Germany’s ruling coalition collapsed after the chancellor, Olaf Scholz, sacked his finance minister and paved the way for a snap election – triggering political chaos in Europe’s largest economy just hours after Donald Trump won the US presidential election. Christian Lindner, the sacked minister, said: ‘The chancellor gave me an ultimatum to suspend the constitutional […]
Crisis talks in the coalition of Scholz’s Social Democratic Party, the Greens and Lindner’s Free Democratic Party came to a head after the FDP issued a paper with demands for liberal economic reforms that were difficult for the other two parties to accept. Lindner’s recent policy paper, leaked to the media last week, called for tax cuts and
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Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson calls election for November, cites policy disagreements as responsible for government collapse. Icelandic Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson has dissolved the country’s three-party coalition government and called for a new election to take place in November. In a press conference on Sunday, Benediktsson said problems had mounted within the left-right coalition on
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TAIPEI, Taiwan — Chinese authorities say at least 11 people have died and 30 are missing in the partial collapse of a highway bridge in the northwest of the country following heavy storms and flooding. A similar number are missing in the southwest after dozens of houses were destroyed by storms. The official Xinhua News Agency
An apartment building partially collapsed in the Russian border city of Belgorod on Sunday, causing at least 13 deaths and injuring 20 other people, officials said. They blamed Ukrainian shelling for the building’s destruction. Online footage showed rescuers searching for survivors among the remnants of the building’s stairwell, then fleeing the scene as part of
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Image caption, State media carried pictures showing a massive gash in the mountainside Article information Author, Joel Guinto Role, BBC News 1 May 2024, 09:08 BST Updated 1 hour ago Twenty-four people have died after a section of a mountainside highway collapsed in China’s Guangdong province, following days of heavy rain. Thirty others were taken
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Gaza’s medical infrastructure was woefully inadequate, but now even that has been destroyed by Israel’s war. The Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis was the last big medical facility in the Gaza Strip destroyed by Israel’s war. The World Health Organization says Israel killed 627 doctors, nurses, ambulance drivers and other healthcare workers between October and
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