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            <title><![CDATA[Far-right AfD wins landslide in Saxony-Anhalt election, falls short of majority]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The German far-right AfD party has become the largest party in the state election in Saxony-Anhalt, but without an outright majority. "We have made history," says Ulrich Siegmund, the party's top candidate in the state, on the ARD television channel.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 01:30:15 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[AfD becomes largest party in Saxony-Anhalt election, but falls short of majority]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The German far-right AfD party has become the largest party in the state election in Saxony-Anhalt, but without winning an outright majority. "We have made history," says Ulrich Siegmund, the party's top candidate in the state, on ARD television.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:01:54 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Volkswagen approves plan for another 50,000 job cuts by 2030]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Europe's largest vehicle manufacturer is tightening its belt further. 50,000 jobs will be lost at Volkswagen in the coming years - as many as have already been announced.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:08:17 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[German Coalition Talks Near Conclusion as CDU/CSU and SPD Finalize Details]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The German government talks are very close to a solution, report German TV channels. CDU/CSU and SPD are said to be only details away from an agreement on a coalition government.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2025 14:13:51 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Merz: The Trump Administration Doesn't Care About Europe]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Germany's election winner Friedrich Merz wants to unite Europe to achieve greater independence from a USA governed by Donald Trump. "For me, it is an absolute priority to strengthen Europe as soon as possible," he says in German TV.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2025 21:56:30 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Murder of Yannis, 2, Can Decide the German Election]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A deadly knife attack on defenseless preschool children casts a dark shadow over the German election. The hair-raising deed in Aschaffenburg – with a mentally ill perpetrator from Afghanistan – has made the migration issue red-hot in the election campaign.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2025 07:13:42 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Zelensky: USA wants to appease Putin]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Europe's capacity to defend itself is weak and the USA is trying to appease Russia's President Vladimir Putin, according to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyj.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:00:10 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[No money for the female winner: "Got shower gel"]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A ski jumping victory in the classic Garmisch-Partenkirchen means fine prize money already in the qualification. But only for the men. I got a bag with shower gel, shampoo, and four towels, says the German star Selina Freitag to the public service company ARD.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2025 07:40:14 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Violent New Year's celebrations in Germany condemned]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The German government condemns the violence in, among other places, Berlin on New Year's Eve after police were attacked and hundreds of people were arrested.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 16:43:26 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Scholz Opens Up to Talks with Putin – Soon]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Germany's Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants to talk to Russia's President Vladimir Putin "soon" to reach an end to the Ukraine war.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2024 10:16:41 GMT</pubDate>
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