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Kansas GOP lawmakers pass a tax plan that Democrats don't like... authorities in central Kansas find an 18-year-old dead in a ditch near a vehicle stuck in the snow... a Kansas City area man gets five years in prison for stealing catalytic converters... and the decision not to put a possible stadium tax on the April ballot leaves many wondering about the future of the Chiefs and Royals. These headlines and more, inside.
By Ludwig Burger, Emma-Victoria Farr and Patricia Weiss (Reuters) -Bayer AG will likely hold off on presenting break-up plans at an investor update ...
Retailers worldwide are stocking up on goods before China's Lunar New Year holiday and seeking air or rail alternatives to transportation via the Red Sea in a scramble to avoid empty shelves this spring, executives and experts told Reuters. One European retailer said it was delaying marketing campaigns for some specific goods until stocks were secured. Major container ship operators like Maersk and Hapag-Lloyd are re-routing vessels away from the Suez Canal - the shortest route from Asia to Europe - after militant attacks on vessels in the Red Sea.
German politics has had an unruly start to the year, with farmer protests rattling the government, a budget crisis, the far-right riding high in the polls and a new populist party that has further splintered the political landscape. The farmer protests over cuts in subsidies have received broad backing in Germany due to discontent with Chancellor Olaf Scholz's three-way coalition of his Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens and the business-minded Free Democrats (FDP), according to Hermann Binkert at the German Institute for New Social Answers (INSA). Support for the coalition parties has ...
BERLIN (Reuters) -German police said on Saturday they were heightening security at Cologne Cathedral following indications of an attack planned for New Year's Eve and in the wake of government warnings in recent weeks about the rising threat of Islamist violence. On Sunday, Christmas Eve, they would carry out a security check on all visitors, and recommended they get to services early. German newspaper Bild earlier reported that security authorities in Austria, Germany and Spain had received indications an Islamist group wants to carry out attacks during the Christmas and New Year festi...