Heavy floods in Germany - firefighter dead
Southern Germany has been hit by heavy downpours and thunder during the weekend, several media reports. Several parts of Bavaria are under water and the storm is expected to continue on Sunday and Monday.
During the night to Sunday, a firefighter died in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm outside Munich while trying to help a stranded family, Süddeutsche Zeitung writes.
State of emergency has been announced in several cities. In a statement on social media, Chancellor Olaf Scholz thanks the emergency services working in connection with the floods.
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Climate threatSweden and the climate
Climate experts: Sweden should pause the national goals
It is high time that Sweden updates the national climate targets so that they rhyme with EU legislation. That's what the three climate experts John Hassler, Per Kågeson and Magnus Nilsson write in DN Debatt.
They also want the Swedish goals to be "put on pause" in the meantime.
The climate experts write that the new EU legislation Fit for 55 means that Swedish politicians, companies and municipalities have to deal with two parallel target systems that regulate the same things but in different ways.
"That this is not unproblematic is reflected by the sometimes confused debate and numbers exercise that is going on about the extent to which Sweden is on track to meet the goals that have been decided or not," they write.
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Chinese space probe has landed on the back side of the moon
The Chinese space probe Chang'e 6 carried out a successful landing on the back side of the moon last night, the Chinese Space Administration announces in regime-loyal media. It is the second time China has succeeded in landing on the hard-to-reach part of the moon.
Chang'e 6 landed in the large impact crater Aitken Basin and will now collect two kilograms of samples from the lunar surface and underground.
China's goal is to send humans to the moon by 2030. It is racing with the United States, which also has plans to send astronauts to the moon again, which would be the first time since 1972.
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