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Jailed Iranian activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi expressed in a letter published on her Instagram account on Tuesday that she deeply misses her two children. The account is managed by her relatives and friends both at home and abroad. "I haven't seen them for nine years, haven't held them since and haven't heard their voices ... it's like being lost in a fog," Mohammadi wrote from Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, where she is currently serving a long prison sentence. Although she is a staunch activist, she is also a mother who sorely misses her children. "My children abroad...
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Some 740,000 people are expected to attend the 10 concerts by superstar Adele in Munich, the event organizers said on Tuesday. Promoter Marek Lieberberg said 95% of these tickets have already been sold, but some are still available - especially at the lower and upper end of the price range. He said the cheapest tickets cost €79 ($86) and the most expensive €430 ($470). Originally, a total of 800,000 spectators were expected to attend the extraordinary concert series, 80,000 per show. However, this figure was revised downwards due to security requirements, said Lieberberg. The British artist wi...
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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has honoured former chancellor Angela Merkel as a "role model and a hallmark of our democracy" ahead of her 70th birthday. "The special thing about this anniversary is that your 70 years of life can be divided into exactly two halves. The first 35 years until the fall of the Berlin Wall and the second 35 years in the freedom you longed for," Steinmeier wrote in a birthday message. In the second 35 years, Merkel had decisively shaped the path of a united Germany as chancellor, he said. Merkel was chancellor for 16 years, from 2005 to 2021, and was the fi...
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A majority of Germans believe that conditions in their country have worsened since former conservative chancellor Angela Merkel's tenure ended, according to a new survey by the opinion research institute YouGov. According to the survey, 61% believe that conditions in Germany have worsened since Merkel's departure from politics in December 2021, while 25% believe that they have remained about the same. A total of 2,030 people were surveyed online between June 28 and July 3, according to YouGov. The sample was chosen to reflect population parameters such as age, gender, religion, voting behaviou...
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The New York video artist Bill Viola died on Friday at the age of 73, his long-time gallery owner Jim Cohan confirmed to dpa on Saturday. His production studio had previously published a post about the death on Instagram. Viola's wife and long-time artistic partner Kira Perov is the director of the studio in Long Beach, California. The post states that Viola died as a result of Alzheimer's disease. Viola was born on January 25, 1951, in the New York borough of Queens. He has been regarded as a pioneer of video art since his first experiments in the 1970s. In his works, he focused on cycles of ...
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The main international airport in the northern Italian city of Milan now bears the name of the late former prime minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi. Milan Malpensa Airport, which lies about 50 kilometres outside of the city, is now officially called Aeroporto Silvio Berlusconi. Far-right Transport Minister Matteo Salvini fast-tracked the name-change and gave final approval on Thursday, despite criticism from the opposition. The centre-right Forza Italia party, which Berlusconi founded, is part of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's government in Rome. Milan Mayor Beppe Sala, a centre-left...
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Annalena Baerbock wants to concentrate fully on her role as German foreign minister and is not seeking to run for the top job as chancellor again. Instead of being tied up in running for chancellor, she wants to devote all her energy to her current task in view of the international crises, the Green politician explained in an interview on the US television channel CNN on the fringes of the NATO summit in Washington. "Obviously, the world is a totally different one than at the last German national elections," said Baerbock. "In the light of Russia’s war of aggression and now also with regard to...
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Annalena Baerbock wants to concentrate fully on her role as German foreign minister and is not seeking to run for the top job as chancellor again. Instead of being tied up in running for chancellor, she wants to devote all her energy to her current task in view of the international crises, the Green politician explained in an interview on the US television channel CNN on the fringes of the NATO summit in Washington. "Obviously, the world is a totally different one than at the last German national elections," said Baerbock. "In the light of Russia’s war of aggression and now also with regard to...
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French judicial authorities have opened an investigation in Carla Bruni, the wife of former president Nicolas Sarkozy, in connection with alleged election campaign funds from Libya. The singer has been placed under judicial control, French media reported on Tuesday, citing the judiciary. The investigations against the 56-year-old centre on possible witness tampering. The Libya affair centres on allegations that money for Sarkozy's 2007 presidential election campaign came illegally from the regime of the then Libyan ruler Moamer Gaddafi. The French-Lebanese businessman Ziad Takieddine said in 2...
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The main international airport in the northern Italian city of Milan will in future bear the name of the late former prime minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi. Milan Malpensa Airport, which lies about 50 kilometres outside of the city, will officially be called Aeroporto Silvio Berlusconi. Right-wing Transport Minister Matteo Salvini announced the name change on Friday following a decision on the matter by the Italian aviation authority ENAC. But Milan Mayor Beppe Sala, a centre-left politician, insists that the airport's name cannot be changed because of a rule that public buildings a...
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