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Denmark and Germany will soon be linked by an 18-kilometre-long underwater tunnel.The Fehmarnbelt Tunnel will be the longest combined rail and road tunnel anywhere in the world when it is completed in 2029.This €10 billion project – which crosses a stretch of the Baltic Sea known as the Fehmarn Belt – will connect Rødbyhavn on the Danish island of Lolland and Puttgarden in northern Germany.Will the tunnel cut travel times from Germany to Denmark?The tunnel, officially called the Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link, will have two double-lane motorways and two electrified rail tracks.The journey through it will take seven minutes by train…

Opening an electricity bill these days is enough to turn anyone into a proponent of radical market reform. Renewable electricity is getting cheaper and accounts for an ever-larger slice of the UK mix — some 60 per cent. Yet the cost for retail customers has risen by almost two-thirds over the past year. Cue proposals to bring down costs in the UK and Europe. These focus on marginal pricing. In this current system, electricity is priced at the cost of the most expensive plant required to kick in to satisfy demand. Often that is gas-fired generation. This has proved very…

College Board releases framework of new AP course denounced by DeSantis The Florida College Board released the framework of a new AP course on African American Studies that Gov. Ron DeSantis earlier denounced for imposing a “political agenda.” CNN’s Leyla Santiago explains. Source: CNN

Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., introduced a bipartisan resolution to add Nigeria to the State Department’s annual list of countries that violate religious freedom on Tuesday.The resolution comes as Secretary Antony Blinken omitted Nigeria as a “country of particular concern” (CPC) in the State Department’s 2021 and 2022 International Religious Freedom Reports.According to the Pew Research Center, Nigeria has the largest Christian population of any country in Africa, with over 80 million believers.  Christians in Nigeria face threats of murder, physical injury, abduction and sexual violence from militant groups such as Boko Haram.The co-chair of the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission said…

Lebanon has devalued its currency by 90 per cent as it seeks to address a deep economic crisis, in a move that still leaves the pound far above its parallel black market rate.The Banque du Liban said on Wednesday that it was setting the Lebanese pound, pegged at a fixed rate of L£1,507 to the dollar since 1997, at a new rate of L£15,000. This is still well below the L£60,000 to the dollar where the parallel currency was trading at the time of the central bank announcement. The devaluation could stoke inflation fears in a country where the annual…

The funeral for Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old Black man who died earlier this month after video showed him being beaten by Memphis police officers, will get underway in Memphis, Tennessee, Wednesday. Vice President Kamala Harris will join RowVaughn Wells – Nichols’ mother – and his stepfather Rodney Wells at the Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church to pay tribute to Tyre, who is being remembered as a joyful man who loved photography and skateboarding. Six Memphis Police Department (MPD) officers in total have been fired in the wake of the Jan. 7 traffic stop, which led to Nichols’ death three days later. Five of the…

The Biden administration on Wednesday took its biggest swipe yet at app stores run by Apple and Google, with a new report accusing the two tech giants of exercising “gatekeeper” power that has led to “suboptimal” levels of competition in digital markets. The report published by the Commerce Department finds that Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG) “play a significant gatekeeping role by controlling (and restricting) how apps are distributed,” and that the various fees and rules they impose on app developers has created an uneven playing field. “All of these factors translate to potential losses for consumers: prices that are…

Tom Johnson and Eilidh McFadden are accused of criminal damage in smearing chocolate cake over the waxwork of King Charles at Madame Tussaud’s last yearClimate protesters plotted to kidnap King Charles’ waxwork from Madame Tussauds – before opting to smear cake in its face instead. Tom Johnson, 29, and Eilidh McFadden, 20, have been convicted of planning to hold the wax effigy hostage as part of ongoing Just Stop Oil protests. The pair however abandoned their plans as they thought it would be “too frightening”, and instead slapped cake in the royal waxwork’s face “custard pie” style in October last…

The 154-year-old brand behind Tabasco wants you to put its hot sauce on more than your eggs and avocado toast. Tabasco Brand is releasing a bottled dressing, a first for the privately owned company, as it seeks to expand its appeal to those who might be intimidated by too much heat. It’s also the first time the brand, which is based in southeast Louisiana’s Cajun country, has tapped into social media for a new product. “TikTok made us do it,” according to Lee Susen, Tabasco Brand’s chief sales and marketing officer. Susen told CNN that the dressing emerged from a…

HOUSTON — A man convicted of fatally shooting a Dallas police officer nearly 16 years ago faces execution on Wednesday.Wesley Ruiz, 43, is set to receive a lethal injection for the March 2007 killing of Dallas Police Senior Corporal Mark Nix.Ruiz had led officers on a high-speed chase after being spotted driving a car that matched the description of one used by a murder suspect. Authorities said Nix tried to break the vehicle’s passenger window after the chase ended and that Ruiz fired one shot. The bullet hit Nix’s badge, splintered it and sent fragments that severed an artery in…