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New York (AFP) - Volkswagen employees in Tennessee began casting ballots Wednesday in a vote that could make theirs the first foreign carmaker to unionize in the American South, expanding gains made by organized labor in the auto heartland of Detroit. Hopes were high among supporters of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union in the city of Chattanooga on the eve of the three-day vote, as the revived labor organization takes on its first target after last fall's triumphant strikes at Detroit's "Big Three" carmakers. "We're really excited," assembly worker Isaac Meadows said as he headed to the pla...
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Kempten (Germany) (AFP) - A German court handed an American man a life sentence Monday for raping and killing a fellow US tourist near Bavaria's famed Neuschwanstein castle last year. The district tribunal in the southern town of Kempten convicted the defendant, identified only as Troy Philipp B., 31, after he made a wide-ranging confession on the first day of his trial last month. The judges also noted the "particular severity of guilt", meaning he is unlikely to be released after 15 years as is customary with life sentences in Germany. Troy Philipp B. was convicted of raping and murdering th...
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Berlin (AFP) - Adam Sandler said Wednesday that playing a lonely astronaut hurtling through space in his latest Netflix movie convinced him of the therapeutic effects of total isolation. The US actor, at the Berlin film festival for the world premiere of his all-star sci-fi picture "Spaceman", said his hectic schedule left little room for the kind of reflection that he found at the outer reaches of the galaxy. "I don't have that much time to be alone. I get like maybe eight minutes tops and then I have to do something," Sandler told reporters. "So being alone on a spaceship -- I think I recom...
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Kempten (Germany) (AFP) - An American man accused of raping and killing a fellow US tourist near Bavaria's famed Neuschwanstein castle last year made a wide-ranging confession on the first day of his trial Monday. Troy Philipp B. faces several charges including one count of murder over the death of the 21-year-old US American woman. He also stands accused of the attempted murder of the victim's friend, also a US citizen. "The accused committed the incomprehensible act," his lawyer Philip Mueller told the district court in the southern town of Kempten. The two women, then 21 and 22 years old, w...
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Frankfurt (Germany) (AFP) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will try to build on the momentum from Europe's success in agreeing new aid for war-torn Ukraine when he heads to Washington this week, where President Joe Biden is struggling to overcome opposition to a US package. The leaders' talks Friday will also focus on escalating tensions in the Middle East, where Israel is fighting a war against Hamas and where the US has launched strikes on Iran-linked targets in Iraq and Syria following a drone attack that killed three American soldiers at a Jordanian base. The United States is Kyiv's bigges...
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Berlin (AFP) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz vowed Wednesday to rally European partners to cobble together support for Ukraine "so huge" that it would weigh on Russian President Vladimir Putin's calculations. The pledge by the German leader, once criticised for dragging his feet on arming Kyiv, came with fears growing that support from Ukraine's biggest weapons supplier, the United States, could fall away. "We will do everything to ensure that the joint contribution from Europe is so huge that Ukraine can build on it and that Putin would not be able to count on our support waning at some point...
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United Nations (United States) (AFP) - US authorities announced Friday that two drawings worth $2.5 million stolen by the Nazi regime and eventually displayed in American museums will be returned to relatives of Fritz Grunbaum, an Austrian Jewish cabaret performer killed in the Holocaust. It follows the return last year of seven works of art stolen from Grunbaum in 1938 and sold by the Nazis to fund their war machine. "Girl with Black Hair" had been held by the Allen Museum of Art at Oberlin College and is valued at approximately $1.5 million, while "Portrait of a Man" was in the Carnegie Muse...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - German-born Hollywood actor Christian Oliver was killed along with his two young daughters as their small plane plummeted into the Caribbean Sea moments after takeoff, local police said. Oliver, who appeared on the big screen with George Clooney in "The Good German" and in 2008 action-comedy "Speed Racer," died aboard a privately owned, one-engine aircraft Thursday, the Royal St. Vincent and the Grenadines Police Force said in a statement. Fishermen, divers and coast guard immediately went to the scene, where four bodies were recovered. Oliver, 51, died along with his daugh...
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Berlin (AFP) - US director Martin Scorsese will collect a lifetime achievement award at next year's Berlinale film festival for his contributions to global cinema, organisers said Thursday. The 74th annual event, Europe's first major cinema showcase of the year, said Scorsese, as "one of the most influential filmmakers in the world of cinema", would be handed the Honorary Golden Bear prize at a gala ceremony in the German capital on February 20. "For anyone who considers cinema as the art of shaping a story in such a way that is both completely personal and universal, Martin Scorsese is an unm...
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Berlin (AFP) - German sandal maker Birkenstock on Monday set a price for its initial public offering of shares at $44 to $49 each, which could see the company raise up to $1.58 billion. Around 32.2 million ordinary shares will be put on the New York Stock Exchange in the IPO that would value the iconic footwear brand at up to $9.2 billion (8.7 billion euros), according to a regulatory filing. Once unflatteringly associated with sock-and-sandal-wearing Germans, Birkenstock has since become a coveted fashion item, as illustrated in the latest Hollywood blockbuster "Barbie". The stock flotation ...
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