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“Höcke’s statements alone, and the use of the term Volksgemeinschaft” — the Nazi-era concept of an ethnic national community — “are enough to land the AfD in that report,” she wrote, referring to the intelligence service’s annual assessment. “Some in our party seem in a hurry to drive the AfD, deliberately or not, into oblivion.” In May 2025, the agency classified the AfD as a “confirmed right-wing extremist organisation”, citing, among other things, an exclusionary concept of the German nation. The classification, which grants authorities broader surveillance powers, was provisionally suspended by a court in Cologne last February. ‘Wake up,…
Published on 25/10/2026 – 10:15 GMT+1•Updated 10:18 Audi is taking a major step into the American market: the premium manufacturer from Ingolstadt plans to invest around 4 billion US dollars in its first dedicated US car plant in the state of Georgia. The announcement was made on Saturday, 24 October 2026, at an election campaign rally by US President Donald Trump in Perry, Georgia. Trump appeared alongside Döllner and stressed in his speech that his trade policy was encouraging companies to move production to the United States. The timing of the announcement is likely to play well in the battle…
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Russia has been selling off gold throughout this year. September brought a further reduction in its reserves of the precious metal of around 6.2 tonnes, bringing the total reduction since January to about 62 tonnes. Only once in its modern history has Russia disposed of gold at a similarly rapid pace, when in 1998 it sold 118 tonnes from its reserves in just three months. Russia is offloading gold, China is buying According to Adam Stroniawski, managing director of Polish precious metals dealer Mennica Skarbowa, “Russia has a serious budget shortfall because of its war in Ukraine and wants to…
Forget pricey haunted houses and tourist-packed ghost tours. Some of the most atmospheric places to spend Halloween are historic cemeteries, where crumbling mausoleums, elaborate sculptures and famous names provide all the spooky scenery you need – and entry is often free. A new ranking of 30 cities has revealed the best places to explore Europe’s most fascinating burial grounds, from Paris to Oslo. The “Tombstone Tourism Index”, by travel eSIM app Saily, took into account five separate factors when looking at cemeteries: famous “residents”, visual merit, heritage status, crowd-free experience, and transit access from the city centre. Each category was…
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Clashes broke out between young protesters and police in Rome on Saturday, 24 October, as demonstrations over the cost of living, wages and public services continued across Italy. Security forces were deployed in large numbers as tensions escalated in the capital. The protests are part of a wider wave of youth-led demonstrations demanding better living conditions and higher wages. In Milan, around 3,000 people also took to the streets, bringing traffic in the city centre to a standstill.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and right-wing senator Flavio Bolsonaro rally their supporters one last time on Saturday, converging on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro and closing a fraught election campaign one day after a combative final live television debate. In the first round of voting Bolsonaro won 47% over Lula’s 45%. But in the intervening 3 weeks of intense and acrimonious campaigning the left-wing incumbent seems to have made up some ground. 80-year-old Lula aims for historic 4th non-consecutive term Lula, who got his start as a union worker and became the country’s first working class…
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Published on 24/10/2026 – 16:31 GMT+2 Israeli forces pushed into the West Bank city of Hebron on Saturday and displaced up to 250 families, some in the middle of the night, vowing a heavy price over a deadly attack on two soldiers. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was planning an operation on a scale not seen since Israel first occupied the West Bank in 1967. The lockdown comes after Palestinian militants killed two Israeli soldiers on Friday at a checkpoint near Hebron, a flashpoint city in which hardline Israeli settlers live surrounded by local Palestinians. The operation is taking…