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- English News and Articles
- Serbia’s populist President Vucic says he will resign within weeks as election nears
- Manhunt after bomb injures Ukrainian oligarch in Monaco
- Arbitration tribunal rejects bulk of Ukraine's Kerch Strait case against Russia
- ‘We want a new Albania’: protests against Jared Kushner-backed resort turn anger on government
- Germany demands 450 billion US-Dollar cut to 'unaffordable' EU budget, document shows
- Poland and Lithuania explore playing bigger role in NATO's nuclear deterrence
- Trump says ceasefire is 'over' after US and Iran trade strikes & U.S. Officials Believed Israel Was Plotting to Kill Iranian Negotiators
- Translated News in English
- Networking event of right-wing US billionaire: Spahn confirms participation in Thiel events & Former ministers Spahn and zu Guttenberg at a secret meeting with US billionaire Peter Thiel
- Pension
- After procurement problems - Pistorius ends F126 frigate project
- Military registration: The German Armed Forces recruited only 530 volunteers through military service questionnaires
- New study by IMK: Income tax reform: Significant relief creates large budget deficits; often, even high earners benefit
- Pension
- The law is to be restricted - Growing criticism of plans for freedom of information
I. English Videos
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- Serbia’s populist President Vucic says he will resign within weeks as election nears
- Manhunt after bomb injures Ukrainian oligarch in Monaco
- Arbitration tribunal rejects bulk of Ukraine's Kerch Strait case against Russia
- ‘We want a new Albania’: protests against Jared Kushner-backed resort turn anger on government
- Germany demands 450 billion US-Dollar cut to 'unaffordable' EU budget, document shows
- Poland and Lithuania explore playing bigger role in NATO's nuclear deterrence
- Trump says ceasefire is 'over' after US and Iran trade strikes & U.S. Officials Believed Israel Was Plotting to Kill Iranian Negotiators
- Networking event of right-wing US billionaire: Spahn confirms participation in Thiel events & Former ministers Spahn and zu Guttenberg at a secret meeting with US billionaire Peter Thiel
- Pension
- After procurement problems - Pistorius ends F126 frigate project
- Military registration: The German Armed Forces recruited only 530 volunteers through military service questionnaires
- New study by IMK: Income tax reform: Significant relief creates large budget deficits; often, even high earners benefit
- Pension
- The law is to be restricted - Growing criticism of plans for freedom of information
II. English News and Articles
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Serbia’s populist President Vucic says he will resign within weeks as election nears
Serbia ‘s populist President Aleksandar Vucic said Saturday he will resign his post within weeks, paving the way for early elections following youth-led protests that shook his tight grip on power.
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Manhunt after bomb injures Ukrainian oligarch in Monaco
A manhunt is under way in southern France after a parcel bomb exploded at a residential building in neighbouring Monaco, injuring wealthy Ukrainian businessman Vadym Yermolaiev and two others.
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Arbitration tribunal rejects bulk of Ukraine's Kerch Strait case against Russia
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- The case at the Hague-based intergovernmental Permanent Court of Arbitration was filed in 2016 after Moscow began building the 19-km (12-mile) Crimea Bridge link to the peninsula.
- In a ruling dated April 22 but only announced on Monday, as per the arbitration court's procedures, the court dismissed the majority of Kyiv's claims about Russia's control over the strait on procedural grounds.
- The court did find Russia violated some sea laws because it did not carry out proper environmental assessments during the construction of the bridge.
- The five-judge arbitration panel did not award any reparations and ordered both parties to pay their own legal costs for the procedure that lasted a decade.
- The case is one of several proceedings at international courts and institutions Kyiv has pressed against Russia linked to the 2014 annexation of Crimea and Moscow's full-scale invasion in 2022.
- The Kerch Strait bridge is crucial for the supply of fuel, food and other products to Crimea, where the port of Sevastopol is the historic home base of Russia's Black Sea Fleet.
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‘We want a new Albania’: protests against Jared Kushner-backed resort turn anger on government
Opposition to plans for ‘small paradise’ island of Sazan becomes wave of dissent against establishment
For Ina Shkurti, like so many Albanians, the island of Sazan has played an outsized role. As a child she bathed in its “always calm and emerald green” waters, as a teenager it figured in her dreams and as an adult it was an indelible part of the memory and desire that drew her back, every summer, to Vlore, her home town across the sea.
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Flamingo Revolution
On 23 May 2026, anti-government protests began in the Albanian village of Zvërnec, near the Narta Lagoon. The protests, which popularly came to be dubbed as the Flamingo Revolution (Albanian: Revolucioni i Flamingove), were triggered by the government's handling of preparatory works and proposed luxury tourism developments linked to the Sazan Island and Zvërnec resort project, backed primarily by American investor Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of United States president Donald Trump. Protesters and local residents objected not only to the proposed development, but also to what they described as a corrupt and opaque process involving protected-area legislation, disputed land ownership, unpublished or contested permits, private security, and limited public consultation. After violence against protesters during a demonstration near the project site on 30 May, the movement expanded to Tirana the following day and later spread to other cities in Albania, Kosovo, and Albanian diaspora communities abroad.
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Germany demands 450 billion US-Dollar cut to 'unaffordable' EU budget, document shows
Germany is demanding a €400 billion (456 billion US-Dollar) cut to the European Commission's proposed budget of €2 trillion for 2028-2034, warning that the current plans are "unaffordable," according to an internal government document seen by Reuters on Tuesday.
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Poland and Lithuania explore playing bigger role in NATO's nuclear deterrence
Poland and Lithuania confirm they are participating in discussions about their potential role in NATO's nuclear deterrence efforts, which are built around U.S. nuclear weapons in Europe.
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Trump says ceasefire is 'over' after US and Iran trade strikes
US President Donald Trump has said the ceasefire agreement with Iran is "over", blasting the country's leadership as "scum" and "cuckoo" after fresh exchanges of fire overnight.
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U.S. Officials Believed Israel Was Plotting to Kill Iranian Negotiators
Any Israeli attempt to kill Abbas Araghchi, the foreign minister, or Mohammad Ghalibaf, the Parliament speaker, would have derailed peace talks, American officials feared.
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III. Translated News in English
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Networking event of right-wing US billionaire: Spahn confirms participation in Thiel events
Tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel organizes confidential networking meetings with influential decision-makers. CDU politician Jens Spahn has attended several of these events. Here's what we know about them.
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Former ministers Spahn and zu Guttenberg at a secret meeting with US billionaire Peter Thiel
Following leak of participant lists: Spahn confirms participation in five "dialogue" meetings / Contact between Spahn and Thiel already in 2016 / Guttenberg's participation documented in Epstein files
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Pension level, entry age, contributions: These are the 33 recommendations of the pension commission
The pension commission has drawn up reform proposals – these have been obtained by ZDF. What do they contain, and what are the most important points? An overview.
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After procurement problems - Pistorius ends F126 frigate project
The F126-class frigates were intended to be the "largest ships in the navy," but the procurement project was recently delayed by several years. Now, Defense Minister Pistorius has decided to cancel it completely.
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Costly debacle with frigate - Germany is wasting billions in its arms race
With the cancellation of the F126 naval project, one of the German Armed Forces' most expensive procurement debacles has now come to an end. According to Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD), approximately €2.3 billion had already been spent. Had the frigate project continued, the costs could have risen from €10 billion to more than €18 billion. Instead, a smaller type of frigate will now be procured.
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Military registration: The German Armed Forces recruited only 530 volunteers through military service questionnaires
For the new military recruitment drive, the German government sent out almost 300,000 questionnaires, but recruited few people. Traditional recruitment methods are working better.
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New study by IMK: Income tax reform: Significant relief creates large budget deficits; often, even high earners benefit
The German government and coalition leaders will discuss on Wednesday how to implement the promise made in the coalition agreement to "relieve the income tax burden on low and middle incomes." New calculations by the Institute for Macroeconomics and Business Cycle Research (IMK) of the Hans Böckler Foundation show that significant tax relief for broad income groups would reduce overall government tax revenue by tens of billions of euros annually – thus further widening the budget deficits of the federal, state, and local governments. This is particularly true for one of six examined options, which would eliminate the unpopular "middle-class bulge" in the tax brackets: it would result in annual revenue losses of over 33 billion euros, even if the top tax rate were raised by three percentage points. Moreover, depending on the specific design, households with higher and very high incomes would also benefit, in some cases even more than households with low to middle incomes.
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Budget 2027 - Federal government cuts pension subsidy – what this means for contributions
The federal government is cutting costs in the pension insurance system. The reduction is smaller than planned, but this does not automatically rule out the possibility of higher pension contributions.
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The state owes billions to contributors – and is not paying them back.
The statutory pension insurance system is not purely an insurance system. In addition to traditional old-age pensions, which are based on individual contributions, it also finances benefits that are politically mandated and do not correspond to any personal contributions: pensions for periods of child-rearing, caregiving, and war-related burdens. For these so-called non-contributory benefits, the federal government transfers a lump-sum subsidy annually.
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The law is to be restricted - Growing criticism of plans for freedom of information
The German government wants to restrict freedom of information in Germany. This has sparked widespread protests, including from journalists, publishers, and NGOs. Criticism of the plans is also coming from within the SPD (Social Democratic Party).
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