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With a roaring noise, the yellow excavator razes the last remains of another derelict property in the Bismarck district of Gelsenkirchen to the ground. An entire street with seven houses is being flattened to make way for new houses and a kindergarten. The dilapidated properties and piles of rubbish in the street were not only a huge nuisance for local residents, but also a big campaign issue for the far-right populist Alternative for Germany (AfD)which linked it to labor migration from Southeast Europe.

Dock workers alerted customs officers after noticing two men boarding a ship and disembarking carrying over 20 sports bags. The dock workers did not recognise either of the suspects as port employees. They informed nearby customs officers, who immediately intervened and stopped the car that the men were about to leave in. One of the occupants of the vehicle fled, while the other was arrested.

After Russian drones were shot down over Poland this week, there are renewed calls to boost Germany's air defense. Meanwhile, Bayer Leverkusen are looking to reboot their Bundesliga season under a new coach. DW has more. The German army reportedly only has 18 Skyranger air defense turrets not enough, say politicians. What you need to know Politicians call for German air defense boost after Russian drones shot down over Poland

I can't just glance at my phone anymore, or quickly send a message during break. At first, many students asked what the point of it was. But with time, many have come to realize that it's not so bad, and that it actually has quite a few benefits.

In addition to more traditional military capabilities, this effort will also feature elements designed to address the particular challenges associated with the use of drones. In the early hours of Wednesday 21 Russian drones, thought to be unarmed decoys, crossed the border into Poland. Only three or four were said to have be shot down and one drone flew 160 miles into the country in an incident that forced the closure of four airports.

expanding Ukraine's capabilities to weaken Russia's war machinery in the hinterland, providing an effective defence

Tom Bischof suffered an ill-timed appendectomy, which has him out of club and country during a period where he might have had a chance to establish himself as a potential starter. Now, though, Bischof is back in action and took the pitch for parts of team training on Monday at Säbener Straße. Clearly, Bischof will be looking to get healthy as soon as possible, so he can re-throw his hat into the midfield ring:

And then it's completely normal and human that we were a bit shocked and unsettled," said Raum (as captured by @iMiaSanMia). "We have to learn from these mistakes, grow as a team, stand together more, and show more confidence. We are Germany, a great footballing nation. We have a lot of quality, and we simply have to show that even more and then develop quality through our mentality. We did that well in the second half and deserved to win.

Lawmakers from Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Conservative Democrats are calling for more to be done to make returning home a more attractive prospect for Syrians who have sought refuge in Germany.

His assistant coach with Denmark, Ismael Camenforte, also worked for us for several years. Kasper even recommended Ismael to us at the time. As a result, his training methods are well known to us at the club and Kasper also knows our club very well from the last few years. He will now work with our team to re-establish a clear and proactive style of play.

Although she lost her post in the German government this year, Annalena Baerbock, the former German foreign minister, will continue to play a prominent role on the world stage. Until May, when Friedrich Merz of the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was elected as the new German chancellor, the 44-year-old Green Party politician was still Germany's top diplomat. Then, on June 2, she was elected as the new president of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said Europe is failing to assert itself on the global stage. "What worries me, and I have to admit weighs on me, is that we Europeans are not currently taking the role in the world that we want and should play to properly protect our interests," Merz told CDU.TV, the official media channel of his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party. He pointed to the war in Ukraine as one example, saying Europe lacks the leverage to pressure Russia.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Cabinet last month agreed a new law requiring young men born after 2008 to fill out a questionnaire as of next year on whether they would potentially join the army. Many see this as the first step towards reintroducing military service in Germany, which was suspended, but not abolished, in 2011. In an interview with the French broadcaster TF1, Merz said it had been a "mistake, from today's point of view" to suspend military service, but added that reintroducing it was complex.

Infighting over the budget, the financing of social security benefits and climate protection projects led to the collapse of Germany's previous coalition government of the center-left Social Democrats (SPD), environmentalist Greens and neoliberal Free Democrats (FDP) in November 2024. Back then, Friedrich Merz was the opposition leader in the Bundestag federal parliament and took every opportunity to criticize the government for its quarrelling.

Jian G. was an accredited assistant to Krah throughout the politician's term in the European Parliament, which gave him access to the parliament's negotiations and procedures. While he was there, according to German federal prosecutors, he gathered hundreds of documents that he "reviewed for intelligence purposes, in order to pass on to the Chinese secret service."

Otte recommended that one year of service be mandatory for all men and women, but not exclusively for the military. He recommended a system sounding more than a little reminiscent of the one Germany abolished as recently as 2011, except that it would apply to men and women alike. Otte advocated "a mandatory year of service, for men and women, not just in the armed forces but also in emergency services, cultural, sports, or volunteer work."

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In 1959, as smoke billowed from the blast furnaces of the newly inaugurated Rourkela Steel Plant, India's then prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, walked through rows of German-built machinery alongside engineers from West Germany. The plant, one of the South Asian nation's first large-scale industrial ventures, was more than a steel factory it was a symbol of post-independence ambition and international collaboration. Nehru called it a "temple of modern India," a place where German technical expertise met Indian determination, forging a legacy of industrial partnership that has endured for over six decades.