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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (C) welcomes SPD parliamentary group chairman Rolf Muetzenich before the start of the special meeting of the SPD parliamentary group in the Bundestag, together with German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach and parliamentary group leader Katja Mast. The coalition leaders have reached an agreement on the new budget after lengthy negotiations. Michael […]

A World War II bunker converted into a green hotel, bar and event space has been Hamburg’s newest tourist attraction since July. The anti-aircraft bunker is located in Hamburg’s entertainment district of St. Pauli and is one of the large concrete forts that can still be seen in this port city and elsewhere in Germany.

The United Kingdom has voted to return the Labour Party to power, destroying the Tories’ 14-year majority. The stunning fall of the right in the country is at odds with the general trend in Europe. Germany and France are on the verge of seeing the far right reach critical mass. In countries like Italy, it

By Jessie Pang and Marcus Lum HONG KONG (Reuters) – An increase in Hong Kong’s duty-free quota for Chinese tourists could provide some support to the city’s retail sector, but mainland visitors say prices remain unattractive. The Chinese and Hong Kong governments are trying to attract cross-border tourists by expanding the scheme for single Chinese

Adnan Hussain had promised to be a “voice for my entire community” (Adnan Hussain) An independent candidate who played on local anger over the war in Gaza has defeated Labour in Blackburn. Lawyer Adnan Hussein won a stunning victory with 10,518 votes, just ahead of Labour’s Kate Hollern‘s 10,386. Ms Hollern started the election campaign

By Colleen Howe BEIJING – Rows of what appear to be thin, white shipping containers stand lined up on a barren stretch of land in China’s Shandong province. The batteries together form a 795 megawatt (MW) power plant that can store up to 1 million kilowatt hours of electricity, enough to power 150,000 homes for

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — In parts of Afghanistan where there are no street names or house numbers, utility companies and their customers have taken a creative approach to connectivity. They use mosques as bill and cash drop-off points, a “pay and pray” system. Now the national postal service wants to phase it out by installing

The coast guard in Mauritania on Monday recovered the bodies of 89 migrants from a boat that capsized in the Atlantic Ocean. Nine people, including a five-year-old girl, were rescued, but dozens of others are still missing. Survivors say the vessel, a traditional fishing boat, left the Senegal-Gambia border area last week with 170 people

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A man who stabbed South Korean opposition leader was sentenced to 15 years in prison earlier this year for being stabbed in the neck, court officials said. The knife-wielding man attacked Lee Jae-myung, leader of the liberal Democratic Party, South Korea’s largest political party, in January after approaching him to

GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations and partners say increasing numbers of migrants and refugees in Africa are heading north toward the Mediterranean and Europe, crossing dangerous routes through the Sahara Desert where criminal gangs subject them to slavery, organ harvesting, rape, kidnapping for ransom and other abuses. A report published Friday by the UN