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Germany offers up to €50 million to fix Chernobyl shelter hit by drone
A drone strike damaged the protective shelter built over Chernobyl's destroyed nuclear reactor.
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Germany plans nearly 100 new arms deals but struggles to find recruits
Internal planning papers show Germany's defence ministry is about to approve almost 100 new weapons contracts, continuing a rearmament push begun after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.
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Bomb-carrying drone at Leipzig airport revives German debate on striking back at Russia
A drone carrying explosives was found at Leipzig airport, reopening German debate over how to respond to such threats.
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German fact-checkers say fake posts target four state elections
Tagesschau's fact-checking team found dozens of fake posts spreading before state elections in Berlin, Saxony-Anhalt, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Lower Saxony.
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BMW Profit Falls Sharply, Alongside Other German Carmakers This Week
BMW reported a clear drop in profit, and several other German carmakers released similarly bad results in the same week, according to Tagesschau.
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A van drove into Berlin's Pride march, killing a woman and injuring 16
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.
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Prien's Child-Support Squeeze Is the First Real Test of the Coalition's Nerve
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.
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Berlin's CDU Picks a New Leader — Just as the AfD Numbers Get Harder to Ignore
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.
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Berlin's Mayor Just Torched His Own Comeback — and Merz Feels the Heat
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.
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Berlin Pushes Through a Health-Insurance Fix — And Immediately Ends Up in Court
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.
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Tomahawks for Berlin: Washington Says Yes — Now Ask What, When and How Many
The US has formally approved the Tomahawk sale to Germany, Chancellor Merz says, ending the purchase-or-permission ambiguity. The core claim holds up; the strategic framing is running ahead of the details.
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Germany's Tomahawk Announcement: A Purchase, or Permission to Purchase?
Friedrich Merz used his post-NATO-summit government statement to announce that Germany will buy US Tomahawk cruise missiles. The headlines say "purchase"; the reporting says "can purchase". The gap between the two is where the politics lives.