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One unnecessarily made mistake follows the next: Friedrich Merz during an appearance in the Berlin Chancellery.Image: keystone A year after taking office, the German government already seems to be at its end. That has to do with the external circumstances, but also with the person of the Chancellor. May 1, 2026, 2:05 p.mMay 1, 2026, […]

May 1, 2026, 1:23 p.mMay 1, 2026, 1:23 p.m Turkish police clashed with demonstrators who wanted to march to Istanbul’s famous Taksim Square to mark May Day. This is reported by local media, including the daily newspaper “Cumhuriyet”. Authorities had previously banned gatherings in the area. Demonstrators and the police clashed in Istanbul.Image: keystone Riot […]

May 1, 2026, 1:10 p.mMay 1, 2026, 1:10 p.m Image: sc/twitter More than 3,500 people have had to leave their homes due to a huge forest fire in Tuscany. The fire is raging in the hinterland of the Italian holiday region between the cities of Pisa and Lucca. The area around the 830-meter-high Monte Faeta […]

May 1, 2026, 11:44 amMay 1, 2026, 11:44 am Ships from the auxiliary fleet, here still in the port of Barcelona. (Archive image, April 2026)Image: keystone Around 30 boats from the so-called “Global Sumud Flotilla” with Gaza aid have arrived in the port of Ierapetra in southeast Crete. At the dpa’s request, the organizers had […]

A 51-year-old Swiss woman was rescued from Monte Gallo in Sicily by rescue workers on Thursday. She was attacked by several dogs during a hike and suffered bite wounds. May 1, 2026, 10:53 amMay 1, 2026, 10:53 am The Swiss woman was on the summit of Monte Gallo in Sicily when the attack occurred, like […]

The American president already sees himself as the winner in the Iran war. But he wanted to win with a “bigger lead,” said Donald Trump in the White House in Washington.Image: keystone Because the Iranian regime is still blocking the Strait of Hormuz, the US President is coming under increasing pressure. Does he now have […]

May 1, 2026, 9:25 a.mMay 1, 2026, 9:25 a.m According to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the US government can continue the war against Iran for weeks without congressional approval. “We are currently in a ceasefire, which, as we understand it, means that the 60-day period (…) is paused or stopped,” he told a Senate committee. […]

Last Friday, a small single-engine plane with two passengers crashed in the French Pyrenees. Now it turns out: One of the two is the Italian underwear magnate Sandro Veronesi, as the French portal Sud Ouest wrote on Thursday. The 66-year-old billionaire and passionate aviator was traveling in a tourist plane with a 56-year-old Italian when […]

May 1, 2026, 08:37May 1, 2026, 08:37 The prosecutor for the US capital Washington has released a video showing crucial moments of the attack at a gala dinner with President Donald Trump. The video shows how the attacker Cole Allen shot a Secret Service officer in his attempt to assassinate Trump, wrote prosecutor Jeanine Pirro […]

May 1, 2026, 8:16 amMay 1, 2026, 8:16 am Those were the days: a “Fridays for future” demonstration in 2019.Image: EPA/EPA According to a representative survey, the issue of climate change is less important to young people than it was a few years ago. In 2025, only around four out of ten young people considered […]