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...during a summer vacation from business school in Vienna, Brabeck traveled to Pakistan with a group of friends to climb Tirich Mir, the highest peak in the Hindu Kush. They drove through Turkey and Afghanistan in a secondhand van and slept in tents their mothers had sewn. The expedition turned into a disaster. In bad weather two of the team, including Thomassen, fell off an ice wall to their deaths. Brabeck survived because he had returned to base camp the day before the tragedy: there had been only enough food for two, and he lost the poker game that...
...Muhabbet and the German foreign minister have known each other for several years, since the singer in 2005 accompanied Steinmeier on a visit to Turkey, where the politician met Abdullah Gul, then Turkish foreign minister, for a conference aimed at improving the intercultural dialogue between Germany and Turkey...
...Thousands of birds are being slaughtered on a turkey farm in Suffolk, around 100 miles northeast of London, as officials work to contain the outbreak...
...shows a close relationship to a strain that caused an outbreak in Bavaria, Germany, in August. This suggests that the virus was carried across the North Sea by migratory birds, although Defra said it is also investigating the possibility that it was brought over by humans, perhaps in infected turkey feed...
...This is the second outbreak of H5N1 in poultry in England. The first, in February, led to the culling of nearly 160,000 factory-farmed birds. Farmers have raised concerns about the impact on the lucrative Christmas turkey trade, during which time poultry breeders would expect to sell more than 20 million birds, according to a report in The Guardian newspaper. British farms are already struggling to recover from a year of animal pestilence, as livestock have been besieged by foot-and-mouth and bluetongue disease, two other gruesome and costly viruses. The downturn following the last bird flu outbreak...