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Peter Feldmann, the controversial lord mayor of German financial hub Frankfurt, has been voted out of office in a citizens’ referendum, according to the preliminary interim results on Sunday. After counting almost all voting districts, more than 95% vo…

Peter Feldmann, the controversial lord mayor of German financial hub Frankfurt, has been voted out of office in a citizens’ referendum, according to the preliminary interim results on Sunday. After counting almost all voting districts, more than 95% vo…

Lowly Bayer Leverkusen scored five times in 30 second half minutes on Sunday in a 5-0 demolition of Union Berlin who have lost the Bundesliga lead for good to champions Bayern Munich. Union slumped to the joint biggest defeat of a league leader since 2…

Lowly Bayer Leverkusen scored five times in the second half on Sunday in a 5-0 demolition of Union Berlin who as a result lost the Bundesliga lead for good to champions Bayern Munich. Robert Andrich opened the scoring in the 46th when he volleyed home …

The centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) is pushing for a strong leadership role for Germany in the world, fairer taxation and an acceleration of digitalization and the energy transition. At a debating event in Berlin on Sunday, delegates unanimou…

Pope Francis has arrived back in Rome after his four-day trip to the Gulf state of Bahrain. The Catholic Church leader’s plane landed at Rome’s Fiumicino airport late Sunday afternoon. Francis is the first pope to visit the Gulf kingdom. The Bahrain tr…

The centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) is pushing for a strong leadership role for Germany in the world, fairer taxation and an acceleration of digitalization and the energy transition. At a debating event in Berlin on Sunday, delegates unanimou…

Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid has announced he will put up a hawkish opposition to the right-wing religious camp of election winner Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu’s camp secured a majority of 64 of the 120 seats in the Knesset in the electi…

Despite criticism, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier says he is still in favour of the idea of a compulsory year of community service. “We need new models in which we can bring young and old into conversation with each other and practice the con…

A major UN climate conference is under way in Egypt amid geopolitical tensions and crises that have dimmed expectations for breakthroughs on reducing global warming. The two-week gathering, known as COP27, is being held in the Egyptian Red Sea resort o…