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Air Canada's CEO Michael Rousseau will retire later this year, the airline said on Monday , following criticism of his English-only message of condolence after the death of two pilots in a collision at New York's LaGuardia Airport.  Canada's largest airline, based in Montreal in French-speaking Quebec, said Rousseau told the board he would retire

During his eight-day tour to the Indo-Pacific, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius repeatedly emphasized the importance of the rules‑based international order — the shared structures that have underpinned global cooperation for decades. Pistorius' hosts in Japan, Singapore and Australia readily seized on his remarks and emphasized how important this order is. In Canberra, for example, Australian

A commission of experts presented a 66-point plan on Monday that is meant to lower the ever-growing health insurance contributions that Germans have to pay into the system. Germany's health care system is one of the most expensive in the world, with state health insurers alone spending around €1 billion ($1.15 billion) per day on

A Ukrainian drone that crashed in southern Finland was found to have carried an unexploded warhead, Finnish police said on Monday. There were no reports of injuries or damage from the incident. The drone crashed on Sunday in an area near Kouvola, a southern Finnish town that lies some 100 kilometers (62 miles) west of

The humpback whale stuck for more than a week in two different spots in the Baltic Sea finally started to swim again on Monday evening, despite having shown signs of deteriorating health throughout the day. Water levels in Wismar Bay rose around 30 centimeters on Monday evening, presenting a chance for the whale to free itself, and rescuers had

It was a grand reception for the former leader of an Islamist militia: The government district around the chancellery in central Berlin was largely cordoned off this Monday, and Syria's interim president, Ahmed al-Sharaa, was received by both Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) and the head of state, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Not all political observers were

Germany's federal commissioner for culture and media, Wolfram Weimer, was heavily criticized recently when he rejected the expansion of the German National Library in favor of digital archiving. Although the former journalist has since indicated that the expansion might proceed, his initial decision has sparked debate about the role of books in a digital world. Today

It's not just the German authorities who have access to documents created by German government agencies, at state and federal level. The US authorities potentially do too, since the German authorities currently predominantly use computer programs whose providers are based in the United States. Data protection advocates in Germany argue that the country is dangerously

A resident gestures from an upper floor of a ruined residential building that was hit in an airstrike earlier this morning on March 30, 2026 in the west of Tehran, Iran. Majid Saeedi/Getty Images Europe hide caption toggle caption Majid Saeedi/Getty Images Europe Iran attacked and set on fire a massive Kuwaiti oil tanker off

Signage outside of The Forty Acres, the first headquarters for the United Farm Workers of America, founded by Cesar Chavez in Delano, Calif., on March 29. Jennifer Emerling for NPR hide caption toggle caption Jennifer Emerling for NPR DELANO, Calif. – A few hours north of Los Angeles, the small city of Delano is surrounded