Germany news: Wadephul says 'threat of famine' due to ongoing wars
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German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul is joining counterparts in Turkey for discussions on a range of interlinked geopolitical crises. Back in Germany, the Bavarian CSU party begins its two-day conference in Munich.
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Below, you can review what Germany was talking about on Friday, 23 October, 2026. .
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German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said the conflicts threatening free shipping, such as the Iran-backed Houthi rebels firing at vessels in the Red Sea, could not be solved militarily.
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Wadephul is attending a summit in Istanbul, joined by foreign ministers from Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Egypt, France and the UK.
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Commenting on the ongoing crises in the Red Sea and off the coast of Ukraine, the German minister said his country was willing to negotiate with Iran, together with France and the UK.
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The three European countries were among the signatories of the 2015 JCPOA deal with Iran which was torn up by Donald Trump during his first term in office.
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Wadephul also urged Russia to make a deal to secure shipping in the Black Sea.
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Vincent Kompany, the coach of the Bundesliga's Bayern Munich, was hospitalized on Friday, according to team officials.
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"Vincent Kompany required medical attention after collapsing during a training session for Bayern’s reserve team," the club said. "The head coach of the professional squad had been observing the second team's session."
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"Kompany is currently undergoing a thorough examination in the hospital and will remain under medical care. For the time being, his coaching staff will manage all training and match-related operations."
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Currently leading the Bundesliga, Bayern drew 2-2 in a Champions League match against UK's Arsenal this week.
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“Vincent Kompany’s health is our top priority," said Max Eberl, Bayern's Board Member for Sport.
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"Vinnie is receiving all the necessary medical care and support, and he will be given as much time as he needs. Everyone at FC Bayern wishes Vinnie a quick recovery."
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After hackers targeted Germany's far-right AfD party and published hundreds of thousands of internal emails online this week, German magazine Der Spiegel published a report highlighting a 2017 exchange regarding illegal donations from Switzerland.
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German parties are legally forbidden from receiving donations from non-EU countries.
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The scandal already prompted a formal probe in 2018, which ended with authorities imposing fines that amounted to over half a million euros (around $565,000). German prosecutors also opened a formal probe into the party's prominent co-leader, Alice Weidel. The probe was closed in 2021 due to insufficient evidence.
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Weidel has claimed that she only learned of the "unsolicited" donations in September 2017 and decided to return the money due to "legal concerns."
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But the recently leaked emails indicate Weidel told a regional party treasurer to be on the lookout for "possible incoming donations" in July 2017, just days before the money started coming in. In August, the treasurer referred to a "benefactor from Switzerland" who supports Weidel with thousands of Swiss francs per week.
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When contacted by the AFP news agency on Friday, Weidel's spokesperson said the AfD leader was not revising "any of her statements regarding the matter." "Ms.
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Weidel neither expected specific amounts nor was she certain that individual persons would actually donate" and did not expect the payments from Switzerland, her press representative said. Germany’s far-right AfD is investigating the extent of the damage from a massive data breach.
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Hackers copied hundreds of thousands of emails and sensitive documents. The data has been published online, and the first excerpts are slowly being made public.
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The AfD has reported the matter to the relevant authorities and appealed to the media not to publish "stolen" data. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will travel to Japan, Singapore and South Korea next week for meetings on economic and security policy, according to deputy government spokesman Steffen Meyer.
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"We share with all three countries a commitment to open, rules-based trade and a desire to strengthen economic resilience and security, particularly with regard to global supply chains," said Meyer during a Friday press conference.
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Merz is scheduled to depart Berlin on Monday and return Friday.
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He will be accompanied by a German business delegation. All three countries possess "great innovative power," said Meyer, "that is why we want to deepen collaboration on future-relevant topics such a AI."
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Merz will begin his trip by visiting Singapore on Tuesday, where he will meet the prime minister and president before delivering a speech.
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On Wednesday, he will travel to Tokyo to meet the prime minister and take part in a German-Japanese economic summit.
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Merz will end his trip in South Korea where he will meet with the president before kicking off the 19th annual Asia-Pacific Conference of German Business (APK), in Seoul.
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German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has warned that continuing disruptions to shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea could potentially lead to famine in the global south.
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"We're all feeling the effects of the attacks on shipping lanes, whether at the gas station or in the supermarket," he said ahead of a meeting with fellow foreign ministers in Istanbul on Friday.
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"But elsewhere, there is a threat of famine when fertilizers don't arrive in the places where they are essential for basic production." Wadephul was referring not only to the Iranian closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the Houthi threats to the Bab al-Mandab strait, but also to Russian attacks on shipping in the Black Sea as part of Moscow's ongoing war against Ukraine, one of the world's leading producers of wheat.
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"This effects the poorest people in the world whose basic provisions are especially dependent on wheat, as well as our partners such as Turkey, the biggest wheat processing country in the world," he said.
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"Together, we want to send a signal: we will not accept Iran and the Houthi militias [in Yemen] holding global trade hostage," Wadephul continued.
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"The indiscriminatory attacks on free shipping and on neighboring countries must stop.
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For people across the region who are suffering from hunger, who no longer feel safe in their own homes, the continuing insecurity is not acceptable." To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video German Federal Prosecutors said Friday that a judge from the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe had ordered the detention of a Ukrainian man arrested by police in the eastern state of Brandenburg on Thursday.
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The man is accused of spying on German and NATO military installations in the country on behalf of Russian intelligence services.
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Investigators say he sought to collect information on the production of armored vehicles, explosives and munitions.
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Moreover, he collected information on military personnel and facilities tasked with protecting NATO's eastern flank.
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The President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, was expected to be received with military honors in Berlin on Friday, at the start of a two-day visit to mark the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Pakistan and Germany. The Pakistani foreign ministry said in a statement that Zardari will hold meetings with his German counterpart, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, as well as with senior business leaders.
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The statement placed a particular focus on "economic and trade cooperation" and said the visit "reflects the deep commitment of both countries to the further strengthening the partnership."
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Like President Steinmeier in Germany, President Zardari is Pakistan's official head of state, a largely ceremonial role.
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Real political power in Pakistan lies theoretically with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and currently de facto with the influential head of the armed forces, Field Marshall Asim Munir.
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Partly for that reason, Berlin's Tagesspiegel newspaper expressed skepticism over Zardari's visit, describing him as a "powerless president," highlighting past corruption scandals, criticizing the treatment of German media outlets in Pakistan and questioning why Germany was investing political capital in deeper relations with the Islamic Republic. The newspaper opined that Islamabad's mediatory role in the Middle East isn't as influential as it seems and suggested that Pakistan's neighbor and rival India was a significantly more important trading partner for both Germany and the European Union.
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It did say acknowledge that "Germany cannot ignore Pakistan" as a nuclear power on the frontline of climate change and as a country with a rapidly growing population, but ultimately concluded that Zardari's visit was more "FOMO" (fear of missing out) than real diplomatic "strategy."
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The Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party of Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), begins its two-day party conference in Munich on Friday.
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Together, the CDU and CSU form Germany's center-right "Union" and, despite plunging ratings for Merz and the CDU nationally, backing for the CSU in Bavaria remains relatively strong, with two recent polls putting support at between 36% and 37%.
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Nevertheless, there is still concern in Munich that the Union's struggles in the coalition government in Berlin and growing support for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), including in Bavaria, could threaten the CSU's status as a "big tent party" or Volkspartei.
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Chancellor Merz will address delegates on Saturday but few in Munich are hopeful of a positive change of course.
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And all the while, CSU leader and Bavarian State Premier Markus Söder remains waiting in the wings as a potential challenger to Merz at the national level.
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The charismatic, self-confident 59-year-old dominates Bavarian politics and, according to sources who spoke to the DPA news agency, would be ready to step up if called upon. But a leadership challenge is not expected to be a serious proposition until April 2027 when another senior Union figure and potential chancellor candidate, Hendrik Wüst (CDU), runs in local elections in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), where he is currently serving as state premier.
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For this weekend, however, the conservatives' focus is on Bavaria.
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German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul (CDU) was expected in Istanbul, Turkey, on Friday ahead of a meeting with his Turkish, Saudi Arabian, Pakistani, Egyptian, French and British counterparts.
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The foreign ministers are set to discuss a range of geopolitical issues including, according to a spokesperson for the Turkish foreign ministry, "the Palestine question, the situation in the Strait of Hormuz, developments in Yemen and the search for an end to the war in Ukraine."
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For the seven ministers, the event marks a first such meeting in the so-called "R4+E3" format.
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The E3, consisting of Germany, France and the United Kingdom, was established in the early 2000s amid nuclear negotiations with Iran, while Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Egypt formed the R4 earlier this year to coordinate a joint regional response to the US-Israeli war on Iran.
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"At our first meeting in this format, we Europeans and the four regional powers want to discuss together how we can inject fresh impetus into the conflicts in the Strait of Hormuz, around [the] Bab al-Mandab [strait] and in the Black Sea," said Wadephul ahead of his departure. "We can only deal with these massive challenges if we work together beyond established formats," he continued, adding that "these gridlocked conflicts" which have "significant economic and security consequences for our countries" have also created a fresh "desire to look for new solutions." Guten Morgen!
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Welcome to DW's coverage of what Germany is talking about on Friday, 23 October.
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German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul is set to meet with European and Middle Eastern counterparts in Turkey for discussions on a series of regional geopolitical crises including developments in the Straits of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab, the situation in Israel and the Palestinian territories and Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine.
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Back in Germany, the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party of the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), is launching its two-day party conference in Munich. In Berlin, a new survey suggests a lack of support for a potential left-wing Senate coalition between the Left Party, the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens.
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And while Foreign Minister Wadehul meets the Pakistani foreign minister in Istanbul, Pakistan's president, Ali Zardari, is expected to be welcomed to Berlin.
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