German election: Merz's CDU/CSU strives to build coalition
Friedrich Merz's CDU/CSU bloc has won the national election and now faces coalition talks. Merz seemed keen to get to work right away, saying that "the world isn't waiting for us."
What you need to know
- Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz is set to start talks to form a new coalition
- Merz reiterated his stance on not cooperating with the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD), which trailed behind his CDU/CSU bloc, with 20.8%
- Outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the election was 'a bitter day' for his center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD)
- European leaders have congratulated Merz, with Macron saying he was set on working for a 'strong, sovereign Europe'
- AfD has hailed strong results in the east of Germany, while the socialist Left Party also celebrated its own gains
- Germany saw its highest voter turnout in decades, and women now make up a third of incoming parliamentarians
- Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz is set to start talks to form a new coalition
- Merz reiterated his stance on not cooperating with the far-right Alternative for Germany party (AfD), which trailed behind his CDU/CSU bloc, with 20.8%
- Outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the election was 'a bitter day' for his center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD)
- European leaders have congratulated Merz, with Macron saying he was set on working for a 'strong, sovereign Europe'
- AfD has hailed strong results in the east of Germany, while the socialist Left Party also celebrated its own gains
- Germany saw its highest voter turnout in decades, and women now make up a third of incoming parliamentarians
M23 militia’s advance in eastern DRC has killed 7,000 since January, UN told
DRC prime minister tells human rights council fighting has left about 450,000 without shelter after camps destroyed
Mon 24 Feb 2025 12.55 GMT
About 7,000 people have died in fighting in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo since Rwanda-backed M23 rebels started renewed advances in January, the DRC’s prime minister has said.
At a high-level meeting of the UN’s human rights council in Geneva on Monday, Judith Suminwa Tuluka also said the war had left about 450,000 people without shelter after the destruction of 90 displacement camps.
Three explosive devices thrown at the Russian consulate in Marseille, France
It was not immediately clear if the projectiles cleared the wall. French media outlet BFM TV said the projectiles were Molotov cocktails and that they landed in the consulate's garden.
Consulate staff were kept indoors and the consulate was sealed off by police. No one was injured in the attack, which is being investigated by police.
France swiftly condemned the incident saying diplomatic missions were inviolable.
More lawsuits planned against Meta over false investment ads
By YUTO YONEDA/ Staff Writer
February 24, 2025 at 15:50 JST
About 30 scam victims in Japan will file additional lawsuits against the U.S. headquarters of Meta and its Japanese subsidiary over “fraudulent advertisements” that impersonated celebrities on social networking sites.
They will seek a total of about 400 million yen ($2.68 million) in damages in the lawsuits at the Saitama, Chiba, Yokohama, Osaka and Nagoya district courts.
Similar lawsuits have already been filed at the Kobe District Court and other courts.
Israel steps up West Bank raids; Hamas says Netanyahu sabotaging deal
‘Netanyahu plans to resume war on Gaza despite public opinion backing ceasefire’
The Israeli prime minister intends to resume the war on Gaza but is likely to face strong opposition from the Israeli public, according to Meron Rapoport, editor at the Israeli news outlet Local Call.
“The expectation from the families of the hostages [who remain in Gaza] is that all the hostages should be released,” he told Al Jazeera.
However, having adopted Trump’s idea of forcibly transferring Palestinians out of Gaza, “anything short of that will be a failure, according to his supporters,” Rapoport added.
Three years on, Ukraine's extinction nightmare has returned
Kyiv no longer looks like a city at war in the way that it was three years ago. The shops are open and commuters get delayed in traffic jams on their way to work. But in the days since 12 February this year when US President Donald Trump rang Russia's Vladimir Putin to send a 90-minute political embrace from the White House to the Kremlin, 2022's old nightmares of national extinction have returned. Ukrainians used to get angry about the way that President Joe Biden held back weapons systems and restricted the way Ukraine used the ones that arrived here. Even so, they knew whose side he was on.
Instead, Donald Trump has delivered a stream of exaggeration, half-truths and outright lies about the war that echo the views of President Putin. They include his dismissal of Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky as a dictator who does not deserve a seat at the table when America and Russia decide the future of his country. The biggest lie Trump has told is that Ukraine started the war.
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