tv DW News - News Deutsche Welle August 12, 2018 7:00am-7:02am CEST
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rock and religious. reconcilable. good. rock n roll. the u.s. city of charlottesville in virginia marked one year since events surrounding white supremacist rallies claimed the lives of three people. commemorations kicked off with peaceful protests and a memorial service honoring the dead. more than one thousand police were stationed around charlottesville. police in the united states say a suicidal airline employees stole an empty passenger plane on friday near seattle . two army jets pursued the craft the pilot couldn't be convinced to land the plane
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instead he then crashed it in an uninhabited area on a nearby island where officials believe he died. anti-government demonstrations continued this weekend in romania's capital book arrests against corruption low wages and a lack of opportunities on friday around four hundred fifty protesters were injured in clashes with police an estimated fifty thousand people joined the call to oust the current left wing government. spanish prime minister petro sanchez welcomed german chancellor angela merkel to spain for informal talks. the leader said they want a common approach on migration the meeting comes two days after madrid agreed to take back any migrants already registered in spain who reach germany.
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trading in tesla stock was halted tuesday following a tweet by its brash c.e.o. elon musk announcing plans to take the electric car maker private it will be the largest leveraged buyout in history he said he'd secured funding to buy the company up at four hundred twenty dollars a share giving it a price tag of seventy two billion though he didn't say where the funding would actually come from shortly after his tweet must published a letter to tesla employees on the company's blog where he said that going private would be the best path forward and would allow tesla to operate at its best free from distraction and short term thinking going private would also be one way to avoid close scrutiny by the public market must pass future publicly with regulators critics short sellers and reporters.
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