Slight losses for Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc of Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union(CDU/CSU), and slight gains for their coalition partner, the center-left Social Democrats (SPD). These are the key findings of the ARD-Deutschlandtrend opinion poll conducted by the infratest-dimap institute, which surveyed around 1,300 representative voters between February 2 and 4.
American Lindsey Vonn speeds down the course during the women's World Cup super-G ski race in Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy, in 2018.
The US government has launched its drug discounting program "TrumpRx," which it says will dramatically cut prescription medication prices for consumers. It comes amid debate about cost-of-living in the US during a midterm election year.
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Canada and France are opening new consulates in Greenland's capital Nuuk on Friday, signaling support for Denmark and the semi-autonomous Danish territory of Greenland as it faces repeated and aggressive threats from the US.
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A recent act of violence has shocked Germany: a Deutsche Bahn employee was checking passengers on a regional train near the southwestern city of Kaiserslautern on Monday night when he encountered a man traveling alone without a valid ticket.
A German lesson is starting in a public-school classroom in the Philippines, and it opens with a greeting: "Guten Morgen," the teacher says. Students respond carefully, shaping unfamiliar sounds before moving on to short dialogues about directions, food, family and eventually, culture.
When the European Union adopted a regulation in late January that stipulates that all natural gas imports to the bloc from Russia will cease by the end of 2027, Hungary and Slovakia were the only two member states to vote against it, which meant the ban was adopted.
Slight losses for Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc of Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union(CDU/CSU), and slight gains for their coalition partner, the center-left Social Democrats (SPD). These are the key findings of the ARD-Deutschlandtrend opinion poll conducted by the infratest-dimap institute, which surveyed around 1,300 representative voters between February 2 and 4.
A Russian general was shot at an apartment building in Moscow on Friday and taken to a hospital, Russian officials said. Investigative Committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko said in a statement that "an unidentified individual fired several shots" at Vladimir Alekseyev, the deputy chief of military intelligence.
When Norwegian researcher Hans Kristian Strand stepped aboard a research boat in the Arctic waters of northern Norway last May, his expectations weren't very high. He had grown used to seeing a gray and lifeless sea, even in the spring.