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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://static.dw.com/image/78462971_6.jpg”] https://p.dw.com/p/5JDmH The thought might not be uppermost in your mind when the time comes, but condoms sold in the EU and European Economic Area should always carry the CE marking on the packaging showing they have passed relevant safety and standards checksImage: Robin Utrecht/ROBIN UTRECHT/picture alliance France‘s anti-fraud and health agencies issued…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://static.dw.com/image/78437264_6.jpg”] https://p.dw.com/p/5J6cC The price of food-grade wheat has declined by 30 to 35% in UkraineImage: Dmytro Smolienko/Ukrinform/ABACA/picture alliance Russian attacks on civilian ships have effectively brought the ports in the greater region of Odesa to a standstill. Until recently, they handled about 90% of Ukraine’s agricultural exports. The Ukrainian government has been working…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://static.dw.com/image/78460506_6.jpg”] https://p.dw.com/p/5JD8f Police locked down other schools in the area following the attackImage: Niklas Hagman/TT/picture alliance A person armed with a sword has wounded multiple people at a school in Fagersta in central Sweden, authorities said Friday. Police said one person had been taken into custody and there was no longer any danger to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://static.dw.com/image/78463952_6.jpg”] https://p.dw.com/p/5JD8f Police identified the suspected attacker as an 18-year-old manImage: Philip O’Connor/REUTERS A person armed with a sword has wounded multiple people at a school in Fagersta in central Sweden, authorities said Friday. Police said one person had been taken into custody and there was no longer any danger to the public.  …

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://static.dw.com/image/78458292_6.jpg”] https://p.dw.com/p/5JCnB The judge said the tourist ‘offended the Balinese people’ and ‘must be held accountable’Image: AP Photo/picture alliance A Swiss man has been sentenced to one year in prison on the Indonesian resort island of Bali after insulting a sacred Hindu holiday. A judge in the city of Denpasar found the 26-year-old…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://static.dw.com/image/78460060_6.jpg”] https://p.dw.com/p/5Iq4U Interior Minister Dobrindt refused to confirm reports that Russia was involved in the arms cacheImage: Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa/picture alliance Security authorities in Germany uncovered a cache of handguns in a forest near the capital Berlin last year, which they believe was intended to be used to carry out assassinations on behalf…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://static.dw.com/image/78458771_6.jpg”] https://p.dw.com/p/5JCXv Spanish police escort hundreds of migrants to shelters after they were cleared from a beach in CeutaImage: Antonio Sempere/AP Photo/picture alliance Spanish police have arrested five people suspected of charging migrants thousands of euros to bring them from Ceuta, Spain’s North African exclave, to mainland Spain. The arrests come less than…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://static.dw.com/image/78456869_6.jpg”] https://p.dw.com/p/5JCJU The DRC Ebola epidemic is the second-deadliest in the world after the 2014-2016 outbreak in West AfricaImage: Dieudonne Dirole/AP Photo/picture alliance The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is “growing exponentially” and risks spilling over into neighboring countries unless containment efforts are stepped up, the UN’s senior Ebola coordinator…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://static.dw.com/image/77333764_6.jpg”] https://p.dw.com/p/5JBDq Panama Canal is dependent on a system of water-filled locks that moves ships through the canal systemImage: Michael Melford/Design Pics/picture alliance The Panama Canal will cut the number of ships passing through it starting next month due to a lack of rainfall as the El Nino weather pattern takes hold over the region,…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://static.dw.com/image/78453300_6.jpg”] https://p.dw.com/p/5JBH8 Six passengers and two pilots were aboard the plane during the incident [Representative image]Image: Hohlfeld/IMAGO A charter plane crash at a remote military radar site in western Alaska on Thursday has left all eight people on board dead, according to the United States  military. The aircraft  crashed around 12:15 pm (2015 UTC)…