Germany — news through its media
Stories followed in this country, with their framing set against the rest of the world.
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TikTok pays $400 million to settle US children's privacy investigation
TikTok and its Chinese parent ByteDance agreed to pay 400 million dollars to the US Justice Department to close an investigation into the collection of minors' data. The settlement is described as one of the largest ever reached in the United States over children's privacy. The figure reported varies from country to country.
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Washington declares 'economic war' on Iran and urges allies and China to cut all ties
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a campaign to collapse Iran's economy, telling other capitals they are either with Washington or against it. Tehran calls the economic war a breach of international law and threatens a military response. Shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is falling.
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Evergrande founder Xu Jiayin sentenced to life in prison for fraud
On 20 August, the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court sentenced Evergrande founder Xu Jiayin to life in prison for financial fraud, alongside a record fine. The ruling closes the collapse of the group whose default reshaped China's property crisis and hit foreign creditors.
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Ebola in DR Congo: WHO allocates 70,000 Ervebo doses and keeps the international emergency in force
The World Health Organization is allocating 70,000 doses of the Ervebo vaccine to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and maintaining the public health emergency of international concern. Twenty thousand doses are reserved for a phase 3 clinical trial against the Bundibugyo strain. Rwanda and neighbouring countries are tightening border screening.
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Hakainde Hichilema re-elected in Zambia with 60% of the vote as opposition figures are arrested
Zambian president Hakainde Hichilema was re-elected on 13 August 2026 with 60.49% of the vote against 37.87% for Brian Mundubile. Counting was briefly suspended after violence against electoral staff, and eleven people, including several opposition figures, were subsequently arrested and accused of plotting an armed insurrection. Six countries cover the sequence — four of them African — but no Zambian outlet appears in the corpus analysed.
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Twenty-nine US states take Meta to court over hooking children on social media
The trial pitting twenty-nine US states against Meta opened on 18 August 2026 in Oakland, California. State attorneys general accuse the company of designing Facebook and Instagram to hold minors' attention and of misleading the public about the effects on their mental health; Meta rejects the claims. Ten countries cover the sequence, and the damages figure reported varies sevenfold from one newsroom to another.
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Nigel Farage wins back the seat he gave up: a by-election he triggered himself, boycotted by all his serious opponents
Nigel Farage won back the Clacton seat on 14 August with 22,239 votes against 9,455 for a satirical candidate wearing a bin on his head. He had resigned that same seat in July, under investigation over an undeclared £5 million donation. The major parties boycotted the vote; the inquiry resumed hours after the result.
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Settlers besiege three Palestinian homes in Qusra — and the US ambassador to Israel calls them "terrorists"
Since 9 August, Israeli settlers have besieged three homes in Qusra, in the occupied West Bank, cutting water and electricity and trapping around fifteen people. US Ambassador Mike Huckabee, an avowed supporter of the settlements, called them "Israeli terrorists". France demands prosecutions; the UN calls it criminal.
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Eurovision bars countries at war from hosting the contest — without naming anyone
The EBU changed its rules on 13 August: from 2027, the winning country will lose hosting rights if it is engaged in armed conflict or if a "sensitive geopolitical situation" threatens security. The minimum age rises from 16 to 18. No country is named — part of the press writes "Israel", the rest sticks to the text.
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Karoline Leavitt leaves the White House: a family decision for some, an electoral calendar for others
Donald Trump announced on 12 August that his press secretary would leave at the end of the month to become an outside adviser. At 28, she was the youngest in history. She cites her family; part of the press notes she is leaving two months before the midterm elections. No successor has been named.
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Death of Zhu Rongji, the former premier who took China into the WTO — and whose age Beijing and the West report differently
Xinhua announced the death of Zhu Rongji, premier from 1998 to 2003, on 12 August in Beijing. He engineered China's WTO entry in 2001 and the restructuring of state-owned enterprises, at the cost of tens of millions of layoffs. A rare detail: Chinese agencies say he died at 98, the Western press at 97.
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