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In the news today

Deutsche Welle News

Egypt: Ship detects signals from crashed EgyptAir black box. “Investigators say signals emanating from one of EgyptAir flight MS084’s black boxes have been picked up. Sixty-six people were killed when the Airbus A320 crashed into the Mediterranean Sea on May 19.”

Natural Disasters: Authorities on high alert after heavy rains swamp southern Germany. “Several towns and cities in southern Bavaria have been inundated following incessant rains. Around 250 children in Triftern were trapped in school after flooding cut them off from the rest of the town.”

Deutschland: Dorf in Niederbayern von Hochwasser eingeschlossen. “Am 1. Juni beginnt meteorologisch der Sommer. Aber die Sonne macht sich rar über Deutschland. Stattdessen heftiger Regen und Unwetter. Besonders schlimm trifft es jetzt Niederbayern.”

Germany: Hamburg jogger wearing weight vest mistaken for terrorist. “Hamburg was on high alert after a passerby mistook a runner wearing a weight vest for a suicide bomber, police have said. A witness alerted officials after he saw the man enter a building.”

Interview with Boko Haram victim

Deutsche Welle: Exclusive: Boko Haram victim tells DW of captivity near Chibok girls. “Christina Ijabla was held kidnapped by Boko Haram for two years. She told DW about life in an Islamist militant prison camp and how she had seen the elusive Chibok girls whose seizure sparked international outrage.”

Deutsche Welle: Boko-Haram-Geisel: “Und dann wurde sie vor unseren Augen erschossen”. “Fast zwei Jahre lang wurde Christina Ijabla von Boko Haram festgehalten, dann gelang ihr die Flucht. Im exklusiven DW-Interview erzählt sie von der Gefangenschaft – und vom Schicksal der entführten Chibok-Schülerinnen.”

Almost 70 years ago

The New Yorker, August 31, 1946: Hiroshima by John Hersey. The article was later pubished as a book.

“Hersey’s account of the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, was adjudged the finest piece of American journalism of the 20th century by a 36-member panel associated with New York University’s journalism department.”

Surprisingly, the cover of the issue of The New Yorker didn’t prepare the reader for what was inside. You can see photos of the six people described in the article here.

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