Matthias Williams

Chancellor Friedrich Merz was clinging to power on Monday after his conservative party tumbled to its worst regional election defeat in postwar Germany and members of ​his coalition clashed over his unpopular reform agenda.

Germany's under-fire Chancellor Friedrich Merz called ​on colleagues to look beyond debates about his political future on Monday, warning that the protection of Europe was entering a decisive ‌phase in the coming weeks and months.

More than 2,500 people have now ​died in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Ebola outbreak, which is spreading exponentially in an area ‌larger than France, senior United Nations Ebola coordinator Julien Harneis said on Friday.

German reinsurer Munich ​Re posted ‌preliminary second-quarter net profit ​above ​expectations on Friday, helped ⁠by ​strong operational ​performance and very low major-loss ​expenditure in ​its property-casualty reinsurance.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Friday said he would advise his children against living or studying in the United ​States at the moment, citing a rapidly changing social climate ‌and limited opportunities even for the highly educated.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Germany must "pull itself together" or risk being left behind in a rapidly changing world, ​in a speech to trade unionists on Tuesday that sparked jeers, whistles and ‌boos.

An Oscar statuette belonging to Russian director Pavel Talankin who won best documentary this ‌year for "Mr. Nobody Against Putin" has been found after going missing on a flight from New York to Germany, German airline Lufthansa said on Friday.

More than 1,900 people have ​been killed and ‌at least 20,000 injured in Iran ​since the ​start of U.S. and ⁠Israeli attacks, ​said Maria Martinez of ​the International Federation of Red Cross and ​Red Crescent ​Societies (IFRC) on Friday, citing figures ‌provided ⁠by the Iranian Red Crescent.

The premier of the German state of Hesse on ​Tuesday called on Italy's UniCredit ‌to submit a concrete offer for the German lender Commerzbank and to clarify ​its objectives.

A Palestinian-Syrian film director accused Germany of being "partners in the genocide in Gaza by Israel" at the Berlin Film Festival, prompting a German minister to walk out of the awards ceremony.

Migrants in Libya, including young girls, are at risk of being killed, tortured, raped or put into domestic slavery, according to a U.N. report that called for a moratorium on the return of migrant boats to the country until human rights are ensured.

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Wednesday that the future of the French-German-Spanish FCAS warplane programme would become clear in the next few days.

Berlin airport is resuming operations but with significant delays and cancellations after black ice had grounded flights in the German capital earlier on Friday, the airport said.

German automotive supplier ZF (ZFF.UL) has a secure supply of chips in the short term but it is making adjustments at its site in the city of Schweinfurt due to changes in customer demand, a company spokesperson said on Friday.

Pension talks for Lufthansa pilots have so far failed to produce results and the union's collective bargaining commission will consider further steps next week, the pilot union Vereinigung Cockpit said in a statement on Friday.

Public opinion has grown critical of Israel, pushing Berlin to take a historically fraught step.

The World Food Programme official warned of rising malnutrition levels.

Israel is shutting its embassies around the world and has urged citizens to stay alert and not display Jewish or Israeli symbols in public places, statements posted on embassy websites said on Friday after Israel launched large-scale attacks on Iran.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed German Chancellor Friedrich Merz about Israel's attack on Iran in a phone call on Friday morning, Merz said in a statement.

Germany's federal cartel office on Monday expressed concern about Amazon's use of so-called price control mechanisms, saying in a statement that "this could constitute an abuse under the special provisions for large digital companies."