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German press is gripped by the AfD's rise, leadership doubts in the CDU, and cascading global conflicts from Ukraine to the Red Sea, while mixing in fuel-price anxiety, celebrity deaths, and offbeat viral stories.
  1. Under pressure, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz cancels his trip to the UN General Assembly debate (Tagesschau, 2026-09-15)
  2. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz cancels his trip to the UN General Assembly debate (Tagesschau, 2026-09-15)
  3. Jimmy Kimmel interview cut from TV reaches ten million YouTube views (Der Spiegel, 2026-09-15)
  4. Opinion: Driving in London — my Opel did a semester abroad in Oxford, a column by Christoph Giesen in London (Der Spiegel, 2026-09-15)
  5. High fuel prices: electric cars desperately sought (Der Spiegel, 2026-09-15)
  6. Hamburger SV in crisis: after serving a four-year doping ban, the club is now clinging to Vušković (Der Spiegel, 2026-09-15)
  7. The Fabian case: 'Why did he have to die?' (Der Spiegel, 2026-09-15)
  8. Opinion • Trip to Granada: My nightmare night in Nicaragua, an experience report by Oliver Imhof (Der Spiegel, 2026-09-15)
  9. "Presence in Berlin required": German CDU leader Friedrich Merz cancels trip to the UN General Debate in New York (Der Spiegel, 2026-09-15)
  10. Putin's aggressions against the West: "We should raise the costs on the Russian side" (Der Spiegel, 2026-09-15)
  11. War in the Middle East: how the Houthi rebels were able to march all the way to the Red Sea (Der Spiegel, 2026-09-15)
  12. Local elections in Lower Saxony: the far-right AfD party cannot fill more than 250 seats in district and municipal councils (Der Spiegel, 2026-09-15)
  13. Berlin election campaign: "That was the stupidest Nazi, but with the very best timing" (Der Spiegel, 2026-09-15)
  14. Actor Ralf Richter, who had his first success in the film "Das Boot", is dead (Tagesschau, 2026-09-15)
  15. Support for Friedrich Merz within Germany's conservative CDU/CSU opposition is crumbling, with divided moods (Tagesschau, 2026-09-15)
  16. Shipping industry on the Huthi blockade: "We are used to crises and wars" (Tagesschau, 2026-09-15)
  17. Blocked shipping routes: attacks on world trade (Tagesschau, 2026-09-15)
  18. Fitness trend sport: a Hyrox athlete suffers from acute diarrhea during the competition and still wins, and now the scene is buzzing. (Der Spiegel, 2026-09-15)
  19. Health authority announcement: two residents near Frankfurt Airport have contracted malaria. (Der Spiegel, 2026-09-15)
  20. Emergency in Switzerland: a venomous snake bites a climber, who is rescued by helicopter. (Der Spiegel, 2026-09-15)