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


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.


sentence: in total, over 300 policemen were deployed.

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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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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.


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


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.

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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: pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a course of HIV drugs taken before sex to reduce the risk of getting HIV.

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


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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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.


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


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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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. '


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


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.


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


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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sentence: "I wanted high ceilings, big windows, lots of light.

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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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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.


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.


sentence: it wasn't just building a simple platform, but cranking the steels so that they were at the right height for the function above or below. "

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


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


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


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


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.


"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."


on Friday, that hope appeared gone.


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.


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.


here's a bit from reporter Josh Dawsey:


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. "


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


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."


how'd that work out?


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

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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.


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.


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."


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


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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Russia affair: us Special Counsel convenes grand jury


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.


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


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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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.


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


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.


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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it does not pose any danger for men.


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.


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


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.


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


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


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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Italy toughens tone on NGO migrant rescue boats


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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"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: 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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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.


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).


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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sentence: the fact is, e-sport has long been a credible industry, a lucrative business - big stars, millions of fans and huge tournaments, complete with big salaries.

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even the top Bundesliga clubs have recognised this, and are getting more and more involved in this area.


sentence: VfL Wolfsburg took the lead in 2015, followed later by FC Schalke 04, and most recently by VfB Stuttgart, who founded an e-sport department in the middle of July and signed two pros for the computer game FIFA 17.

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"by doing this, we hope to get completely new, young target groups fired up about the VfB," says board member Jochen Röttgermann.


sentence: he is sure "that countless more clubs are getting on board this train."

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sentence: the world football association, FIFA, is organising the first "Interactive Club World Cup" this coming weekend in London, which will see gamers from different clubs compete against each other.

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alongside Schalke and Wolfsburg, Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain and PSV Eindhoven have qualified, to give some examples.


Robin Dutt also sees great potential in e-sport.


sentence: the ex-coach of Bayer Leverkusen and Werder Bremen is now consulting an agency for virtual footballers.

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sentence: "real football has to deal in particular with the 14-30 year olds, so that the young people still go to the stadium in the future," says the 52-year-old.

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sentence: and: the clubs are trying to conquer all possible markets, above all the Asian ones.

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sentence: with prominent e-sportspeople under contract, it would be possible to be present online in these markets vastly more often than the mere once a year the national team gets sent to Asia.

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what exactly is it about?


sentence: in e-sport, computer games like "League Of Legends," "DotA 2," "Counterstrike" or even the football simulator FIFA are battled out on a competitive level.


sentence: just like in the regular sport, leagues have long been established, in which the pros compete against one another.

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sentence: and for the 2022 Asian Games, e-sport is already part of the official programme.

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but is it even a real sport?


for many people, this notion certainly takes some getting used to.


Ingo Froböse also grappled with this question for a long time.


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sentence: in addition, it requires cognitive capabilities, technical and tactical understanding and an ability to react quickly.

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sentence: professional gamers ought to train not only on the console, but also their bodies, and should pay attention to their diet.

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sentence: "a fit player is a good player."

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sentence: Froböse sees problems too though: "doping is becoming more and more of an issue."

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sentence: for online games it is difficult to implement testing, and the scene is lacking the structures of the classic sport.

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sentence: the scientist positively stresses the highly integrative effect of e-sport.

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sentence: the players travel internationally, it is like a big global family, and there are no intercultural barriers.

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sentence: a study from consultancy firm Deloitte and the Federal Association of Interactive Entertainment Software (Biu) predicts rapid growth for the e-sport.

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sentence: in 2016, it turned over 50 million euros in Germany, many through advertising, sponsorship and big tournaments.

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sentence: in three years, the turnover should total 130 million.

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sentence: compared to the almost 2.4 billion euros of the football Bundesliga that is admittedly scant.

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sentence: however, the e-sport is "no longer far off other established sports like handball, basketball or ice hockey," write the Deloitte consultants.

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sentence: many countries internationally are already further ahead.

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sentence: big markets are Asia and the USA, where ex-basketball player Shaquille O'Neal and baseball star Alex Rodriguez are involved in the US team NRG eSports.

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sentence: Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher is investing in the e-sport bookmaker Unikrn.

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in Europe too, quite a bit is happening.


sentence: e-sport has been introduced to the curriculum in a Norwegian school, says Froböse.

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sentence: in the Netherlands and in France, the top division football clubs are now committed to setting up an e-sport department, according to Dutt.

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"compared with the rest of Europe, Germany is lagging behind," declares VfB board member, Röttgermann.


simply to slide back into nostalgia and romanticise the old days is no longer enough these days.


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"we are living in a digitalised world," says Dutt as well.


sentence: "so you can't cling on to the idea that only in football, everything stays as it always was."


sentence: farewell poisoned eggs! the egg alternative for cooking and baking

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sentence: by now, almost every Federal State has been affected by the scandal concerning poison-contaminated eggs.

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sentence: Aldi Süd and Aldi Nord have reacted and withdrawn all eggs from sale across the whole of Germany.


sentence: only eggs that are proven not to contain Fipronil are to be stacked onto shelves.


sentence: Michelle Carter sentenced for texts urging suicide of Conrad Roy

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sentence: a Massachusetts woman has been sentenced to two and a half years for encouraging her boyfriend to commit suicide through texts and phone calls.

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sentence: Michelle Carter, now 20, will serve 15 months of her term behind bars and five years of probation.

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sentence: Carter was convicted in June of the involuntary manslaughter of Conrad Roy, who took his own life on 13 July 2014.

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sentence: Mr Roy's father told Thursday's hearing: "my family is heartbroken.

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my son was my best friend. "


Carter was allowed to remain free pending an appeal.


sentence: she had faced a maximum sentence of 20 years, but her legal team argued that both she and Mr Roy suffered from mental illness.

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sentence: dressed in red trousers and a cream blouse, Carter stood tearfully with hands clasped and eyes cast down as she was sentenced.

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sentence: "her actions killed Conrad Roy," the prosecutor told the court.

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sentence: "she ended his life to better her own.

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she has not accepted responsibility, "she said.


sentence: "she has shown no remorse."

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sentence: but Carter's lawyer said it was a "horrible circumstance that she completely regrets."

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sentence: however, Judge Lawrence Moniz said he did not find that her "age or level of maturity or even her mental illness have any significant impact on her actions."

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sentence: a prosecutor read a statement from Mr Roy's mother, Lynn Roy, saying there was "not one day I do not mourn the loss of my beloved son.

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sentence: I want him to be proud of me and how I am handling everything - I am trying to be there for his sisters in all of my pain we will carry with us for eternity, "it said.

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sentence: Mr Roy's sister, Camdyn Roy, testified that she was "haunted" by the realisation that she would never attend her brother's wedding or be an aunt to his children.

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sentence: the case appears to set a legal precedent, as there is no Massachusetts law that criminalises telling a person to commit suicide.

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sentence: Carter was 17 when Mr Roy was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in a vehicle in 2014.

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sentence: the case drew national attention after Carter's text messages revealed she had encouraged him to end his life.

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sentence: "hang yourself, jump off a building, stab yourself I don't know there's a lot of ways," she said in several messages sent in the two weeks before his death while he was on holiday with his family.

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sentence: in the moments before his suicide, she wrote: "you need to do it, Conrad" and "All you have to do is turn the generator on and you will be free and happy."


sentence: judge Moniz said Carter sought attention through Mr Roy's death, ordering that she not be allowed to profit from the case through any press.

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sentence: the case has divided legal opinion.

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sentence: among the few to defend Carter was Amanda Knox, who was convicted of murdering her British roommate in Italy in 2007 before she was cleared two years ago.

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sentence: Ms Knox, 30, published an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times saying: "Michelle Carter deserves sympathy and help, not prison."

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Joshua kimmich: learning from FC Bayern's new mini lahm


it is no coincidence that Joshua kimmich was allowed to take to the field as captain at the Audi Cup.


sentence: FC Bayern thinks the Confederations Cup winner is capable of a big season - a bit of extra motivation doesn't hurt.

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sentence: something was different there at his place in the dressing room; Joshua kimmich noticed that immediately, even if the extra piece of kit was very, very small.

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but since on the second day of the Audi Cup there was of course no Philipp lahm anywhere to be seen, and no Manuel Neuer either, he simply put the band he'd been allocated on his arm.


sentence: "the coach didn't announce it," explained the Confederations Cup winner later, after his first outing as Bayern captain.

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sure, the debut could have gone better than the 0: 2 against SSC Napoli.


but kimmich could also interpret the signal from the coach as follows.


sentence: out of the C team of youth players, debutants and pros just back from the holidays, it was not the eight-years-older Arturo Vidal that was chosen as captain, but him.

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indeed, it is those that one thinks capable, those who one wants to keep happy that one likes to give treats to the most.


sentence: and anyone chosen to take on the mantel of lahm can do only too well with a little bit of extra motivation.


sentence: kimmich confirmed: "that is what one wants as a player: to take on responsibility."

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sentence: the 22-year-old darted over the field like a mini lahm on Wednesday.

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sentence: right back, that's his position now; the white armband cast its habitual spell.

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and in general, kimmich looked in this starting formation like one who is best able to take to the helm.


he gave instructions, attempted to steer the out-of-practice troop.


he had an eye for the bigger picture while many others were busied with themselves.


Vidal to cover up his lack of fitness (didn't really work); Renato SANCHES to live up to his performances of the Asia trip (worked, but to a limited extent); and Sebastian Rudy and Niklas Süle to not make a negative impression on their first outings in the Bayern jersey.


that worked out quite well though.


Süle took to the field alongside kimmich, Rudy in front of the defence - both performed excellently.


the renowned Napoli attack often made heavy weather of it, and on top of that, Süle made a couple of successful attempts as the game developed.


sentence: his team mate, Rudy, admitted that the result "was not what we had hoped for."

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but he too showed a decent performance on his debut.


sentence: shifting play, changing pace: "that's the style I was brought in for."

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just how unused to new arrivals this Bayern world is could be seen after the match.


sentence: Rudy, for example, gave not one or two, but as many as six or seven interviews in the tunnels.

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kimmich took his leave after a few crisp remarks in support of his new team mates.


sentence: there was an interesting sentence to be heard from Süle there: "I've already noticed what went wrong here.

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sentence: at Bayern, you just have to win every game. "

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he doesn't have to teach the newbies that anymore though.


sentence: Alaba motivates the ÖFB women

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sentence: David Alaba believes our ÖFB women will be successful


sentence: Austria's most famous footballer spoke up shortly before the game and wished the ÖFB women all the best.

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sentence: the Bayern legionnaire is, after all, practically a club mate of the ÖFB captain Schnaderbeck, and cheers our ladies on.

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the tweet from the Austrian Footballer of the Year and Champions League winner was intended to give a special injection of motivation.


our ladies could perhaps also do with a bit of that famous Bayern luck.


sentence: companies happy with Rhineland-Palatinate minister: industry praises Wissing's speed

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sentence: the relationship between the state and local industry often proved irreconcilable when Evaline Lemke (The Greens) was still Rhineland Palatinate's Economic Affairs Minister.

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sentence: this is evident after more than a year of the new Economic Affairs Minister, Volker Wissing (FDP) being in office.

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sentence: chambers and companies from the region are responding to a TV enquiry by speaking of a change in economic policy - and at the same time rebuke the old minister.

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Frank natus, chairman of the association of Trier companies Vereinigung Trierer Unternehmen (VTU) says: "Wissing is addressing the wishes of the industry, all of which Lemke blocked."


sentence: natus considers the biggest U-turn to be in infrastructure policy: linking the A1 motorway between Kelber and Adenau is now right at the top of the state's list of priorities.

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sentence: the Ministry hopes that planning procedures will be in place this year already, and the construction rights should hold until 2021.


sentence: the Trier western bypass also plays a role in the state's plans, being in the priority need category of The Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan.

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the goal is to put the stretch into service in December 2020, says ministry spokesperson Cornelia Holtmann.


sentence: natus sees in this a roadmap for supporting regional, but internationally competitive, companies.


sentence: the Trier Chamber of Industry and Commerce (IHK) is striving, as spurred on by Wissing, to achieve a Rhineland-Palatinate label for wine, in order to increase sales in supermarkets and stop the trend of the last ten years of sagging German wine exports.

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sentence: in addition, Wissing is said to have a sympathetic ear for people who want to found their own company, the IHK applauded.

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the Trier Chamber of Trades sees an additional incentive for young trainees in the new master bonus, says manager Matthias Schwalbach.


sentence: a prize of 1000 euros is envisaged for passing the master craftsman examination, and 2500 euros if graduates become self-employed within ten years of their master craftsman training.


sentence: the state's list of homework assignments remains long though.

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sentence: facts have to presented quickly for the road construction planned, and at the same time the state is lacking the necessary human resources, says Jan Glockauer, Managing Director of the Trier IHK.

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sentence: of the 56 new engineers that Wissing wants to employ at the Federal State Office for Mobility, only 29 posts have been filled thus far.

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sentence: the IHK is pressing for more contracts to be awarded to external offices.

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sentence: Deputy leader of the CDU parliamentary faction Christian Baldauf points to calculations from the Court of Auditors: in 2017 and 2018, the state is investing more than 20 million euros less on maintaining federal state roads than recommended.

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Frank natus is also still expecting the state to put forward a policy as to how it wants to remedy the lack of skilled workers in the region.


sentence: also sobering is the expansion of broadband in the state up until now.


sentence: in 2016, in an IHK survey, local companies had evaluated the mains supply with a mark of only 3.4.

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they complained about sluggish internet connections and outages.


sentence: ex-Minister of Economic Affairs Eveline Lemke, on the other hand, is currently out of politics and is still sitting on the supervisory board of wind energy company Pro Wind.

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sentence: Lemke left the Green party in April in order to become president of a private university in Karlsruhe - from where, after four months, she has already bid a retreat due to disagreements.

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Audi to Modify Up to 850,000 Diesel Vehicles as Carmakers Face Backlash


sentence: a day before Audi's announcement, BMW said it would offer to upgrade the software in more than 350,000 vehicles.

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sentence: the BMW chairman said the company believed "there are more intelligent options than driving restrictions," referring to the European cities - including Munich, where BMW is based - that have considered banning or restricting diesel vehicles.

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sentence: Daimler announced on Tuesday that it would modify three million Mercedes vehicles in Europe to reduce their diesel emissions.

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sentence: none of the companies described the moves as recalls.


sentence: European carmakers have heavily promoted the use of diesel vehicles in Europe and the United States to help meet rules on carbon dioxide emissions.

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sentence: but the nitrogen oxides that diesel engines emit are considered carcinogens, and can cause asthma.

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sentence: the cost to automotive companies of installing equipment to neutralize the fumes emitted by diesel vehicles is also increasing, making it difficult to keep the price of the cars competitive.

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sentence: as German automakers face scrutiny, the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel has also been accused of coddling the powerful car companies and of ignoring signs of the problem.

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sentence: the companies are trying to avoid repeating the mistakes of Volkswagen, which covered up its use of so-called defeat devices that could adjust emissions to comply with regulations when a car was being tested, but ease back in normal driving conditions.

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several Volkswagen executives have been charged in the United States, and others are under investigation on both sides of the Atlantic.


sentence: last month, the former head of thermodynamics at Audi's engine development department was arrested in Germany.

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sentence: the former manager, Zaccheo Giovanni Pamio, is Italian, and therefore is not protected from extradition and could face trial in the United States.

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sentence: early this year, Audi was swept up into a German criminal investigation involving Volkswagen after the authorities accused Audi of installing a system to evade emissions rules in Europe, broadening an inquiry that had focused on the United States.

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sentence: the inclusion of Audi in the investigation could weigh heavily on Volkswagen: the luxury carmaker accounts for a disproportionate share of Volkswagen's profit.

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sentence: the raft on the Isar had this message on Saturday

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sentence: the city wants to protect the Isar.

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sentence: so that visitors to Isar play their part, a raft travelled through Munich on Saturday morning with a special message.

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sentence: anyone drawn to the Isar again on Saturday will see a large raft there, between Flaucher and the Reichenbach bridge.


sentence: an no normal raft that is, with Isar tourists.

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rather, the building department wants to get a message across.


sentence: there is a large information banner to be seen on the raft.


it depicts a mountain of rubbish.


sentence: the prelude to a publicity campaign that wants to call upon visitors to Isar.


sentence: using the motto "True love is...," the aim is to strengthen understanding for the Isar as a wild river deserving of protection.

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sentence: last summer, the raft travelled over the Isar already, and this year too, there are further campaigns and measures to bring about thoughtful and environmentally aware behaviour.

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Mordillo's bulbous noses and laughing in the face of sorrow


sentence: Mordillo was for a while one of the most-published cartoonists; his figures' bulbous noses are his trade mark.

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sentence: even at 85, the Argentinian still draws and is working on a film.

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his message: laughing, "Because there's too much sorrow in the world."


sentence: Guillermo Mordillo was born on 4th August 1932 in Buenos Aires, the son of a Spanish immigrant.

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sentence: in his first years as an artist he struggled along as an illustrator for celebration cards, amongst other things - which frustrated him.

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