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The Russian Foreign Ministry announced on 20 August that Russia is the sole guarantor of Ukraine's sovereignty. This is not a joke. The United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has announced the purchase of robot dogs for use in immigration enforcement operations. The dogs are equipped with
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By Sebastian Dreck The Alternative for Germany won 43.8 percent of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt on 7 September 2026, its strongest state election result in history, falling three seats short of an outright majority in an 83-seat legislature. Elon Musk wrote "Well done" on X.
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By Constantine Murmur On the evening of 7 September 2026, as the preliminary results from Saxony-Anhalt confirmed that the Alternative for Germany had won 43.8 percent of the vote — its strongest state election result in history, three seats short of governing a German state for the first time
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What Moscow's outsourcing of sabotage tells us about the EU's security architecture By Our Brussels Correspondent On 1 September 2026, the German government formally accused Russia of an attempted drone attack on Leipzig/Halle airport. The target was not a military installation. It was a cargo
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I have been following the Saxony-Anhalt results with the mixture of alarm and dark amusement that Brussels produces in me more reliably than anywhere else. The alarm is obvious and requires no elaboration. The dark amusement is this: Donald Tusk, who spent the better part of two decades being
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In our founding statement, published in issue one, we described the briefing in Briefing Room B of the Berlaymont as lasting ninety minutes. Dr Ing Helmut Sachverständiger of Bonn writes to inform us that it lasted ninety-one minutes, and that there was also a pie chart. We are grateful