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2 days ago
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Mbappé steers France to 2-0 win over Germany in Nations League
France's Kylian Mbappe, left, and Germany's Jonathan Tah, right, challenge for the ball during the Nations League third place soccer match between Germany and France in Stuttgart, Germany, Sunday, June 8, 2025. (Marijan Murat/dpa via AP) France's Kylian Mbappe, front right, scores the opening goal during the Nations League third place soccer match between Germany and France in Stuttgart, Germany, Sunday, June 8, 2025. (Marijan Murat/dpa via AP) France's Kylian Mbappe celebrates after scoring the opening goal during the Nations League third place soccer match between Germany and France in Stuttgart, Germany, Sunday, June 8, 2025. (Marijan Murat/dpa via AP) France's Kylian Mbappe celebrates after scoring the opening goal during the Nations League third place soccer match between Germany and France in Stuttgart, Germany, Sunday, June 8, 2025. (Marijan Murat/dpa via AP) France's Kylian Mbappe, left, and Germany's Jonathan Tah, right, challenge for the ball during the Nations League third place soccer match between Germany and France in Stuttgart, Germany, Sunday, June 8, 2025. (Marijan Murat/dpa via AP) France's Kylian Mbappe, front right, scores the opening goal during the Nations League third place soccer match between Germany and France in Stuttgart, Germany, Sunday, June 8, 2025. (Marijan Murat/dpa via AP) France's Kylian Mbappe celebrates after scoring the opening goal during the Nations League third place soccer match between Germany and France in Stuttgart, Germany, Sunday, June 8, 2025. (Marijan Murat/dpa via AP) MUNICH (AP) — Kylian Mbappé led France to Nations League consolation before Spain and Portugal play the final on Sunday. The Real Madrid star scored one goal and set up the other as France defeated host nation Germany 2-0 in the third-place decider. Advertisement Aurélien Tchouaméni set up club teammate Mbappé to score just before the break after Germany had dominated the first half, and Mbappé set up substitute Michael Olise to seal the result in the 84th after a much-improved second-half performance from the visitors. France coach Didier Deschamps had made his lack of enthusiasm for the game clear the day before, noting his team had little to gain from playing it, and it was apparent which side was more motivated in front of the Stuttgart fans. Germany missed a host of chances then had Deniz Undav's equalizer ruled out for a foul by Niclas Füllkrug in the buildup. France was without injured Paris Saint-Germain star Ousmane Dembélé. Both sides were forced to play for the consolation prize after losing their semifinals. Germany lost 2-1 to Portugal on Wednesday before France lost 5-4 to European champion Spain on Thursday. Spain was playing Portugal later in Munich. ___ AP soccer:
Yahoo
06-05-2025
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US tourist in Rome impaled on metal spike at Colosseum
(KTLA) – An American on vacation in Rome is reportedly recovering after climbing a fence at the ruins of the Colosseum, falling and being impaled on a metal spike in front of other horrified tourists, according to multiple media outlets. The incident, according to the Italian news outlet Day Italian News, happened at around 5 p.m. Friday, with shocked witnesses immediately calling for help. The 47-year-old man, who has yet to be identified, reportedly took the spike to the lower back, screamed in pain and passed out, Huffpost reported. He 'remained stuck in a painful and dramatic position' while first responders were en route, witnesses told the Italian outlet. A general view shows people gathering at the Colosseum monument in Rome on April 7, 2023, prior to the Way of the Cross (Via Crucis) prayer service as part of celebrations of the Holy Week.(Photo by Andreas Solaro/AFP via Getty Images) An ambulance in Rome, Italy, seen on March 14, 2025.. (Photo by Marijan Murat/picture alliance via Getty Images) After assessing the situation, paramedics gave the man a sedative while they worked to pull him off the spike, which took about 20 minutes, Day Italian reported. Medical personnel worked to contain the bleeding at the scene and then rushed the man to Rome's San Giovanni Hospital for emergency surgery for the deep wound. Gunman shoots 2 people at packed California campground, turns gun on self The man was reportedly in stable condition after the surgery, which required more than 80 stitches, though it is unclear if there was any permanent damage done to his spine. It is unclear why the American, who currently lives in Taiwan and was visiting Italy with family and friends, climbed the fence in the first place. Some reports suggest he was trying to take a selfie or attempting to get a better view of the world-famous tourist attraction. Or, as Day Italian News reported, 'it is assumed he simply wanted to get closer to the monument.' Police in Rome opened an investigation into the incident and have since questioned the man. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to Queen City News.
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20-04-2025
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Top-seeded Sabalenka beats Paolini to set up Porsche Grand Prix final against unseeded Ostapenko
Top-seeded Sabalenka beats Paolini to set up Porsche Grand Prix final against unseeded Ostapenko Jasmine Paolini of Italy in action against Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus during the women's singles semi-final tennis match of the WTA tour, in Stuttgart, Germany, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Marijan Murat/dpa via AP) Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia in action against Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia during their women's singles semi-final tennis match of the WTA tour in Stuttgart, Germany, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Marijan Murat/dpa via AP) Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia celebrates after the women's singles semi-final tennis match of the WTA tour against Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia, in Stuttgart, Germany, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Marijan Murat/dpa via AP) Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus, right, and Jasmine Paolini of Italy shake hands after the women's singles semi-final tennis match of the WTA tour, in Stuttgart, Germany, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Marijan Murat/dpa via AP) Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia celebrates after the women's singles semi-final tennis match of the WTA tour against Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia, in Stuttgart, Germany, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Marijan Murat/dpa via AP) Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus celebrates after the women's singles semi-final tennis match of the WTA tour against Jasmine Paolini of Italy, in Stuttgart, Germany, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Marijan Murat/dpa via AP) Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus celebrates after the women's singles semi-final tennis match of the WTA tour against Jasmine Paolini of Italy, in Stuttgart, Germany, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Marijan Murat/dpa via AP) Jasmine Paolini of Italy in action against Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus during the women's singles semi-final tennis match of the WTA tour, in Stuttgart, Germany, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Marijan Murat/dpa via AP) Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia in action against Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia during their women's singles semi-final tennis match of the WTA tour in Stuttgart, Germany, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Marijan Murat/dpa via AP) Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia celebrates after the women's singles semi-final tennis match of the WTA tour against Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia, in Stuttgart, Germany, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Marijan Murat/dpa via AP) Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus, right, and Jasmine Paolini of Italy shake hands after the women's singles semi-final tennis match of the WTA tour, in Stuttgart, Germany, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Marijan Murat/dpa via AP) Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia celebrates after the women's singles semi-final tennis match of the WTA tour against Ekaterina Alexandrova of Russia, in Stuttgart, Germany, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Marijan Murat/dpa via AP) Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus celebrates after the women's singles semi-final tennis match of the WTA tour against Jasmine Paolini of Italy, in Stuttgart, Germany, Sunday, April 20, 2025. (Marijan Murat/dpa via AP) STUTTGART, Germany (AP) — Top-seeded Aryna Sabalenka won 7-5, 6-4 against Jasmine Paolini of Italy on Sunday to set up a clay-court Porsche Grand Prix final against unseeded Jelena Ostapenko. The No.1-ranked Sabalenka has conserved some energy in the tournament. The 26-year-old Belarussian got a bye through the first round and a walkover in the second. Advertisement Sabalenka looked sharp against the fifth-seeded Paolini, last year's French Open runner-up, breaking her serve six times. The 27-year-old Ostapenko, who is Latvian, earlier won 6-4, 6-4 against Ekaterina Alexandrova. Ostapenko won the French Open in 2017 with a high-risk brand of big-hitting tennis and improbable winners. It is her only major title so far. She reached a career-best ranking of fifth the following year and is now ranked 24th. ___ AP tennis:
Local Germany
17-03-2025
- Automotive
- Local Germany
Everything that changes in Germany in April 2025
Cuts to Elterngeld Elterngeld (or parental allowance), which mothers and fathers receive as a partial wage replacement benefit while staying home after the birth of a child, is to be reduced in scope from April onwards. Going forward families with a high income level will no longer be eligible for the benefit. Instead it will be limited to single parents and couples who have a taxable annual income of €175,000 or less. This new limit applies to children born on or after April 1st this year. Trial period begins for digital vehicle registration documents A test run for digital vehicle registration documents will begin in April. From the beginning of the month, interested motorists will be able to test an app developed jointly by the Federal Motor Transport Authority and the Federal Printing Office. The app allows user to show their vehicle registration documents on their smartphone. If it proves successful, drivers would no longer need to obtain and keep a physical copy of these documents in their vehicles. A physical vehicle registration certificate. In April a trial period will begin for people who would rather keep a digital copy of the certificate in their smartphone. Photo: picture alliance/dpa | Marijan Murat New questions added to the theoretical driving test Speaking of driving, anyone who wants to get a driver's license will face a slightly revised list of questions on the theory test from April 1st. Some questions have been deleted due to legal changes while others have been added. DPA reported that questions on turning right, on right of way regulations at intersections, and on certain traffic signs have been changed, for example. The official list of the potential questions used for drivers' licence theory tests in Germany is changed every six months. A significant change to the questions was made in April of last year . LISTED: The non-EU countries that have drivers licence exchange agreements with Germany Advertisement Electronic Travel Authorisation required for travel to Great Britain Anyone who wants to travel to the UK from countries without visa requirements, such as Germany and other EU states, will need an electronic travel authorization (ETA) in addition to their passport starting in April. According to the British Home Office, the new regulation will apply to Europeans from April 2nd, 2025. An ETA costs 10 pounds (roughly €12) and must be renewed after two years at the latest. READ ALSO: ETA application glitch bars entry to UK for some British dual-nationals Electronic patient records on the horizon A trial run for the electronic patient record (ePA) has been running since January 15th, so far only in three regions with around 300 participating practices. In mid-March, the majority federally owned digital agency Gematik wants to check whether the system is stable and can be introduced nationwide. If the agency gives a positive verdict, this could be possible from April. For patients who don't opt out of the system, all of their health records such as X-rays, doctor's letters and laboratory results would be stored in the ePA. The system is intended to make it easier for different medical practices and pharmacies to more easily share and review patients' files. According to the plans of the Federal Ministry of Health, every insurance patient in Germany is to receive the ePA – unless they object. READ ALSO: The big healthcare changes in Germany in 2025 Advertisement Easter holidays from April 18th to the 21st Workers in Germany can enjoy two public holidays in April: Good Friday on April 18th and Easter Monday on the 21st. Easter Sunday, of course, falls between the two on April 20th this year. A Swiss chocolate Easter egg is seen in craft fair. Photo: Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP If you want a bit more of a vacation than the four day weekend, you could request off April 14th to the 17th to effectively have a 10 day block off - from Saturday April 12th until Monday the 21st. Note that most businesses - including supermarkets - will be closed on the public holidays on Friday and Monday, in addition to Sunday as usual. You'd be advised to stock up on everything you need for the holiday weekend ahead of time, as shops are typically extra busy on the Saturday in between. READ ALSO: What's open and closed in Germany over the Easter weekend? Germany set to get a new coalition government Germany's incoming chancellor candidate, Friedrich Merz, has repeatedly said he wants to form a new government "by Easter", meaning before Sunday, April 20th. That would be a markedly fast formation of a new coalition government for Germany, but so far leaders of the conservative CDU/CSU parties and from the Social Democrats (SPD) have demonstrated their ability to move quickly, having already begun coalition talks and brought fourth a radical new spending proposal . According to an internal document leaked in the German press on Tuesday, the CDU wants to sign off on a coalition agreement in the week of the 14th. If all goes to plan, Germany could officially elect Friedrich Merz as Chancellor as soon as April 23rd. TIMELINE: How soon will Germany get a new government? Advertisement Wage increases for certain craft workers According to a report by Bonn's General Anzeiger newspaper, some craft workers can expect a salary increase from April. In the construction industry, wages are to rise by 4.2 percent in the west and by five percent in the east. This is to apply to workers in building construction, civil engineering or road construction.
Local Germany
20-02-2025
- Business
- Local Germany
German poor feel ignored or stigmatised in election campaign
At age 71, the divorced mother of four says she barely scrapes by in her small flat in the northern port city of Kiel. She considers going out for a coffee a rare luxury and can't afford to visit her grandchildren. Krause, who has joined an anti-poverty campaign group, said she finds it hard to endure the "disdain" voiced by Germany's political class towards those struggling to make ends meet amid surging food prices, power bills and rents. She is most galled by the centre-right CDU, the frontrunner in Sunday's poll, a party which she said views poverty as simply a "personal fate" that should not be dealt with by the government. Krause is among more than 13 million people in Germany - around one in seven in the world's third biggest economy - classed as living below the poverty line. If those on the margins and deemed at risk of falling into poverty are included, the number climbs to more than 17 million in the official statistics. Worst-hit are single mothers, the long-term unemployed and, increasingly, retirees, whose number is ballooning in the fast-ageing country, putting further strain on the pension system. The Council of Europe last year took the German government to task over poverty levels it considered "disproportionate to the wealth of the country". And yet, Krause told AFP, the issue has been "largely ignored" by major parties in a campaign dominated by the hot-button topics of immigration and public security. Plunge into poverty Krause said she long worked in a book shop and started her own textile store in the 1980s. "With my own income, I paid my own way, and ensured a good education for my children," she said. After getting divorced in 2001, she had to raise her fourth child alone. She later sold her shop and then started selling her products on markets. She stopped working in 2015, a few years before the official retirement age of 67, after being diagnosed with a tumour in one eye that affects her vision. Although she was long self-employed, as a married woman she never set up a private pension plan, now leaving her to face old age with few means. Her state pension and welfare payments together make up €1,066 ($1,117) a month - more than €300 below the official poverty line. Cash lies on a table. Photo: picture alliance/dpa | Marijan Murat After paying for rent and heating, she has just €678 a month to live on. The small comforts she has in her life - a television, household appliances - were purchased before she fell on harder times. For Krause, poverty means isolation. With her family scattered across Germany, she can't afford to visit her seven grandchildren. 'Democratic duty' In the campaign, a fierce debate has flared on Germany's "citizen's allowance," (Bürgergeld) a welfare payment set at €563 for a person living alone, usually for the long-term unemployed or low income earners. It is claimed by about 5.5 million people. The far-right and anti-immigration AfD party has seized on the fact that 60 percent of claimants are of foreign origin - including many Ukrainian war refugees. CDU leader Friedrich Merz, tipped to become the next chancellor, has threatened to pull the benefit from those deemed fit to work. "Those who don't work even though they could will no longer receive the citizen's allowance in the future ... Then we say: zero," Merz said in a TV debate Monday - an approach viewed by some as stigmatising the jobless. "You don't fight poverty by fighting the poor," said Michael David, who works on poverty alleviation at the Protestant charity Diakonie. Instead, he called for long-term support and training to encourage people to rejoin the labour market. Like Krause, a growing number of pensioners are at risk of falling into poverty -- a recent study by the Pestel Institute estimated their number will rise to 2.8 million over the next decade. Krause, despite her difficult circumstances, is determined to keep speaking out about the plight of the poor through her work with the Anti-Poverty Conference, an alliance of NGOs. While many poor people feel discouraged from voting, Krause said she intends to do her "democratic duty", arguing that "those who do not vote have resigned themselves" to their fate. By Isabelle LE PAGE
