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The German services workers' union Verdi has called for a strike at Berlin Brandenburg Airport on Wednesday amid ongoing disputes over wages and working conditions with public-sector employers. The union said in a statement that during the second round of negotiations, the employers presented a pay offer that the Verdi bargaining committee......
A drone strike near Dubai International Airport forced a temporary suspension of flights early Monday, intensifying an aviation crisis across the Gulf that has already grounded tens of thousands of flights since the start of United States and Israeli strikes against Iran. More than 52,000 flights to and from the Middle East have been canceled......
A recent report suggests that West Germany played a covert financial role in the development of Israel’s Dimona nuclear reactor in the Negev Desert. According to the investigation, from 1961 to 1973, Bonn transferred approximately 140–160 million German marks annually to Israel through secret loan arrangements, totaling nearly......
Jürgen Habermas, one of the most influential philosophers and sociologists of the modern era, has died at the age of 96, according to his publisher Suhrkamp Verlag. The German thinker passed away in Starnberg, near Munich. Widely regarded as a central figure in the intellectual life of postwar Germany, Habermas spent more than seven......
A public security challenge designed to test the resilience of an autonomous AI agent on the Solana blockchain drew nearly 15,000 participants, with only five successfully breaching the system. The event, organized by Berlin based company Stormrae, generated more than 64,000 attempts to manipulate or compromise the AI agent. Stormrae announced......
A growing diesel shortage triggered by disruptions to global energy supplies is threatening agricultural activity across multiple continents, raising concerns about rising food prices in the months ahead. Two weeks after the start of the US Israeli conflict involving Iran, the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz has disrupted shipments......
A team of mathematicians has demonstrated that a long-standing principle in differential geometry proposed more than 150 years ago is not universally valid. By constructing two distinct torus-shaped surfaces that share identical geometric measurements and curvature properties, the researchers showed that these local data do not always determine......
Germany is intensifying diplomatic efforts to help end the ongoing conflict involving Iran, as concerns grow across Europe about the political, economic and security consequences of a prolonged war. Speaking during a visit to military exercises in northern Europe, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stressed that diplomacy remains the most viable......
Peter Sarlin, the Finnish entrepreneur who sold artificial intelligence startup Silo AI to AMD for $665 million in 2024, has unveiled a new venture called QuTwo. The company positions itself as what Sarlin describes as “an AI lab for the quantum era,” aiming to bridge enterprise artificial intelligence systems with emerging quantum......
Swedish software startup Lovable has reached $400 million in annual recurring revenue as of February 2026, marking one of the fastest growth trajectories in the history of software startups. The company added $100 million in recurring revenue in a single month, according to Ryan Meadows, Lovable’s chief commercial officer, in comments......
Scientists have found the first clear evidence of an oval shaped orbit in a merger between a neutron star and a black hole, a discovery that challenges long standing assumptions about how these extreme cosmic systems form. The findings were published on March 11 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters and are based on a new analysis of the gravitational......
BMW warned that profits will decline in 2026 as higher tariffs, currency shifts, and rising costs weigh on the German luxury carmaker’s profitability, even as the company bets on its next generation of electric vehicles to drive long term growth. Speaking at its annual conference in Munich, the company said it expects a moderate decline......
Several G7 nations have announced the release of strategic oil reserves in response to rising energy prices, ahead of a scheduled leaders’ meeting. Japan and Germany took the initiative to ease market pressures caused by the ongoing Middle East conflict, signaling coordinated action among the world’s largest economies. Japanese......
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