News: Big explosion on Vulkan Stromboli - tourists in fear

The Franco-German publicist Beate Klarsfeld and her husband Serge have been awarded the Grand Franco-German Media Prize . In doing so, the jury in Paris recognized "her moral courage and her tireless commitment to justice and human rights". The couple have been campaigning for the memory of the Holocaust, the prosecution of Nazi criminals and against anti-Semitism for more than 50 years. "Beate and Serge Klarsfeld shook people awake when many wanted to remain silent and forget. They put their fingers in wounds and thus embody the guardian function of journalism to this day." This is important in times of populism and manipulation, said the culture officer for Franco-German cooperation, NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet.

+++ 6.59 p.m .: Israel: Again protests by Ethiopian Jews against police violence +++

In Israel, Jews from Ethiopia have again demonstrated against police violence and racism. The background is the death of an 18-year-old Jew with Ethiopian roots by a police officer on Sunday. Demonstrators threw stones at police officers, and a total of seven people were arrested, the police said. Among other things, demonstrators in Tel Aviv tried to block traffic again. Protests escalated in large parts of the country on Tuesday.

+++ 6.47 p.m .: German hiker is torn to her death by a rock in Tyrol +++

A 50-year-old woman from the Dresden area fell from a falling rock while hiking in Tyrol torn to death. The police said the woman suffered traumatic brain injury and a broken neck in the fall and is believed to have died on the spot. According to the police, the 50-year-old was traveling with three other women from Germany on the Cottbuser Höhenweg not far from the Steinkogel in the Pitztal. Since a thunderstorm was brewing around 12 noon, the women took a break halfway to wait for the storm front. After the first heavy rain showers, larger stones fell loose in a gully above the group and fell down. The 50-year-old was hit by a stone and then torn down about 50 meters over rocky terrain.

+++ 6.28 p.m .: Boeing promises $100 million in financial aid after the crash +++

The US aviation group Boeing is offering financial aid to relatives of the victims of the plane crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia. The group announced that it would provide 100 million dollars (equivalent to around 89 million euros). The money should also benefit communities affected by the crashes. At the same time, Boeing is negotiating a settlement with relatives of crash victims in court. A Boeing spokesman recently said that the parties had agreed to explore a quick solution so that those affected could be compensated without lengthy legal proceedings. A total of 346 people were killed in the crash of two Boeing 737 Max aircraft in October and March.

+++ 6.13 p.m .: Hong Kong announces crackdown on parliamentary occupiers +++

The authorities in Hong Kong have announced crackdown on demonstrators who temporarily occupied the regional parliament. The police are "actively" collecting evidence to "hold the perpetrators accountable," it said. On the 22nd anniversary of the return of the former British crown colony to China, mostly young and masked demonstrators stormed the parliament building. They had destroyed the glass doors and set up barricades made of metal bars in the corridors. After a few hours, the police regained control of the building.

+++ 5.53 p.m .: forest fire near Lübtheen – evacuation lifted for almost all places +++

The situation in the forest fire area near Lübtheen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has eased further: in three of the four evacuated places residents are allowed to return. The evacuation had already been lifted for Trebs and Jessenitz-Werk, and now also for the small community of Volzrade. As the district of Ludwigslust-Parchim announced, residents are allowed to return to their homes. Only the inhabitants of Alt Jabel have to wait for their return.

+++ 18.11: Big explosion on Stromboli volcano - tourists in fear +++

There was a big explosion on the Stromboli volcano in Italy. Huge plumes of ash and smoke could be seen in photos. According to the Ansa news agency, the fire brigade commander Giuseppe Biffarella said people were in great fear. So far there have been no reports of injuries. Fires broke out on the slope of the volcano and lava chunks fell. Media reported that people jumped into the sea out of fear. Stromboli is one of the most active volcanoes in Italy and forms a small island off Sicily. Only a few people live on the island, but a lot of tourists come in summer.

+++ 5:16 p.m.: Lithuania declares a state of emergency due to drought +++

Lithuania has declared a state of emergency due to the ongoing drought in the country. Farmers feared harvest losses of up to 50 percent, many rivers had hardly any water, which threatened fish stocks and river navigation, Environment Minister Kestutis Mazeika told the AFP news agency. Nobody doubts that the reason for the drought is climate change. June was the hottest month on record, according to the EU-run Copernicus climate change monitoring service. In Lithuania, on June 12, the thermometer reached a record 35.7 degrees Celsius. In western Lithuania and in neighboring Latvia, firefighters are fighting bog fires.

+++ 5.10 p.m .: Stauffenberg’s granddaughter: AfD should refrain from using the term “resistance” +++

The family of Hitler’s assassin Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg finds their ancestor apprehended by the AfD encroaching. During the 2017 federal election campaign, her family decided "not to do anything about it, because negative attention is also attention," said granddaughter Sophie von Bechtolsheim at the presentation of her book "Stauffenberg - my grandfather wasn't an assassin" in Berlin. The historian also criticized the use of the term "resistance" by the AfD. Making comparisons between "a resistance in a legal system, in our system" and the situation "of the men and women who ended up on the gallows under National Socialism" is absurd.

+++ 5:07 p.m.: One million Japanese are said to have left their homes due to heavy rains +++

+++ 4.55 p.m.: search for the eighth missing person in the Himalayas stopped +++

After the discovery of seven bodies on India's second highest mountain Nanda Devi, the search is on been discontinued after an eighth missing climber. Senior administration official Vijay Kumar Jogdande said on Wednesday that the faces of the dead were disfigured and could not be identified.

+++ 4.32 p.m .: train attendant brings backpack with chocolate and 7000 euros to the Federal Police in Munich +++

A train attendant from Deutsche Bahn brought a backpack with 30 bars of chocolate and 7700 euros to the Federal Police Station in Munich . The 31-year-old found the backpack in an ICE train at Frankfurt Airport, the federal police said. When he couldn't match the luggage with any passengers, he opened it and discovered the cash. After the train arrived at its terminus in Munich, the man handed the backpack over to federal police officers. There was no indication of the owner in the piece of luggage. There was no evidence of a traveler who had reported a loss from other federal police stations located on the route between Dortmund and Munich.

+++ 4.30 p.m.: Acquittals of doctors in euthanasia processes confirmed +++

The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) has confirmed the acquittals of two doctors in euthanasia processes. The fifth criminal division of the BGH in Leipzig ruled that the doctors would not have made themselves liable to prosecution. The district courts of Berlin and Hamburg had acquitted the doctors. The BGH rejected the appeals of the public prosecutor's office directed against it.

+++ 3.56 p.m .: Around 180 sheep slip and die in the Karwendel Mountains +++

Around 180 sheep were killed in an accident in the Karwendel Mountains in Bavaria. The sheep were at an altitude of about 1500 meters and slipped down about 80 to 100 meters in altitude. The carcasses were flown into the valley by helicopter and then taken to animal body recycling, as the head of the Mittenwald pasture cooperative, Peter Reindl, said. The accident happened on Sunday, and shepherds discovered the carcasses on Monday. Several media had previously reported about it.

+++ 3.40 p.m .: 83-year-old scares burglars away by accompanying him to the front door +++

An 83-year-old in Düren, North Rhine-Westphalia, drove a burglar out of her apartment in an unusual way : Without further ado, she brought the man to the front door and sent him out. The stranger actually left the family home in the Arnoldsweiler district - and without booty, the police said. The elderly woman sitting in the kitchen saw the uninvited guest in the hallway on Tuesday and asked how he got into the house. He claimed in broken German that the 83-year-old had let him in herself. The pensioner then accompanied the man to the front door and asked him to leave - which he did.

+++ 3.35 p.m .: Mountaineer falls to his death on the Zugspitze +++

A mountaineer fell to his death on the Zugspitze near Garmisch-Partenkirchen. A 50-year-old Dutchman was traveling with his brother-in-law in the direction of Zugspitzplatt, the police said. In the incident on Tuesday, he slipped on an old snow field and fell 150 meters down. He suffered fatal head injuries.

+++ 3.30 p.m .: freight train crashes into a car in Austria - two dead +++

A freight train crashed into a car in Austria. The driver of the car and his passenger were fatally injured, the police told the German Press Agency. The police initially did not assume that there were any further injuries, but the accident recording was not yet completed. The collision occurred on a level crossing controlled by light signals in Wildon, south of Graz.

+++ 3.13 p.m .: The first applicant duo for the SPD presidency does not yet meet the criteria +++

The first applicants for the SPD presidency, Minister of State for Europe Michael Roth and the former NRW Family Minister Christina Kampmann, do not yet meet the requirements for a candidacy. A party spokesman said that an official application had not yet arrived at the Willy Brandt House. Potential candidates must be nominated by at least five subdistricts, one district, or one state association.

+++ 3 p.m.: Father: Sea-Watch captain stays in Italy for the time being +++

The captain of the "Sea-Watch 3", Carola Rackete, who was released in Italy, is said to be her father to return to Germany "not quite so quickly". She slept well in her new home and wanted to stay in Italy for the second hearing, said Ekkehart Rackete from Hambühren (Celle district) of the German Press Agency. The 31-year-old was arrested on Saturday and placed under house arrest after illegally piloting the rescue ship with more than 40 migrants on board into the port of Lampedusa. The house arrest was lifted by an investigating judge on Tuesday.

+++ 2.59 p.m .: Suspected victim box thief in Tyrol caught with 28 kilo coins +++

The police have no less than 28 kilograms of coins in the backpack of a suspected thief who is said to have plundered numerous victim boxes found. The 27-year-old is suspected of having stolen money from sacrificial boxes in churches in Tyrol, Vienna, Styria and Salzburg within just under two weeks in June, the police said. In total, he is charged with at least 40 cases. According to the police, he stole cash in the low four-digit euro amount. The 27-year-old had provided cable ties with double-sided adhesive tape for his thefts. He then inserted these into the sacrificial boxes or into the candle tills and pulled out the coins and bills that were stuck. In the classic film "Alone in New York," one of the antagonists refers to himself and his partner as "sticky bandits" because they steal things in a similar way.

+++ 2.52 p.m .: Opposition leader Gandhi resigns after defeat in India +++

After the defeat in the parliamentary elections in India, opposition leader Rahul Gandhi has announced his resignation as leader of the Congress party. It is essential for the future of the party to take responsibility for the result, the 49-year-old said in a statement distributed on Twitter. He also declined to nominate a successor. Rahul Gandhi is the great-grandson of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru; his grandmother Indira Gandhi and father Rajiv Gandhi also held the post.

+++ 2.50 p.m .: EU Commission waives debt criminal proceedings against Italy +++

The EU Commission initially refrains from debt criminal proceedings against Italy. Such a procedure is not justified at this point in time, said EU Economic Commissioner Pierre Moscovici in Brussels. The Italian government responded appropriately.

+++ 2.44 p.m .: Circles: Two suspects in the Lübcke case were at the event +++

The suspect in the Lübcke murder case, Stephan E., was in 2015 together with the man who was now arrested on suspicion of aiding and abetting Markus H. attended an event with the Kassel District President Walter Lübcke. The German press agency learned this from security circles.

At the information event in Lohfelden in Hesse in October 2015, there were heckling during the discussion about a planned initial reception facility for asylum seekers. The CDU politician reacted to this at the time with the sentence: "You have to stand up for values and anyone who doesn't represent these values can leave this country at any time if they don't agree, that's the freedom of every German." There was a hailing of boos and insults.

Suspected neo-Nazi murder case Lübcke: Stephan E. withdraws confession

+++ 2.31 p.m .: Nine injured after accident with tram in Mannheim +++

+++ 2.18 p.m .: The police are busy with mysterious bone finds on a large construction site in Hagen +++

Mysterious bone finds are busy with the police in Hagen in North Rhine-Westphalia. Construction workers discovered human skeletal parts near the station, the police said. Remnants of clothing were also found on the bones. According to the officials, the remains were not a complete skeleton, but primarily femurs. The police did not find a skull. As the investigators further announced, a human skull had already been found during construction work on the same large construction site in 2016.

+++ 1:43 p.m.: Fox migrates from Norway to Canada +++

An arctic fox has amazed Norwegian researchers and migrated from Svalbard to Canada in 76 days. The young female traveled the 3,506-kilometer route from northern Norway via Greenland to the Canadian island of Ellesmere Island between March 26 and June 10, 2018, write scientists Eva Fuglei and Arnaud Tarroux in an article published in the journal " Polar Research" by the Norwegian Polar Institute in Tromsø.

In July 2017, the researchers fitted the arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus) with a collar near a glacier on Spitsbergen in order to be able to observe its movements via satellite. They were able to see that the animal reached Greenland three weeks and almost 1500 kilometers after leaving Spitsbergen - and continued towards North America. There are some indications that they may have used the sea ice as a form of transport, the study says.

+++ 1.20 p.m .: Farmers expect the after-effects of the drought on the grain harvest +++

Farmers are still expecting the negative effects of the recent drought on the grain harvest this year. Compared to the last drought year, the harvest is around nine million tons higher, said Joachim Rukwied, President of the German Farmers' Association, in Dallgow-Döberitz, Brandenburg, at the traditional start of the harvest. According to the forecast, a total of around 47 million tons of grain are expected. But: "The after-effects of the drought can still be felt," said Rukwied. In many companies there will be no relaxation given the difficult economic situation.

+++ 1:02 p.m .: Italian Social Democrat David-Maria Sassoli becomes the new President of the European Parliament +++

The Italian Social Democrat David-Maria Sassoli has been elected the new President of the European Parliament. The 63-year-old former TV journalist will succeed Italian Christian Democrat Antonio Tajani.

In the second ballot, Sassoli prevailed against three other candidates with 345 votes. At least 334 votes were needed. The German Green Party Ska Keller, which had also run for the seat of Parliament, received 119 of the 667 valid votes.

That a Socialist becomes President of Parliament in the first two and a half years of the legislature is part of an agreement between the EU heads of state and government on the future leadership of the European Union. They had drafted a personnel package in which all parties are represented.

+++ 12.41 p.m .: Flight attendants union offers Lufthansa no strikes +++

The flight attendants union UFO offers Lufthansa no strikes for four weeks. As the union explained, the airline could agree to the peace obligation on the condition that "ambiguities regarding the right to represent are clarified in a confidential setting". "It is now up to the Lufthansa Group to initiate talks and prevent strikes," said UFO Deputy Chairman Daniel Flohr. "We are always available for this."

+++ 12:21 p.m.: 240 guests with food poisoning at party for Imelda Marcos +++

More than 240 people suffered food poisoning at a celebration of the 90th birthday of former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos . The affected guests complained of dizziness, vomiting and diarrhea and were taken to hospitals, said the head of the local emergency service, Bryan Wong.

+++ 12.13 p.m .: At least eight dead after dam burst in India +++

At least eight people died in a dam burst as a result of heavy rain in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. The search for at least 15 missing people continues, and drones would also be used, said a spokesman for Indian civil protection on Wednesday. The Tiware Dam is around 275 kilometers from Maharashtra's capital, Mumbai. The financial metropolis and other parts of the state are currently suffering from the heaviest monsoon rain in a decade. According to the latest reports, at least 24 people were killed and many more injured when a wall collapsed in a Mumbai slum the day before. In the nearby city of Pune, six workers were killed when another wall gave way under the weight of the torrent.

+++ 11.50 a.m .: European Parliament: No majority for a president yet +++

The European Parliament has not yet made a decision on the appointment of the President in the first round of voting on Wednesday. None of the four candidates received the necessary absolute majority of the votes cast, as announced by the outgoing speaker of the parliament, Antonio Tajani. This was 332 votes. At 325, Italian socialist David-Maria Sassoli was just under the threshold. Behind came the Czech Jan Zahradil from the right EKR with 162 votes and the German Green Ska Keller with 133 votes. Fourth went to Spanish leftist Sira Rego with 42 votes. More elections follow.

+++ 11.21 a.m .: Dispute over abortion paragraphs: verdict against doctor overturned +++

The Frankfurt Higher Regional Court has overturned the conviction of Giessen doctor Kristina Hänel for illegal advertising for abortions. The background to this is the legal situation that has changed since the end of March, the court in Frankfurt said. The Gießen district court must now deal with the case again (Az.: 1 Ss 15/19).

In November 2017, Hänel was sentenced to a fine of 6,000 euros by the Giessen District Court. The court justified this by saying that Hänel advertised abortions on its website, which violated paragraph 219a of the Criminal Code, which prohibits the public offering, announcing or promoting abortions. The case had sparked a broad debate in Germany about what information doctors are allowed to give about abortions with impunity.

+++ 11.06 a.m .: US rapper ASAP Rocky arrested after a fight in Stockholm +++

US rapper ASAP Rocky ("Praise The Lord") has been arrested in Sweden. The police arrested him on Wednesday night after a concert after the 30-year-old was said to have been involved in a physical altercation on the streets of Stockholm on Sunday. A spokeswoman for the public prosecutor's office confirmed to the German Press Agency that the arrested artist was ASAP Rocky. He is now being investigated for grievous bodily harm. The Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet first reported on the incident.

+++ 10.46 a.m .: Sea-Watch: Rackete in a "safe place" +++

The released captain of the "Sea-Watch 3", Carola Rackete, is according to the German aid organization in "a safe place". Sea-Watch did not want to comment on whether she is still in the Sicilian city of Agrigento or in other places in Italy or even abroad. "We want her to be safe and not be besieged for the time being," said spokesman Ruben Neugebauer. "She's going to sleep now."

+++ 10.34 a.m .: Baby of stabbed woman dies in clinic +++

A baby that rescue workers removed from the stomach of a stabbed woman in London has died. The 26-year-old mother was killed last Saturday night in a house in the south of the British capital. She was eight months pregnant. The little boy named Riley has been fighting for his life in a hospital since the bloody crime. Scotland Yard is now using surveillance camera footage to search for a man who went to the house on the night of the crime and ran away about 10 minutes later.

London Pregnant woman is stabbed – rescue workers bring her baby into the world on the spot

+++ 10.32 a.m.: Rouhani: Iran will enrich uranium indefinitely from Sunday +++

According to President Hassan Rouhani, Iran wants to enrich uranium "indefinitely" from the weekend - and thus initiate the second phase of the partial exit from the nuclear agreement. "On July 7, our uranium enrichment limit will no longer be 3.67 percent and we will no longer meet our commitments in this regard," Ruhani said at a cabinet meeting. Iran will increase the degree of enrichment as needed, he announced. Unless the contracting parties implement the nuclear agreement in accordance with the contract by then, Ruhani said on state television broadcaster IRIB.

+++ 10.24 a.m .: Trouble for island holidaymakers - Greek sailors on strike +++

Trouble for thousands of holidaymakers in Greece: Because of a sailors' strike, the ferries did not leave the Aegean on Wednesday . The strike was due to end Thursday morning. But it could also be extended, said Antonis Dalakogiorgos, a member of the board of the seafarers' union (PNO), on the radio. Dozens of Greek islands that don't have an airport remain practically cut off from the outside world. Among them are the islands of Folegandros, Skopelos and Patmos, which are popular among tourists.

+++ 10.13 a.m .: Charges of murder after a fatal sports car accident +++

Almost four months after the sports car accident with two dead in Stuttgart, the public prosecutor’s office brought charges of murder against the driver. The 20-year-old is said to have been driving at a speed of 160 to 165 kilometers per hour with the accelerator pedal fully depressed. A spokesman for the authority said on Wednesday that the maximum speed limit had been exceeded three times. The "Stuttgarter Zeitung" and "Stuttgarter Nachrichten" reported about it first.

+++ 9.57 a.m .: BGH: online retailer must also take back the unpacked mattress +++

Consumers can return a mattress bought on the Internet to the retailer even if they have already removed the protective film have. This was decided by the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) in Karlsruhe. Accordingly, the same applies to mattresses as to clothing: You could come into contact with the body when trying them out. However, the retailer is able to clean or disinfect the goods in such a way that they can still be resold. (Ref. VIII ZR 194/16)

This means that a man who sent back a mattress in 2014 gets back the purchase price of more than 1000 euros and the shipping costs from the dealer after a long legal dispute. The case, which started at the Mainz district court, had meanwhile even been dealt with by the European Court of Justice (ECJ). The BGH judges are now implementing his preliminary decision for the legal situation in Germany.

+++ 9.23 a.m .: Regensburg’s mayor Wolbergs guilty of accepting benefits +++

In the Regensburg corruption process, the suspended mayor Joachim Wolbergs was found guilty in two cases of accepting benefits. However, the Regensburg Regional Court ruled that there would be no punishment.

+++ 9.09 a.m .: Man wanted as "terrorist" killed in police operation in Tunis +++

A man wanted as "terrorist" has been killed in Tunisia. The wanted Aymen Smiri was initially pursued by the police on Tuesday evening in the west of Tunis, the interior ministry said. The 23-year-old detonated an explosive device, a ministry spokesman told the television station Wataniya. It was initially unclear whether the man was connected to the suicide bombings in Tunis last Thursday.

+++ 8.47 a.m .: Claudia Roth: Government should organize state sea rescue +++

Bundestag Vice President Claudia Roth has called on the federal government to change course in refugee policy. "Private sea rescue should be superfluous, because sea rescue is a state task," said the Green politician to the newspapers of the Funke media group (Wednesday) against the background of the developments around the rescue ship "Sea-Watch 3" in Italy. "It's about time that the federal government understood this and finally moved forward."

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+++ 8.44 a.m.: majority of employees in the tourism sector receives only low wages +++

The majority of employees in the tourism sector in Germany are employed in the low-wage sector. This emerges from a response from the Federal Ministry of Labor to the left-wing faction, which is available to the "Passauer Neue Presse". In accommodation establishments such as hotels and guesthouses, almost two out of three (around 58 percent) of employees only receive the low wage. The average earnings of full-time employees subject to social insurance contributions there at the end of 2017 was 2021 euros per month.

+++ 8.13 a.m .: Report: Fraud of millions on the Internet - international gang +++

According to a media report, a criminal group is said to have stolen millions on the Internet with fraudulent investment platforms. Thousands of Germans are among those affected, reports the North German Broadcasting Corporation (NDR) and the Saarland Broadcasting Corporation (SR) based on joint research. The gang acted internationally and duped their victims with the help of so-called trading platforms.

Users could bet on stock prices and currency fluctuations or trade in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. The head of the gang is a German, reports NDR and SR, citing the Saarbrücken public prosecutor's office, which is conducting the case together with Austria's central economic public prosecutor's office. The man and four other suspects are accused of commercial gang fraud.

In Saarbrücken alone, 233 criminal charges are being processed in connection with the trading platforms. The main accused is in custody in Vienna, some of the accused are still at large. According to the information, victims were specifically recruited in social networks - and cheated on average by more than 40,000 euros.

+++ 7.58 a.m .: District Administrator: Forest fire in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania under control +++

The fire brigade has the huge forest fire near Lübtheen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania under control. "We now have the fire under control," said the district administrator of the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, Stefan Sternberg (SPD), in the ZDF "Morgenmagazin". The fire was now completely encircled from all sides.

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EU Commission Presidency Ursula von der Leyen to Brussels - "this solution has nothing to do with democracy"

+++ 7.44 a.m.: Barley announces resistance to von der Leyen as head of the EU Commission +++

The former Federal Justice Minister Katarina Barley (SPD), who ran as her party's top candidate in the European elections, has the nomination of Federal Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) as a new EU Commission chief sharply criticized. "That's not the promise that was given to the citizens before the election," Barley said on ZDF's "Morgenmagazin".

In her group in the EU Parliament, many would vote against the personnel, Barley announced. She will also personally vote against it. It is not about reservations about von der Leyen personally, but about the process of filling the post itself.

+++ 6.58 a.m .: Left boss Kipping demands the right to repair electrical appliances +++

Left boss Katja Kipping wants to legally oblige manufacturers of electrical appliances to build their devices in such a way that they can be repaired is possible. This is reported by the newspapers of the editorial network Germany (RND; Wednesday editions), citing a thesis paper by the party leader entitled "Five proposals against throw-away capitalism".

Under point one it says: "Manufacturers are legally obliged to design devices that can be repaired." Second, Kipping wants to introduce a rule that makes it a criminal offense to intentionally shorten the lifespan of a product. Thirdly, electronic devices should in principle be designed in such a way that they last at least five years.

+++ 6.04 a.m .: Almost 40 dead in attack on refugee camps near Tripoli +++

Almost 40 people were killed in an air raid on a refugee camp near the Libyan capital Tripoli. More than 70 other refugees were injured in the hangar in the suburb of Tadschura, said a spokesman for the rescue services on Wednesday night. The internationally recognized government of national unity blamed the troops of renegade general Khalifa Haftar for the airstrike.

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+++ 5.54 a.m.: mourning for "father of the Ford Mustang" +++

Automotive icon Lee Iacocca has died at the age of 94. This was announced by Fiat Chrysler (FCA) on Tuesday evening (local time). In a statement, FCA recognized the role Iacocca played as head of Chrysler. Iacocca is credited with saving Chrysler from bankruptcy in 1980. "He was one of the great leaders of our company and of the entire auto industry," the statement said. Iacocca played a "historic role" in guiding Chrysler through the crisis.

In the 1970s, Iacocca was head of the US automobile group Ford. The former car manager is considered one of the fathers of the legendary Ford Mustang, which is still produced today.

Study by the Bertelsmann Foundation Exclusion and violence among schoolchildren - it is particularly bad at primary schools in Germany

+++ 5 a.m.: Study: More than half of the children find out exclusion or violence at school +++

More than half of the children and young people experience exclusion, teasing or physical violence at school. This emerges from a study by the Bertelsmann Foundation, which was presented to the AFP news agency on Wednesday. In comprehensive and secondary schools, 39 percent of those surveyed said they had experienced at least two of the attacks mentioned in the past month. This is 35 percent at Hauptschule and Realschule and 29 percent at Gymnasium.

+++ 4.38 a.m.: Several years in prison for Sundance co-founder for child abuse +++

The American filmmaker Sterling Van Wagenen, co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival, has been sentenced to at least six years to life in prison for child abuse To be sentenced. A judge in the US state of Utah imposed the sentence on Tuesday, the Salt Lake Tribune newspaper reported. The 72-year-old pleaded guilty in May to two counts of molesting a girl between 2013 and 2015.

+++ 4.06 a.m.: Jury acquits highly decorated Navy SEAL soldier of murder charge +++

A highly decorated soldier of the US Navy Seals special unit is accused of murder in a court-martial in the USA of a prisoner in Iraq have been acquitted. A US Navy spokeswoman said on Tuesday (local time) that the jury in San Diego had found elite soldier Edward Gallagher guilty of posing with the prisoner's body for a photo. He was acquitted of all other charges, including shooting at civilians in Iraq.

+++ 2.58 a.m .: Gunshots in a California shopping center - two injured +++

Two people were injured by gunshots in a California shopping center. The police were looking for two possible perpetrators on Tuesday evening (local time). Investigators assume that the shots were not fired indiscriminately but rather deliberately.

The incident in a shopping mall in San Bruno, south of San Francisco, triggered a large-scale police operation. Many people hid or ran out of the facility in a panic. The entire shopping center was cleared, and a nearby subway station was closed.

+++ 2.35 a.m .: Spahn, Wadephul and Otte in conversation for von der Leyen's successor +++

After the proposal by the EU heads of state and government for Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) as EU Commission President, the discussion about her successor has begun in Berlin. According to information from the German Press Agency from the Union, Health Minister Jens Spahn and defense experts Johann Wadephul and Henning Otte (all CDU) are in talks for the office.

Ex-CDU Secretary General and Secretary of State for Defense Peter Tauber also has a chance of the office. He has gained great popularity in the troupe, it was said from several sources. According to this information, CDU chairwoman Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, who had also been mentioned in speculation as a possible successor to von der Leyens, refused.

+++ 2.32 a.m.: People in Chile and Argentina marvel at total solar eclipse +++

In Chile and Argentina, people were able to marvel at a total solar eclipse on Tuesday. The sky spectacle, which lasted two minutes and 36 seconds, was particularly visible in the afternoon (local time) in northern Chile. Around 300,000 people traveled to the region to observe the total solar eclipse.