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At a demonstration of the NPD in Hanover, the police made an exception to the ban on masking for the right-wingers. They did not want to be photographed.

Were allowed to mask: Participants of the NPD demonstration against journalists Photo: Ole Spata/dpa

Masking is not just masking. In Hanover, right-wing extremists were allowed to mask their faces during a demonstration. For the police, the reason given was that the participants in the NPD march against the public media and individual journalists did not want to be photographed by the press.

Germany, France, England and Italy join efforts to mediate in the Austro-Serbian conflict to prevent the crisis from turning into a world war.

Austrian military during an exercise on the border with Serbia. Photo: dpa

A Viennese paper has reported that the Serbs blew up the railroad bridge over the Danube between Belgrade and Semlin. The news has not yet been confirmed by other sources. As hardly needs to be said, the blowing up of the Danube bridge would be an act of undeniable strategic importance.

Marine diesel is highly toxic and harmful to the climate. Now the first ship on the Baltic Sea is being operated partly on methanol – a ferry.

It’s called Supergreen, but it only runs partially on methanol: a ferry between Kiel and Gothenburg. Photo: Stena

"Supergreen" is written in capital letters on the hull of the Swedish ferry "Stena Germanica". Below that: "Sustainable Shipping" – "nachhaltige Schifffahrt". The title "world’s first methanol ship" is still somewhat exaggerated. Just one of the four main engines of the ferry, which runs between Kiel and Gothenburg, has been converted to run on methanol: This would mean that at least "half" a methanol ship would be in operation.

More than a dozen people have been killed and more than 70 injured in an attack in the Philippines. The president announces special operations.

Police and military vehicles in Davao Photo: dpa

After the terrorist attack in the Philippines with at least 14 dead and more than 70 injured, President Rodrigo Duterte has announced special operations by the military. He declared a "state of lawlessness" on Saturday: with this, the constitution allows him to use soldiers for house searches, car checks and other tasks to maintain public security, for example.

The new Minister of Agriculture, Christina Schulze Focking, is under pressure. In her pig fattening farm, terrible conditions are said to have prevailed.

There was quite a bit of piggery here: the Schulze Focking pig farm Photo: dpa

After just two weeks in office, North Rhine-Westphalia’s new agriculture minister Christina Schulze Focking (CDU) is under pressure because of inappropriate animal husbandry. Hard-to-bear images filmed by animal rights activists in spring at Schulze Focking’s home pig farm show badly injured creatures: Pigs with pitted curly tails, in which the tissue is inflamed and in some cases already necrotic – that is, dead.