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Former Deutsche Bank chief executive and later supervisory board chairman Rolf Breuer has died at the age of 86, the bank announced in Frankfurt on Thursday. The banking executive, who spent almost his entire career at Deutsche Bank and launched Germany's largest bank on an international path, died following a long illness on Wednesday. While he was chief executive between May 1997 and May 2002, Breuer embarked on the acquisition of Bankers Trust, a major Wall Street investment bank. Deutsche Bank supervisory board chairman Alexander Wynaendts said Breuer's significance could not be overestima...
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A second participant in a long-running German climate hunger strike campaign has abandoned the action. Activist Tin justified the decision with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's reaction - or lack thereof - to the severe flooding in the Saarland region in the west of the country, the campaign announced on Wednesday evening. Although it was clear that such storms were now more severe due to the climate crisis, the chancellor had not said a word about it, Tin said. "If Olaf Scholz is standing in the middle of the truth with rubber boots on and still can't say it, then I doubt that my death will pe...
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Syria's first lady, Asma al-Assad, has been diagnosed with leukaemia, the Syrian presidency said on Tuesday. "After the appearance of several clinical symptoms and signs, followed by a series of medical examinations and tests, First Lady Asma al-Assad was diagnosed with acute leukaemia," the presidential office said in a statement. The statement said she will undergo a specialized treatment protocol that requires her to isolate. Asma al-Assad, 48, said in 2019 that she had fully recovered from breast cancer. Last year she accompanied her husband on an official trip to the United Arab Emirates,...
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Syria's first lady, Asma al-Assad, has been diagnosed with leukaemia, the Syrian presidency said on Tuesday. "After the appearance of several clinical symptoms and signs, followed by a series of medical examinations and tests, First Lady Asma al-Assad was diagnosed with acute leukaemia," the presidential office said in a statement. The statement said she will undergo a specialized treatment protocol that requires her to isolate. Asma al-Assad, 48, said in 2019 that she had fully recovered from breast cancer. Last year she accompanied her husband on an official trip to the United Arab Emirates,...
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Syria's first lady, Asma al-Assad, has been diagnosed with leukaemia, the Syrian presidency said on Tuesday. "After the appearance of several clinical symptoms and signs, followed by a series of medical examinations and tests, First Lady Asma al-Assad was diagnosed with acute leukaemia," the presidential office said in a statement. The statement said she will undergo a specialized treatment protocol that requires her to isolate. Asma al-Assad, 48, said in 2019 that she had fully recovered from breast cancer. Last year she accompanied her husband on an official trip to the United Arab Emirates,...
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Iran's judiciary has sentenced the controversial rapper Amir Tataloo to several years in prison, several reports in local media said on Sunday. A revolutionary court in the capital Tehran found the 36-year-old musician guilty of blasphemy and handed down a three-year prison sentence, the state news agency IRNA reported. The judgement can be appealed. The web portal Mizan, which is linked to the Iranian judiciary, confirmed a prison sentence without announcing its exact length. The rapper, who has a large following and repeatedly polarizes society with his music and appearance, was also accused...
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One of the climate protesters carrying out a hunger strike to demand the German government take action decided to start eating again due to acute danger to his life, he said on Saturday. Michael Winter, 61, said he that he had decided to take food following a 31-day hunger strike, after being hospitalized in Munich since Wednesday due to heart problems. Doctors say he has a life-threatening medical condition, Winter said. The other hunger strikers involved in the "Starving until you are honest" campaign are set to continue their protest, he said. Activist Wolfgang Metzeler-Kick began the strik...
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Author Salman Rushdie, best known for classic works "The Satanic Verses" and "Midnight's Children," has voiced concerns over the targeting of writers and artists by authoritarian governments across the globe. In an interview with dpa in Berlin on Tuesday, the Indian-born British writer said "the world is becoming a much angrier place where people seem to resort to violence much more easily." Rushdie was severely injured in an assassination attempt at an event in the United States in 2022, losing an eye. He said that artists "have become the targets of authoritarian regimes across the world." "...
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Author Salman Rushdie, best known for classic works "The Satanic Verses" and "Midnight's Children," has voiced concerns over the targeting of writers and artists by authoritarian governments across the globe. In an interview with dpa in Berlin on Tuesday, the Indian-born British writer said "the world is becoming a much angrier place where people seem to resort to violence much more easily." Rushdie was severely injured in an assassination attempt at an event in the United States in 2022, losing an eye. He said that artists "have become the targets of authoritarian regimes across the world." "...
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Author Salman Rushdie, best known for classic works "The Satanic Verses" and "Midnight's Children," has voiced concerns over the targeting of writers and artists by authoritarian governments across the globe. In an interview with dpa in Berlin on Tuesday, the Indian-born British writer said "the world is becoming a much angrier place where people seem to resort to violence much more easily." Rushdie was severely injured in an assassination attempt at an event in the United States in 2022, losing an eye. He said that artists "have become the targets of authoritarian regimes across the world." "...
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