Federal Well being Minister Nina Warken (CDU) needs to study the in poor health go away regulations by way of telephone. The coalition agreed to rule out abuse, she instructed Tagesspiegel. She follows Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU), who has many times condemned alleged abuses in contemporary days. Given a median of 14.5 in poor health days according to particular person, Mertz requested at a marketing campaign match, “Is that really true? Is that really necessary?” Phone in poor health go away could also be responsible for the top stage of in poor health go away. Are Germans merely lazy or are they in poor health extra continuously? Hanna Grabe from the ZEIT wisdom division solutions those and different questions.
In Syria, the Syrian military continues to combat in opposition to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The military is claimed to have pushed the SDF out of the realm regardless of talks of a conceivable ceasefire. On Tuesday, SDF militias even withdrew from considered one of Syria’s maximum infamous jail camps: Al-Hol camp because of combating. 1000’s of family of IS combatants, particularly ladies, youngsters and younger other folks, are in captivity there. Anna-Teresa Bachmann explains why the Syrian military is taking motion in opposition to the SDF and what it says in regards to the general state of Syria. He reviews for ZEIT from Damascus.
Ukraine is experiencing the cruelest iciness since Russia invaded. After renewed shelling by way of Russia remaining night time, 335,000 families within the capital Kyiv are with out electrical energy at minus 14 levels Celsius.
The Bundeswehr grew considerably for the primary time in numerous years. On the flip of 2025/26. 184,000 women and men had been on accountability. To succeed in NATO’s targets, the Bundeswehr will want 260,000 infantrymen and 200,000 reservists by way of the mid-2030s.
And in a different way? When the coke is meant to come back with a postcard – they usually intercept every different.
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Editor: Ole Pflueger
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