margin-a measure of operational profitability-to above 18%.( Reporting by Douglas Busvine Editing by

BERLIN( Reuters)-Germany is classifying Spain and the Netherlands as areas with a high incidence of coronavirus, which means that unvaccinated travellers returning from those countries will have to quarantine for at least five days. The move comes during the summer break from school in Germany, when many families vacation on the sunny Mediterranean beaches of Spain or the North Sea coast of the Netherlands. While nearly half of Germans have had two COVID shots and are therefore exempt from the q

BERLIN( Reuters)-Germany's GDL train drivers' union said on Monday it would go on strike on Sept.1 for a week after wage talks with rail operator Deutsche Bahn failed to yield a compromise. The strike, the third and longest in the current wage dispute, will affect freight services from Wednesday afternoon while passenger traffic will be affected from the early hours on Thursday.... The strike will run until Sept.... " Wage agreements cannot be dictated."( Reporting by Markus Wacket and Ilona W

GENEVA( Reuters)-The U.N. rights office on Friday said that the Taliban response to peaceful marches in Afghanistan has been increasingly violent, with authorities using live ammunition, batons and whips and causing the deaths of at least four protesters. Protests and demonstrations, often led by women, pose a challenge to the new Islamist Taliban government as it seeks to consolidate control after seizing the capital Kabul nearly a month ago." We have seen a reaction from the Taliban which has

" He has made an awful lot of public appearances that have left a negative impression." He was forced to apologise after being caught on camera laughing during a visit to a town hit by devastating floods.... He has also been heckled by members of the public, scratched events at short notice and appeared evasive in some interviews. With the pace of campaigning picking up, Merkel will join Laschet on stage at a major event in Berlin on Aug.... 10 and 12 with a representative sample of 1, 252 res

" Some cases can be solved very quickly, if the parents got onto a different plane or are already at Ramstein or in the United States, for example," a U.S. State Department official said, adding cell phones were a help." Many are in contact with some relatives.... We try to make them feel as safe and as comfortable as possible." MOSTLY GIRLSAt the same time, staff at Ramstein try not to touch too deeply on what the children have experienced in Afghanistan and during their evacuation.... " Some

Roads were blocked by wreckage and fallen trees and fish flapped and gasped on puddles of water in the middle of the street.... There is a camping ground up there, so caravans and campervans came floating past, gas tanks.... I had thought that water would come in here one day, but nothing like this," said resident Michael Ahrend....

SCHULD, Germany( Reuters)-At least 19 people have died in Germany and dozens were missing on Thursday as record rainfall in western Europe caused rivers to burst their banks, swept away homes and inundated cellars. Eight people died in the Euskirchen region south of the city of Bonn, the authorities said.... There are dead, missing and many people still in danger.... " I can't even guess at how much the damage will be," said Karl-Heinz Sammann, owner of the Kitchen Club discotheque. State prem