne-heavy so-called bridge parapet on its north side.

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this fixes the boundary and is also used as a passenger path.


sentence: a 2.20-metre-wide bridge parapet is to be put in place on the south part of the bridge on Friday.

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the pedestrian walkway is intended to then to run over that.


sentence: what is special about this is that is uses finished parts, a patent of the Schramberg company Dizwo.

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sentence: the other two bridges are already kitted out with the patented bridge parapets.


laying cables through the structure in Lauterbach required particular flair.


sentence: for a fibreglass cable also runs there, which many companies are connected to.

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sentence: in the run-up to the works, residents were informed about the project via a leaflet.

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sentence: fish and crabs must also be fished out first.

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sentence: for the bridges between the construction yard building and the lake reservoir in the direction of Schramberg, traffic is single-lane and regulated by lights.

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sentence: for the construction works on the bridge at the East entrance to the town of Lauterbach, the road in the area of the bridge, where the "Tannenhof" and "Sieben Linden" hotels are, is fully closed.

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sentence: altogether, the costs for the three bridge renovations total 700 000 euros.

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sentence: the entire project is being funded by the state.

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sentence: AfD in Gerolstein: colourful protest with German potato salad

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sentence: it doesn't happen that often that parties pull together, but when it concerns the Alternative for Germany (AfD), people come together who would otherwise be difficult to reconcile.

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sentence: the parties who represent in the Vulkan Eifel district council (CDU, SPD, the Greens, FDP, FWG, die Linke) belong to a broad alliance that is peacefully nailing its colours to the mast on this day because the AfD are holding a "big kick-off to the election campaign" in Gerolstein Town Hall plaza.

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sentence: and are launching famous names - like Alice Weidel, who together with Alexander Gauland makes up the leading duo for the Bundestag elections on 24th September, and the federal deputy chairwoman, Beatrix von Storch.

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sentence: but those who have been on site for hours already before the start of the event don't want to listen to the AfD, but rather, demonstrate.

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sentence: the motto: "Eifel is staying colourful."

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sentence: originally the town picnic was planned for Brunnenplatz square under the motto "everyone at one table," but now is taking place in the carpark beneath the shopping plaza - and therefore directly in sight of those coming to the AfD event in the Town Hall.

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sentence: a colourful picture on show there.

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sentence: and what really delighted Christa Karoli, chairperson of the Eine Welt (One World) Forum and one of the leading organisers: "it's great how many people have come together here."

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sentence: there's music and all sorts of food, including a "typical German potato salad" that even the AfD would have no problem eating, "said the woman who had brought it.

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sentence: the police had summoned lots of officials to Gerolstein and were above all also present at the train station, which is only a few metres away from the event locations.

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how did the AfD make it to Gerolstein, actually?


Mario Hompe from the Vulkan Eifel AfD reports that he strove hard to get such an event and that he won the contract.


the 45-year-old from Gönndersdorf had originally inquired in Daun, but had got a no there because there were not enough parking places available due to the St. Lawrence funfair already being set up.


so now, the shopping plaza; Hompes is delighted that "we are able to hold such a wonderful event here."


sentence: with a view to the event on the plaza forecourt he says: "it's the people's right. the main this is that it stays peaceful."

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sentence: and it does: at around 8pm some entertainment is provided, by a band on the plaza forecourt, and in the town hall, by various speakers, including Rhineland-Palatinate AfD chairman Uwe Junge.

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sentence: in the hall there are about 200 in attendance, waiting for the leading candidate for the Bundestag elections, Alice Weidel, and the federal deputy chairwoman, Beatrix von Storch, to give their speeches.

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sentence: the police presence is unchanged, but until now the officials have had a quiet evening.

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sentence: the AfD event lasts a little more than an hour; the guests in the forecourt have a long wind, but even there it is time to clear up shortly after 9pm.

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sentence: the police can go away - no specific incidents.


sentence: trombone meets trumpet

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there is another chance to hear Wolfach trombonist Frederic Belli in the series of Haslach cloister concerts tomorrow, Sunday, at 8pm in the monastery church.


sentence: together with the Bulgarian trumpeter Miroslav Petkov, he is giving a concert that carries the slogan "The Black Sea meets the Black Forest," or even, "Balkan folklore" meets a classic German education with roots in brass music.

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sentence: both soloists are winners and awardees of numerous international competitions and hold soloist positions in leading European orchestras.

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so, Petkov is solo trumpeter with the renowned Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, and Frederic Belli is solo trombonist with the SWR Symphony Orchestra.


sentence: both have in common a passion not only for transcending the boundaries of their instruments but also for conflating the boundaries of the various genres.

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sentence: so, Johann Sebastian Bach played by the two of them takes on a whole new sound, Daniel Schnyder's "Weltmusik" unites with Bulgarian folklore, and in the piece "Exchange Suits" from JazzEcho prize-winner Nils Wogram, they blend classical, jazz and free play into a fascinating complete art work.

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sentence: this centrepiece of the programme had its debut performance in Freiburg this spring, to great success.

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sentence: the renowned composer Nils Wogram wrote it especially for the two musicians and there's more: the Haslach monastery church, with its special acoustic, was consciously incorporated into the concert.

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sentence: Kristen Stewart talks about her bisexuality

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sentence: "some people love grilled cheese and will eat it for the rest of their lives.

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sentence: but I want to try everything. "this is what Kristen Stewart said in total frankness on the topic of her bisexuality.


sentence: "if I bite into grilled cheese once, I think, 'Oh, that was cool, what's next?'."


the Hollywood star's most famous relationship was probably that with her "Twilight" co-star Robert Pattinson, which came apart bitterly in the end.


sentence: despite all that, the brunette actress assures "Harper's Bazaar" magazine: "I've been deeply in love with everyone I've dated.

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or did you think I was faking it? "


after their split, Kristen came out as bisexual: "I've always really lived for that duality and seriously believed in it.


it has never confused me or held me back.


I just never liked being made fun of. "


sentence: she suffered from this especially in her school days, according to "Bang Showbiz," when she preferred to dress like a boy: "not all girls are typical girls.

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that really, really hurt me.


sentence: when I was eleven, kids told me I looked like a boy.

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I felt really attacked, frightened and ashamed.


sentence: now I look back and think: 'girl, be proud of yourself!'. "

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sentence: she particularly doesn't like explaining her love life to the public: "people expect you to behave in a certain way, and that makes me angry.

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sentence: and maybe some people call me ungrateful, but I don't like having to justify myself to the entire public. "

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sentence: West Virginia governor announces he's switching parties

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sentence: the Democratic governor of West Virginia, Jim Justice, announced Thursday night at a rally with President Trump that he's switching parties.


"like it or not like it, the Democrats walked away from me," Gov. Justice said.


sentence: "today I will tell you with lots of prayers and lots of thinking... today I will tell you as West Virginians, I can't help you anymore being a Democratic governor."

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the rally erupted in cheers.


sentence: "so tomorrow, I will be changing my registration to Republican," Justice added.

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sentence: "as a coach, I would tell you it's time to run another play."

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Mr. Trump promised earlier a big announcement at the West Virginia rally.


sentence: Mr. Trump won West Virginia by 42 points, and Justice did not endorse the Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton.

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sentence: Justice, who is the only billionaire in the state, according to Forbes, was elected in 2016.

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sentence: Forbes notes that he owns coal mines in five states, having inherited a coal business from his father.

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he's worth about $1.59 billion.


sentence: meanwhile, the Republican National Committee released a statement Thursday night saying "Governor Justice's party switch is another blow to a Democratic Party that would rather obstruct than work to make our country great again."

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sentence: "with only 15 governorships and control of the fewest state legislatures in history, Governor Justice's announcement is just the latest rejection of a party that is leaderless from top to bottom and unable to find a positive, unifying message," RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in a statement to CBS News.

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sentence: CoE praises' candid 'Russian apology for doping scandal

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sentence: global athletics boss Sebastian Coe praised what he described as a candid apology from Russia over a doping scandal on Thursday but reiterated it was not the moment for the country to be readmitted to the sport.

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sentence: Russia's athletics boss Dmitry Shylakhtin told an IAAF Congress, held on the eve of the World Athletics Championships, that his country's ban from the sport was correct and that he was determined to fight doping.


sentence: he said he was sorry to "all athletes who have had gold and silver medals snatched from them at competitions."

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sentence: despite his comments, the IAAF Congress voted in favor of maintaining the ban, imposed in November 2015 after a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) report found evidence of state-sponsored doping in Russia.

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sentence: "I thought it was a very candid response today, a very candid presentation," IAAF president Coe told reporters.

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sentence: "the whole Council and the whole Congress was pleased... that the Russian federation recognized themselves that they have been through some pretty torrid times and are doing everything possible to make sure the federation is reengineered."

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sentence: CoE said he was also "pleased" that Russia accepted the criteria for its reintroduction.

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sentence: "I think it was a very constructive day and I think progress is being made, but the Congress supports the recommendations of the task force that this was not the moment to reinstate Russia," said Coe.

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sentence: "we need to do everything over the next few months to normalize this situation.

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sentence: the guiding principle has always been that we wanted to separate the clean athletes from the tainted system, "he added

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sentence: nineteen Russian athletes will be competing as neutrals at the World Athletics Championships which start in London on Friday, having met strict IAAF criteria.


sentence: the head of the IAAF's Task Force, Rune Andersen, said on Monday that Russia had yet to meet several of the criteria for reinstatement.

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drug-testing was still insufficient and banned coaches were still operating freely, he told reporters in London after a presentation to the IAAF Council.


sentence: act of mourning for soldiers who crashed in Mali

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sentence: at a memorial service in the north Hessen town of Fritzlar, around 1000 people commemorated both soldiers who lost their lives in a helicopter crash in Mali.


sentence: the ceremony took place in the cathedral city on Thursday under strict security precautions.

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German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) remained silent on the as-yet-unexplained cause of the crash.


sentence: however, she described the two pilots who were killed as "experts in their field."

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sentence: "we bow before this greatest of sacrifices that they have made in the name of the Federal Republic of Germany," she explained.

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sentence: the 33-year-old Major and the 47-year-old Stabshauptmann from north Hessen lost their lives a week ago, on Wednesday, in the West African country of Mali.

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sentence: their coffins were transported back to Germany and on Thursday were brought to Saint Peter's cathedral in Fritzlar, accompanied by a wake from the German army.

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sentence: at midday, the relatives first said their goodbyes in the church.

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sentence: then, amidst family and closest friends, the memorial service was begun by representatives of the German Army and the political world.

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among these were Hesse Prime Minister Volker Bouffier (CDU) and Inspector General of the German Army, Volker Wieker.


sentence: memorial guests laid down roses, and the relatives stood arm in arm by the coffins.

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sentence: the people of Fritzlar and numerous soldier followed the ceremony in front of the church on a big screen.

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sentence: defence minister von der Leyen described the killed soldiers as "highly decorated" and experienced in missions.


sentence: the Stabshauptmann is said to have helped set up flight operations of the combat helicopter Tiger in Fritzlar and was one of the first six qualified Tiger pilots in his regiment.

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sentence: Volker Bauersachs too, commander of the regiment to which the soldiers belonged, said: "if this crew were not able to prevent the crash, then no-one could have."

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sentence: Minister von der Leyen did not express any doubts about the UN mission in Mali: the mission was dangerous.

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sentence: however, it was also of great importance "for a country from which we are separated by only two nations," she said.

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sentence: after the memorial service, the coffins were brought out of the cathedral.

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the Germany Army did not wish to give any indications about when or where they are to be buried.


sentence: Prince Henrik does not want a grave next to his wife

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sentence: the husband of the Danish Queen Margrethe (77), Prinz Henrik (83), does not want to be buried next to his wife after his death.

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the royal family shared that on Thursday.


traditionally, the Danish royal couple are interred in Roskilde Cathedral.


sentence: the sculptor Bildhauer Bjørn Nørgaard is already crafting a sarcophagus for the two of them.

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sentence: the queen is content with her husband's decision, the announcement continued.

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where Prince Henrik will be buried is still unclear.


sentence: however, he does not intend to be interred in his French homeland.

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sentence: Prinz Henrik had never made a secret of the fact that he was not happy with his title.

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sentence: after his wife Margrethe's accession to the throne in 1972, he would have liked to have become king.

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sentence: in 2016, he went into retirement and at the same time also laid aside his title of "Prince Consort."

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sentence: since Henrik did not get the title and function that he wanted in Denmark, he does not see himself as equal to his wife - not after death either, explains Lene Balleby, chief spokeswoman for the Danish royal family.

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where the last place of rest will be in the end for the 83-year-old is still unclear.


sentence: however, he does not intend to be interred in his French homeland, but rather in Denmark.


sentence: he likes the country for which he has worked for the last 50 years.

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sentence: born Henri de Laborde de Monpezat, the son of a noble French family, he had got to know Margrethe in 1965 in London.

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he worked on the Thames in the French Embassy.


sentence: whereas the people's expressions of sympathy always flew to his then to be wife, Prinz Henrik had a hard time with the Danes during his almost 50-year reign.

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sentence: in an autobiography, Henrik commented on his first years in Denmark: "a few months after my arrival, everything that I did was criticised.

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sentence: my Danish was faltering, I preferred wine to beer, silk socks to wool socks, Citroën to Volvo, tennis to football.

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sentence: even for the Gauloises, which I smoked in place of Virginia tobacco, and which had the reputation here for being the brand of intellectuals who were critical of society, I could not hope for any leniency.

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I was different.


sentence: it seemed I was happy with this position and not ashamed of it.

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sentence: those were two errors! "

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Prime Minister Weil wants a snap new election


sentence: CDU and FDP face possible majority in Lower Saxony

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sentence: lower Saxony's prime minister Stephan Weil (SPD) wants the State Parliament to have a snap new election after the loss of the red-green governing majority - but he doesn't want to step down.

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sentence: weil declared himself on Friday to be in favour of a dissolution of the Parliament.

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sentence: previously, the unexpected resignation of a Green party representative from her state parliamentary fraction in Lower Saxony had plunged Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) 's government into a stark crisis.

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sentence: five months before the official date of the state elections, the red-green coalition lost in Hanover, and with that, their scant one-vote majority in Parliament over the opposition of CDU and FDP.

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sentence: Elke Twesten, up until that point a Green Party representative, justified her move with the fact that she had not been nominated for the 2018 election in her constituency in Rotenburg (Wümme).

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sentence: "I see my political future in the CDU," she stated on Friday in Hanover.

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CDU parliamentary group leader Björn Thümler wants to advise his party to take her in.


sentence: then the CDU and the FDP would together have 69 seats in the Lower Saxony State Parliament, and the Greens, 68 seats.

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sentence: up until now, that ratio was the other way around.

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sentence: the new State Parliament will be elected as normal on the 14th January next year.

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sentence: Thümler says that the red-green State Government now has to decide whether it can continue to govern in these circumstances without a majority.


however, Stephan Weil considers it imperative that the State Parliament vote to dissolve itself as swiftly as possible.


the CDU parliamentary group is expected to decide on Tuesday about how they will proceed.


sentence: the state constitution also allows for the possibility that the State Parliament declares no confidence in the Prime Minister and elects a successor.

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sentence: "our constitution offers various options.

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sentence: the possibilities have to be examined in a proper legal way, "said Thümler.

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"all aspects will be debated in good time, if they are examined in a sound legal way."


Thümler called Twesten's move "somewhat curious though."


the politician herself stressed: "I am not a traitor.


I feel very good. "


she described herself as a supporter of Black-Green.


the Greens called on the defecting representative to give up her seat in Parliament.


sentence: "we naturally assume that she will give up her seat in Parliament, which she won on a Green party ticket, with immediate effect," communicated state chairpersons Meta Janssen-Kucz and Stefan Körner.

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the Green Party chairwoman Anja Piel said: "we exceedingly regret Elke Twesten's decision."


she consciously decided not to give any statement in the parliamentary group.


sentence: "especially given the background, that there were no essential differences - we can't understand this move."

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sentence: SPD candidate for Chancellor Martin Schulz denounced the crossing over of Lower Saxony Green representative Elke Twesten to the CDU as betrayal.

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sentence: "the behaviour of the former Green representative in Lower Saxony is not only a betrayal of voters, but also a betrayal to red-green," wrote the Social Democratic federal leader on Friday on Facebook.

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he supports Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) 's decision to let the State Parliament have new elections soon.


sentence: Twesten's resignation costs Red-Green the majority in Lower Saxony.

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sentence: the politician "in her wounded vanity and in her frustration" put "her personal interests above the wellbeing of the state," critisised SPD General Secretary Hubertus Heil.

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sentence: "it is a scandal that the CDU in Lower Saxony plays along in this dirty scheming and attempts to score political points from it."

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lower Saxony CDU parliamentary group leader Björn Thümler wants to advise his representatives to take Elke Twesten into the CDU.


sentence: the parliamentary group leader of the SPD in the Bundestag, Thomas Opperman, accused Twesten of distorting the result of the State election in 2013 with her personal career notions.

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sentence: the CDU was then the strongest power ahead of the SPD, but SPD and Greens had a wafer-thin majority of one vote in the State Parliament.

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sentence: Minister of Agriculture in interview - How do we protect ourselves against poisoned eggs, Mr Schmidt?

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sentence: Germany is discussing contaminated eggs.

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sentence: how was it possible for the scandal to happen?


sentence: how can consumers protect themselves?

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sentence: Minister of Food and Agriculture Christian Schmidt (CSU) answers our questions in interview with RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND).


sentence: Mr Schmidt, how can consumers protect themselves against poisoned eggs?


sentence: I can only encourage all consumers to look very carefully at the eggs in their fridge and check the stamps printed on them.

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sentence: the federal states are each supplying their most up-to-date information on the affected egg batches on the consumer protection portal www.Lebensmittelwarnung.de.

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sentence: affected eggs should be destroyed or returned.


sentence: even if, according to everything we know at this point in time, a health risk is all but ruled out.

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sentence: is Aldi now adopting the best possible reaction to the crisis - removing all eggs from their offering - because the Federal Minister of Food and Agriculture is not really playing the central role of providing clear information?

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monitoring foodstuffs is a task for the federal states.


sentence: despite that, the ministry immediately connected and has been liaising closely with the state authorities ever since it became known that Germany was affected.

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sentence: all information and the risk assessment are accessible to consumers.


sentence: it is up to the trade just as much as it is the manufacturers to ensure that the products sold meet trading requirements and do not present any health risks.

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sentence: for eggs, if the maximum residue level of 0.005mg / kg is exceeded, then they do not meet trading requirements.

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sentence: uncontaminated eggs, however, can be sold and consumed.


this time the businesses are not at fault.


sentence: are production facilities and consumers in the same boat?

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according to what we currently know, the production facilities are not in any way directly to blame.