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German pharmaceutical company Biotech announced it will halt operations at several production centers located in Germany and Singapore. The company stated that more than 1,800 jobs will be affected by these closures.

The registration authority DENIC reported a disruption involving DNS services. This outage affected the availability of certain digital services. The cause was attributed to a malfunction within the DNS service itself.

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde described the European energy situation as unsustainable. She cited a heavy dependence on imported fossil fuels as a primary cause. The assessment comes amid increasing market exposure to shortages and rising risks.

Writer Uwe Timm will be honored with the Goethe Prize on August 28 at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt. The award is presented every three years on the birthday of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt includes a purse of 50,000 euros.

Professional athlete Daniela Blei-Meil completed a triathlon with a finishing time of 8 hours, 59 minutes, and 55 seconds.

Two people were killed and six others injured during an amok driving incident yesterday in Thuringia. Prosecutors and police reported that more than 80 people required care following the event.

Two successors have been identified to replace Markus Wolf as chairman of the traditional FC 05 Schweinfurt club in Unterfranken. Wolf, who served for 16 years as chairman, main sponsor, and managing director, resigned prior to the election.

German retailers paid out 15 billion euros in cash via card purchases last year. The number of cash withdrawals at checkouts has increased by approximately 15 percent.

Detectives Ivo Bartic and Franz Leitmeier, played by Miroslav Nemec and Udo Wachtfeitel, received an honorary prize at the opening of the German Television Crime Festival. The award recognizes their work in the series Tatort. Reporter Birgitta Söling observed the ceremony.

The works council of the Zalando logistics center in Erfurt met with the group's executive board. Works council head Toni Krause stated that 1,200 postcards containing employee concerns and demands were handed to the leadership.