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  • 3h ago

    Lena Schätte wins 50th Ingeborg Bachmann Prize with story of schoolgirl outsiders

    At the 50th Days of German-language Literature in Klagenfurt, Lena Schätte took the €30,000 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for her text 'Was wir tragen', a portrait of two overweight girls navigating social exclusion.

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Hormuz fires, La Guaira counts

Trump escalates near Hormuz as Venezuela digs out and Europe sweats through deadly heat

The past 12 hours brought a grim split screen: a widening Gulf confrontation, a Venezuelan disaster zone and European heat that is now killing well beyond the thermometer. Politics also moved fast, with Serbia’s strongman offering an exit that may not loosen his grip, while Washington showed how directly it now intends to police frontier AI.

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European Union · Updated 16m ago

Brussels vs capitals: EU integration

EU leaders debated the sequencing of Ukraine and Moldova accession, with some states linking it to internal reforms and proposing a phased integration model.

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