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☆ Barcelona ending apartment rentals by foreign tourists
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The city’s leftist mayor, Jaume Collboni, said that by November 2028, Barcelona will scrap the licenses of the 10,101 apartments currently approved as short-term rentals. The boom in short-term rentals in Barcelona, Spain’s most visited city by foreign tourists, means some residents cannot afford an apartment after rents rose 68% in the past 10 years and the cost of buying a house rose by 38%, Collboni said. Local governments have announced restrictions on short-term rentals in places such as Spain’s Canary Islands, Lisbon and Berlin in the past decade. Vacation rentals platform Airbnb, which hosts a significant number of Barcelona listings, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. “Collboni is making a mistake that will lead to (higher) poverty and unemployment,” Barcelona’s tourist apartments association APARTUR said in a statement, adding the ban would trigger a rise in illegal tourist apartments.

Persons: Jaume Collboni, ” Collboni, Spain’s, Collboni, Isabel Rodriguez, “, ”, APARTUR Organizations: CNN —, Barcelona Locations: CNN — Barcelona, Spanish, Barcelona, Spain, Europe, Islands, Lisbon, Berlin

☆ Russian saboteurs burned down a Berlin factory to hit weapons supplies to Ukraine. Just one problem — the facility made car parts.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

A massive fire at a factory in Berlin last month was set by Russian saboteurs, per WSJ. But the factory, owned by Diehl Metal, makes parts for cars and electrical systems, not weapons. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementIn early May, scores of German firefighters massed at a metal technology plant in southwest Berlin as it burned. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: — Organizations: Diehl, Service, Business Locations: Berlin, Russian, Ukraine, Lichterfelde

☆ How a 1933 Book About Jews in Magic Was Rescued From Oblivion
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-24 | by ( David Segal | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Richard Hatch was searching the card catalog of the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale, hunting for intriguing titles under the subject heading “Magic.” It was 1979, and Hatch was a young graduate student in physics, but he’d long nurtured an amateur’s passion for the conjuring arts and, on this day at least, he preferred to read about sleight of hand than quantum mechanics. His rummaging stopped when he spotted a title called “Die Juden in der Zauberkunst.” Hatch had spent four years of his youth in Germany so he translated it instantly: “Jews in Magic.” The card said the book was written by someone named Guenther Dammann and published in Berlin in 1933. A book about Jews in magic, from Germany, in the very year that the Nazis assumed power and started burning “un-German” books in bonfires across the country. It seemed obvious. This was an antisemitic tract, identifying Jews to make it easier for the government to persecute them and the public to shun them.

Persons: Richard Hatch, Hatch, ” Hatch, Guenther Dammann Organizations: Sterling Memorial Library, Yale Locations: der Zauberkunst, Germany, Magic, Berlin

☆ EU and China set for talks on planned electric vehicle tariffs
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-23 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

The EU and China have reportedly agreed to start talks on the planned imposition of tariffs on Chinese-made EVs. Germany's Economy Minister Robert Habeck said he had been informed by EU commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis that there would be concrete negotiations on tariffs with China. The minister had said earlier on Saturday that the European Union's door was open for discussions regarding EU tariffs on Chinese exports. Proposed EU tariffs on Chinese goods are not a "punishment", Habeck told Chinese officials earlier in Beijing. Proposed EU duties on Chinese-made EVs would hurt both sides, Zheng added.

Persons: Robert Habeck, Valdis, Wang Wentao, Habeck, Habeck's, Zheng Shanjie, Zheng, Valdis Dombrovskis Organizations: Afp, Getty Images, European Union, Germany's, EU, European Commission, Russia, National, Reform Commission, Chinese Commerce, EU Trade Locations: Taicang Port, Suzhou, China's, Jiangsu Province, EU, China, Getty Images China, Shanghai, Beijing, Brussels, Berlin, Ukraine, Russia, Europe, U.S, Brazil, Turkey, Germany

☆ Russia’s shifting tactics put unprecedented pressure on Ukraine’s already hobbled power system
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-22 | by ( Clare Sebastian | Olga Voitovych | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

“We are doing our best,” Deputy Energy Minister Svitlana Grynchuk told CNN. “I installed them so that my family would not feel uncomfortable when there is no electricity,” he told CNN. The company told CNN it’s also halted the use of air conditioning in administrative buildings, and turned off outdoor lighting. The G7, having already spent $3bn to date to support Ukraine’s energy sector, just announced another $1bn in funding in early June. Ukraine’s energy ministry says it has been building concrete shelters to protect some energy equipment from attacks.

Persons: CNN — Kateryna Serzhan, “, Keen, Ukrenergo, Volodymyr Zelensky, ”, …, Dmytro Sakharuk, DTEK, Thomas Peter, Yan Dobronosov, Svitlana Grynchuk, Denis Shmyhal, Serzhan, CNN it’s, Stepanov, Valentyn Ogirenko, Marta Trush, Igor Piddubnyi, Piddubnyi, ” CNN’s Clare Sebastian, Olga Voitovych, Svitlana Vlasova, Daria Tarasova, Markina Organizations: CNN, Reuters, Getty, Energy, Kyiv region’s, Ukraine’s, Companies, Railways, Kyiv School of Economics, “, National Bank of, Patriot, White House Locations: Kyiv, Ukraine, –, Moscow, Russia, Berlin, Russian, Europe, AFP, National Bank of Ukraine, “ Ukraine, Romania, London

☆ 102-year-old Holocaust survivor is Vogue Germany’s cover star
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Lianne Kolirin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A 102-year-old Holocaust survivor whose family was murdered at Auschwitz is the cover star for the July/August edition of Vogue Germany. In her interview with Vogue Germany, Friedländer said: “I am grateful. To many she is known as a Holocaust survivor. Friedländer told Vogue Germany that she was “appalled” by the growth of right-wing populism and the rise of antisemitic attacks. That this never comes to happen again.”Although more than 100 years old, Friedländer is not Vogue’s oldest cover model.

Persons: Margot Friedländer, née Bendheim, Friedländer, Ralph, ” Friedländer, ”, “, they’d, Kerstin Weng, Mark Peckmezian, Weng, ’ Friedländer, Adolf, Apo, Maria Oggay Organizations: CNN, Vogue Germany, Berlin’s Jewish, Gestapo, Nazi, Vogue, Federal Locations: Auschwitz, Berlin, Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, Nazi Germany, “, New York, Vogue Philippines

☆ Arda Güler: Teenage sensation scores wonder goal to help Turkey beat Georgia at Euro 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Ben Church | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Teenage soccer sensation Arda Güler, 19, produced a moment of magic to help Turkey beat Georgia 3-1 in an entertaining Group F game at Euro 2024 on Tuesday. The 65th-minute strike sparked frenzied scenes inside the Signal Iduna Park, with thousands of Turkey fans celebrating arguably the goal of the tournament so far. It was a devastating blow for Georgia, though, which is making its debut at a major soccer tournament. Despite being the lowest ranked team at Euro 2024, its players can count themselves unlucky having pushed Turkey all the way in its opening group stage match. But as the rain poured down onto the exhausted players, it was Turkey celebrating at full-time after a breathtaking match came to an end.

Persons: Arda Güler, Müldür, Georges Mikautadze’s, squirmed, excruciatingly, Kerem Aktürkoğlu, Giorgi Mamardashvili Organizations: CNN, Turkey, Georgia, Real Madrid, Dortmund, German Weather Service Locations: Turkey, Georgia, Germany, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Gelsenkirchen, Cologne, Berlin

CNN —Two of tennis’ biggest stars have announced that they will skip the Olympic Games in Paris next month. 3 Aryna Sabalenka told reporters in Berlin at the Ecotrans Ladies Open she was skipping the Olympics, citing WTA tournament participation requirements and her health. The Belarusian had struggled with a stomach illness during her French Open quarterfinal loss to Mirra Andreeva on June 5, her first defeat before the semifinals of a major since 2022. Jabeur leaves the court after her French Open quarterfinal loss to Coco Gauff. Raducanu had dropped out of French Open qualifying to work on building her fitness.

Persons: Sabalenka, Mirra Andreeva, Roland Garros, …, ” Sabalenka, “ It’s, ”, Jabeur, Coco Gauff, Garros, ” Jabeur, “, Emma Raducanu, Raducanu, ” Raducanu Organizations: CNN, Olympic Games, Roland, Games, Wimbledon, WTA, Olympics, “, French Locations: Paris, Berlin, Belarusian, Ukraine, Rothesay

☆ Ernest Shackleton’s Quest shipwreck has finally been found
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-15 | by ( Ashley Strickland | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew of 27 men set off aboard the HMS Endurance in 1914. A search expedition found the HMS Endurance wreck in 2022, and now, another part of Shackleton’s legacy has been recovered. Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesAn international team of experts using sonar has located the exploration ship Quest, once captained by Shackleton, off the coast of Canada. — A botanist spotted a tiny plant species new to science growing in an unlikely place on the slopes of the Andes.

Persons: Sir Ernest Shackleton, Shackleton, Freeman Dyson, Dyson, George Wittemyer, ”, Mickey Pardo, ritualistically, Chichén Itzá, “, Adomas Valantinas, Ashley Strickland, Katie Hunt Organizations: CNN, HMS, Quest, Central Press, Hulton, Cornell University, Olympus, ESA, Brown University, NASA, CNN Space, Science Locations: Antarctica, South Georgia, Canada, Kenya, Chichén, Yucatán, Everest, England, Australia

☆ Germany sets aside unease over its military to celebrate first Veteran’s Day
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-15 | by ( Sophie Tanno | Nadine Schmidt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —Germany is marking its first Veterans’ Day since World War Two on Saturday, a once unthinkable move that sets aside long-standing unease over the honoring of its soldiers. “We on the left reject this Veterans’ Day,” he told CNN in a statement. The commemorations, modeled on Armed Forces Day in the UK and Veterans Day in the US, will honor all Germans who have worn military uniform – not only those wounded or killed in combat. But the biggest spur to creating a Veterans’ Day has been Ukraine. He played a prominent role in forming the new Veterans’ Day bill.

Persons: Ates Gürpinar, ”, “, Boris Pistorius, ” Johannes Kiess, Johannes Arlt, Arlt, ” Arlt, Andreas Eggert, ” Eggert, Andreas Eggert “, Pistorius, Stefan Huss Organizations: CNN, Veterans ’, Veterans, Linke, Armed Forces Day, UK, Defense, National People’s Army, Bundeswehr, University of Leipzig, Social Democrats Locations: Germany, ”, Ukraine, Soviet, East Germany, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Mali, Berlin, Europe

☆ Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas loses challenge barring her from elite women’s swimming races
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Lauren Merola | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas lost her challenge against the Court of Arbitration of Sport in Switzerland — the world’s top court in matters of sporting fairness — to overturn the rules of World Aquatics that prevent transgender women from competing in women’s divisions. The ruling excludes transgender women who underwent male puberty, like Thomas, from participating in women’s races. By 2021, Thomas met the NCAA hormone therapy requirements to swim on Penn’s women’s team and did so for the 2020-21 and 2021-22 seasons. Thomas called the CAS decision “deeply disappointing” in a statement from her legal team, according to Athlete Ally. Last year, the governing bodies for track and field as well as cycling ruled that transgender women could not compete in women’s events.

Persons: Lia Thomas, Thomas, Thomas ’, Ally, ”, Austin Killips, Mike Comer Organizations: Aquatics, University of Pennsylvania, NCAA, Cycling Union Locations: Switzerland, Berlin, Toronto

☆ Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas loses challenge of rules barring her from elite women’s races
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Steve Almasy | Wayne Sterling | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Thomas, 25, had in January filed legal paperwork against World Aquatics, swimming’s governing body based in Switzerland, for its policy that restricts transgender athletes from competing in most elite women’s aquatics competitions. It also said national federations don’t have the authority to modify the application of a world governing body’s rules. Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire/AP/FileA few months later World Aquatics ratified its updated gender policy, which went into effect in March 2023, according to the 24-page arbitral award. USA Swimming is the national governing body for swimmers and a member of World Aquatics. In May 2022, Thomas told ABC’s Juju Chang, “It’s been a goal of mine to just swim at an Olympic trials for a very long time and I would love to see that through.”

Persons: Lia Thomas, Thomas ’, Thomas, Rich von Biberstein, ABC’s Juju Chang, “ It’s, ” Organizations: CNN, Sport, Aquatics, don’t, University of Pennsylvania, NCAA Locations: Switzerland, Berlin

☆ Opinion: Germany’s 16-year-olds voted for the first time in European Parliamentary elections. The far-right results were scary
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Opinion Paul Hockenos | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

What a shock then – and coming days after the 80th anniversary of D-Day - that many German first-timers threw their votes disproportionally behind the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. Paul HockenosWhat a shock then – and coming days after the 80th anniversary of D-Day — that many German first-timers threw their votes disproportionally behind the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party. A full 95% of German AfD voters said Germany should limit the flow of foreigners and refugees into Germany. Not exactly the credentials of a party you would think would appeal to the next generation of German voters. But they must vent this pique constructively, as the extreme right has no answers to these problems (which, oddly, I’ve heard hard right voters say they recognize.)

Persons: Paul Hockenos, ”, Read, “ We’ll, Paul Hockenos Hayyan, —, Maximilian Krah, weren’t, Adam Berry, doesn’t, “, it’s, I’ve Organizations: Berlin CNN, European Union, verve, Greens, Parliamentary, Christian Democratic Union, Christian Social Union, CDU, CSU, SS, Democracy, Nazi, BBC Locations: Berlin, Europe, New Berlin, Austria, Belgium, Malta, Greece, Germany, Hamburg, Deutschland, Portugal, Italy, Sweden, Netherlands, France

☆ Water frost detected on Mars volcanoes in ‘unexpected’ first
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-11 | by ( Jacopo Prisco | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

“Based on rough estimates, it’s about 150,000 metric tons of water ice, the equivalent of 60 Olympic swimming pools,” he said. The volcanoes are near the Mars equator, the warmest area of the planet, which makes a water discovery particularly intriguing, Valantinas said. “Mars is a desert planet, but there’s water ice in the polar caps, and there’s water ice in the midlatitudes. Now we also have water frost in the equatorial regions, and equatorial regions are quite dry in general. “If the frost on these volcanoes is confirmed to be water (and not carbon dioxide), it would be surprising,” he said.

Persons: Adomas Valantinas, ”, Ceraunius, Valantinas, CaSSIS, ” Valantinas, “, Mars, John Bridges, ” Bridges, Taylor Perron, Cecil, Ida Green, Perron Organizations: CNN, Olympus, NASA, JPL, Brown University, University of Bern, Nature Geoscience, University of Bern’s, European Space Agency, Orbiter, ESA Mars Express, Stereo, Mars, ESA, University of Leicester, Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Locations: —, Mauna Loa, Hawaii, Switzerland, Ascraeus, Russian, CaSSIS, United Kingdom

CNN —Sardinia, Italy (CNN) – Uruguay at the 1950 World Cup. Cameroon at the 1990 World Cup. Lewandowski celebrates scoring his team's second goal during the Qatar 2022 World Cup Group C match against Saudi Arabia at the Education City Stadium in Al-Rayyan, west of Doha on November 26, 2022. “I think we are playing good football [and] we know that we are not the favourites in the group stage. “They were fighting [a] similar situation before the World Cup and they were so close and now they did it,” he said.

Persons: Robert Lewandowski, CNN’s Sport’s Amanda Davies, Valeriy Bondar, Adam Nurkiewicz, Fernando Santos, –, Estadi Olimpic Lluis Companys, Alex Caparros, who’ll, “, ”, Austria –, Lewandowski, Andrej Isakovic, Boris Streubel, Gerd Müller’s, He’ll, Kylian, wasn’t, ’, he’ll, Andriy Shevchenko, Joosep Martinson, you’ve Organizations: CNN, –, Cameroon, Globe Soccer, Stadion Narodowy, La Liga, FC Barcelona, Real Sociedad, Estadi, Wales, France, eventual, Portugal, Saudi, Education City, Getty, Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich, Bayern, League, Austria, Kylian Mbappé’s, Champions League, Ukrainian, PGE, Russia, Qatar, Sergiy, Iceland, Romania Locations: Sardinia, Italy, – Uruguay, Greece, Poland, Ukraine, Warsaw, Europe, Michał, Moldova, Albania, Barcelona, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Al, Doha, AFP, Dortmund, Berlin, German, Poland’s, Kylian Mbappé’s France, Russia, Slovakia, Belgium

☆ Europe's climate ambitions thrown into doubt as Green vote collapses
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Sam Meredith | In Samuelmeredith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

That's significantly lower than the 71 seats the Greens/EFA secured when the green faction enjoyed its strongest ever showing five years ago. Nationalist and far-right parties — traditionally skeptical of climate issues — have also been vocal critics of green policies. Bas Eickhout Lead candidate for the Green PartyBas Eickhout, lead candidate for the Green Party, said that support for the far-right parties across the bloc could jeopardize Europe's progress on climate action. Green Deal 'cannot go back'Ahead of the vote, researchers warned that the outcome of the European elections was likely to put significant pressure on the European Green Deal, the region's showcase carbon neutrality program. Which means [the] Green Deal cannot go back, but we are prepared to give it this additional twist, which is a Green Deal, but taking care of the transitions," Marques told CNBC's Silvia Amaro.

Persons: Emmanuel Macron, —, we're, Eickhout, CNBC's Silvia Amaro, Ricarda Lang, Grünen, Terry Reintke, Omid, Reintke, Pedro Marques, Marques, Jorg Asmussen, Asmussen, CNBC's Annette Weisbach, John Macdougall Organizations: Afp, Getty, European Free Alliance, Greens, EFA, Democracy, European Union, European Conservatives, Social Democrats, Free Democrats, French, Union, Nationalist, Bas Eickhout, Green Party, Green, Green Deal, Socialist, Democrats Group, German Insurance Association Locations: The Hague, Germany, Austria, France, Bas, China, United States, Europe, European, Berlin's Columbiahalle, Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Croatia, Latvia, Slovenia, Lithuania, EU, den Linden, Berlin

☆ In Germany, Far-Right Party Rises to 2nd Place in E.U. Election
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Sarah Maslin Nir | Christopher F. Schuetze | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The right-wing Alternative for Germany party won a record number of votes in European Union elections on Sunday, in a sharp rebuke to Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s governing three-party coalition in Germany and a sign of the rightward political shift across the continent. The party, known as AfD, captured 16 percent of the vote, placing second behind Germany’s conservative Christian Democrats, which won 30 percent. It was AfD’s strongest showing in a nationwide election, and it came as Mr. Scholz’s coalition has reached record-low levels of popularity in the country, according to polls. A spokesman for Mr. Scholz has ruled out early elections. Describing her party’s showing a “major success,” Ms. Weidel said at a news conference in Berlin that the government was working against, not for, Germany.

Persons: Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s, Scholz’s, Alice Weidel, Mr, Scholz, Emmanuel Macron, ” Ms, Weidel, ” Organizations: Germany, Christian Democrats, “ Locations: Germany, France, Berlin

☆ Far right surges in European Parliament elections but center still holds
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-09 | by ( Christian Edwards | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Far-right parties are predicted to win a record number of seats in the European Parliament, a result that, if confirmed, would deliver a stinging rebuke to Brussels’ political mainstream and add uncertainty to Europe’s future direction. Most of the far-right gains were concentrated in countries that elect large numbers of seats: France, Italy and Germany. Alternative for Germany (AfD) party co-leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla cheer the exit poll in Berlin, Germany, June 9, 2024. Annegret Hilse/ReutersWhile the far-right surge may further complicate Brussels’ bid for unity, the far-right parties themselves remain relatively divided. Several other far-right parties are among the non-aligned (NI) group, predicted to secure 45 seats.

Persons: Ursula von der Leyen, –, ”, Europe’s centrists, Le, Emmanuel Macron, Jordan Bardella, ” Macron, Brigitte Macron, Stephane Lemouton, Olaf Scholz, Scholz, shored, ” von der Leyen, Alice Weidel, Tino Chrupalla, Annegret Hilse, Maximilian Krah, Roberta Metsola Organizations: CNN, European People’s Party, EPP, Macron’s Renaissance Party, Socialists, Social Democrats, Christian Democrats Party, CDU, EU, Forces, Reuters, Nazi, SS, Brussels Locations: Brussels, France, Italy, Germany, France’s, Europe, Britain, Russia, Ukraine, Kyiv, Berlin

☆ French Open: Carlos Alcaraz chasing history and first Roland Garros title in men’s singles final against Alexander Zverev
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-09 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

3 Carlos Alcaraz has not yet lost a grand slam final in his young career, defeating Casper Ruud in the 2022 US Open final and Novak Djokovic in that epic five-set Wimbledon final last year. 4 Alexander Zverev in the men’s singles French Open final on Sunday. It was at the French Open two years ago where he sustained an ankle injury that forced him to retire from his semifinal against Nadal and ended his season. Reaching this final, on the back of an Australian Open semifinal in January, confirms his comeback to the top echelons of the sport. “(Alcaraz) played a fantastic match today and fantastic tournament in general, I’m expecting a very difficult match.”How to watchThe men’s French Open final will begin at 3 p.m. (9 a.m.

Persons: Carlos Alcaraz, Casper Ruud, Novak Djokovic, Alexander Zverev, Roland Garros, Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Jannik, Dimitar Dilkoff, ” Alcaraz, Juan Carlos Ferrero’s, “, Rafa, Ferrero, Carlos, Moyá, Albert, Costa, Zverev, Norway’s Casper Ruud, Ruud, Dominic Thiem, ”, I’m Organizations: CNN, Wimbledon, Roland, Getty, Nadal, NBC, Eurosport Locations: AFP, Juan Carlos Ferrero’s French, Berlin, Paris

☆ A weaker dollar, skyrocketing prices and ‘record’ visitor numbers: Good luck in Europe this summer
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-08 | by ( Julia Buckley | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Hotel prices are exploding. As the owner of Destination Europe, she is sending “record numbers” of clients to the continent this year. There’s been such a huge demand for travel in the past three years, and lots of places are pushing up prices.”Is summer in Europe already a washout? Socrates Baltagiannis/picture alliance/Getty ImagesData from Hotel Monitor, American Express Global Business Travel’s annual analysis of worldwide hotel rates, backs his theory up. His prediction appears to be coming true: although the Amex GBT analysis predicted a 11% spike in Paris hotel rates this year, so far they have only risen 8%.

Persons: “ There’s, ”, Tom Jenkins, ” Kayla Zeigler, Graham Carter, “, There’s, you’re, it’s, Eric Gaillard, Reuters It’s, they’re, Eiffel, Hagia Sophia, Jenkins, Tim Hentschel, that’s, It’s, Milos, Hotelplanner's Tim Hentschel, Socrates Baltagiannis, Hentschel, haven’t, Conde Nast, Hayley Berg, Hopper, Berg, Jaime Reina, ‘, ’ ” They’re, Daniela Santanchè, ” Zeigler, Carter, –, Charles de Gaulle, ” They’re, Zeigler, ” –, – Berg, bookers, Henry Nicholls Organizations: CNN, European Tourism Organisation, Unforgettable, “, Reuters, Getty, Hotel Monitor, American Express Global, ”, AFP, Italy –, Games Locations: Europe, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Denmark, Iceland, Poland, Romania, Sweden, Switzerland, Czech, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Ukraine, Turkish, Hagia, Venice, Paris, Amsterdam, Dublin, Berlin, Stockholm, Barcelona, London, Murcia, Marbella, Windsor, Paddington, Rome, Athens, Venice’s, Mallorcan, Italy, Amalfi, Positano, Amalfi Coast, Puglia, Sicily, Slovenia, Croatia, Ireland, Portugal, France, airfare, London's, AFP

☆ Opinion: How the era of the counterspy changed history
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-08 | by ( Opinion Tim Naftali | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

First of all, their main job was to get false information to Adolf Hitler — rather than to steal Nazi secrets. And, secondly, some of these spies didn’t actually exist — they were completely made-up creations of British intelligence. But World War II would see a dramatic expansion of the offensive use of counterspies — not simply to prevent the enemy from knowing things but to actively deceive the enemy by planting disinformation. I also met the man who came up with the D-Day deception, Roger Fleetwood Hesketh, who was a trained architect. He told me that for the D-Day deception, codenamed Fortitude South, he had drawn on different talents.

Persons: Tim Naftali, Adolf Hitler —, didn’t, Counterespionage, —, Juan Pujol García, Garbo, Greta Garbo, ” —, Juan Pujol Garcia, Keith Waldegrave, ANL, ”, George Patton, Hitler, ” Hitler, Roger Fleetwood Hesketh, Alan Turing, counterspies, Anthony Blunt, Kim Philby, ’, Oleg Gordievsky, counterespionage, Robert Hanssen, Aldrich Ames, Hanssen, Ames, Mikhail Gorbachev Organizations: CNN, Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, Tim Naftali New York University, Allied, Nazi, Army, Pas des Calais, Facebook, Strategic Services, German Wehrmacht, US National Archives, British, Soviets, US, Soviet Union, USSR Locations: France, Pas des, Pas des Calais —, Belgium, British, Berlin, Spanish, United Kingdom, Britain, Buckingham, Calais, Normandy, Tokyo, German, England, Liverpool, Europe, counterespionage, USSR, London, Washington, America, Soviet, Soviet Union

☆ I'm 89 and have always loved traveling. I've been to 92 countries and have no plans to stop.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-08 | by ( Jane Ridley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

When I did the math with my granddaughter, Jennifer, I was amazed to learn I'd visited 92 countries. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. I've stayed in luxury hotels and camped in the booniesMy life has been a global adventure with too many memories to count. I've always joked that I've been everywhere but Antarctica. Do you have an interesting story about travel that you'd like to share with Business Insider?

Persons: —, Nancy Strong, Jennifer, I'd, I've, hadn't, Strong, It's, Asa —, Taylor Swift Organizations: Service, Business Locations: London, Dallas, Petra, Jordan, China, Vietnam, Abu Dhabi, Canada, Paris, Australia, Lithuania, India, Normandy, France, Africa, Kenya, Argentina, Tuscany

☆ Alexander Zverev: Tennis star and former partner settle assault case
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-07 | by ( Nadine Schmidt | Sammy Mncwabe | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —German tennis star Alexander Zverev and his former partner have agreed to settle his assault case, with no admission of guilt by Zverev, the Berlin Tiergarten District Court announced in a statement on Friday. Zverev was accused of “physically abusing and damaging the health of a woman during an argument in Berlin in May 2020,” according to a court statement from October 31, 2023. The alleged victim was said to have suffered shortness of breath and considerable pain, according to the court statement. “The defendant and the co-plaintiff had agreed to the proceedings being discontinued,” the court said in its statement Friday. Zverev is scheduled to play Norwegian Casper Ruud in the French Open semifinal on Friday with both players in search of a first grand slam title.

Persons: Alexander Zverev, Zverev, “, “ Alexander Zverev, Norwegian Casper Ruud Organizations: CNN, Berlin, of Locations: German, Berlin Tiergarten, Berlin, Norwegian

☆ World’s 50 Best Restaurants for 2024 revealed
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Karla Cripps | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Any doubts that Spain remains the fine dining center of the world may just have evaporated with the revealing of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants for 2024 list. As for the event’s host country, the US had two restaurants on this year’s 50 Best list. Three restaurants from Tokyo were awarded, with eatery Sézanne (voted Asia’s best restaurant in 2024) ranking the highest in the Japanese capital, at 15. Restaurants can only win the top prize once, after which they’re entered into a separate “Best of the Best” program. The world’s 50 best restaurants 20241.

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☆ Putin and his Kremlin clique are rolling out their own kids at the 'Russian Davos'
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewIt's the time of the year for the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum — or the "Russian Davos," as it's sometimes called. This year, the biggest names attending the event include Bolivian President Luis Arce and Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Related VideoBut the four-day economic forum, which started on Wednesday, now also features the children of the Kremlin's top echelons, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. Advertisement"Now that this opportunity has become harder, the way to protect themselves is to appoint their children as bosses," Schulmann told Bloomberg. Putin is scheduled to address the economic forum on Friday.

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