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Germany: Will the far right beat the ‘firewall’? | TV Shows

The far-right AfD threatens to breach the political “firewall” that has long kept it out of power, as election disinformation from both the US and Russia disrupts the German media’s election coverage. Contributors:Olaf Böhnke – Berlin director, Alliance of Democracies FoundationUlrich Brückner – Political analystMichaela Küfner – Chief political editor, DW On our radar: This […]

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Trump Appears to Back Away From His Gaza Plan

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President Trump on Friday appeared to back off his demand that some two million Palestinians be permanently relocated from the Gaza Strip to nearby countries in the Middle East so the United States could take over the territory and develop it into “the Riviera of the Middle East.” Earlier this month, the president said he

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What can stop M23 advance in Democratic Republic of the Congo? | Conflict News

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Fighting is intensifying in the east of the country as diplomacy appears to fail. Anxiety is growing in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Rwandan-backed M23 rebels are advancing in the east, spreading out across north and south Kivu and are moving towards the city of Uvira. Many regional players are

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Pope Francis’s condition not life threatening, medical team says

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The pontiff is responding to drug therapy and sepsis has not been detected. Pope Francis’s condition is not considered life-threatening, but he is not out of danger, his medical team has said, as the 88-year-old pontiff continued to receive treatment to fight pneumonia and a complex lung infection. On their first in-person update on the

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Sweden investigates suspected sabotage of undersea telecoms cable

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Swedish police have been investigating the suspected sabotage of an undersea telecoms cable in the Baltic Sea, connecting Germany and Finland. A series of undersea cables and gas pipelines have been damaged in suspected attacks since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, prompting Nato to launch a monitoring mission in the sea last month. The

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Lebanon to hold funeral of slain Hezbollah leader Nasrallah on Sunday

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Tens of thousands of people expected to attend rites at huge sports stadium on the outskirts of capital, Beirut. Lebanon is preparing for the burial of former Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, nearly five months after he was killed in an Israeli air strike. The country is expected to come to a halt for a few

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China says it backs new US and Russian ‘consensus’ on Ukraine war – POLITICO

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Wang met his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Johannesburg on Thursday. Wang’s remarks come after American and Russian officials met in Saudi Arabia this week, without Kyiv’s involvement, to discuss ending the conflict. The talks in Riyadh have raised fears that Washington and Moscow could broker a peace

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Can the relationship between the US and Ukraine be saved? | Russia-Ukraine war

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Donald Trump launches tirade against Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The new US administration has revealed a stunning reversal of US policy on the war in Ukraine. US President Donald Trump accused his Ukrainian counterpart of misleading the US into spending billions of dollars on a war that could not be won. He also blamed Volodymyr Zelenskyy for

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Can sandals be art? Birkenstock says yes, but a German court says no

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BERLIN (AP) — Birkenstocks: They are ubiquitous in summer, comfy and very German. Sometimes they look chic and sometimes shabby. But can these sandals be considered art? That’s the question Germany’s Federal Court of Justice wrestled with Thursday, and it ruled they’re just comfy footwear. Birkenstock, which is headquartered in Linz am Rhein, Germany, and

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ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Blow to Pakistan as Zaman out of tournament

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Pakistan’s Champions Trophy hopes hit by news that injured batter Fakhar Zaman will miss remainder of the tournament. Hosts Pakistan have suffered a serious blow to their Champions Trophy hopes with opener Fakhar Zaman being ruled out of the remainder of the tournament with an injury before their crunch clash with archrivals India. The 34-year-old

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