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Air travel across Germany faced major disruptions on Friday after cabin crew at Deutsche Lufthansa AG launched a one-day strike, affecting operations at key hubs including Frankfurt and Munich. The industrial action, organized by the UFO union representing flight attendants, led to widespread cancellations and delays. The strike ran from......
Two emerging players in the artificial intelligence sector, Cohere and Aleph Alpha, are reportedly in discussions over a potential merger that could reshape the competitive landscape of AI development. According to media reports citing government and industry sources, the talks have been ongoing for several months and are said to have reached......
Tesla has launched its first unsupervised full self-driving trials in Europe after securing regulatory approval to operate autonomous vehicles without safety drivers in London and Berlin. The deployment marks a major step for the company’s neural network-based driving system, which is now allowed to run independently on public roads......
Mercedes-Benz (Mercedes-Benz Group AG) announced a decline in first-quarter 2026 sales as the company navigates a transitional period in the Chinese market. Quarterly sales fell 6% year-on-year to 419,400 vehicles, reflecting challenges in the world’s largest automotive market. While Mercedes saw sales increase by 7% in Europe and 20%......
Germany’s economy ministry has initiated an investment review of Klesch Group Ltd’s planned acquisition of BP’s (BP Plc) German oil refinery in Gelsenkirchen, according to reports from Spiegel. Confidential documents cited by Spiegel suggest that the nationality of Klesch Group owner Gary Klesch, who renounced his U.S. citizenship......
German exporters are maintaining a generally positive outlook for international sales despite ongoing geopolitical tensions, according to a recent assessment by Allianz Trade. A large proportion of companies in Germany expect export revenues to grow in the coming year, reflecting resilience in one of the world’s leading export-driven......
Finance ministers from Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Austria have urged the European Commission to introduce an EU-wide windfall tax on energy companies, as fuel prices surge בעקבות geopolitical tensions. In a joint letter dated April 3 and addressed to climate commissioner Wopke Hoekstra, the ministers proposed a coordinated......
Astronomers have discovered what appears to be the first reliably detected pair of supermassive black holes orbiting each other at close range at the center of the galaxy Markarian 501. The finding, announced Monday by the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, opens a rare window into one of the least understood phases of galaxy......
Despite the striking diversity of the world's languages, a large share follow the same underlying grammatical patterns. A large-scale study analyzing more than 1,700 languages has found that roughly one third of long-proposed "linguistic universals" hold up under rigorous statistical testing, pointing to deep cognitive and communicative......
Paramount Skydance is close to securing $24 billion in equity commitments from three Gulf sovereign wealth funds to help finance its $81 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday, in a deal that would end weeks of uncertainty over whether Middle Eastern capital would remain part of the transaction. Saudi......
German authorities are working to clarify new provisions in a recently updated military service law that require men of fighting age to obtain permission before staying abroad for extended periods. The regulation applies to men between the ages of 17 and 45 and concerns trips lasting longer than three months. Although the measure came into......
Rising fuel costs driven by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East are reshaping Easter and spring holiday travel across multiple continents, forcing millions of consumers to cancel trips, shorten itineraries, or stay closer to home as the global tourism industry braces for a difficult season. In Australia, a Tourism & Transport Forum......
An international team of physicists has demonstrated for the first time how quantum entanglement between an electron and a molecular ion can be controlled at the attosecond scale, one billionth of a billionth of a second, opening new pathways for manipulating quantum coherence in molecules. The findings, published in Nature on March 31, mark......
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GITEX Africa: The New Frontiers Of African Innovation
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Les Impériales Week 2026: Under the Theme “Daba or Never”
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Iran under the lens
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AFCON 2025: Morocco at the heart of African football
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Walaw at the Heart of the Mawazine Festival – Rhythms of the World 2025
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