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Conservative Friedrich Merz is expected to win, but the far-right AfD is set for a strong second place.

Pope Francis is "more unwell than yesterday", the Vatican says, adding his prognosis "remains guarded".

The prime minister called Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky for the second time in four days.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the prisoners won't be freed until the next release of hostages is guaranteed.

The weekend email comes as Elon Musk leads an effort to aggressively curtail the government workforce.

BBC News

The International Herold Tribune - Asia & Pacific

International Herold Tribune - Africa & Middle East

Some civil servants are using whatever levers they have to resist the orders of the world?s richest man, both in public and behind closed doors.

The figures from Elon Musk?s team of outsiders represent billions in government cuts. They are also full of accounting errors, outdated data and other miscalculations.

A four-minute video appears to have been a turning point for the president and Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., the ousted Joint Chiefs chairman.

The six Israelis were the last living captives set to be released in the first phase of the cease-fire. The agreement, strained for weeks, has an uncertain future.

DNA testing had found that remains returned a day earlier purportedly of Ms. Bibas, a dead Israeli hostage, were in fact not hers, stirring outrage in Israel.

The New York Times