Category: World
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Saxony-Anhalt is a vote away from a parliament where no government can be built on terms the rest of German politics accepts. The firewall is a commitment, not a law — and the arithmetic behind it is getting harder every election.
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Washington has asked European governments to repay American aid to Ukraine, in the same week its envoys went to Moscow without them. If alliance support is an advance to be recovered, every future guarantee carries an invoice.
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Ash from Anak Krakatoa has closed Indonesia’s busiest airport. Ash is pulverised rock and glass that melts inside jet engines — which is why the response is to ground everything rather than fly around it.
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Thousands crossed into Ceuta last month, and Brussels says an organised campaign amplified the story from late July. Those are two separate claims, and each is routinely used to dismiss the other.
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Britain’s foreign secretary wants “more decisive action” on Gaza. The instruments a British government actually holds are countable, and each comes with an announcement attached. None has been made.
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American strikes have killed five members of the IRGC Aerospace Force in Kermanshah — a city about a thousand kilometres from the Strait of Hormuz. The target set is widening from the units at the strait to the organisation behind them.
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Putin met Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Moscow for three hours and ten minutes. The Kremlin called it substantive, constructive and extremely frank. In the language of official read-outs, each of those words does a specific job.
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More than 6,300 confirmed cases and over 3,000 deaths in DR Congo since May. It is the second-largest Ebola outbreak on record, and the strain circulating is the one the vaccines were not built for.
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Missouri’s top court has blocked the state’s mid-decade congressional map for November. It did so on state constitutional grounds — which, since 2019, is the only avenue left for challenges of this kind.
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Catholic health providers are suing Illinois over its assisted-dying law. The fight is not over whether a doctor can refuse — it is over what an institution owes a patient after it has refused.