dpa-AFX review 2: COMPANY – The most important reports from the weekend

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ROUNDUP / Unions: Strike at Lufthansa subsidiary Discover

FRANKFURT – Passengers of the Lufthansa– Subsidiary Discover Airlines must expect flight cancellations and delays this week. The Verband Cockpit (VC) and UFO unions have asked the crews to go on strike for four days. The pilots and cabin crew should stop work from this Tuesday (August 27) up to and including Friday (August 30), as announced by the unions in Frankfurt. All departures from Germany are affected. The workers had clearly previously voted for industrial action in individual strike votes.

ROUNDUP 2 / ‘Starliner’ problems: NASA won’t send astronauts back until 2025

CAPE CANAVERAL – Two astronauts were supposed to spend a good week aboard the International Space Station (ISS), but now it will be longer than eight months. Due to problems with the Boeing Starliner spacecraft, astronaut Suni Williams and her colleague Barry ‘Butch’ Wilmore will not return to Earth until February 2025. This was announced by the US space agency NASA. They should start their journey back from the ISS with another spacecraft, the “Crew Dragon” from the manufacturer SpaceX.

CNBC: Intel fights activist investor – shares rise

ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS – The semiconductor giant is struggling with losses Intel has been targeted by an activist investor, according to a media report. To protect itself, the company has advisers including the bank Morgan Stanley enthusiastic, the US news channel CNBC reported on its website on Saturday evening (CEST). Neither Intel nor Morgan Stanley wanted to comment on the matter.

The new head of Nestle Laurent Freixe is not “a temporary solution”

BERN – The new head of Nestlé (Nestlé) Laurent Freixe leads the group permanently. “No, it is not a temporary solution,” said the group’s chairman, Paul Bulcke, “NZZ am Sonntag”. He also discussed the reasons for the change at the summit.

‘HB’: Vonovia is likely to sell the care division this summer

DÜSSELDORF – Germany’s largest residential real estate group Vonovia (Vonovia SE (formerly Deutsche Annington)) which, according to a news report, is close to the finish line in selling its care division. Sales contract for subsidiary Deutsche Wohnen (Deutsche Wohnen SE) a nursing department should be held this summer, writes the “Handelsblatt” (Monday), citing people familiar with the discussions. The nursing home sector will be sold in several installments as a block sale failed due to finance. Vonovia had already announced sales in separate packages at the end of April. When the half-year figures were released, it was said, “Regarding the sales efforts of the care sector, the sale of six properties has been successfully completed. It is still assumed that the discontinued operation will be sold by 31 December 2024.”

‘FT’: Siemens Healthineers to buy Novartis’ cancer research chemicals business

LONDON (dpa-AFX) – Siemens Healthcare taking over from the pharmaceutical company Novartis part of the industry with radioactive chemicals for cancer diagnosis. The German medical technology group will pay more than 200 million euros to Switzerland for this, as the “Financial Times” (“FT”) wrote at the weekend, citing people familiar with the matter. Both companies confirmed the deal to the newspaper. It should be completed by the end of the year.

BVB beat Eintracht on Sahin’s debut

DORTMUND – Nuri Sahin’s Bundesliga debut as Borussia Dortmund coach (BVB (Borussia Dortmund)) was successful. On Saturday afternoon, BVB won 2-0 (0-0) against Eintracht Frankfurt at the start of the season due to an improvement in performance in the second half. Substitute Jamie Gittens (72nd minute) bought Sahin, who had been struggling for a long time, with his first goal – and then added a goal in extra time (90 + 3).

High costs – the airline industry expects fewer flights to be available

BERLIN – From the point of view of the aviation industry, the increase of the air traffic tax in May will lead to the cancellation of flights at German airports. “The excessive positioning costs will cost us 4 million seats in the upcoming winter flight schedule,” the managing director of the Federal Association of the German Aviation Industry (BDL), Joachim Lang, told the daily newspaper “Welt”. in addition to the tax increase, he cited the fees for security checks and air traffic control, which have recently doubled in Germany, as a cost factor. In other countries these are much lower ‘ means that airlines are starting to weigh up whether it still makes business sense to fly to Germany.”

ROUNDUP 2: Cologne-Aachen railway line mostly clear after truck accident

KERPEN – After a truck fell from a bridge onto the tracks, the important Köln-Aachen railway line is mostly clear again at the scene of the accident. According to Deutsche Bahn, in addition to the routes for S-Bahn and regional trains, a long-distance route is now accessible again and used alternately in both directions. Repairs are still ongoing on the second long-distance track. This could lead to minor delays in long-distance transport, a railway spokesman said.

Gamescom with 335,000 visitors – the organizers are satisfied

COLOGNE – The world’s largest computer game trade fair, Gamescom, has registered increased visitor interest this year. A total of 335,000 people came to the event, which ended on Sunday after five days of the trade fair, Koelnmesse said. That was around 15,000 more than the previous year, but not as many as the record year of 2019 – back then there were 373,000 visitors. However, the crowd was so large in 2019 that the organizers did not aim for the highest number this year anyway.

Telegram founder arrested in France

PARIS – The founder of the messaging service Telegram, Pawel Durow, has been arrested in France. The Russian in France was asked to be taken into police custody on Saturday night after his arrival from Azerbaijan at Le Bourget airport, as reported by the channels TF1 and BFMTV and other French media, citing investigative circles. The Russian Embassy in France has already taken up the matter, said a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow cited by the Russian state news agency Tass.

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