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June does seem to be the favourite prediction There’s increasing agreement over the likely release date of the Nintendo Switch 2 but apparently retailers are not to be trusted. Although the Nintendo Switch 2 has been officially announced we still know very little about the console, with the reveal trailer explaining almost nothing. It did state a 2025 launch, but it wasn’t any more specific than that. Traditionally, new consoles launch in the autumn, but spring is the second most popular choice, as it was with the March release of the original Switch. Anytime in summer is extremely rare…

Everything has returned to normal in the village of Gjader and the port town of Shengjin in northwestern Albania. Almost exactly a year to the day when the parliament ratified the country’s migrant center agreement with Italy, not a single migrant is in either of the facilities constructed in Gjader and Shengjin. The agreement signed by Italy and Albania in November 2023 and ratified by the Albanian parliament on February 22, 2024, envisioned that Italy would build migrant holding centers in Albania that would house up to 36,000 irregular migrants a year while their asylum applications are processed by Italy. Series…

In late February 2022, Russian troops crossed the border into Ukraine, starting a war that, three years later, has become one of deadliest and most destructive in the 21st century. Ukrainians and neighboring states and allies have watched in horror as the war unfolded. But there are surprisingly few universally agreed upon figures for the full extent of destruction. The number of civilians killed has most likely been underreported in the broad range of death toll estimates, and what official information the governments of Ukraine and Russia have released has been difficult to independently verify in the chaotic conditions of the war. DW has surveyed data…

French President Emmanuel Macron will meet with US President Donald Trump on Monday in Washington DC, on the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Macron is hoping to use his “unique” relationship with Trump to convince him to include Europeans in any settlement of the war, French officials said. The meeting comes as the US president makes increasingly friendly overtures to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Follow our liveblog for all the latest. Live: Macron 'hopes to convince' Trump to include Europe in Ukraine negotiations

Hamas has said that it will not continue negotiations with Israel on a ceasefire agreement unless Palestinian prisoners are released as agreed. Israel announced on Sunday that it was delaying the liberation of hundreds of prisoners until Hamas held up its side of the hostage release deal. Hamas says no more talks with Israel unless Palestinian prisoners released as agreed

Key US agencies, including the FBI, State Department and the Pentagon, have instructed their employees not to respond to an email from cost-cutting chief Elon Musk ordering federal workers to explain what they accomplished last week — or risk losing their job. The pushback from appointees of President Donald Trump marked a new level of chaos and confusion within the beleaguered federal workforce. The level of stupidity to tell FBI, DOD, and CIA employees to reply to a janky email address from Elon's army of 21-year-old "HR" DOGE flunkies about "5 specific things you accomplished last week" is a national security nightmare.Republicans…

Based on projections for the German 2025 election, the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) led by chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz and its sister Christian Social Union (CSU) won the most votes, followed by the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany (AfD). The CDU candidate Friedrich Merz has declared victory in the 2025 German elections. After the first exit polls, he is now likely set to become chancellor, replacing Olaf Scholz from the centre-left SPD, who admitted defeat on Sunday evening. Vote share in the German Bundestag elections Here is a breakdown of Vote share in the German Bundestag elections of 2025, with big gains…

The CDU candidate Friedrich Merz declares victory in the 2025 German elections. After the first exit polls, the centre-right CDU’s Friedrich Merz has come out of the election as its main winner and is now likely set to become chancellor, replacing Olaf Scholz from the centre-left SPD, who admitted defeat on Sunday evening. Merz declares victory as the CDU celebrate The incoming government will inherit an economy that has shrunk for two years in a row for the first time in decades, rising living costs, and calls for a radical overhaul of its immigration and asylum rules. Joachim-Friedrich Martin Josef…

CDU/CSU victory – How the exit polls compare to 2021 German Federal election CDU/CSU victory appears to be confirmed, take a look at how the exit polls from the 2025 German Federal Election differ from the last German election – held back in 2021. Exit polls reported by Deutcshe Welle suggests the final result could be: Here is how that would compare with the results from the 2021 election: First exit poll of the #Germany election.1. Massive gain for AfD- 9.1% increase 2. CDU/CSU also gained around 4%3. GOP-Social democrats (SPD) have lost the mandate (massive loss since the post war SPD…

German election exit polls showing huge gains for far-right – What to make of AfD success? Germany’s exit poll results for the 2025 German Federal Election are indicating the far-right party the AfD has doubled its vote share to around 20 per cent and that is in line with a “broader trend throughout Europe”, according to one expert. Dr Jana Puglierin, of the European Council on Foreign Relations, told the BBC: “I think Germany has become a bit more normal, we have been an outlier in Europe with relatively small numbers of the far-right.” Warning that this is “worrying me…