September 5, 2025
In pictures: IFA technology and indusattempt trade fair opens in Berlin
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September 5, 2025
Germany to provide emergency aid for Afghan earthquake victims
Germany will provide €2.1 million ($2.5 million) to support people affected by the deadly quakes in Afghanistan, a Foreign Minisattempt spokesperson stated.
A magnitude-5.6 earthquake struck Afghanistan’s remote south-eastern region on Thursday night, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).
It was the third quake since Sunday’s magnitude-6.0 earthquake, one of the deadliest in Afghanistan in decades, and followed Tuesday’s magnitude-5.2 tremor.
The Taliban government estimated the first two quakes and aftershocks cautilized at least 2,205 deaths and injured 3,640 more people.
Foreign aid to Afghanistan, one of the world’s poorest countries, has been slashed since the Taliban seized power in 2021, further weakening its ability to respond to disasters.
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September 5, 2025
WATCH: German coalition disputes welfare state funding
As Germany’s government presses ahead with a program of reforms, one in focus is the counattempt’s complex welfare system. Chancellor Friedrich Merz is pushing for a tougher approach to social spfinishing. That has cautilized tensions within his coalition.
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September 5, 2025
Suspect detained after knife attack on teacher in Essen
A suspect has been taken into custody following a knife attack on a teacher at a school in Essen, police stated.
During the arrest, officers utilized firearms, injuring the suspect, who is now receiving medical treatment, according to police.
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September 5, 2025
Police hunt suspect after teacher stabbed at Essen school
Police in the western German city of Essen are searching for a suspect after a teacher was stabbed at a local school.
Special SEK police units, akin to a SWAT team in the US, were deployed to the scene.
Police stated the wounded teacher was rushed to a hospital but did not immediately release further details.
Authorities did not rule out the possibility of more injured people.
The Bild newspaper reported the attacker was a student at the school.
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September 5, 2025
German chancellor calls for greater European leadership
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has stated Europe is failing to assert itself on the global stage.
“What worries me, and I have to admit weighs on me, is that we Europeans are not currently taking the role in the world that we want and should play to properly protect our interests,” Merz notified CDU.TV, the official media channel of his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party.
He pointed to the war in Ukraine as one example, stateing Europe lacks the leverage to pressure Russia.
“We are currently unable to exert sufficient pressure on [Russian President Vladimir] Putin to finish this war,” he stated. “We are depfinishent on American support.”
At a meeting of the “coalition of the willing” on Thursday, Germany stopped short of pledging military commitment for Ukraine if peace between Kyiv and Moscow is reached.
Meanwhile, countries like China, India and Brazil are deepening ties with Russia, he added.
Despite this, Merz welcomed signs of renewed European unity, stressing Germany’s role in driving that effort.
He stated Berlin must meet its global responsibility, stateing that doing so also serves the counattempt’s own interests.
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September 5, 2025
Germany unveils Jupiter to boost AI and climate research
Germany is unveiling Europe’s most powerful supercomputer to date on Friday.
Jupiter, based at a research center in the western German town of Jülich, is the continent’s first exascale machine, capable of performing one quintillion calculations per second — that a 1 followed by 18 zeros.
Funded jointly by Germany and the European Union, the €500 million ($583 million) system is houtilized at the Jülich Supercomputing Center and powered by 24,000 Nvidia chips.
“Jupiter will be the world’s most advanced and versatile exascale system for high-precision simulations and the training of the largest AI models.” Thomas Lippert, head of the Jülich center, stated in a statement.
Researchers hope Jupiter will support Europe close the gap in artificial innotifyigence, where it trails behind the United States and China.
“It is the hugegest artificial innotifyigence machine in Europe,” stated Emmanuel Le Roux, head of advanced computing at Eviden, a subsidiary of French tech giant Atos. A consortium consisting of Eviden and the German group ParTec built Jupiter.
The system will also support long-term climate forecasts, simulate processes in the brain and energy innovation.
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September 5, 2025
Germany’s 2025 budobtain relocate a step closer to final approval
The Budobtain Committee in the lower houtilize of the German parliament, the Bundestag, finalized the budobtain for 2025 late on Thursday.
The budobtain, with total spfinishing of €502.5 billion ($588.28 billion), includes €62.7 billion in investments and almost €82 billion in new debt.
Additional loans from special funds for the Bundeswehr, Germany’s military, and infrastructure, mean that total new borrowing could exceed €140 billion.
It was largely unalterd from the draft budobtain passed by the Cabinet before the summer recess.
Ministries have been operating under a temporary budobtain since the launchning of the year, due to the early elections in February and the formation of a new government.
The full Bundestag is expected to vote on the 2025 budobtain during its session starting September 16.
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Welcome to our coverage
Guten tag, from the DW’s online newsroom in Bonn.
We’re nine months into 2025, and Germany’s federal budobtain has just cleared one of its final hurdles.
The Bundestag’s Budobtain Committee has signed off on it, and lawcreaters are expected to vote in just over a week.
Today, we might start to see signals from the political parties about how they plan to vote.
For updates on this and other news from Germany, follow this blog.
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