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Monday 8 June 2020

People walk on the forecourt of Notre Dame's Cathedral, in
Paris, Sunday, May 31, 2020.
Associated Press
Workers to begin

untangling charred metal

web on Notre Dame German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, wears a face mask to protect against the coronavirus

following a meeting with his Italian counterpart Di Maio at the Foreign Office in Berlin, Germany,
PARIS (AP) — Workers sus- fire on April 15, 2019. Friday, June 5, 2020. Associated Press
pended from ropes will be Two teams of five workers
lowered into the charred each will take turns de- German minister on relations
remains of scaffolding that scending on ropes into the
melted atop Notre Dame heat-warped web of scaf- with U.S.: ‘It’s complicated’
when the cathedral went folding, made up of 40,000
up in flames and begin the pieces, and cut with saws
delicate job of dismantling through metal tubes that BERLIN (AP) — Germany's "values the cooperation Maas said Germany and
the 200 tons of metal. fused together in the infer- top diplomat says ties with with U.S. forces that has the United States are "close
An announcement that no. The chunks will then be the United States are "com- grown over decades. It is partners in the trans-Atlan-
the work will start Monday lifted out by a crane. plicated" and he fears that in the interest of both our tic alliance. But it's compli-
and last through the sum- The imposing tower of scaf- America's domestic dis- countries." cated."
mer months came Sunday folding was erected before cord could further fuel in- The Wall Street Journal re- He voiced concerns that
from the office overseeing the blaze for the restoration ternational tensions. ported Friday that President the U.S. presidential elec-
the restoration of the cen- of Notre Dame's spire that Foreign Minister Heiko Maas Donald Trump has ordered tion campaign could fur-
turies-old jewel of Gothic was then toppled and de- said in an interview pub- the Pentagon to reduce ther polarize America and
architecture ravaged by stroyed by the flames. q lished Sunday that if the the number of U.S. troops stoke populist politics.
U.S. goes ahead with plans in Germany by 9,500. Cur- "Then co-existence within
10-foot great white shark to withdraw thousands of rently there are 34,500 the country doesn't just be-
troops stationed in Germa-
American service members come harder, it also fuels
kills surfer in Australia ny then Berlin would "take permanently assigned in conflicts on the internation-
Germany as part of a long-
note of this."
al level," he was quoted as
Maas told weekly Bild am standing arrangement with saying. "That's the last thing
Sonntag that Germany America's NATO ally. we need."q
India, China decide to continue

efforts to defuse border row

ASHOK SHARMA
Associated Press
NEW DELHI (AP) — In-
dia and China will press
ahead with military and
In this image made from aerial video, a jet ski passes over a diplomatic engagements
shark swimming along the coast of Kingscliff, New South Whales, in a bid to resolve a stand-
Australia, Sunday, June 7, 2020.
Associated Press off along their disputed
SYDNEY (AP) — A 60-year- Life Saving NSW, said in a Himalayan frontier, the for- In this June 17, 2016, file photo, an Indian tourist rides on a
eign ministry in New Delhi
old surfer was attacked statement. The victim, from said Sunday. horse back at the Pangong Lake high up in Ladakh region of
and killed by a 3-meter (10- Tugun just over the state The External Affairs Ministry India.
foot) great white shark off border in Queensland, re- said in statement that a Associated Press
the coast of northern New ceived first aid on the shore meeting between Indian Beijing. Indian officials say They said the Chinese sol-
South Wales state on Sun- but died on the beach. and Chinese military com- the standoff began in ear- diers ignored repeated
day, officials said. “A shark biologist assessed manders at a border post ly May when large con- verbal warnings to leave,
The man received a bite photographs and con- in the Himalayan region tingents of Chinese sol- triggering shouting match-
to the back of his thigh firmed a white shark was on Saturday took place in diers entered deep inside es, stone-throwing and fist-
and was brought to the responsible for the fatal at- a "cordial and positive at- Indian-controlled territory fights.
shore by other surfers who tack,” the state’s Depart- mosphere." There was no at three places in Ladakh, India also mobilized thou-
had fought off the shark, ment of Primary Industries immediate reaction from erecting tents and posts. sands of soldiers. q
a surf rescue group, Surf said. q