Several youth football players from the Hamburg area face multi-month suspensions because their former clubs refuse to approve transfers. According to NDR, 13-year-old Aron from Hamburg is affected, facing up to six months without play after a planned club change.
The Media Association of the Free Press warns of an existential crisis for independent journalism. 350 publishers are calling on politicians to safeguard press freedom with an emergency program.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has submitted a bill to parliament to create a Ukrainian National Pantheon, sparking sharp criticism from Polish politicians who see it as a provocation.
Ukraine is reinforcing its northern border with Belarus in the Chernihiv region, building trenches, wire barriers, and concrete obstacles. According to the Kyiv Post, citing a report by Ukrinform, the defenses have grown by about 500 percent since 2022.
The city of Offenbach declared a water emergency over the weekend. According to the FAZ, historically high drinking water consumption pushed the capacities of regional supplier Hessenwasser to their limits.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has warned against a German withdrawal from the United Nations and called for greater engagement, criticizing proposals to cut contributions as shortsighted and fatal.
The emergency shelter at Frankfurt's Eschenheimer Tor subway station was evacuated on Monday after the transport company VGF terminated the lease. The city is now scrambling to find accommodation for 150 homeless people with help from disaster relief services.
Passengers in Berlin face a roughly 2.5-year closure of the north-south S-Bahn line between Hauptbahnhof and Potsdamer Platz due to construction of the new S21 line, according to a federal government response to a Green Party parliamentary inquiry reported by Tagesspiegel.
Union parliamentary group vice-chair Mathias Middelberg has warned the SPD against turning the planned income tax reform into a pure redistribution exercise. Such a reform would not help the economic recovery, the CDU politician told the German Press Agency.
The German government is planning a tax reform aimed at relieving middle-income earners. According to the coalition agreement, those with small and medium incomes are to be relieved.
Germany spends more on healthcare than most other countries, has above-average numbers of doctors and hospitals – and yet patients experience long waiting times and overcrowded emergency rooms. Health economist Boris Augurzky explains why the subjective impression of a shortage economy clashes with the statistics of oversupply.
Munich has not set up a central fan zone for the ongoing FIFA World Cup. As the Süddeutsche Zeitung reports, several locations are offering public viewing instead.
The Central Office for Combating Money Laundering and Asset Recovery (ZGV) at the Munich Public Prosecutor General's Office seized 9.5 million euros last year, including 57 kilograms of gold, as reported by the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
At their party conference in Sassnitz, the Greens sharply criticized the black-red federal government and blamed it for the heated mood in the country.
The black-red coalition of CDU/CSU and SPD is entering a decisive week for its major reform package. The coalition committee is set to advance key projects on Wednesday.
The change at the top of Offenbach's city administration is complete. The new full-time municipal board is in place, as reported by the FAZ.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz and opposition leader Friedrich Merz promised a 'humanitarian gesture' for Polish Nazi victims – but nothing has happened. The federal government is exposing itself to a serious suspicion, the newspaper comments.
At least three civilians were injured on Sunday morning when Russian forces struck a residential area in Zaporizhzhia with guided glide bombs, according to the head of the regional military administration, Ivan Fedorov.
A former Russian frontline soldier named Aleksandr Lunin has demanded a live audience with Vladimir Putin in a video, threatening that the army will otherwise turn its weapons on the Kremlin. Lunin was subsequently taken into custody for eleven days.
In the early hours of Sunday, June 28, Russia attacked Ukraine's capital Kyiv with ballistic missiles, injuring at least two people and sparking fires in the Darnytskyi district. Chernihiv and the Dnipropetrovsk region were also hit, the Kyiv Post reports.
The Democratic Republic of Congo has qualified for the knockout stage of the 2026 FIFA World Cup for the first time. The surprise team beat Uzbekistan 3-1 and will now face England.
Northern Germany saw historic heat records on Saturday, with temperatures reaching up to 40.2 degrees Celsius, according to the German Weather Service (DWD). A severe weather warning for thunderstorms, heavy rain, and hail is now in effect.
Former frontline soldier Alexander Lunin demanded a conversation with Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin about the war in Ukraine. Instead, the police are now searching for him, as he has disappeared for the time being.
The leaders of Germany's black-red coalition will meet at the Chancellery on Sunday to discuss fundamental reforms, according to ZDFheute.
The Ukrainian army attacked an arms factory in the Russian million-strong city of Volgograd overnight. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Flamingo cruise missiles struck the facilities of the Titan-Barrikady plant and set them on fire.
Cement consumption in Germany has dropped to levels not seen since before World War II, according to the head of the building materials industry association.
Acne is not just a teenage problem. Adults also suffer from the chronic skin condition – and society often underestimates the psychological consequences. FAZ reports on those affected who struggle with prejudice and the constant gaze in the mirror.
The US government has restricted access to a new AI model from OpenAI. The company announced that the government demanded only a small, vetted group of partners receive access to the preview version of models in the GPT-5.6 series.
Ukraine plans to deploy its 'Katran' naval drones to intercept vessels violating international sanctions, a representative of the Ukrainian military intelligence agency HUR told Business Insider.
Ukraine's Defense Ministry has tasked the Defense Procurement Agency DOT with a new competitive tender for an expanded batch of long-range 155mm artillery shells, the Kyiv Post reports.
Israel and Lebanon have signed a framework agreement to end hostilities. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called it a first step on a difficult but necessary path.
Athletes of Ukrainian descent Illia Hladiichuk and Filipp Slabchenko have been officially selected for the German national WAKO kickboxing team. The fighters from the Munich-based KARS club have become the only representatives from Bavaria in the elite and rigorous K-1 discipline, as well as the only Ukrainians on the German team in this category. This September, they will travel to Italy to compete for World Championship medals.
After losing their home in Huliaipole to Russian troops, a Ukrainian family bought an old house and spent over 750,000 hryvnias on the roof and extension alone, as Olena reported on social media.
Northern Germany is experiencing extreme heat. The German Weather Service (DWD) warns of temperatures up to 40 degrees Celsius on Saturday and Sunday.
In a current affairs debate in the Bundestag, the Left Party sharply criticized the federal government's planned capital pension. The CDU defended the project.
Ukraine's 28th Separate Brigade destroyed a rare Russian vehicle used as a launch platform for Shahed attack drones at the occupied Donetsk airport on Friday, the brigade reported.
The Bavarian state government has sharply criticized the Federal Network Agency's allocation practice for wind power projects. Markus Söder and Economics Minister Hubert Aiwanger see a disadvantage for Bavaria.
Ukrainian and Polish scientists have signed an agreement to cooperate in the Arctic, giving Ukraine the opportunity to conduct bipolar research on both poles for the first time.
Russian-installed authorities on occupied Crimea have declared a state of emergency following massive Ukrainian drone strikes.
Canadian pop star The Weeknd will perform three concerts at Munich's Arena in June 2026. They are the final shows of his tour before he plans to radically reinvent himself, according to his own statements.