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According to reports, there was an 84% turnout in the german election, result as follows. The christian democrats or cdu 28.6% of the vote, alternative for Germany (afd) 20.8%, the previously ruling social democrats (spd) 16.4%, greens 11.6% and the left party 8.8%.

Reportedly, the christian democrats and their bavarian sister party, the christian social union will try and form a coalition with the social democrats (spd), the only alternative would be a coalition with afd which has been ruled out by Friedrich Merz, leader of the cdu. According to a report, the cdu agenda includes migration (Germany currently accepts more migrants than any other country in Europe) and unity in Europe.

Reportedly, Friedrich Merz who was born to a catholic family and joined the cdu when he was still at school, used to ride a motorbike and hang out by a chip stand. According to the report, following school he enlisted for military service, then studied law. Reportedly, Mr Merz worked as a lawyer before entering politics; he was elected to the european parliament in 1989 before entering the bundestag in 1994. According to the report, he decided to leave parliament to make room for reflection and pursued a career as a lawyer for more than ten years from 2009.

According to reports, pope Francis who is suffering from double pneumonia and bronchitis is being treated at the Gemelli hospital in Rome. Reportedly, on Saturday the pope was in crisis but he has spent a tranquil night and is eating normally. According to reports,he has been in hospital for more than a week and is expected to remain there for atleast another week.

Reportedly, pope Francis has a history of respiratory illness, he had part of a lung removed as a young man and had a lung removed in 2023. According to reports, Francis who acquired the pontiff in 2013 has thanked people for their prayers.

According to reports, the president of Ukraine said the u.s. president is living in a disinformation space following comments about president Zelensky’s approval rating which has steadily fallen since the start of the war.

Reportedly, Ukraine have rejected a draft of the rare earth minerals agreement with the u.s. saying it made no mention of security guarantees. According to the report, Ukraine said the cost of the war so far is $320 billion with $200 billion coming from the u.s. and Europe, the u.s. disputes this. Reportedly, the ukrainian military is reliant on u.s. weapons, and the ukrainian president wants the u.s. to be a part of an international security force agreed upon to oversee a ceasefire, but the kremlin said this is unacceptable.

According to a report, the french president is scheduled to host a second meeting with European leaders about the war in Ukraine on Wednesday via video link, around 15 countries are expected to take part.

Reportedly, the four hour meeting between officials from the u.s. and Russia in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia was positive and constructive according to a Russian source. According to the report, an agreement was reached to appoint ambassadors to each other’s countries as soon as possible, to lift obstacles to diplomatic missions including lifting restrictions to bank transfers to embassies, to start the process on ukrainian settlement and to appoint representatives from each country to create conditions for restarting cooperation in full.

Reportedly, Russia’s foreign minister noted that president Trump was the first of western leaders to say that encouraging Ukraine to join nato was one of president Biden’s biggest mistakes, and the absorption of Ukraine into the alliance would act as a direct threat to Russia. According to the report, he said, Any appearance by armed forces under some other flag does not change anything.

According to the report, the russian president has said if president Zelensky wants to participate in the negotiations he will send people to take part, and the kremlin say the president of Russia is preparing to meet the Ukrainian president if necessary.

According to reports, officials from the u.s. and Russia are arriving in Saudi Arabia. Reportedly, the kremlin are sending Russia’s foreign policy advisor and foreign minister who will be meeting the u.s. secretary of state. According to a report, improvement in bilateral relations is on the agenda, as is the war in Ukraine. Reportedly, Ukraine’s president is also travelling to Saudi Arabia but he says he is not involved in the u.s. Russia talks.

According to reports, also on Monday, european leaders are meeting in Paris for an emergency summit about the war in Ukraine. Reportedly, Poland’s prime minister has asked officials to immediately boost defence spending and the uk prime minister said he is prepared to put uk peace keeping troops in Ukraine if and when the war ends.

According to a report, the u.s. president spoke on the telephone to the president of Russia to discuss the war in Ukraine and they agreed that talks to end the war could start immediately. Reportedly, Mr Trump said that they will meet in Saudi Arabia. According to reports, the president of Ukraine will meet the u.s. vice president on Friday in Munich, the scene of carnage today as 28 people were injured when a car driven by an afghan asylum seeker crashed into a crowd gathered for a rally.

Reportedly, Mr Trump said that it is unlikely that Ukraine will return to its pre-2014 borders. According to reports, a crux of the peace deal is that Ukraine should not join nato. Reportedly, Mr Trump said he agreed with the u.s. defence secretary when he said that there was no likelihood of Ukraine joining nato.

According to a report, hamas has said that Israel has violated the ceasefire, including delaying the return of palestinians to northern Gaza, and targeting them with shelling and gunfire. Reportedly, in response they say they will delay the release of more hostages. According to the report, the u.s. president said that the ceasefire should be cancelled if all remaining hostages aren’t returned by noon on Saturday, which was reiterated by the Israeli prime minister.

Reportedly, the u.s. president said palestinians would not have the right to return under his plan for u.s. ownership of Gaza, which puts a whole new complexion on the subject and is contrary to previous comments made by his administration.

According to reports, Egypt is working on a plan for the reconstruction of Gaza that allows palestinians to stay on their land. Reportedly, the u.s. president met Jordan’s King Abdullah on Tuesday to talk about his plan to move 2 million palestinians living there to Jordan, Egypt and other places. According to the report, King Abdullah said the arab states rejected the idea and that Egypt would put forward an alternative.

According to a report, the democratic republic of the Congo and Rwanda held an emergency meeting on Saturday following m23’s capture of Goma in the eastern drC. Reportedly, Rwanda want drC to negotiate directly with m23 which they refuse to do. According to the report, the congolese president, Félix Tshishekedi blames the president of Rwanda, Paul Kagame for backing m23 with weapons and troops and invading drC with the intention of looting the country’s mineral wealth and orchestrating regime change.

According to the report, Rwanda has a long history of military intervention inside drC linked to the aftermath of the 1994 rwandan genocide.
Reportedly, Mr Kagame said that Rwanda’s priority is to destroy an armed group formed by the hutu genocide perpetrators who massacred rwandan tutsis and then fled to what is now eastern drC. According to the report, Mr Kagame has accused drC’s army of joining forces with them to slaughter congolese tutsis and threaten Rwanda, but a former u.n. investigator in drC said Rwanda is maintaining a sphere of influence in the lucrative eastern drC.

Reportedly, in 2024 25.6 million people in drC were suffering from high acute food insecurity, this includes around 3.1 million people facing critical levels of food insecurity. According to the report, there is a concern that the campaign will strengthen internal opposition and lead to a coup.

According to reports, the u.s. contributes more humanitarian aid than any other country, $60 billion in 2023, $40 billion of which went to USAid which has overseen programs in more than 100 countries. Reportedly, u.s. foreign development assistance has been paused for a 90 day revue, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland have also reduced foreign aid.

According to the report, the u.s. president’s administration has confirmed plans to merge USAid into the state department. Reportedly, the secretary of state who is now acting administrator of USAid said, There are a lot of functions that are going to continue, but it has to be aligned to u.s. foreign policy.

According to the report, The u.s. president said that the foreign aid industry and bureaucracy are not aligned with u.s. interests and serve to destabilise world peace by promoting ideas in foreign countries that are directly inverse to harmonious and stable relations internal to and among countries. Reportedly, in a memo, USAid workers were asked to join the effort to transform how Washington allocates aid.

According to reports, the president of the u.s. said he wants the u.s. to take a permanent or long term ownership of Gaza and turn it into the riviera of the middle east, but he has been criticised by arab nations for talking about relocating palestinians, and Egypt say Gaza should be redeveloped without the people leaving.

Reportedly, the president said, I envision people living there, the world’s people. I think we’ll make it into an international unbelievable space. I think the potential in Gaza is unbelievable. I think the entire world, representatives from all over the world will be there. Palestinians also will live there, many people will live there.