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  • What you need to know

    • The rights chief of the Council of Europe has written to Germany’s interior minister over the handling of pro-Palestinian protests

    • Russian President Vladimir Putin says he’s open to speaking with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, but warns him on Taurus

    • An analysis by Germany’s Housing Ministry has shown a huge increase in rents in major cities despite rules aimed at restricting rises

    • Germany’s industrial sector is flagging as China’s strengthens, economists say




  • Assuming youre young and from the US, your country was long broken before it got this bad and you might not know how a society that supports people looks like. So it might not be strange you can’t see a way out, but there very likely is an actual path to a happy life. Your fate and that of your country are not glued together. There might be a wonderful life waiting for you behind these dark clouds, and the struggle you’re going through now might also mean you’ll actually enjoy it once you get there. Just take it one day at a time, and try not to lose sight of your personal horizon by staring at the bigger picture. It wont be like this the entire 60+ years ahead.








  • Zohran Mamdani’s Democratic primary upset this week in New York City has sparked anti-Muslim posts that have included death threats and comments comparing his candidacy to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

    There were at least 127 violent hate-related reports mentioning the mayoral candidate or his campaign in the day after polls closed, said CAIR Action, an arm of the Council on American-Islamic Relations advocacy group, which logs such incidents.

    Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress including Andy Ogles, Nancy Mace and Marjorie Taylor Greene have been accused of spreading anti-Muslim rhetoric both by advocates and Democrats.





  • Divisions within Germany’s Social Democrats over rearmament and relations with Russia are set to come to a head at a congress starting Friday, as party leader and finance minister Lars Klingbeil faces a backlash from the party’s old guard.

    One critic is the eldest son of former SPD chancellor Willy Brandt, whose Ostpolitik of rapprochement with the Soviet Union at the height of the cold war still looms large over the party.

    Peter Brandt, who says he never saw completely eye to eye with his father, said he signed the manifesto because he thinks the Russian threat is overblown.

    “I do not share the idea that Russia is going to attack Nato,” he said. “The Russian army has shown weaknesses in the Ukraine war.”

    He added that Nato “is now conventionally superior to the Russian army. Even without the Americans”. He also described Nato’s newly adopted goal of spending 5 per cent of GDP on defence as “irrational”.

    “The rational approach should be: you do a threat analysis first.”