While Scholz's coalition has a solid majority in the Bundestag lower house, conservative-led or co-ruled states have 51 of 69 votes in the Bundesrat. Three of the four states holding elections this year are CDU-led.... Lower Saxony, where the SPD is leading a grand coalition, also votes on Oct.... 9.( Reporting by Andreas Rinke, Sarah Marsh and Emma Thomasson; Editing by Jonathan Oatis, Frances Kerry, Pravin Char and Daniel Wallis)....

chaos and a number of accidents.In the state of Saarland, roads were particularly affected and some

" Everything is possible." An opinion poll published earlier on Sunday showed the left-leaning Social Democrats( SPD) drawing level with the Greens on 18%, behind Merkel's conservatives on 26%.... Merkel, in power since 2005, plans to stand down after the election. The INSA poll showed that in a hypothetical direct vote for chancellor, SPD candidate Olaf Scholz was well ahead, with 27% support.... Conservative Armin Laschet languished on 14%, one point ahead of Baerbock, on 13%. The Greens pre

NEW YORK--Oetzi the Iceman has a new look.... Since then, many researchers have worked to uncover more about the mummy, which is displayed at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Bolzano, Italy.An earlier draft of Oetzi’s genome was published in 2012.... But ancient DNA research has advanced since then, so scientists decided to take another look at the iceman’s genes, explained study author Johannes Krause, a geneticist at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology....

Bavaria returned the life-saving jabs to the federal government in Berlin after failing to administer them as part of their rollout.... The Oxford-developed vaccine has been subjected to numerous political attacks and questions over its safety and efficacy in the midst of a row over shipments.... Brussels accused the Anglo-Swedish drugs giant behind the jab of breaching its contract by failing to deliver enough doses to EU member states. And many governments have restricted the use of AstraZen

Only 51 percent of Germany's population is fully vaccinated, with another 10 percent having received their first jab. Despite this, a number of states are reporting falling vaccine demand, which could see tens of thousands of jabs handed back to federal authorities. Hamburg, Berlin and Lower Saxony have all indicated they could return vaccines, according to German broadcaster NTK. There is speculation they could be joined by the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein, in west an

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At least 171 people were killed in Germany when several small rivers merged quickly into raging torrents after the country saw persistent heavy rainfall last week.... Nevertheless, there is a risk of renewed storms locally due to heavy rain, hail and squalls!... Local storms can occur again from the weekend.” He added: “ But only locally and for a short time, not comparable with the storms in Berchtesgadener Land and in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate." Additional reporting by

LAGOS, Nigeria— Computers have become amazingly precise at translating spoken words to text messages and scouring huge troves of information for answers to complex questions.... Advertisement Marivate is part of a coalition of African researchers who have been trying to change that.... He’s a founding member of Masakhane, a pan-African research project to improve how dozens of languages are represented in the branch of AI known as natural language processing....

Itremains amystery tothe public how the government will carry out the rearmament, how itwill affect the German military-industrial complex and what kind ofequipment will bepurchased from partners. The Chancellor’s silence irritates voters: already more than60% ofGermans consider Scholz tobeaninsuff