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The Oktoberfest, Munich's annual beer festival, kicks off with the mayor of the city tapping the first keg at noon. The festival will go on until 3 October 2023. IMAGES
European Commission Vice-President Margrethe Vestager announces that the EU has fined five car manufacturers, including German automobile giants Volkswagen and BMW, 875 million euros for colluding on the development of anti-pollution technology for diesel cars. SOUNDBITE
A woman has been charged with reckless endangerment after plowing her car into a Manhattan protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Newser reports 52-year-old Kathleen Casillo was driving with her 29-year-old daughter when she said demonstrators began banging on her BMW. Demonstrators were protesting in support of ICE detainees on hunger strike. Casillo says she panicked and hit the gas. Six people have hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. A demonstrator was charged for allegedly interfering with emergency workers responding to the scene.
Munich (Germany), Sept 26 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: Lukas Barth) German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier took part on Saturday in a commemoration ceremony for the 40th anniversary of the Oktoberfest bomb attack in Munich. A neo-Nazi blew himself up at Munich's Oktoberfest beer festival in 1980, killing 12 other people. FOOTAGE OF THE CEREMONY, STEINMEIER AND AN EXHIBITION AT THE SITE OF THE ATTACK ON THE ANNIVERSARY.