in fact, due to suspected illegal practices by service companies, they have to deal with commercial claims.


as always in emergencies, there are too few inspectors.


is it just the number of staff that is lacking, or the key competence as well?


sentence: it was actually the official controls themselves that exposed what was going on.

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however, we must also remember that food fraud and criminal activity can never be 100% eliminated.


sentence: it is for precisely this reason that it is so crucially important to have such occurrences thoroughly cleared up and passed over to public prosecutors in cases where crimes could have committed.

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sentence: I have already made it clear many times that I am expecting a complete resolution from the authorities in charge.

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is the alarmism that regularly arises with food scandals really necessary?


sentence: consumers have the right to get only safe food that is approved for market.

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sentence: if a prohibited insecticide is used in the food industry, consumers are quite right to be indignant.

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sentence: thanks to these adulterated products, manufacturers, retailers and consumers get into a situation that is entirely unnecessary.

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sentence: fundamentally the following has to be clear: the unlawful use of the insecticide Fipronil in the farming of food-producing animals is not acceptable and must be ended immediately.

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work must be done on this consistently and urgently at all levels.


sentence: I expect all responsible authorities to clear up the matter swiftly and completely.


sentence: how soccer's financial rules impact Neymar's move to Paris

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sentence: rules aimed at preventing unfettered spending by European soccer clubs will not disrupt Neymar's world-record transfer from Spain's Barcelona to France's Paris-Saint Germain.

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sentence: any consequences will come further down the line for Paris Saint-Germain from UEFA, the governing body overseeing the European game which has the power to ban teams from the prestigious Champions League tournament.

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sentence: financial Fair Play rules launched by UEFA in 2011 mean that PSG will eventually have to show that Neymar's transfer was funded without incurring huge losses.

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sentence: Barcelona has been paid 222 million euros ($262 million) just to buy the Brazilian out of his contract and Neymar will command a salary that will run to tens of millions of dollars a year.

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sentence: here are some of the financial aspects of Neymar's move to France.

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sentence: PSG can certainly stump up the cash to sign Neymar and add him to a galaxy of other stars, given the team's funding from the energy-rich ruling family of Qatar.

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sentence: clubs are allowed to spend heavily on acquiring players but they have to counterbalance that with legitimate sources of income, allowing them to approach break-even on their football-related business.

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sentence: FFP was conceived by Michel Platini after his election as UEFA president in 2007.

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sentence: the former France player believed that clubs who ran up huge debts in their pursuit of success were effectively cheating and risking ruin if banks or owners withdrew their support.

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sentence: in 2011, FFP shifted from focusing on clubs' debts to monitoring their losses instead.

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sentence: the change meant that the business model Roman Abramovich initially used at Chelsea in 2003 - buy a club with potential, and then spend heavily to improve the squad and build a global brand - become a tougher proposition.

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sentence: during the current three-year FFP assessment period that runs through 2018, clubs can incur losses of 30 million euros.


sentence: and despite Platini being ousted in disgrace from the presidency in 2015, his UEFA successor Aleksander Ceferin is still committed to deterring excessive spending.

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sentence: "certainly FFP is not dead and we will, for sure, reinforce the rules going forward," Andrea Traverso, who oversees FFP at UEFA, told The Associated Press last week.

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sentence: although PSG will have paid Neymar's buyout clause in one lump sum, it can spread the amount for accounting purposes over the length of his contract.

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sentence: Neymar has signed a five-year deal, so the transfer fee could be shown as a 44.4 million-euro cost in the annual accounts for the next five years.

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sentence: the first wave of FFP sanctions in 2014 saw PSG, along with Abu Dhabi-owned Manchester City, hit with the heaviest sanctions.

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sentence: PSG was handed a fine of 60 million euros (then $82 million) - that was later reduced to 20 million euros - and ordered to limit its Champions League squads to 21 players for the 2014-15 season instead of the normal 25.

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sentence: UEFA is on the lookout for clubs who might try to outwit its financial regulators by inflating their income through companies linked to a club's owners.

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sentence: while a Qatari company could sponsor PSG, if the value of the sponsorship was deemed to exceed standard market rates UEFA would not allow it to count as legitimate income.

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sentence: that is what happened in 2014 when UEFA ruled that the value of the Qatar Tourism Authority sponsorship of PSG was inflated.

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sentence: it has been reported that part of Neymar's PSG earnings could come via payments from the 2022 World Cup organizing committee in Qatar.

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sentence: but PSG and Qatar 2022 have denied that Neymar will become a World Cup ambassador and such a maneuver would be easy for UEFA's regulators to expose.

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sentence: past sanctions slapped on PSG means that UEFA will be even more watchful of any attempt to circumvent the rules.

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sentence: UEFA has not been in pre-emptive discussions with PSG about Neymar's transfer, people familiar with the situation said Thursday.

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sentence: they spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to discuss the PSG situation.

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sentence: the last published accounts show that PSG made a profit of more than 10 million euros in 2015-16 on a turnover of 542.4 million euros.

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sentence: accounts for the last financial year are yet to be published.

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sentence: PSG expects Neymar's arrival to be a boon for sponsorship deals, merchandising and jersey sales.

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sentence: the club expects turnover would grow by at least 30 percent on the back of the signing.

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clearly irritated to see one of soccer's biggest players leaving, the Spanish league tried to stymie Neymar's move, claiming that PSG will be breaching FFP.


sentence: "it is a clear case of 'financial doping', with the club and the state," La Liga President Javier Tebas told Spanish newspaper AS, referring to Qatar's ultimate ownership of PSG.

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sentence: arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, whose club is owned by an American sports tycoon, shares La Liga's reservations about a state funding a club.

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sentence: "it is the consequence of the ownerships and that has completely changed the whole landscape of football in the last 15 years," Wenger said Thursday.

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sentence: "once a country owns a club, everything is possible.

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sentence: it becomes very difficult to respect the Financial Fair Play because you can have different ways or different interests for a country to have such a big player to represent a country. "

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Swiss is on the look out for a new choccy supplier


sentence: in the last few years, Chocolat Frey has made on-board chocolates for Swiss.


sentence: now the sweet collaboration faces a possible end: the airline is inviting new calls for tenders.

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sentence: Swiss spokeswoman Meike Fuhlrott, in response to a query from news agency sda, confirmed a corresponding report from the newspaper "Nordwestschweiz" on Friday.

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sentence: according to current plans, the airline will conclude a new contract in the first half year of 2018.

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sentence: the products would be reviewed and undergo a quality control every two to three years.

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sentence: "we are very satisfied with the current supplier Chocolat Frey," said the spokeswoman.

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sentence: every year, around 17 million small 14-gram chocolate bars packaged in red and white are handed out by the flight attendants to passengers before landing.

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sentence: Swiss did not wish to make any statements on the costs.

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sentence: according to "Nordwestschweiz," industry insiders estimate the order volumes to be 1.5 to 2 million francs - the Migros subsidiary generates an annual turnover of around a billion francs.

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however, more important is always the advertising effect: for a chocolate producer, it is a prestigious contract.


Swiss will not disclose how many bidders there are for the new call for tenders.


however, only Swiss producers are eligible.


sentence: according to the newspaper report, Chocolat Frey wants to strive to renew the contract beyond Spring 2018.

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the biggest Swiss chocolate producer was not available to the sda for a statement.


sentence: Swiss has been handing out chocolate bars on board their flights since 2006.

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sentence: before Swiss concluded a contract with the Migros subsidiary, Barry Callebaut had supplied the chocolate bars, in collaboration with Hug.


sentence: Swiss introduced the possibility of inserting a logo two and a half years ago, at the start of the collaboration with Chocolat Frey.

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sentence: the airline collaborates with various Swiss chocolate manufacturers.

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sentence: on long-haul flights, the first class customers are spoiled with treats from confectioner Sprüngli; in business class, passengers nibble on chocolate from Lindt, and in economy class, chocolate from Chocolat Frey.

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on short-haul routes too, Swiss hands out chocolate from Chocolate Frey, both in business and in economy class.


sentence: track-and-field discus Olympic champion Robert HARTING reaches the World Championship finals

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sentence: the three-time world champion is fighting for a medal in the finals on Saturday.

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sentence: his brother Christoph, Olympic champion in 2016, had been unsuccessful in the national World Championship qualifier and could only watch the discus contest from the stands.

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sentence: Polish title defender Piotr Malachowski also qualified for the final showdown with his first attempt, throwing 65.13 metres.

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nostalgia Goes Niche in "Wet Hot American Summer" and "Comrade Detective"


sentence: so this iteration of the story is simultaneously nostalgic for the characters' '80s glory days; for the' 90s grunge era (around when the masterminds David Wain and Michael Showalter made the sketch comedy "The State" for MTV); and for itself - that is, for 2001, before its stars, like Elizabeth Banks, Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd, went on to bigger things.

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sentence: as a cultural artifact, it's both a sendup and embodiment of our Facebook-enabled era of permanent reminiscence.

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sentence: but as a franchise, it feels like it's running out of time.

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sentence: "first Day of Camp" worked surprisingly well, not just because of its absurdist humor (it included an origin story for a talking can of vegetables, voiced by H. Jon Benjamin).

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sentence: by doubling down on the core gag - middle-age actors playing horny kids coming of age - it made the impossibility of recapturing the past part of the joke.

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sentence: "ten Years Later," with its adults now playing adults, is less emotionally rooted and its parody more scattershot, including a riff on '90s stalker flicks like "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle."

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sentence: at one point a character rummages through an Apple Powerbook, some in-line skates and "a bunch of other things from 1991."

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many of the core stories are the same.


sweet-hearted Coop (Mr. Showalter), now a novelist, still hasn't gotten over Katie (Marguerite Moreau).


sentence: Victor (Ken Marino) still hasn't lost his virginity.

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sentence: and there's another battily villainous plot involving Ronald Reagan (also Mr. Showalter), now abetted by George H. W. Bush (a well-inhabited impression by Michael Ian Black).

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sentence: as always, the best part of the franchise is the digressions.

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it's especially fun to see the forever-young Mr. Rudd, sporting Matt Dillon's soul patch from "Singles," whose former big-man-on-camp Andy now feels like a Geezer.


sentence: it's the moments of random lunacy that might power this franchise on, like a kind of recursive "Seven Up!" series, until it reaches what I assume will be its logical conclusion: "wet Hot American Summer: twenty Years Later," whose last scene will have the gang going to see the movie premiere of "Wet Hot American Summer."

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sentence: "comrade Detective" on Amazon, meanwhile, appeals to a different brand of nostalgia: the Cold War revivalism of "The Americans," the film "Atomic Blonde" and even "GLOW," with its East versus West wrestling iconography.

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sentence: the comedy, created by Brian gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka, with Rhys Thomas directing, purports to be found TV: a Romanian 1980s buddy-cop drama about two Bucharest officers fighting for truth, atheism and the Marxist-Leninist way.

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sentence: the lead roles - hard-boiled Gregor and idealistic Iosef - are played by Florin Piersic Jr. and Corneliu ulici, their dialogue dubbed in English by Channing Tatum (also an executive producer) and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.

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sentence: it's a brilliant idea.

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sentence: but it's not much more than an idea.


sentence: there are some fine sight gags (the police pass the time watching chess on TV as Americans might football).

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sentence: and the roster of famous voice-over actors - among them Jenny Slate, Nick Offerman, Mahershala Ali and Chloë Sevigny - makes for a decent game of spot-the-voice.

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sentence: but "Comrade Detective" is so committed to the verisimilitude of a hamfisted propaganda drama - a killer wearing a Reagan mask is involved - that it often plays like one.

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sentence: at six long episodes, it drags, and the comedy isn't fast or frequent enough.

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sentence: edited to a tighter length, "Comrade Detective" might deliver better on its agitprop satire, as when Gregor and Iosef repeatedly visit the American Embassy, whose lobby is always occupied by two fat men wolfing down a pile of hamburgers.

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sentence: the message, for the imagined communist audience, is that Western culture can turn anything into fodder to binge.

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sentence: the fictional Romanian creators were not wrong: we even do it with our own recent history, and theirs.

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sentence: blow dealt to drug mafia in the country

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sentence: the police have delivered a successful blow against the Italian Mafia in Baden Württemberg.

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on Wednesday morning, in the Black Forest-Baar district, numerous properties were searched in Rottweil, Konstanz, Esslingen and Stuttgart, said the Konstanz public prosecutor's office on Friday.


in the course of this, 15 accused, aged between 25 and 77, were detained and already had arrest warrants issued against them.


sentence: in addition, officials seized large quantities of marijuana and cocaine, firearms and several hundred thousand euros.

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at simultaneous raids in Italy, two people were detained.


German arrest warrants were issued against the two suspected Italians.


both of them were therefore presumably extradited to Germany.


Italian and Bavarian investigators were involved in the operation.


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sentence: the mafia members were charged with organised drug-related crime, serious acts of violence, attempted murder, and robbery and extortion.

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sentence: Konstanz public prosecutor's office has been investigating the drug trade in southern Germany since the summer of 2016 already.

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sentence: there was an active exchange between the public prosecutor's offices in Konstanz and Palermo, and the investigators from Rottweil CID had almost daily contact with their colleagues in Sicily.

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the major operation on Wednesday morning was thus attended by four officials from Palermo.


sentence: the investigations then turned their sights above all to Italian nationals with close ties to the Italian mafia.

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sentence: an incident on 27th May in Hüfingen, during which several shots were fired into a restaurant in the early morning, is also likely to have been caused by the gang.

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Weise complains of big holes in the Register of Foreign Nationals


sentence: "data for citizens that ought not to be showing up there": according to a report, the Register of Foreigner Nationals in Germany is exhibiting significant defects.

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this is leading to some grave mistakes in decisions within asylum procedures.


Frank-Jürgen Weise, the official appointee of the German Government for the management of refugees, has brought attention to big holes in the Central Register of Foreign Nationals, according to one media report.


sentence: defects in the data registered there could lead to "some grave mistakes in decisions" when it comes to asylum procedures and deportations, warned Weise in an analysis received by the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

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sentence: according to that information, ten million people with foreign nationality are recorded in the register, among whom around 5.7 million from non-EU states.

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the data are managed by around 600 Foreigners' Registration Offices in Germany.


sentence: because the data have not been sufficiently maintained, it said, the quality of the data has in part not been good to date.

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sentence: in some cases, data from 1921 was found, "from people who have long been dead, or from citizens who became German nationals and actually should no longer be showing up in the register."


sentence: "erroneous data entries can significantly slow down return processes," the report continues.


moreover, within the statistics on those people who are obliged to leave the country are recorded EU citizens, who do not at all have to leave.


sentence: such false categorisations, however, led to "a biased debate about how to deal with those who are obliged to leave the country," it says accordingly in the analysis.

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sentence: meanwhile, the German Government has apparently begun to send back to Italy refugee families with children under 16 years of age, if this is where they entered the country from.

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sentence: this is emerging from an internal paper from the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), reports the "Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung."

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sentence: in the paper, it says that the BAMF has been once more transacting such procedures "that concern families with children - with the exception of infants and very small children - to Italy since 1st June 2017."

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sentence: since the end of 2014, that had practically no longer been possible, says the newspaper, pointing to the difficult situation on the ground.

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sentence: according to the Dublin Regulation, it is the EU state the refugee first reaches that is responsible for them.

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sentence: if a migrant travels further into another EU country, this state can send him back to the country he entered from.

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sentence: as a means of justification, the office writes: "by now, the intake capacity for families with children who are minors has significantly increased in Italy."

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sentence: Italy has provided guarantees for the intake and accommodation of families.

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the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) itself considers these pledges to be sufficient.


sentence: other EU states too would send back refugees there using the scope of the Dublin Agreement.


sentence: the Linke party's spokeswoman for domestic poicy, Ulla Elpke, criticised this decision: "due to shortcomings in the Italian asylum system, families with children are threatened with conditions of admission that contravene human rights and with risk to the child's welfare"

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sentence: second-best result achieved

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sentence: altogether, the blood donor service made 220 litres of blood from people living in Oberreichenbach available for others.

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at least, from the twelve citizens who were honoured on Friday.


sentence: ahead of everyone is Jürgen Greule, who has by now shared 50 litres of blood with his 100 donations.

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sentence: the community traditionally acknowledges the repeated willingness to give blood in the meeting of its municipal council.


sentence: "it is ingenious how our bodies are designed for this and we show respect to the donors who make their blood available for strangers, and so selflessly," stressed mayor Karlheinz Kistner.

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"one single blood donation helps multiple people," explained the district head of the on-call service of the German Red Cross (DRK), Holger Maisenbacher, for the reserves are broken down into their components.


so, as many as three people could benefit from a single blood donation.


sentence: at the same time, Maisenbacher reported on the campaigns that are to be carried out in Oberreichenbach in the spring.

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sentence: "this year, we achieved our second best result ever, with 114 donors," said the DRK on-call district head.

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sentence: obviously the move into the theatre venue a few years ago led to a higher number of participants.

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already before then, Thomas Bockstadt, Susanne Reichle, Sandra Schöck, Thomas Reichle and Meta Umbeer were numbered amongst the repeat donors and honoured for having made 50 donations each.


sentence: half as many were clocked up by Herbert Mair and Dorothee Reixinger, while Tamara Pfrommer, Petra Schleeh, Stefanie Stoll and Uwe Vetter each gave 500 millilitres of their lifeblood.

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Bank of England to keep interest rates at 0.25%


sentence: the Bank of England is expected to announce later that interest rates will remain unchanged after lacklustre economic growth and easing inflation dampened speculation over a hike.

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the Bank of England has warned economic growth will remain "sluggish" as it kept interest rates on hold amid a tightening squeeze on family incomes.


sentence: policymakers on the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted 6-2 to keep rates at 0.25%, with fewer members this month calling for a rise as lacklustre economic growth has weakened support for a hike.

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sentence: in its quarterly inflation report, the Bank cut its forecasts for growth to 1.7% in 2017 and 1.6% in 2018 and cautioned the squeeze on household incomes would continue, with inflation still expected to surge close to 3% in the autumn.

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sentence: but it signalled rate hikes will be needed over the next few years to rein in Brexit-fuelled inflation and said borrowing costs may need to rise by more than expected in financial markets.


sentence: members also voted to withdraw part of the mammoth economy-boosting package unleashed a year ago in the aftermath of Brexit.

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sentence: it will call time on the Term Funding Scheme to offer cheap-finance to banks from next February, although it said it was now expected to offer £15 billion more under the scheme - at £115 billion.

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sentence: in minutes of the rates decision, the Bank said: "in the MPC's central forecast, gross domestic product (GDP) remains sluggish in the near-term as the squeeze on households' real incomes continues to weigh on consumption."

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sentence: on rates, it reiterated that "some tightening of monetary policy" would be needed to cool inflation and by a "somewhat greater" extent than markets expect.

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sentence: markets are currently forecasting the first rise in the third quarter of next year and another in 2020.

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but the Bank stressed that any hikes would be "gradual" and "limited."


sentence: the Bank's downgraded growth forecasts for this year and next compare with the 1.9% and 1.7% predicted in May.


it maintained its forecast for growth of 1.8% in 2018.


sentence: sterling fell against the dollar and the euro following the news.

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sentence: the pound was 0.5% down at 1.31 US dollars and fell 0.4% to 1.11 euros.

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sentence: the no-change decision comes after recent disappointing growth figures have dampened mounting expectations of a hike, with GDP edging up to 0.3% in the second quarter from 0.2% in the previous three months.

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sentence: growth is likely to remain at 0.3% in the third quarter, although it will start to pick up slightly at the end of the year, according to the Bank.

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sentence: its latest inflation report offered little cheer for households being hit by soaring inflation and paltry pay rises as it said the squeeze will get worse before it gets better.

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sentence: it added that monetary policy "cannot prevent" the hit to incomes over the next few years, but expects wages will recover "significantly" towards the end of its three-year forecast.

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sentence: the economy is also set for a boost from surging demand for British goods thanks to the weak pound, which will offset some of the lower consumer spending.

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sentence: the decision comes a year after rates were cut to 0.25% last August following the shock EU referendum vote, which sent the pound slumping.

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sentence: the Bank estimates it will likely take four years to fully feed through to prices and the economy.

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sentence: prior to the Bank's latest rates verdict, there had been growing clamour for a rate rise as inflation ramped up pressure on hard-pressed households, with three policymakers calling for an increase to 0.5% in July.

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sentence: inflation eased back to 2.6% last month from 2.9% in June, although the Bank said this was expected and will pick up once again over the coming months.

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sentence: the Bank said the overshoot relative to its 2% target was "entirely" down to the weak pound.


sentence: Andrew Montlake, director at Coreco Mortgage Brokers, said: "given the recent fall in swap rates, the mortgage market looks set to become ever more competitive once more as lenders clamour for business and look to end the year in positive fashion.

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sentence: the market looks particularly good for those who may be coming to the end of their existing deals as re-mortgages, many with fee-free options as well as low rates, become ever more popular. "

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sentence: NHS to prescribe controversial HIV drug to 10,000

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sentence: patients will be able to access a 'transformative' HIV prevention treatment from September following a High Court battle over funding the drug on the NHS.

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sentence: NHS England announced that pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a pill taken before sex which has been shown to reduce the risk of infection in high-risk individuals by around 86 per cent, will now be provided by the health service through an initial three-year trial to an estimated 10,000 people.

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sentence: it agreed to fund the trial after the Court of Appeal upheld a High Court ruling last year, which said the NHS had the power to pay for PrEP despite its claims that local authorities should fund it.

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sentence: the move announced on Thursday was hailed as a 'major new intervention' by NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens while the National Aids Trust (NAT) described it as a 'pivotal moment'.

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sentence: sexual health clinics in London, Brighton, Manchester, Liverpool and Sheffield will be among the first to start enrolling people, with more clinics joining in October before full implementation across England by April 2018.

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sentence: trials have shown PrEP significantly reduces HIV transmission among those at-risk of infection.

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sentence: taking PrEP before sex means there is just enough of certain drugs in a person's body to prevent an HIV infection taking hold.

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sentence: such drugs can be taken every day or as soon as two hours before having sex.

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sentence: those eligible for the treatment include gay or bisexual men, transgender people and those with HIV-positive partners who are not successfully receiving treatment.

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sentence: clinics will identify eligible participants who consent to the trial, including men, women, transgender people, and individuals who have a partner whose HIV status is not known to be controlled by anti-retroviral treatment.

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sentence: people living and registered with a GP in England will also be able to enrol for potential participation at their local participating sexual health clinic.

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sentence: the programme will cost £10 million and NHS England signed a contract to source the drugs this week following an international competitive procurement.

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sentence: the trial is designed to assess the full potential of PrEP by gathering clinical evidence on how it is targeted, taken up, and implemented on a large scale.

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sentence: Mr Stevens said: 'this major new intervention should complement and supercharge the wide-ranging and increasingly successful effort to prevent HIV.

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sentence: it's another milestone in more than three decades' worth of progress in tackling one of humanity's major health challenges. '

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sentence: Deborah Gold, chief executive at NAT (National Aids Trust), said: 'this is a pivotal moment in the fight against HIV.

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sentence: prep, if targeted properly at those in need and at risk, offers the possibility of transforming the English HIV epidemic.

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sentence: from September, people at high risk of HIV will have access via this NHS-funded trial in England to an empowering new tool that is truly individually controlled and not subject to negotiation with a partner, leading to the improvement of many, many lives.

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we warmly welcome this announcement. '


sentence: Ian Green, chief executive of the Terrence Higgins Trust, said: 'the priority must now be to make sure that the trial is rolled out speedily across the country, and that no-one at risk of HIV is left behind.

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sentence: now that the PrEP trial drug has been procured, we're well on the way to protecting over 10,000 people at risk of HIV. '

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sentence: shadow public health minister Sharon Hodgson said: 'the start of the PrEP trial is welcome and long overdue after months of delays and heel-dragging by the Government.

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sentence: the evidence shows just how transformative this drug can be as part of our approach to HIV prevention and ending the transmission of this life-changing infection.

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sentence: this trial will take us one step closer to fully understanding the benefits of PrEP.

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sentence: now it is important that this trial is rolled out as quickly as possible across the country to protect individuals who are exposed to HIV and help take us one step closer to ending the spread of HIV in society. '

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sentence: living the high life: mezzanine floor and clever design tricks have transformed this small Earls Court flat into a spacious home

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sentence: Joanne Leigh, a former banker with a passion for doing up property, downsized from a large home in Knightsbridge to an Earls Court apartment in 2014.

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sentence: it is on the first floor of a smart Queen Anne terrace - and it is a testament to the new design that Joanne hasn't packed her bags and sold on.

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sentence: "before this, I was living with my ex in Knightsbridge in a much bigger space," Joanne says.

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sentence: "I was looking for something that was comparable for my price.

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sentence: I was shown this apartment in Earls Court and it had the same high ceilings.

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sentence: I fell in love with it and put an offer in that day. "

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sentence: since the first viewing, the 1,000sq ft flat has had a complete overhaul.

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sentence: originally a one-bedroom property with a convoluted layout - you had to walk through the kitchen to get to the bedroom - Joanne wanted to add storage space and a mezzanine to make the most of the generous ceiling height.

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that was my requirement, "she says.


sentence: to this end, she employed Erfan Azadi of Notting Hill-based architecture and design studio Duck & Shed to exploit the 12.5ft ceilings and create a home that wasn't only a development but a place for Joanne to live.

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sentence: the ceiling wasn't quite tall enough to add two spaces on top of each other so the architectural challenge was to create a mezzanine that you could stand up in.

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Erfan had to think creatively to resolve the brief.


"the steelwork is quite complicated," he explains.


"we had to arrange the spaces so that they stacked on top of each other without needing to hunch down.


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sentence: this arrangement allowed Erfan to get two full-height rooms on top of each other in the space - with lots of added drama.

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for the mezzanine, a vintage copper light window from Retrouvius looks down over the glamorous living area below.


sentence: mirrored gold furniture, silver accents and vintage Serge mouille lighting all set the style for the scheme.

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sentence: the use of mirrors plays a part in adding theatre, space and light.

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sentence: a short corridor is mirrored at both ends to make it appear longer.

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sentence: in the kitchen, the mirrored splashback feels like a window to another room.

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sentence: at the entrance, mirrored units provide storage for all Joanne's cutlery and glassware.

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sentence: giving the perception of a more glamorous space, the beauty of the living room is being able to close off the kitchen when it's not in use.

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foldaway kitchens are nothing new.


what's unique about this one is that it's a garage-style lift-up door.


sentence: "a bit of engineering went into that," explains Erfan of the steel-reinforced, veneered MDF door.

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sentence: "it's counter-weighted so that when you push the door up, it glides really easily."


sentence: thanks to clever use of space and storage, Joanne gained an additional 16sq m, an extra bedroom and an improved layout.

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sentence: "at the end of the day, floor space is what you are going to sell - or how your property is valued," Erfan says.

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sentence: "in a rudimentary form, a real estate agent will walk in and do a calculation based on floor size."

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sentence: here they have managed to increase the floor space while using quality materials that give the space its luxurious edge.

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sentence: "the materials are the things that you touch and therefore help to create an emotional bond in a home," says Erfan.

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sentence: "you don't fall in love with the electrical feeds in the walls.

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sentence: these are important but they don't pull the heart strings. "

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sentence: it goes to show that through good design and increased square metreage, a flat can turn from something standard into something quite amazing.

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in fact, like Joanne, you may choose not to leave.


brothers fight over $500 million property empire


sentence: two brothers are at war over one of Victoria's biggest real estate empires, worth more than $500 million, four decades after their Italian family founded the dynasty.

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sentence: former Carlton Football Club director and developer Colin De Lutis lives in a Toorak mansion three doors from younger brother Paul, who has taken him to the Supreme Court over how their property and business assets will be sliced up.

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Paul has wanted out of the family business since 2014 but an acrimonious argument is playing out in the Supreme Court over the break-up.


sentence: together with their mother Anna the brothers own 38 properties worth more than half a billion dollars, amassed since the family bought a Smith Street, Collingwood, shop in 1973.

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sentence: there, the family founded Westco Jeans and grew it into a chain of 160 retail outlets.

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it sold in 1999 for $85 million.


sentence: that money was sunk into property and the De Lutis portfolio now includes city offices, Brunswick and Sorrento development sites, Gold Coast and Mt Buller apartments, and suburban shopping centres.

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sentence: under an agreement with their late father, Colin - described by Paul as "the major driving force and the dominant personality" in the De Lutis family - owns about two-thirds of the company assets and Paul about one-third.

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sentence: a court filing says this translates to Colin owning property worth $316 million and Paul $176 million.


sentence: dividing the properties and cash has proved the sticking point for Paul.

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sentence: "the splits proposed by Colin left him with what I considered to be the best properties," he wrote in an initial court affidavit in 2015.

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sentence: last Friday, after several failed mediations, the first Supreme Court hearing was held.

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sentence: the brothers are also now fighting over who controls the existing business - which Paul alleges Colin has locked him out of.

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Colin argues this is not true, but accuses Paul of incompetently managing some properties.


sentence: in an early affidavit filed by Colin, he says he hopes to resolve the dispute.


sentence: "my Italian heritage dictates that family is the most important priority," he wrote.

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sentence: costs are mounting in the case, with hundreds of pages of affidavits, emails and reports by companies including Deloitte, Pitcher Partners and Charter Keck Cramer filed and top barristers including Allan Myers, QC, and senior solicitors retained by both sides.

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sentence: Ms De Lutis and her late husband Luigi were Italian immigrants who ran milk bars and delicatessens from the late 1950s and in the early 1970s bought a shop in Brunswick.

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sentence: they used the collateral to buy the Collingwood property where Colin opened the family's first jeans store.


sentence: Colin says he started Westco there when he was "in my final years of high school, when Paul was a young child (around 10 years old)."

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sentence: Anna De Lutis says she and Luigi, who died in 2012, hoped to pass down their properties to their sons amicably.

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sentence: "Luigi often said to me that he never wanted the brothers to end up in court," she wrote.

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sentence: two other brothers, Mark and Luke, are no longer part of the De Lutis group of companies, with Colin saying that Mark was paid $10 million when he left the business, and Luke $26 million.

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sentence: both Luke and Mark had become, Paul says, "bitter about the terms of their financial separation."

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sentence: Colin has kept a low profile despite being a former AFL club board member and, according to a 2015 biography of Eddie McGuire, the television star's best friend.

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sentence: Fairfax Media contacted Colin and Paul De Lutis on Friday, and their lawyers.

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sentence: only Colin replied, by text message, to say that because the case was before the courts "I really cannot say much."

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sentence: "it's very, very sad that my brother Paul has chosen to sue me and drag our family name through the courts," he wrote.


sentence: in mid-2016, Colin wrote in one court filing that he had tried to accommodate his brother's requests.


sentence: "our father would not have wanted to see Paul and I end up in our current dispute," he said, adding that he was "still hopeful of resolution."

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sentence: on Friday, that hope appeared gone.

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sentence: "our matter will be resolved by the courts in the near future," Colin wrote.

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sentence: Trump's new chief of staff plans to restrict the president's media diet.

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others have tried and failed.


maybe John F. Kelly can actually do it.


if so, he will be the first.


sentence: politico reports that the new White House chief of staff plans to restrict the flow of information to President Trump - including news media reports - in the hope of keeping the boss on a more even keel.

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sentence: here's a bit from reporter Josh Dawsey:

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sentence: "when new White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly huddled with senior staff on his first day at work, he outlined a key problem in President Donald Trump's White House that he planned to fix: bad information getting into the president's hands.

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sentence: Kelly told the staff that information needed to flow through him - whether on paper or in briefings - because the president would make better decisions if given good information. "

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sentence: Kelly's diagnosis makes perfect sense, but others have tried and failed to tame Trump by monitoring his media diet.

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sentence: President Trump's relationship with television goes back decades - and now that he's in the White House, his TV-watching habit is still going strong.

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sentence: "if candidate Trump was upset about unfair coverage, it was productive to show him that he was getting fair coverage from outlets that were persuadable," Sam Nunberg, a former campaign adviser, told Politico in February.

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sentence: politico's Tara Palmeri wrote at the time that "the key to keeping Trump's Twitter habit under control, according to six former campaign officials, is to ensure that his personal media consumption includes a steady stream of praise."

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okay.


sentence: but the idea that Trump's Twitter habit has ever been "under control" is laughable.

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maybe these campaign officials know something the rest of us don't - that Trump's tweets would have been even more inflammatory if not for their interventions.


we'll probably never know about tweets that Trump didn't send.


sentence: if his staffers managed to him out of trouble even a few times, then their efforts were worthwhile.

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sentence: but no one has been able to consistently prevent Trump from stirring up controversy.

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sentence: part of the problem is that in a White House composed of competing factions, people invariably try to advance their agendas by presenting Trump with material - which may or may not be reliable - that promotes their worldviews.

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sentence: politico - all over this story - reported in May on advisers' penchants for strategically feeding dubious information to the president.

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sentence: this was one example, described by reporter Shane Goldmacher:

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"current and former Trump officials say Trump can react volcanically to negative press clips, especially those with damaging leaks, becoming engrossed in finding out where they originated.


sentence: that is what happened in late February when someone mischievously gave the president a printed copy of an article from GotNews.com, the website of Internet provocateur Charles C. Johnson, which accused deputy chief of staff Katie Walsh of being 'the source behind a bunch of leaks' in the White House.

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sentence: no matter that Johnson had been permanently banned from Twitter for harassment or that he offered no concrete evidence or that he had lobbed false accusations in the past and recanted them.

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sentence: Trump read the article and began asking staff about Walsh. "


sentence: Goldmacher added that then-chief of staff Reince Priebus and White House staff secretary Rob Porter "have tried to implement a system to manage and document the paperwork Trump receives."

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how'd that work out?


sentence: Kelly is trying to do the same thing, three months later.

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sentence: perhaps he will prove a more effective manager than Priebus, but Trump is still his impulsive self, and his aides are still vying for influence.

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sentence: those immutable factors will make Kelly's mission very difficult.

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sentence: most-wanted criminals receive post from Europol

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sentence: as the address is unknown, the assistance of the population is being requested and hoped for.

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sentence: police across all of Europe are sending (virtual) postcards this summer to dangerous criminals on the run.

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sentence: since the addresses of the sought-after serious criminals are not known, they are hoping and asking for tips from the population.

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sentence: Europol reported on Friday about the campaign, which follows on from the "EU Most Wanted" advent calendar from the winter.

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sentence: experience has shown that many fugitives hide out in holiday destinations, was the word from Europol.

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sentence: 21 postcards for sought-after criminals from 21 EU countries have been assembled.

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sentence: the website www.eumostwanted has existed since 2016, and has been visited more than 2.5 million times.

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sentence: it has so far been possible to arrest 36 of those being sought online; at least 11 of these are due to tips following publication on the internet site.

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sentence: travellers negotiate trench, return to 'Millionaire's row'

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sentence: some of the West Midlands' wealthiest homeowners are again at loggerheads with determined travellers who have negotiated a council-dug trench to reclaim a field outside their mansions.

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sentence: the travellers have parked their 20 caravans in a field outside a prosperous street of Solihull dubbed 'millionaire's row'.

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sentence: bringing horses, babies and an army of vans, they have returned after being kicked out only in May, undeterred by a moat dug by the council to prevent their incursions.

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sentence: the tactful group found a gap in the defences, squeezing their vehicles though a section left unbarricaded to accommodate a pathway.

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sentence: furious residents have savaged Solihull Council saying it was' useless at dealing with the problem '.

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sentence: one anonymous resident said: 'they moved there on Monday night after being moved on from Bentley Heath where they were throwing rocks at passers by.

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sentence: the council needs to be shamed into action as they are useless at dealing with the problem.


the travellers were there in May, were moved on and now they are back again.


more arrived last night, probably even more today. '


sentence: she added: 'Birmingham council knows how to deal with this by getting long injunctions to protect their parks.

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sentence: I live on Streetsbrook road and I'm not happy to continue paying my council tax when the council can't even stop this. '


one local resident who did not wish to be named said: 'it is ridiculous, we have only just seen the last round of these travellers leaving, only to be blighted by another round.


sentence: the numbers have increased this time and a horse has even been seen grazing on the parkland. '

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sentence: a spokeswoman for Solihull Council said: 'we are aware of an unauthorised encampment on land off Streetsbrook Road and working alongside Solihull Police, we are undertaking the necessary legal actions to move them on as quickly as possible.

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sentence: to support our evidence gathering it is very important that as many local residents as possible report any anti-social or criminal behaviour to the police by calling 101.

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sentence: this helps build a picture of the situation for the court to consider when we present our case to them. '

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Birkenhof becomes Waldhotel Luise


the former Hotel Birkenhof is being turned into the Waldhotel Luise.


sentence: the house just outside Freudenstadt is currently being renovated and should be opened again on 1st March next year.

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sentence: that is good news for the city.

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sentence: for when the Hotel Birkenhof was closed by former operating company Ambiente Betriebsgesellschaft mbH on 13th April 2014, at the time around 30,000 overnight stays per year were lost, and with that, the income from the visitors' taxes.


sentence: in the autumn of 2014, in the face of dramatically increasing numbers of refugees who were coming into the rural district, the hotel building was offered to the district administration as collective housing, which sparked controversial discussions.

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sentence: the city prevented the accommodation of asylum seekers by preparing development plans to secure the area as a hotel location.


the decision passed in the municipal council back then without controversy.


yet Freudenstadt's lord mayor, Julian Osswald, in particular, defended the hotel location and already back then spoke of serious interested parties in the establishment.


and he was right.


sentence: the Luisenhotels Group, with Managing Director Birgit Scherer, based in Bad Bergzabern, acquired the former Hotel Birkenhof at a voluntary auction in Berlin and wants to return it to being an establishment in the three-stars-or-more category, under the name Waldhotel Luise.

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sentence: the group has four establishments including the Freudenstadt property.

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two of them are in Bad Bergzabern, and one is in Bad Herrenalb.


they are called Hotel Luise, Luisenpark, Parkhotel Luise and, now, Waldhotel Luise.


sentence: there has been a skip standing in front of the entrance to the former Hotel Birkenhof for a long time now, and when you enter the building, it becomes clear just how extensive the refurbishment works are that are being undertaken.

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sentence: the floors have been ripped out, ceilings partly dismantled, old bath tubs taken out of the rooms.

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the entire hotel building is one big construction site.


there is still a lot to do before March.


sentence: "it is truly a beautiful hotel," says Thomas Scherer in conversation with our paper.

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everything is to be redone in the Black Forest style.


sentence: the rooms are being kitted out with large, walk-in showers, the entrance foyer is being revamped, new windows are being installed.

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everything should later become "beautifully in touch with the people," is how Thomas Scherer expressed it.


"we want to make a gem of it."


swimming pool, wellness area and a meeting room are part of the facilities.


sentence: one doesn't want to position oneself at the high level of the hotels in Lauterbad, but still at an elevated downtown level, stressed Scherer.

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sentence: the Waldhotel Luise, with its roughly 60 rooms, wants to set itself up for a broad audience, explains Scherer further.


sentence: individual holiday-makers, groups, and business people, should all feel at home in the hotel.

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sentence: Scherer said that he had already had conversations with Lord Mayor Julian Osswald and Director of Tourism Michael Krause.

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sentence: the city's expectations are said to be in line with those of the hotel group.

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"we're on the same page."


sentence: asked about the level of investments, Thomas Scherer doesn't want to commit himself precisely.

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a little under a million euros, he reckons.


the outside facilities are also being revamped - that can already be seen.


sentence: in an inner courtyard, a large terrace is taking shape, which will be accessible from the restaurant, which is public.

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sentence: Thomas Scherer is optimistic: "Freudenstadt is a good market."

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sentence: Russia affair: us Special Counsel convenes grand jury

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sentence: in the Russia affair surrounding US President Donald Trump, Special Counsel Robert Mueller is said to have convened a so-called grand jury, according to one report.

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sentence: the panel started work in recent weeks, wrote the "Wall Street Journal," relying on sources intimately acquainted with the matter.

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sentence: the newspaper judged the step to be a sign that Mueller has broadened and intensified his investigations.

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sentence: the broadcaster CNN reported that the panel has already issued its first subpoenas in connection with a meeting between Trump's oldest son and a Russian lawyer.

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us secret service has long been accusing the Kremlin of purposefully interfering in the 2016 presidential election campaign.


Mueller is investigating whether there was any collusion between Trump's campaign team and Moscow.


sentence: several men who acted as Republican advisers during the election campaign are said to stand at the centre of the investigations.

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sentence: according to reports, Mueller has been subjecting Trump's private and business circles to more and more scrutiny.

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sentence: the "Washington Post" wrote a few weeks ago that the Special Counsel has personally shifted the centre of focus onto Trump and is investigating the charge of whether or not the President could have obstructed the course of justice during the affair.


sentence: it is the main task of the grand jury to review the available evidence in cases of possible felonies and to decide whether charges should be brought.

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Grand juries are for this reason also called prosecution chambers.


sentence: they are usually engaged for major and controversial cases.

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sentence: the procedure always takes place behind closed doors.

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sentence: the panel may also be engaged by the public prosecutor's office to subpoena people for questioning under oath.

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sentence: according to the broadcaster CNN, subpoenas have already been issued in relation to a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer.


sentence: people who had been involved in this meeting had been summoned to give evidence, the report said.

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sentence: they were also supposed to make documents available.

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sentence: in addition to Trump Jr., Trump's adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner and his former campaign manager Paul Manafort were also present at the meeting.

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sentence: legal experts said on US television on Thursday evening that the convening shows that Mueller will not let himself be intimidated in his work and that he is willing to act quickly, should that be necessary.

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however, this does not necessarily mean that the grand jury is ultimately being engaged in order to decide whether to bring charges.


sentence: nevertheless, the convening of the panel signals the beginning of a new phase in the investigations and gives President Trump a new cause for concern.

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sentence: in the midst of these new revelations, the President took advantage of a speech in West Virginia on Thursday evening in order to portray the Russia affair as a campaign of his political opponents.

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"the Russia story is a total fabrication," said Trump.


sentence: he said the subject gives Democrats an opportunity "to feel better when they have nothing else to talk about."

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his special adviser Ty Cobb explained in a statement that he knew nothing about the convening of a grand jury.


but it usually operates in secret, he stressed.


sentence: the White House supports any measures that speed up the work of the Special Counsel in a "fair" way.

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former head of the FBI James Comey said three times that the President was not under investigation, he said.


sentence: there is no reason to presume that anything has changed, his statement continued.

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however, Mueller was only engaged after Trump had fired Comey.


due to the sacking, accusations were raised that he wanted to obstruct the course of justice.


Comey stated before a Senate committee in June that Trump had asked him to put an end to the investigations into former national security adviser Michael Flynn.


sentence: the President was under a lot of pressure because of the investigation.

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as the US media portrays it, the White House gathered materials against the Special Counsel and his colleagues.


sentence: this gave rise to speculations about whether Trump wanted to dismiss Mueller.

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sentence: unlike an independent Special Counsel of Congress, such as, for example, in the Watergate scandal concerning President Richard Nixon, who later stepped down, Mueller is in a position where, in theory, he could be fired by the justice department if the President pushed for it.

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sentence: however, various senators, from both parties, want to avoid such a move.

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sentence: two groups of Republican and Democratic senators proposed draft legislation on Thursday that would make it no longer so easy for the Special Counsel to be dismissed.

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sentence: Antarctica: gigantic iceberg drifts into the Antarctic

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sentence: in the West Antarctic, a gigantic iceberg almost seven times the size of Berlin has detached from the ice shelf.

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the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven communicated this on Wednesday.


sentence: the over a trillion-ton-heavy and 5800-square-kilometre-big colossus is now drifting to the north and will probably need two or three years to melt.

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sentence: with a length of 175 kilometres and a width of up to 50 kilometres, it is one of the largest ice giants that researchers have recorded in the last three decades.

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sentence: it does not pose any danger for men.

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sentence: the extent to which climate change had a part to play in the iceberg breaking off is unclear from the research scientists' findings.

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sentence: nevertheless, altogether, there have been a series of unusual collapses of ice shelves in the region for around 30 years now, writes the US research centre for snow and ice (NSIDC) in a background fact report.

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sentence: many researchers believe this could be connected to global warming.


sentence: the now detached colossus was previously a part of the Larsen C ice shelf.

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sentence: shelf ice floats on the sea and is fed by large glaciers.

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sentence: it thereby grows out ever further into the sea and regularly breaks off.


sentence: the Larsen C ice shelf is located south of South America, almost at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.

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sentence: the equilibrium between growing and breaking off became disrupted north of this ice shelf a few years ago.

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an entire ice shelf crumbled there, writes AWI researcher Daniela Jansen.


sentence: there is some evidence that the Larsen C ice shelf is in danger too, for the front edge has never retreated so far back as it currently is.

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what is more, the ice sheet is under tension and could crumble if a piece breaks off at a key point.


sentence: the melting of shelf ice and icebergs do not raise sea water levels, since they float on the water and ice displaces as much water as it itself produces after melting.

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sentence: however, the loss of the ice shelf leads to the glaciers feeding directly into the sea, and being able to flow out much faster than before.

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the could potentially raise sea water levels, though only to a small degree, writes the British research project for monitoring the Antarctic (Midas).


according to information from the AWI, the Larsen C ice shelf, at almost 50,000 square metres, is the fourth biggest ice shelf in Antarctica.


sentence: it is up to 700 metres thick where it meets the mainland, and around 200 metres at the front edge to the open ocean.

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it regularly breaks off there.


sentence: "although this is a natural event, and we're not aware of any direct link to climate change, this puts the ice sheet in a very vulnerable position," says Martin O'Leary from Britain's Swansea University.

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"this is the furthest back that it has been since records began," he also confirmed.


sentence: there is disagreement among scientists as to whether the Larsen C ice shelf will now grow again or whether it is receding long term and possibly collapsing, said his colleague Adrian Luckman, adding: "our models say it will be less stable."

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sentence: but this development will take decades.

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sentence: even if these researchers do not attribute the break-off of this gigantic iceberg to climate change, nevertheless, very many ice shelfs in the Antarctic Peninsula have crumbled in recent decades.

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this long tail of Antarctica stretches towards South America.


according to data from the research programme the British Antarctic Survey, the ice surface area of the Antarctic Peninsula has declined by 28,000 square kilometres since the 1950s.


the rise in temperatures has contributed to this decline.


sentence: the Antarctic Peninsula has warmed up by around three degrees in the last 50 years and is amongst those areas where temperatures are rising most quickly.

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CDU want in-house wage agreement for staff


sentence: since it is getter ever more difficult to fill the positions that become available, the CDU is calling for secession from the employers' association, so as to become more attractive.

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sentence: shortly before the Summer recess, the district assembly rubber-stamped 41 new posts in the administration.

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more than 1100 permanent staff members and officials work for the district administration in Mettmann.


now another 17 trainees once more have their first working day behind them.


sentence: the apprenticeship positions at the district are apparently very coveted.

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sentence: there were around 620 applications recorded for the places on offer this year.

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sentence: however, the district is lacking additional personnel which it needs to overcome growing demands and duties.

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sentence: currently there are 50 positions at the district of Mettmann that are still unfilled.


sentence: sought after are, among others, doctors and engineers as well as general administrative staff.

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sentence: the CDU, together with the FDP and the UWG, now wants to seize the initiative in the district assembly and counter the dearth of skilled workers in the administration.

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sentence: the administration is to "work out a plan for acquiring and developing staff," in line with the wishes of the parties.

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the plan is not only to satisfy short-term demand in skilled workers, but, with a view to the future, to counteract the shortage of applicants, it is reported.


the entire concept should focus internally and externally, demonstrate concrete measures for lateral entry employees, and include a training offensive, demand the CDU, FDP and UWG.


sentence: well that does sound like a good approach.

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sentence: for the district has staffing problems, the likes of which it has not seen before.

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sentence: other cities poach good officials and staff members and offer attractive conditions.

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sentence: the talk is of a downright "contest between public employers."

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sentence: in addition, a large number of employees are leaving service due to illness or age.

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sentence: high time to act then, so that not even more positions remain unfilled.

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sentence: yet Klaus-Dieter Völker, parliamentary group leader of the CDU, is, with his party, going even beyond the joint request.

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sentence: just recently he caused a huge surprise in the district assembly when he publicly called the staff capping into question and startled the other parties.

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Völker wants all avenues to be examined that enable a secession from the municipal employers' association.


sentence: "if we don't reach a satisfactory solution in the short term, the district administration should strive with the unions - perhaps also in collaboration with the district's towns - to secure an in-house wage agreement," said Völker.

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the CDU are thereby attempting to pay the permanent staff and officials better than the pay-scale for public sector workers actually allows for.


sentence: salaries are currently prescribed exactly, and there are only raises or more money when moves into a more senior level, which is based on years experience.

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sentence: yet the district's tasks have expanded more and more in recent years.

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sentence: for the first time a few weeks ago, new premises had to be erected for staff to tackle the provisions of the new prostitutes Protection Act.

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sentence: not least because of the growing number of applications for asylum, County Commissioner Thomas Hendele and District Director Martin Richter have a problem: they have too few staff.

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sentence: Italy toughens tone on NGO migrant rescue boats

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sentence: Italy has warned NGOs operating migrant rescue boats in the Mediterranean they will not be allowed to continue if they do not sign up to new rules governing their operations.

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sentence: "if NGOs do not sign up to a new code of conduct, it is difficult to see how they can continue operating," Interior Minister Marco Minniti said in an interview with Turin daily La Stampa.

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sentence: Minniti's warning came a day after Italian authorities impounded a boat operated by German aid organisatiion Jugend rettet on suspicion its crew effectively collaborated with people traffickers in a way that facilitated illegal immigration.

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sentence: the aid organisation, which has only been operational for a year, declined to comment on the substance of detailed allegations made against it by Italian prosecutor Ambrogio Cartosio.

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sentence: "for us the rescue of human life is and will be our top priority, so we are very sorry we will not be able to operate in the search and rescue zone at the moment," the organisation said in a statement on social media.

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sentence: "we can only assess all the accusations currently being made after we have gathered all the information and can assess the situation."

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sentence: Italian authorities had been monitoring Jugend rettet's boat, the Iuventa, since October.


sentence: its crew is suspected to taking on board dinghy loads of migrants delivered directly to them by people traffickers and allowing the smugglers to make off with the vessels to be used again.

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sentence: at least one such meeting allegedly took place only 1.3 miles off the Libyan coast, according to the prosecutor's file, the contents of which were published by Italian media.

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sentence: the crew are suspected of having flouted the authority of the Italian coastguard, which oversees rescue operations in the zone, out of humanitarian zeal rather than for any other motives.

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sentence: under the code of conduct, boats like the Iuventa would notably have to have an Italian police officer on board monitoring their activities.

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sentence: only three of the nine NGOs involved in search and rescue operations have so far agreed to abide by the code: save The Children, Malta-based MOAS and Spain's Pro-Activa Open Arms.

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sentence: the latter said on Thursday it regarded the new rules as unnecessary but acceptable as they would not involve any "significant change or impediment" to its rescue operations.

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sentence: among those who have refused to sign is the Nobel Prize-winning organisation Doctors Without Borders (MSF).

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sentence: Minniti meanwhile said a sharp fall over recent weeks in the number of migrants arriving in Italy following rescues was an indication that efforts to beef up the Libyan coastguard and cooperation with local mayors was bearing fruit.

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sentence: "in recent days we have begun to see light at the end of the tunnel," the minister said.

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sentence: he revealed plans for further talks this month with Libyan mayors on economic development initiatives and with Chad, Niger and Mali on measures to reduce the number of migrants leaving those countries in the hope of reaching Europe.

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ascents and trials


sentence: nine Weilermer Bikers, the "Berlin outpost," and two guest riders met in Wachenheim in North Palatinate to enjoy four days of trials and attractions.

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three chummy guides were on hand for this.


the accommodation in the Wachenheimer Tal proved to be a good starting point for the tours.


Wachenheim's Castle and Wine Festival was a welcome extra.


sentence: the first tour led along the vineyards, amidst hot summer temperatures, to the Chapel of St. Michael above Deidesheim.

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sentence: there followed viewing spots, some on towers, from which one could look far and wide over the Palatinate Forest and the upstream plains.

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in between, there were time and again long uphill climbs, for which long trials were the reward.


sentence: on the second day, they went to Bad Dürkheim, to the salt works and to the Wurstmarkt festival.

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again, there came vantage point after vantage point, strung together with "flowing" trials and moderate ascents.


sentence: on the last two days, lots of high altitudes were on the cards again.


sentence: caves, rocks, towers, castles, ruins and refreshment cabins brought welcome pauses.

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in Bad Dürkheim, the bikers breathed in healing salt water in the open-air inhalatorium.


they headed for Neustadt too.


sentence: after 173 kilometres and almost 4500 metres in altitude, the group had got to know the Palatinate Forest from its best side - sporty and cultural.

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sentence: console instead of turf - Bundesliga is getting ready for e-sport

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sentence: will the sports stars of the future sit in front of computer consoles instead of battling sweatily, come wind or rain, on the stadium turf?

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