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Eleven people were injured when a Boeing 737 jet chartered by Air Senegal veered off the runway during take-off at Dakar International Airport early Thursday morning. According to the Senegalese Transport Ministry, one of the pilots is among the injured. Four of the 11 suffered serious injuries, the airport operator said. Dakar is the capital of the West African state of Senegal. The Boeing 737 was reportedly on its way to Bamako, the capital of Mali, with 79 passengers and six crew members on board. The ministry ordered an investigation into the incident. The airport was closed for several ho...
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Germany exported more electric cars than it imported in 2023, the Federal Statistical Office reported on Monday. Last year, 786,000 vehicles were exported compared to 446,000 imported from other countries, the office said. At €36 billion ($39 billion), exports were also well ahead of imports, which totalled €14.1 billion. The most important importer was China with a share of 29%, ahead of Korea with just under 10%. Exports of purely electrically powered cars grew by 58% over the course of the year, significantly faster than imports, which increased by 23.5%. Nevertheless, only around one in fo...
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Pope Francis is nostalgic for the old days when he could still travel by train, he has revealed in an interview. "I have always loved travelling by public transport. It's a way to be among people, to feel their warmth and their worries," the 87-year-old head of the Catholic Church told the monthly newspaper Freccia of the Italian state railway. As a schoolchild, he travelled every day by train from Flores to Floresta, two districts of Argentina's capital Buenos Aires. "Today, that's one of the things I miss most," Francis said. The Argentinian-born priest, who is in poor health, rarely leaves ...
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Catholics typically baptise newborns with holy water. But according to one AI priest, Gatorade or other soft drinks will also do. The clerical chatbot, only the latest example of AI struggling to match the hype surrounding it, has now been defrocked from an online Catholic resource after it began giving confessions without permission. Also on dpa trends this week, we've reviewed Apple's latest version of its best-selling Beats headphones as well as Ryan Gosling as a very ignored stunt man in "The Fall Guy". Coman Hamilton,dpa trends & features \-------------------- TOP STORY: Wayward AI priest...
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US electric car manufacturer Tesla has presented its futuristic Cybertruck in Germany, though it is still unclear whether it will ever be allowed to drive on German roads. The 3.1-ton, 5.68-metre vehicle was on display in a shopping centre on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin on Thursday. According to the company, it is the first presentation for the general public in Germany. Previously, the new truck had only been on display in Germany at the Tesla factory in Grünheide near Berlin, according to the company owned by tech billionaire Elon Musk. The presentation in Berlin is the start of a European tou...
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Employees of German railway companies are often exposed to violence and verbal abuse, according to a survey. According to the railway and transport union (EVG), which commissioned the survey, 64% of employees stated that they had suffered violence or hostility in the past 12 months. Another 38% complained that they had been insulted several times a month. More than one in three feel unsafe at work, the survey shows. In February, almost 4,000 train attendants, station service staff and hotline employees responded to the EVG's online survey about their experiences of violence at work. "This stud...
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Two people were slightly injured when a German regional train near Stuttgart began to smoke after making an emergency stop. The injured were treated on the spot by emergency services, a spokesman for the federal police said on Saturday. An overhead line was also damaged in the incident, which took place not far from the town of Plochingen. The reason for the emergency braking manoeuvre on Friday evening was initially unclear, but according to the police on Saturday, human error is assumed. In order to clarify the exact cause, evidence is being secured and witnesses are being questioned, police...
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Two people have been injured when a regional train near Plochingen, south of Frankfurt, in southern Germany made an emergency stop and subsequently caught fire. The reasons for the emergency braking on Friday evening were initially unclear, but according to police reports on Saturday, human error is assumed. The overhead line was also damaged in the incident, according to reports. The passengers affected were evacuated from the train, which was carrying around 300 people. Rescue workers treated the two injured people on site. The temporarily completely closed railway lines to Wendlingen and Gö...
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A former flight attendant has been charged in the US for allegedly attempting to secretly take video footage of a 14-year-old girl in an aeroplane toilet. The incident took place last September on a flight from Charlotte in North Carolina to Boston in Massachusetts, the public prosecutor's office announced on Friday. The 36-year-old had lured the girl to the toilet in the first class of the aircraft, where he is said to have hidden his smartphone. However, the alleged victim discovered it, took a photo of it and informed her parents. They then informed the crew and an investigation was launche...
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Electrical cable thieves paralysed the train service in parts of western Germany overnight around the city of Bochum, with some delays expected to last into Friday afternoon. Train traffic through Bochum and the surrounding Ruhr region was disrupted until midday on Friday, when repairs were completed on the signals and communications lines, a spokesman for German national rail operator Deutsche Bahn said. Shorter disruptions also hit neighbouring areas of western Germany as well, according to Deutsche Bahn. Bochum, located between the larger cities of Essen and Dortmund, sits in the heart of t...
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