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Habeck Condemns Israeli Actions in Gaza and West Bank

He warned that Israel’s post‑October 7 response risks fuelling long‑term anger that could undermine hopes for reconstruction.

Berlin Unveils Helmut-Kohl-Allee in Tiergarten

AfD Opens Disciplinary Case Against Moosdorf After Leaked Attack on Foreign-Policy Chief

Ex-CSU Leader Erwin Huber Rebukes Markus Söder Over 'Lack of Team Spirit'

Wolf Biermann Sets Fall 2026 Jubilee Concerts Marking 90th Birthday and 1976 Expatriation

Merkel to Attend CDU Party Congress in Stuttgart on Feb. 20 as Honorary Guest

Rita Süssmuth, Trailblazing Former Bundestag President, Dies at 88

Marco Bülow, Outspoken Ex-SPD Lawmaker and Lobbying Critic, Dies at 54

Helmut Schmidt’s Grave Defaced With Swastikas in Hamburg as State Security Opens Probe

AfD Youth Reboot Forms Bavarian Branch in Greding as Schmid Claims Chair

OVG Münster Orders Haus der Geschichte to Reveal Sellers of Schabowski Note

Der Freitag at 35: Left Weekly Reassesses East–West Fault Lines and a Narrowing Opinion Corridor

BSW Leadership Still Unsettled After Berlin Retreat

35 Years After Reunification, Germany's East–West Divide Endures

Police Rule Out Foul Play in Deaths of Six AfD Candidates in North Rhine-Westphalia

Müntefering Attributes SPD Decline to Lafontaine and Flags European Security Threats

Berlin’s Reichstag Illuminated for 30th Anniversary of Christo and Jeanne-Claude Wrapping

Germany Prepares to Commemorate 73rd Anniversary of Inner-German Border Closure

100 Years Later: Hindenburg’s Election and the Fall of Weimar Democracy

Friedrich Merz Poised to Become Germany’s Second-Oldest Chancellor