Reform leader Nigel Farage chats to Teessiders on a trip to Redcar.

Key FactsFarage visits Redcar, meets baby and eats lemon top
18 hours ago · Reading time: ~30 sec.
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Summary created with AI assistance · Source: gazettelive.co.uk
- Nigel Farage visited Teesside as part of the so-called Reform UK's 100 Days to Save Britain tour.
- At O'Grady's Hotel, Farage held a roundtable with pensioners about living costs and triple lock pensions.
- On the High Street, he chatted with voters, an Admiral Casino worker and a surprised departing customer.
- He met Deanna Vasey's eight-day-old baby, Marlee Vasey-Hartshorn, then ate a Redcar lemon-top ice cream.
Energy transition: Daniel Günther calls on Merz to change course: In a letter to Chancellor Merz, Daniel Günther criticizes Katharina Reiche's energy policy ...
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Key FactsGünther urges Merz to change energy-policy course
16 hours ago · Reading time: ~45 sec.
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Summary created with AI assistance · Source: stern.de
- In the letter seen by Reuters, Günther expresses utmost concern about the planned EEG amendment and so-called grid package.
- He opposes the planned complete abolition of feed-in payments for privately owned rooftop solar installations.
- Günther also considers tender volumes for new onshore wind turbines far too low.
- He rejects plans to deny full compensation to wind and solar facilities curtailed in grid-constrained areas, warning of lost momentum.
That can only be achieved through the accelerated expansion of renewable energy.— Daniel Günther, Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein, in a letter to Chancellor Friedrich Merz about energy policy (the Energiewende).
"No Göring 2.0": Wagenknecht considers AfD state parliament president a given: BSW founder Sahra Wagenknecht believes that the strongest parliamentary group in a ...
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Key FactsAfD nominee Rausch may become Saxony-Anhalt parliament president
1 hours ago · Reading time: ~45 sec.
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Summary created with AI assistance · Source: op-online.de
- The newly elected state parliament is scheduled to convene in Magdeburg at 11:00 a.m. on October 6, with its president’s election on the agenda.
- The AfD won nearly 44 percent and holds 39 seats; if elected, Rausch would become Germany’s first AfD state-parliament president.
- The BSW holds five seats; Sahra Wagenknecht defends its planned support as a matter of parliamentary normality.
- After the presidential vote, the session is planned to pause for rule-change discussions before deputy-presidential elections.
The BSW ends the firewall idiocy! The strongest faction in a state parliament should also appoint the president of the state parliament — with 44 percent of the vote, that should be taken as a matter of course— Sahra Wagenknecht, founder of BSW, in an interview with the German press agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)
POLITICO Blocked From Air Force One Amid Battle Over Media Access: The move prevents the outlet from carrying out its White House press pool duties as Trump ...
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Key FactsWhite House Excludes Politico From Air Force One Press Pool
13 hours ago · Reading time: ~30 sec.
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Summary created with AI assistance · Source: thedailybeast.com
- On Monday, October 5, Politico was excluded from the press pool traveling with Trump to Nebraska.
- Trump announced on September 18 that Politico, CNN, and MS NOW would be barred from the White House.
- Judge Timothy Kelly restored the organizations’ White House access for two weeks.
- A hearing before Judge Kelly on the lawsuit is scheduled for Thursday.
Key FactsReport: 1,046 posts planned for sugar and plastic taxes
2 hours ago · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: welt.de
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: welt.de
- According to Bild, both levies are expected to generate €2.5 billion in additional annual federal revenue.
- The government links them to less plastic packaging, reduced waste and incentives for manufacturers to produce less sugary drinks.
- According to Bild, the relevant draft laws provide for 1,046 civil-service posts; whether they are newly created or transferred remains unclear.
- Reiner Holznagel of the taxpayers’ association criticizes the plans, while SPD Secretary-General Esra Limbacher defends the sugar tax.
More than 1,000 new positions just for two new taxes—that's bureaucratic nonsense, as announced. Instead of finally scrutinizing spending and structures, the government is once again trying to fill budget holes with new taxes. That's the wrong path.— Reiner Holznagel of the Bund der Deutschen Steuerzahler, commenting on plans to hire more than 1,000 staff to implement the new taxes
Jeffrey Archer: Best-selling author and former politician dies aged 86: His last book, Adam and Eve, is set to release this month.
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Key FactsJeffrey Archer dies as final novel is published
2 hours ago · Reading time: ~45 sec.
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Summary created with AI assistance · Source: euroweeklynews.com
- HarperCollins said Archer died suddenly and peacefully at home on Monday, October 5.
- The previous day, he appeared before a packed audience at London’s Leicester Square Theatre with Gyles Brandreth.
- Adam & Eve, announced as his final novel, is published this week and follows two children born on Armistice Day in 1918.
- Archer’s books sold more than 300 million copies worldwide during a writing career spanning five decades.
a great storyteller to the last— Brandreth described Archer as funny, engaging and self-deprecating, and called him 'a great storyteller to the last'.
Pentagon to execute convicted Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Hasan by firing squad: The 2009 mass shooting left 13 people dead and wounded 32 others.
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Key FactsTrump Approves Firing-Squad Execution for Fort Hood Shooter
5 hours ago · Reading time: ~45 sec.
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Summary created with AI assistance · Source: huffpost.com
- The Army secretary will determine the time and place as multiple procedural steps precede the execution.
- In the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, 13 people were killed and more than 30 injured.
- Hasan could potentially delay those steps for years through a habeas corpus appeal in civilian federal court.
- Hasan is among four men on the military’s death row at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Judgement day for Hasan has finally come,— Sean Parnell, a Pentagon spokesperson, wrote in a post on X.
Wadephul warns Russia: | "Incalculable risk of picking a fight with us": BND chief Jäger warns of a dangerous confrontation with Russia. Foreign Minister ...
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This Tuesday, Tobias Rausch will likely become the first AfD parliamentary president. How the party is thus gaining significant power. Show more
Key FactsTobias Rausch Could Become Germany’s First AfD Parliament President
2 days ago · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: taz.de
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: taz.de
- At the constitutive session on October 6, Rausch could become Germany’s first AfD parliament president.
- The BSW plans to support the AfD nominee, while the CDU rejects Rausch’s claim that several lawmakers made commitments.
- The position includes representing parliament externally and overseeing its administration, with current compensation exceeding 18,000 euros monthly.
- Rausch supports the state branch’s ethnic-nationalist line, which domestic intelligence has classified as confirmed right-wing extremist since 2023.
So that one can see where the funds go.— Tobias Rausch, AfD member of the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament, said this in the context of wanting to join the Finance Committee to see where the funds go.
Key FactsTobias Rausch Is Expected to Become First AfD Speaker
2 hours ago · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: welt.de
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: welt.de
- The newly elected parliament meets in Magdeburg for the first time, more than four weeks after the state election.
- The BSW plans to support Rausch; the AfD and BSW together hold 44 votes, while an absolute majority requires 42.
- The sitting begins at 11 a.m. with an opening by longest-serving lawmaker Eva von Angern of The Left.
- After the expected election, the Council of Elders is due to consider procedural-rule changes proposed by the AfD and BSW.
We will not elect Mr. Siegmund.— Christian Leye, deputy head of the BSW, in relation to the AfD candidate Ulrich Siegmund; said in the Berlin Playbook Podcast by Politico.
Trump: U.S. willing to help Russia with potential pneumonic plague outbreak: "We'll help them as much as we can," Trump told reporters Monday.
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Key FactsUS monitors suspected plague case after Russian lab worker dies
12 hours ago · Reading time: ~45 sec.
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Summary created with AI assistance · Source: bbc.com
- Marco Rubio said concern existed that pneumonic plague might have spread, but there was no cause for alarm.
- Irkutsk’s governor attributed the death to pneumonia of undetermined etiology and said no work-linked microorganisms were found in samples.
- Unconfirmed reports linked her illness either to a broken pathogen-containing test tube or a field trip to naturally plague-affected territory.
- Rospotrebnadzor said a biosafety inspection found no emergency, while no other institute staff reportedly sought medical care.
It seems that there was a worker at the lab that was infected and there's concern that that, you know, could have spread, at least internally - you've seen them do quarantine of this and that nature. If something like that gets out, it can quickly spread. So we're watching and monitoring it closely. I don't think it's cause for alarm, but it is cause for focus and the cause to just keep an eye on it and we're doing that.— Secretary of State Marco Rubio, discussing the suspected plague case in Russia
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Key FactsBSW announces support for AfD candidate in Saxony-Anhalt
19 hours ago · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: t-online.de
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: t-online.de
- BSW parliamentary leader Thomas Schulze announced that most of his group would vote for the AfD candidate Tuesday.
- The AfD parliamentary group unanimously nominated Tobias Rausch, who seeks the position of state parliament president.
- The CDU state executive recommended abstention; the Greens, SPD and Left reject an AfD parliament president.
- The AfD has 39 lawmakers, CDU, Left, Greens and SPD also 39 combined, while BSW has five.
As a first sign that we respect parliamentary conventions, we will tomorrow vote for the AfD candidate for the President of the Landtag.— Thomas Schulze, BSW parliamentary group leader, in Magdeburg
Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s former White House press secretary, has a new gig at Fox News - The Boston Globe
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After bipartisan criticism, Trump says taxpayers’ dollars will no longer be used for TV ads promoting him
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"All confirmed in writing": Saxony-Anhalt's CDU leader Schulze rules out defectors to the AfD
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Key FactsSchulze Does Not Rule Out CDU Support for AfD Motions
20 hours ago · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: t-online.de
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: t-online.de
- The CDU intends to enter opposition after the election in Saxony-Anhalt.
- Sven Schulze announced that his party would pursue a constructive opposition role in Magdeburg’s state parliament.
- According to Schulze, the CDU will decide on AfD motions from one parliamentary sitting to the next.
- Schulze also urged the AfD to form a government quickly, stressing the importance of beginning to act.
that we, from one state parliament session to the next, also look at the topics and then decide for ourselves how we will position ourselves on these individual topics— Sven Schulze (CDU), Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt and head of the CDU faction in the state parliament; told MDR that his party had internally agreed to examine topics from session to session and then make its own decisions about how to act on those topics (in the context of potential cooperation with the AfD).
The Bolsonaro comeback in Brazil: Voters are all but sure to make Flávio Bolsonaro the next president
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Paid articlePaywallPierre Poilievre accuses PM Carney of 'sending our money south': Opposition leader asks Carney why he's sending Canadian tax dollars "to the same American ...
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Paid articlePaywallObama to campaign with El-Sayed in Detroit as ex-president gets more involved in midterms
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Key FactsObama Plans Michigan Senate Campaign Appearance
12 hours ago · Reading time: ~45 sec.
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Summary created with AI assistance · Source: thedailybeast.com
- Barack Obama is scheduled to campaign in Michigan on October 24 alongside Abdul El-Sayed and Jocelyn Benson.
- El-Sayed faces Republican Mike Rogers in November; the contest could help determine control of Congress.
- Obama is set to headline a Senatorial Campaign Committee fundraiser this week and has already begun recording campaign advertisements.
- Trump plans a final phase offensive across 17 states with dozens of events before Election Day on November 3.
If you do that, we’re going to win, and we’re going to win big. And we’re going to shove it up their a--.— Donald Trump, during an Ohio rally; quoted in The Daily Beast article; urging supporters to vote and to win big
Konrad Adenauer Foundation: | "AfD behaves in an unconstitutional manner": The AfD's loyalty to the constitution is repeatedly the focus of criticism ...
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Key FactsMerz visits Kyiv amid a Russian air attack
2 days ago · Reading time: ~45 sec.
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Summary created with AI assistance · Source: tagesspiegel.de
- Merz arrived in Kyiv Sunday morning for a solidarity visit, accompanied by Katherina Reiche and ten businesspeople.
- According to Mayor Vitali Klitschko, an airstrike hit the Northern Bridge’s roadway, while Kyiv’s sirens sounded repeatedly.
- One billion euros plus another 350 million are slated for weapons production and repairing and rebuilding destroyed power plants.
- Together with Zelenskyy, Merz inspected the damaged Academy of Sciences and urged Putin to negotiate.
If Russia is not stopped, its war machine will sooner or later turn against us.— Friedrich Merz, CDU leader, said upon his arrival in Kyiv during a solidarity visit (on a special train).
Key FactsTillis Calls Hegseth Vote His Career’s Biggest Regret
9 hours ago · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: pbs.org
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: pbs.org
- In the Jan. 24, 2025, vote, Tillis’s ballot made the result 50-50; Vice President JD Vance broke the tie.
- Tillis says discussions with the White House, Hegseth and people around him failed to corroborate the worst allegations.
- Tillis writes that he must live with his Kennedy vote and the harm his tenure allegedly caused the country.
- He says at least 30 Republican colleagues privately expressed reservations about many of the president’s actions.
"biggest regret of my career"— Sen. Thom Tillis, in his new book 'How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents', describing his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth as Defense Secretary in January 2025.
Quebec sovereigntist party will form next government, CTV News projects. Live results here.
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Kash Patel Put a Ring on Girlfriend With SWAT Protection: The FBI has defended providing security for country singer and now fiancée Alexis Wilkins.
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Key FactsFBI Director Kash Patel and Alexis Wilkins Announce Engagement
1 days ago · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: huffpost.com
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: huffpost.com
- In a black-and-white photo, 27-year-old Wilkins displayed her ring; Patel is 46.
- The couple had been dating before Patel became FBI director in 2025, when Wilkins attended his swearing-in.
- As a country singer, Wilkins released her debut album in 2023 and was affiliated with conservative groups.
- Patel was criticized for using an FBI aircraft to attend a State College wrestling event without a known or apparent law-enforcement purpose.
Went and got the law involved.— Alexis Wilkins said in a caption accompanying a photo posted to X announcing their engagement.
Key FactsSánchez schedules Spain’s snap election for 29 November
1 days ago · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: bbc.co.uk
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: bbc.co.uk
- Sánchez said the move reflected a need for renewed public backing and a broader progressive majority.
- Parliament rejected two housing decrees by 178 votes to 172 and 184 votes to 166, respectively.
- About 50 demonstrations took place nationwide on Saturday, including in Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia.
- Most polls indicate the conservative People's Party could lead, but it would likely need Vox support to govern.
Spain has become a world example of peace, feminism and prosperity.— Pedro Sánchez, in a national address announcing snap elections
Should Poilievre remain as Conservative leader? Outgoing MP won’t say but insists he’s ‘doing a great job’
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GOP Sen. John Kennedy (La.) said Sunday he would run for president in 2028 “if a bunch of goobers” seek the Republican nomination.thehill.com
Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv last Sunday. He disembarked from the plane at 7:00 a.m ... Show more

The Colorado Secretary of State’s Office says there’s enough evidence to warrant an investigation into Attorney General Phil Weiser’s compliance with campaign ... Show more
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Former President Joe Biden made a surprise appearance at a Newport car show on Sunday, bringing his 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray and comedian Jay Leno.

Pete Hegseth’s Department of War backdrop draws comparisons to Nazi imagery on social media
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Ken Paxton Admits Team Trump Controls His Campaign in Leaked Audio: Paxton complained he can’t change anything about his own campaign.
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Report linking Alberta separatists to Americans sparks call for emergency debate: The NDP wants a debate in Parliament about whether work by Republican ...
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Paid articlePaywallKey FactsCansın Köktürk stands by her radical left-wing stance
4 days ago · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: stern.de
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: stern.de
- Köktürk sits in the Bundestag after the Left Party won 7.9 percent in the 2025 election.
- She serves her parliamentary group as chairwoman of the Bundestag Committee for Labour and Social Affairs.
- She was removed from the chamber twice in 2025 over a Palestine inscription and a displayed flag.
- Köktürk says she accepts being called radical left-wing if it means standing up for people.
You belong here. Your story belongs here. Your name doesn’t have to be German, your parents don’t have to have been born here. You don’t have to shrink yourself for others to feel bigger.— Cansın Köktürk; Bundestag speech addressed to her migrant brothers and sisters, September 2025
The Christa Pike Case: The Barbaric States of America: Christa Pike lies in a coma after her failed execution. But Trump wants to expand the death penalty even ...
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OpinionAfD Ban: Quick Tribunal with Hape Kerkeling: Who wants to get involved in a long trial when Hape Kerkeling can judge? The entertainer's comments on the AfD ...
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Key FactsReport: AfD Plans Euro Reform Instead of Exit
23 hours ago · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: welt.de
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: welt.de
- According to the internal paper, the AfD abandons its previous demand for Germany to leave the euro system, favoring fundamental restructuring.
- The reform would strengthen national debt responsibility and limit ECB intervention; if unsuccessful, voters would determine Germany’s future course.
- According to the paper, the EU would become a union of sovereign nations focused on the single market, security and external borders.
- The plan also would end direct elections to the European Parliament, with national parliaments appointing lawmakers instead.
The EU should become a "federation of sovereign nations."— From an internal AfD strategy document outlining reforms to the EU and euro.
PM Mark Carney pledged to 'Buy Canadian.' Since then, $7.8 billion in contracts went to American corporations
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Paid articlePaywallDennis Hastert, disgraced former House speaker, dies at 84: Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and ...
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Key FactsFormer House Speaker Dennis Hastert reportedly dies at 84
16 hours ago · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: reuters.com
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: reuters.com
- Coroner Jacquie Purcell said Hastert died at home over the weekend from natural causes.
- Hastert led the House from January 1999 to January 2007 during the presidencies of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
- In April 2016, he was sentenced to 15 months for bank fraud while concealing payments and pleaded guilty.
- Prosecutors described sexual abuse involving five boys, but Hastert faced no criminal charges because the statute of limitations had expired.
The defendant is a serial child molester.— US District Judge Thomas Durkin said of Hastert at his sentencing
Steve Hilton's new ad is being called 'creepy': Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton is angering conservatives with a new online ad depicting LGBTQ ...
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Trump Ally Who Says He Introduced President to Melania Accused of Rape: Model Victoria Drake alleges Paolo Zampolli raped her after he took "copious amounts of ...
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Merz: "You see me more determined than ever today": According to the Chancellor, supporting Ukraine is about more than just the country itself ...
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Former Illinois House GOP leader Jim Durkin endorses Democrat JB Pritzker over Republican Darren Bailey
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"No interest" in school: Merz keeps his poor high school graduation grade a secret
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Key FactsCalifornia woman charged over alleged spying for China
1 days ago · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: cnn.com
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: cnn.com
- Thirty-four-year-old Wanying “Heather” Zhang was arrested Sunday and charged with acting as an unregistered agent for China.
- A federal complaint alleges Chinese officials directed her to gather information and photograph a close relative of a Taiwanese official.
- The complaint says a neighbor’s security footage showed Zhang and an associate outside the relative’s home in a rented black SUV.
- Prosecutors said Zhang is scheduled for an initial federal court appearance in Los Angeles on Monday, October 5, 2026.
She never notified the Attorney General she was acting for a foreign government, a federal offense.— Bill Essayli, First Assistant US Attorney for the Central District of California, said in a social media post.
Nach Enteignungsvideo: Linke zieht nun gegen Wirtschaftsministerin Reiche vors Verfassungsgericht
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Key FactsThe Left seeks interim order against Reiche
1 days ago · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: spiegel.de
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: spiegel.de
- The Berlin Left is seeking an interim order in Karlsruhe, citing its right to political equality.
- In it, Reiche warns against a party advocating expropriation and openly practicing antisemitism.
- Reiche was asked to delete it by September 29; according to the article, the video remained online Sunday evening.
- The Left is also taking legal action against other politicians, including Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt, over social-media accusations of antisemitism and criminal-clan ties.
Antisemitism openly lives, which makes the Jews in this city afraid.— Katherina Reiche; from an Instagram video posted by the Ministry after the Left's victory in Berlin, based on a speech from September 23
Left Party takes case against Reiche to Federal Constitutional Court: The Left Party accuses CDU politician Reiche of violating the neutrality requirement with a ...
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