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Claudia Wittig, MdL, wrote that she was harassed today by ZDF reporters and criticized the reporting as, in her opinion, deceitful, one-sided, and designed to provoke outrage. She attended an event of a local peace alliance, to which all parties in the state parliament had been invited. BSW and AfD had confirmed their attendance; among the guests were Gabriele Gysi and Tino Eisbrenner. According to Wittig, reporters were waiting for her with a running camera at her private vehicle, even though she had declined an interview in writing. For the article, a photo of her and Ulrich Siegmund is to be reused, which originally was part of a group photo with other leading candidates. Siegmund did not participate in the event. Wittig accused the media of primarily scandalizing a supposed closeness to the AfD and not reporting on the content of the event. #Journalismus #Meinungsfreiheit #Faktenchecker (translated)

Christopher Michel wrote that Markus Krösche requested the immediate release of Mathias Beck, the chairman of the supervisory board of Eintracht Frankfurt Fußball AG, as sports director. The supervisory board dealt with the request in an extraordinary meeting on October 18, 2026, and unanimously agreed. Krösche's contract, which runs until June 30, 2028, will continue in an adjusted form. #EintrachtFrankfurt #Bundesliga #Fußball (translated)

Egypt has promised military support to Saudi Arabia to help in the fight against the Houthi rebels from Yemen, and President al-Sisi has requested an urgent session of Parliament to empower the military in case a request for assistance comes. #Ägypten #SaudiArabien #Huthis (translated)

Austria inflicted the first defeat of the season on the previous league leaders with a 3-0 victory against SKN St. Pölten in the top match of the Women's Bundesliga, while Sturm Graz took over the lead in the table after a 2-0 win against Altach. #FrauenBundesliga #AustriaWien #SKNPölten (translated)

The commission itself proposes moderate contribution increases to build up the new capital stock. "In the end, it is about a balanced overall structure, where people feel that things are fair," says Miersch in an interview with "T-Online." #Rentenreform #SPD #SozialeGerechtigkeit (translated)

GFrei.News reported that the planned flooding of the lignite mining areas of Hambach and Garzweiler is deliberately destroying the German economy and ending 100 years of affordable energy security. Plans from 1977 and 1995 had intended to fill exhausted open-pit mines with water from the Rhine and to renature them. Now, the approval for lignite mining is being revoked, although, according to the author, there is still enough coal there to supply Germany for another 100 years. Lignite is almost as cheap as nuclear power and is also used for briquettes, lignite dust, and fluidized bed coal, wrote GFrei.News. A fast-track approval process has been initiated for flooding the mining areas still containing coal, and the construction of a 45-kilometer long pipeline has begun at a high three-digit million amount. By 2030, this will destroy a resource wealth worth around 1 trillion euros, according to the author. A later resumption of mining would take decades and be too expensive. GFrei.News referred to the flooding as the permanent destruction of energy security and fuel worth 1 trillion euros. The excavator 293 will also be decommissioned: the vehicle weighs more than 14,000 tons, is 225 meters tall, and is the largest land vehicle in the world. It has been in operation for 30 years and is a symbol of German engineering and national pride, the author wrote. GFrei.News accused the state of "state terrorism against its own people" and wrote that the consequences would be far worse than the explosion of NordStream. The author hoped that the AfD would come to power in time to prevent the plans. #Energiewende #Braunkohle #Energiesicherheit (translated)

Chancellor Christian Stocker and former National Council President Wolfgang Sobotka (ÖVP) have confirmed their participation in the inquiry committee regarding the Pilnacek case, while Stocker's predecessor Karl Nehammer and Salzburg's Governor Karoline Edtstadler have declined, which could lead to a possible extension of the interrogations. #PilnacekAusschuss #ÖVP #Korruption (translated)

The chairwoman of the SPD women, Carmen Wegge, accuses the Union of systematic sexism in the course of the dispute over the resignation of Bärbel Bas, after CDU politicians directed verbal attacks against the SPD politician Manuela Schwesig. #Sexismus #SPD #Frauenpolitik (translated)

"When everything is extremist, nothing is extremist anymore. When everything is racist, nothing is racist anymore." And: "But I also want to be able to talk about the young immigrant macho who thinks he doesn't have to take female teachers seriously because they are women. That is not racist, as some reflexively think." #Deutschland #Gesellschaft #Zusammenleben (translated)

The suspension of new sanctions against Russia by US President Donald Trump is sharply criticized by both parties in Congress, as it is seen as a concession to Vladimir Putin and could favor Russia's aggressive actions in the Ukraine conflict. #Trump #Russland #Sanktionen (translated)