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The knife attack on Salman Rushdie has shocked the world: the author was seriously injured after being stabbed by a 24-year-old man at an event in New York State on Friday. The author of The Satanic Verses has lived under the threat of a fatwa calling for his death issued by Iran's late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989. The press discusses how to show solidarity with Rushdie.

Days after the mass fish die-off in the Oder River began the cause has still not been identified, although laboratory tests of the water and fish carcasses are in full swing in Poland and Germany. According to experts, the consequences for the border river's ecosystem will be felt for decades.

Exactly a year has passed since the Taliban fully recaptured Afghanistan. In mid-August 2021 images of desperate people trying to board a plane at Kabul airport to flee the country went around the world. Commentators take stock.