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Parties blame each other after bill halted at last minute, as fears grow over voluntary service and lottery idea is vetoed

The CDU and the SPD had previously backed a proposal to combine voluntary conscription with a lottery system.

Interior Minister Dobrindt and the CDU/CSU are pushing for deportation centres - according to the AfD, the SPD is blocking them. The Greens and the Left warn of human rights violations, while the SPD remains divided.

Billionaire faces tricky task trying to secure enough support to become PM after ANO wins elections without majority

Czech billionaire ex-premier Andrej Babis vowed loyalty to Europe as he met the president to start talks on a new government Sunday, a day after his movement topped a national vote.

ANO party, led by former PM Andrej Babiš, is leading polls and may form a Eurosceptic and pro-Russia coalition

After Germany's local elections, the CDU made significant gains, winning in Dortmund, Leverkusen and Bielefeld. Despite setbacks, the SPD celebrated victories in Cologne and other cities.

Local politicians have strongly condemned the incident, while the anti-Semitism commissioner Felix Klein called it "antisemitism in its purest form."

The results send a warning to Chancellor Friedrich Merz's four-month-old national coalition with the Social Democrats

Nationalist party nearly triples share of vote in western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, preliminary results show.

The World Health Organization and several international NGOs have raised the alarm on the need to evacuate sick and injured children from Gaza. But some governments refuse to welcome patients from the Strip out of fear of repercussions to their security and migration policies.