OpinionLean bureaucracy my ass: How poor people are digitally excluded: Millions of people are virtually cut off from the world without internet access and the ...
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Mom's Skillful Addiction Helpers: Childhood in the Shadow of Alcohol Intoxication
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OpinionNostalgia on a loop: Ten songs for your summer playlist: Everyone has a song like that that played on repeat all summer long, when a love affair ended or the ...
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OpinionPeace Report 2025: Where is Sudan again?: Since 1987, peace and conflict research institutes have been producing an annual peace report ...
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Green steel: Salzgitter Group puts out to tender for 150 MW solar park with storage
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What the Iran War is Doing to the Peace Movement in Israel: The majority of Jewish Israelis are in favor of the Iran War - | However, the situation is different ...
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War between Israel and Iran: How three young Israelis experience the attacks: Rocket attacks and nights in shelters are something people in Israel are used to ...
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Eshkol Nevo's War Diary from Israel: What's Different Now in the Shelter: Israeli writer Eshkol Nevo has been keeping a war diary since October 7, 2023 ...
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East German CSDs targeted by right-wing extremists


The world is starving, the military is booming: A question of political will: While trillions are flowing into armaments worldwide, there is a growing shortage ...
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SATC sequel "And Just Like That" Season 3: The rich age too, after all.: "I liked everything exactly the way it was. But now everything's different ...
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WATT in Berlin: When newcomer artists close down an artists' bar: The WATT in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg is considered a meeting place for art and counterculture ...
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Chemnitz 2025: A Berlin artist meets a small Saxon community: Via Lewandowsky is commissioned to develop an installation for the Saxon town of Burgstädt as part ...
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OpinionFelix Sandalov on Russia: "The country is a kind of digital gulag": Felix Sandalov was editor-in-chief of the non-fiction publisher Individuell in Moscow ...
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Exhibition: My Time. Thomas Mann and Democracy: Lübeck is celebrating the birthday of the city's most famous son: 150 years of Thomas Mann ...
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OpinionMargot Käßmann: Why I am grateful for the SPD Manifesto for Peace: SPD Manifesto for Peace: Better prudent old people than young hotheads who talk about war as ...
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Ella Greenberg: "You don't join an army that commits genocide": The Israeli Ella Keidar Greenberg is 18, trans, left-wing - | and refuses military service ...
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Michael Lüders: “There are strong indications that the US will go to war”: Israel attacks Iran - and the US could follow suit. Middle East expert Michael Lüders ...
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War between Iran and Israel: A rocket destroyed the PhotoHouse in Tel Aviv: An Iranian rocket hit the PhotoHouse in Tel Aviv. The archive of legendary ...
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How foreign students become political footballs in the USA: A year at an elite US university was a dream for me - | and a privilege. But Trump's visa policy ...
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"Born in the Long Summer" by Jens Winter: Anti-German Epigones: It's terrible in the U8, but also somehow in the left: In "Born in the Long Summer ...
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Peace Manifesto: Rolf Mützenich is seriously concerned about the future of the SPD
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Ecuador's Left in Crisis Mode: Disputes and Calls from Exile: The party of former President Rafael Correa and the indigenous parties have clashed fiercely ...
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Book: Farewell: Every era has its great novels. This one was never published – and is a discovery from the estate of Sebastian Haffner ...
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A strike in Argentina leads to the end of the world: The government of ultra-liberal President Javier Milei wants to reduce import duties on electronic goods ...
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OpinionInterview with Mark Frost: “David Lynch and I were against any nostalgia”: Mark Frost co-wrote “Twin Peaks” with David Lynch. 25 years later, its sequel was one ...
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In the West, people are hoping for bomb-assisted regime change in Tehran, how naive: War strengthens every dictatorship. Iran's freedom fighters have ... Show more
Israel's rockets are strengthening the regime. Who can overthrow it? Iran's Courageous Women!
Israel's rockets are strengthening the regime. Who can overthrow it? Iran's Courageous Women!
Ali Khamenei: The last hours of the Iranian leader: The supreme leader of the Iranian regime threatened Israel with annihilation in October. Now ...
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Israel-Iran war could severely shake German economy and society: Rising energy prices, fragile supply chains, economic policy errors by the Christian Democratic ...
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OpinionG7 at a turning point: When no scandal is considered a success: At the G7 meeting in Canada, there were too many elephants in the room to be able to kick ...
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IEA: 3.3 trillion US dollars will flow into power plants, grids, and infrastructure in 2025
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The new Friday is here. With the weekly topic: The Infernal Trio. What interests are Netanyahu, Khamenei, and Trump pursuing in the war between Israel and ... Show more
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OpinionSIPRI Yearbook 2025: Nuclear arms race based on the myth of deterrence: More and more nuclear weapons, less and less arms control: What the Stockholm Peace ...
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More law, more respect: Why legal education strengthens our society: Law should be taught in schools - | not only to combat everyday conflicts ...
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Departure from the G7 summit: Why Donald Trump can behave like a child: Like world-class babysitting! At the G7 summit in Canada, Donald Trump is making a fool ...
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OpinionSaxony's misguided approach: having 12-year-olds monitored by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution is wrong
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Protection against the right: CSD groups rely on private security forces and Antifa
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Migration researcher on rejections: “A crazy bogus solution”: With illegal rejections and authoritarian signals, the federal government is heading towards ...
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Legal Quiz: Who wrote the parable "Before the Law"?: What do you learn in the bicycle license test? What does "LLM" stand for? This Week's Quiz
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OpinionG7 summit in Canada: And then Donald Trump was simply gone: The G7 is shrinking to the G6 and as such can no longer make much of a state. The leading Western ...
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Dikka: Why does a man in a rhino costume fill Berlin's largest concert hall?: Dikka sells 17,000 tickets for 50 to 70 euros for a concert in which he raps ...
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Netanyahu's attack on Iran: Nuclear talks postponed, misery in Gaza worsens: Israel's war against Iran is a distraction from the war against the ...
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Mathenge tree from South America: An invasive species is causing problems in Kenya
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Popular front idea is no help in the fight against the AfD: Popular fronts, as the painful experience from history shows, fuel internal left-wing conflicts ...
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Traitor Abu Shabab? Israel arms suspected collaborator in Gaza: The clan of Palestinian Yasser Abu Shabab collaborates with the Israeli army. Not only Hamas ...
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Looking Back: Why did Israel withdraw from Gaza again in 2005?: Everything indicates that Israel is currently permanently occupying the Gaza Strip ...
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How it came about that 82% of Jewish Israelis support the expulsion from Gaza: An Israel without any Palestinian presence: Twenty years ago, Rabbi Yitzchak ...
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OpinionBerlin Senate abolishes 30 km/h speed limit: Thick air thanks to CDU: The Berlin Senate, made up of the CDU and SPD, wants to abolish the 30 km/h speed limit on ...
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Key FactsBerlin Expands Nighttime 30 km/h Zones Amid Reviews
Jun 16 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: berliner-zeitung.de
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: berliner-zeitung.de
- The Senate intends to maintain 30 km/h limits on seven main roads spanning 5.5 km to meet air quality standards.
- Initially, 34 sections totaling 19 km were to lose 30 km/h restrictions, but nine remain due to safety and noise concerns.
- A recent traffic regulation allows school-heavy routes to justify 30 km/h zones, prompting further individual assessments.
- The new noise action plan introduces 230 km of nighttime 30 km/h limits, reducing noise by 2–3 decibels and aiding 180,000 people.
Instead of reducing the 30 km/h speed limits on main roads, we need more enforcement to ensure that the 30 km/h limit is adhered to.— Gabi Jung, managing director of the Berlin state association of the German Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND), expressed concern about the reduction of 30 km/h regulations.
Italy protects its antifas, Germany lets Maja T. starve in Hungary: While Italy protected two antifas from repression in Hungary and Ilaria Salis even sits in ...
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Trade unions around the world no longer have much to say.: A report was just presented at the annual meeting of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in ...
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A woman in the highest office? Ten suggestions for a female Federal President: No woman has ever held the highest office of state in Germany - which is “the ...
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OpinionDeutsche Bahn: Because of you, people in France are already telling DB horror stories!
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How Donald Trump is turning the US Army into "his" masculine strength: The US government is siding with Israel against Iran. Donald Trump, as "world leader ...
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Weltschmerz: Why the world is becoming too much for us today - | and what can be done about it
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OpinionThe Great Indie Scam: When Musicians Become Scalable Startups: At the beginning of the 2000s, the genre "indie" still described music created independently of ...
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OpinionMother's love without a booth: What bothers many people about breastfeeding: Breastfeeding in public is a constant topic. Now a majority of respondents ...
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Exploitation in the Labor Market: Is Burnout Resistance?: Our author was a lawyer in a company, earned good money, and had nice colleagues - | but she still quit ...
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P. Diddy, son mothers and violence: Shila Behjat on dangerous loyalty: From Sean Combs to Luis Rubiales: Why are some mothers so fiercely defensive of all their ...
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Apple series "Murderbot": An android as friend and helper: The Apple TV+ series "Murderbot" is that rare breed of science fiction that also has the occasional ...
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Researching the Nazi past: exonerating your own grandpa: 80 years after the capitulation, more and more texts are being written by grandchildren who have ...
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Will Quadflieg's diary: Nazis were always the others: Roswitha Quadflieg has found the diaries of her father, the famous actor Will, and is examining his ...
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Russian flags and "I love Ukraine" caps: What is possible in this place: You can buy Russian pelmeni and Ukrainian sweets almost around the clock in a Berlin ...
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OpinionForget about solidarity: Why democracy absolutely needs our arguments: In politics and the media, social cohesion is all too often invoked. This obscures power ...
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Compact trial: Jürgen Elsässer becomes dictator and "remigration" becomes promotional PR
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David Salle: When AI learns to paint: The US artist David Salle has further developed some of his earlier paintings with the help of artificial intelligence ...
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Novel "The Planet of Discreet Love": Gender War and Real Feelings: Munich 1975: A new feminist wave is taking action. Herbert Kapfer tells of it in "Planet of ...
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Ready for a grumpy summer: Germany and the FIFA Club World Cup: The FIFA Club World Cup begins! Here in Germany, as was the case at the World Cup in Qatar ...
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Milorad Dodik can sometimes be a phantom as the leader of Bosnian Serbia: In the Bosnian local branch of Laktaši, traces of the Serbian nationalist Milorad Dodik ...
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Salam Sister: This is what Tareq writes to me every day from Gaza: Our author writes regularly with Tareq El-Bawab, who lives with his family in the north of ...
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Roland Wiesendanger: ”Gain-of-function research must be banned worldwide": Gain-of-function research is considered highly risky. Since Donald Trump has ...
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Klaus von Dohnanyi: "The SPD has chopped off the root of peace policy": With 96 against the mainstream: Klaus von Dohnanyi calls for negotiations with Putin and ...
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Iran on day one of the Israeli attack: Jahed, how are you?: In the West, Iran is seen as a stronghold of terrorists. What is forgotten: Normal people live here ...
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Did Trump know about Israel's attacks on Iran? What this means for the region
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Key FactsIsrael-Iran Conflict Intensifies Amid Global Diplomatic Pressure
Jun 19 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: gulfnews.com
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: gulfnews.com
- Israel has launched extensive strikes on Iranian targets, destroying over half of Iran's missile launchers within a week.
- Iran retaliates with missile and drone assaults on Israeli military and civilian sites, including a hospital in Beersheba.
- The US is repositioning forces in the Middle East and weighing military involvement, with President Trump expected to decide soon.
- Russia and China condemn the hostilities and call for diplomacy, while the UN highlights risks to civilians and healthcare facilities.
The escalation of hostilities between Israel and Iran is putting health facilities and access to health care at risk. The reports on the attacks on health so far are appalling.— World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus condemned the attacks on health facilities in the conflict between Iran and Israel.
Alex Padilla in handcuffs at Noem: “Trump's shock troops out of control”: When he wanted to ask critical questions at a press conference held by Kristi Noem in ...
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Key FactsDemocrats Demand Hearing on Padilla’s Removal Incident
Jun 13 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: thehill.com
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: thehill.com
- Democrats on the Homeland Security Committee urged a hearing with Secretary Kristi Noem regarding the treatment of Senator Alex Padilla.
- Padilla was forcibly removed and handcuffed during a Los Angeles press conference despite identifying himself as a senator.
- Representative Bennie Thompson condemned the incident as embarrassing and demanded accountability and an apology from Noem.
- Noem acknowledged the removal was inappropriate and planned to meet with Padilla to discuss his concerns.
If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question, I can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California and throughout the country.— Senator Alex Padilla spoke after meeting with Secretary Noem about the treatment of senators by the administration.
"Because I went to a death café, I live a happier life now.": For years, she sought validation from others and constantly had self-doubt. Then our author visited ...
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