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A driver steered a white van into Berlin's Christopher Street Day march — one of Europe's largest Pride parades — killing a woman and injuring 16 people, then fled.
After nearly two weeks of nightly strikes, the US guns have gone quiet over Iran. The reported reason isn't diplomacy — it's dwindling stockpiles of interceptor missiles. Here's why a lull built on ammunition math is so easy to break.
A single phrase in Brussels' new China paper — that Beijing seeks to "reshape the global order" — reclassifies every EU-China decision from trade dispute to strategic contest.
Trump's new tariffs of up to 12.5% on 60 countries replace levies expiring Friday, recast as a crackdown on forced-labour imports after the Supreme Court struck down his earlier measures.
Washington and Riyadh stopped talking about a nuclear deal and signed one. The signature reshapes who Washington trusts with the world's most sensitive technology — and the fine print nobody has published yet is the whole story.
Family Minister Karin Prien wants to stop paying the Unterhaltsvorschuss once a child turns 16, after costs quadrupled in recent years. The SPD is already promising resistance — turning a line item in the family budget into a test of coalition unity and fiscal credibility.
Czech governing parties keep tripping over their own mistakes, yet the opposition isn't cashing in. A STEM/MARK survey finds nearly half of opposition voters unimpressed with their own side, pointing to disunity and a missing strong leader as the real story of this parliamentary term.
The short version: Stefan Evers is now the man who has to clean up after Kai Wegner's resignation, a new Insa poll shows the Union narrowing the gap to the AfD but Merz's own ratings barely moving, and a Welt analysis argues the AfD has stopped being a niche phenomenon. Together, they show why Berlin's local leadership fight is really a preview of the CDU's national problem.
The man arrested over Ann Widdecombe's killing has been released without charge, leaving Devon and Cornwall Police back at square one. Meanwhile a former Sky News presenter's comments about the late minister have pulled British coverage of her death into an unrelated row over sexism in the media.
Kai Wegner has pulled out of running as the CDU's lead candidate for Berlin after mishandling a citywide power outage — and the fallout says as much about Merz's coalition as it does about Wegner.
Graham Platner has formally filed paperwork to withdraw from Maine's Senate race, confirming what our earlier coverage flagged as likely. Democrats now have to pick a fresh challenger to Susan Collins fast — and the outcome matters well beyond Maine, since the Senate's margin shapes votes on Ukraine funding, NATO commitments and sanctions policy.
Germany's coalition rammed its health-insurance savings law through the Bundestag, but family doctors call it a fiasco, an SPD state premier is vowing resistance, and the Constitutional Court is now reviewing the process. It's a small fiscal fix with outsized political risk.