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Culture Digest: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

Wuthering Heights hits cinemas, Aardman Animations celebrate 50 years of stop-motion classics, and the Berlinale Film Festival begins. Here's what's in store this week.

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15 Cities In The World Where Sleep Is Optional

Explore 15 vibrant cities where the night never ends! Visit locales with a unique atmosphere and discover why they earned the nickname "city that never sleeps"

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German chancellor visits Qatar for cooperation talks amid regional tensions

Germany is stepping up diplomacy in the Gulf as global alliances shift and regional tensions rise. Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Doha stop comes as Berlin seeks energy security, defence partners and stability amid Iran fears.

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Mandy, Indiana: Urgh review – grimy, thrashing, purgative attack on injustice is the year’s first great album

The Manchester/Berlin band’s second album refines their industrial-club sound, as physical and hyper-detailed as being dragged under by a wave and admiring the flotsam

The Guardian - UK

Leonkoro Quartet review – vivid, intoxicating play from gleaming future stars

This young Berlin-based quartet impressed in a polished recital that built on Webern and Mendelssohn towards Beethoven’s enigmatic 0p 131

The Guardian - UK

Putin’s close ally sparks WW3 fears, says the only acceptable outcome is the ‘Russian flag over Berlin’

He claims it is about security, but it's bigger than that.

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'Hard to understand': Indian CEO says his US visa for an investor meeting got rejected for no reason

Dhananjay Yadav, an Indian CEO, shared his experience of being at the receiving end of random visa refusals and said his US visa was rejected in Delhi, though he had an invite for an investor meeting from a close friend who is also an investor. Yadav said he had studied…

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Record harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes across Berlin

From zoos to soup kitchens, people are hauling away tonnes of surplus spuds after the biggest crop in 25 years

The Guardian - UK

The best recent translated fiction – review roundup

White Moss by Anna Nerkagi | The Old Fire by Elisa Shua Dusapin | The Roof Beneath Their Feet by Geetanjali Shree | Berlin Shuffle by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz

The Guardian - UK

German prosecutors’ raid on Deutsche Bank hurts the lender’s attempts to leave its long history of compliance failures in the past

Investigators combed through the bank’s Frankfurt and Berlin headquarters just before it reported record annual profits.

Fortune

Russia uses 'shadow mail' postal system to bypass EU sanctions, report reveals

Russia has been bypassing EU sanctions using Berlin logistics and lighter-controlled international mail, according to an investigation by German media. In response, the Ukrainian envoy has called for tougher enforcement.

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Deutsche Bank offices in Frankfurt and Berlin searched in money laundering probe

Deutsche Bank is currently the target of investigations by the Federal Criminal Police Office. Authorities are searching premises in Frankfurt and Berlin on suspicion of money laundering.

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Germany offers €1 million reward to help catch far-left extremists behind Berlin’s biggest post-war blackout

The German government unveiled a raft of measures to tackle left-wing militancy on Tuesday, including data collection and storage

The Independent UK

Pierre Huyghe: Liminals review – terrifying quantum visions in a notorious Berlin club take seeing beyond believing

This towering display projected inside a former East German power plant-turned-techno stronghold is a gut-wobbling mythological journey – it will leave you unhinged

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Berlin honours Levi family with memorial 'stumbling stone' plaques

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, the victims of the Nazi regime are commemorated throughout Germany. At the same time, anti-semitism in the western European country and across the continent is rising at an alarming rate.

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Analysis: Promises unkept, lives lost — Iran's protests and global responsibility

Analysts agree Iran's regime decided on mass killings to survive protests driven by economic collapse, with clear orders for lethal force against unarmed demonstrators.

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Germany offers €1 million reward for information on Berlin power grid attack

Police are searching for members of the far-left "Vulkangruppe" or Volcano Group, which claimed responsibility for the blackout in early January.

The Conversation

‘I saw the horrors’: how Australian journalists bore witness to the Holocaust

In the dying days of World War II, startling news about “horror camps” in Germany began to emerge, as Western war correspondents accompanied British and American forces advancing towards Berlin. During the liberation of the camps, soldiers and journalists, including 15 Australian journalists and two artists, encountered thousands of dead.…

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‘Island of peace’: Israeli-Palestinian restaurant in Berlin to close – but live on as TV series

Kanaan, a symbol of dining across religious and political divides, will shut its doors ‘probably in March’, say owners

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Merz heads to Italy for summit with Meloni with new ideas to shake up EU bureaucracy

A closer alliance between Meloni and Merz is on the horizon, with the ambition to change Europe after decades of dominance by the Franco-German axis.

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Greenland and the Bundeswehr: Why the Arctic matters for Germany

Since Russia full-scale invasion of Ukraine almost four years ago, Europe's attention has been firmly fixed on NATO's eastern flank. But could the Arctic become the next area requiring defence and does Bundeswehr have the capacity to take on that role?

The Independent UK

The best hotels in Berlin for LGBT+ travellers

These are the best queer-friendly stays to choose from in Germany’s capital city

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Audi F1's sleek and clean 2026 livery divides opinion online

Audi unveiled its metallic grey 2026 F1 livery in Berlin, prompting a mixed fan reaction online over its clean look

The Independent UK

Audi chief lays out ‘fight for F1 titles’ plan despite ‘bumpy’ 2026 season prediction

Audi launched their 2026 car in Berlin on Tuesday night ahead of their F1 debut in Australia on 8 March

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Inside Audi's Berlin F1 launch

Audi launched its Formula 1 project in Berlin and Autosport was there to see how the German manufacturer chose to introduce itself to the sport

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