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Cem Özdemir gelingt das vor Wochen noch Unmögliche: Er sichert den Grünen den Wahlsieg in Baden-Württemberg. Gordon Repinski analysiert die Aufholjagd eines Kandidaten, der sich als „besserer Konservativer“ inszenierte, eine CDU, die einen neuen „Laschet-Moment“ erlebt, und wie sehr diese Niederlage den Parteichef und Kanzler Friedrich Merz in Berlin unter Druck setzt. In zwei 200-Sekunden-Interviews dazu: Unions-Fraktionsgeschäftsführer Steffen Bilger zur Ursachenforschung und Tübingens Oberbürgermeister Boris Palmer über das Erfolgsrezept des pragmatischen „Özdemir-Stils“, der die Grünen im Autoland gerettet hat. Der Iran-Krieg steuert auf eine neue Phase zu. Nach Angriffen auf die Infrastruktur regnete am Wochenende buchstäblich Öl über Teheran. Parallel…
Indeed, the government in Tehran has vowed to attack any ship trying to transit the strait, through which some 20 percent of the world’s oil and natural gas passes on its way from the Persian Gulf to global markets. Large volumes of aluminum and fertilizer pass through the strait as well. Or rather, those are the transit volumes under ordinary circumstances. As of Feb. 28, conditions in the Strait of Hormuz have been decidedly extraordinary. “Right now, ships waiting to transit both on the inside and outside of the Hormuz are awaiting developments and not transiting,” said Svein Ringbakken, CEO…
“What a tremendous comeback!” Özdemir told his cheering supporters after polls closed. The Greens’ victory was due largely to the centrist Özdemir’s popularity with voters, surveys indicated. The vote in Baden-Württemberg is the first of five state elections and numerous local contests across the country over the next several months in what Germans are calling a Superwahljahr (“super election year”). The votes are widely seen as a key test of the national mood as the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party seeks to overtake Merz’s conservatives and secure big victories in two eastern states in September. Özdemir is now set to replace…
Iran’s Assembly of Experts has formally announced that Mojtaba Khamenei has become the successor to Ali Khamenei and the third Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic — an appointment made in the midst of an escalating Iran war. A secretive figure within the Islamic Republic, Mojtaba Khamenei has not been seen publicly since Saturday, when the Israeli airstrike targeting the supreme leader’s offices killed his 86-year-old father. Also killed were the younger Khamenei’s wife, Zahra Haddad Adel, who came from a family long associated with the country’s theocracy. Born in 1969 in the city of Mashhad, Mojtaba Khamenei followed what…
“We need to be very diligent about not only our security here at home, but obviously targets around the world where there are U.S. assets including embassies and so on,” he told Fox News. Since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran on Feb. 28, Washington has closed its embassies in Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Kuwait and placed others on high alert. An Iranian drone struck a parking lot near the U.S. embassy in Dubai last week, while drone fire hit the U.S. embassy in Riyadh. “We’ve been very fortunate, obviously, but our embassies and our diplomatic facilities are under…
The vote means Switzerland will join the likes of Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia, which have already written the right to cold, hard cash in their constitutions. Austrian politicians are also debating whether to follow suit, as people’s payment habits become increasingly digital — especially since the pandemic. The trend has fanned Big Brother conspiracy theories that governments aim to control populations by withdrawing cash altogether. The European Central Bank’s plans to issue a virtual extension of the euro have fanned those fears, prompting the EU’s executive arm to propose a bill that will cement physical cash in societies across the…
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Israel renewed its assault on southern Lebanon early Sunday as the war entered its ninth day and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised “many surprises” in the next phase of the conflict rippling across the region. The latest strikes in Lebanon killed at least 20 more people, pushing the death toll there above 300 after Israel ordered large swaths of the country to evacuate during an offensive that its military said would be aimed at stamping out Iran-supported forces there. The Israeli military has ordered tens of thousands of people in large swaths of the country, including parts of the Beirut…
Israel justified the attacks as a preemptive strike to protect itself. U.S. President Donald Trump, after days of mixed signals from the White House on the justifications and aims of the war, said on Friday that the ultimate goal is “unconditional surrender” by the Islamic Republic’s leaders. The continuing attacks haven’t stopped Tehran from seeking a successor to Khamenei. Iran’s Mehr news agency reported on Sunday that Iran’s Assembly of Experts, the clerical body tasked with selecting the next leader, had reached a decision, although the name hasn’t been announced yet. “The vote to appoint the leader has taken place and the leader has…
Strength, equality and responsibility. These were the three concepts that resonated between European leaders on the 8 March, also known as International Women’s Day. As world conflicts try to steal the headlines, heads of state took to social media to celebrate this day, and remind us of the importance it holds. The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, tribute to girls and women everywhere who continue to fight oppression, calling on them to find the power within themselves and never back down. Another call to action was made by Ukrainian president Vlodymyr Zelenskyy, who called on women…