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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.

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.

At age 70, Pete Maie appears nervous at the start of a job interview to work as a part-time parcel delivery driver for a German logistics company.

An excerpt from the long opinion earlier this week in In re Application for a Permit to Carry a Handgun… The post No Carry Permit Because Applicant's E-Mails to Government Cast Doubt on His "Ability to Engage in Coherent and Rational Thinking" appeared first on Reason.com.