Trump’s trade moves could send Germany into a recession, report warns

The risk of a recession in Europe’s biggest economy rose significantly between March and April amid the fallout over President Trump’s increasingly restrictive stance on global trade, researchers said Monday. While economists with the German Institute for Macroeconomics and Economic Research (IMK) only saw a 6.8 percent likelihood of a recession within the next three months back in March, […]

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A euthanasia expert just unveiled his ‘suicide machine’ at an Amsterdam funeral fair

Experience your own virtual VR #euthanasia death in the 3D printed Sarco at the Amsterdam Funeral Expo this Sat 14th and meet the designershttps://t.co/Eb7CZpGf5S pic.twitter.com/gdHX9pVM7e — Philip Nitschke (@philipnitschke) April 10, 2018 It's not the most cheerful offering. But euthanasia activist Philip Nitschke thinks he's about to revolutionize how we die. At a funeral fair in Amsterdam […]

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Burma repatriates first Rohingya family despite U.N. warnings

NEW DELHI — Since August last year, more than half a million Rohingya have undertaken perilous journeys to Bangladesh to flee persecution and violence in Burma. Now, the first Rohingya family has been repatriated, Burma's government said in a Facebook post late Saturday, despite warnings from the United Nations that conditions in the country are not right for their […]

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A suspect tried to blend in with 60,000 concertgoers. China’s facial recognition cameras caught him.

The 31-year-old man, wanted by police, had thought playing a numbers game would be enough to allow him to fade into anonymity. The population of China is a staggering 1.4 billion people, give or take a few million. More than 45 million of them live in Jiangxi province in southeast China, and 5 million of those people […]

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Civilian casualties in Afghanistan at near-record level this year, according to U.N. report

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — An ambulance packed with explosives that detonated in Kabul and a pedestrian suicide bombing outside a Shiite shrine there were among the deadly incidents that led to a near-record 2,258 civilian casualties in Afghanistan during the first quarter of this year, U.N. officials reported this week. According to the U.N. Assistance Mission […]

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