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Commentators note with surprise that Bild, the tabloid long aligned with the Union, has turned on Jens Spahn and is being credited with ending his political standing. The irony of the party's traditionally friendly paper doing the damage is the main point of discussion among German political observers.

Johann Wadephul is Germany's foreign minister, and searches for his name are rising after reports that he met Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in New York. According to Bild, this was the first meeting between the German and Russian foreign ministers since 2022, making it a notable diplomatic moment amid the ongoing war in Ukraine. German readers appear to be looking up who Wadephul is and what the talks involved, though the posts collected do not detail the outcome.