The Taliban, who rule Afghanistan, have negotiated with the USA about a prisoner exchange, as Taliban spokesman Sabihullah Mujahid told journalists in Kabul on Wednesday. Two US citizens are in custody in the country. They are to be exchanged for Afghans who are interned in the US prison camp at Guantanamo in Cuba. The talks took place on the sidelines of a recent summit with UN representatives and Afghanistan envoys from various countries in Qatar. Nothing is known about the results so far.
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The balloons full of garbage that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has been sending to South Korea for weeks are having an impact on air traffic. More than 110 flights have been disrupted by the balloon launches that have been going on since the end of March, said South Korean MP Jeong Jun Ho on Wednesday, citing the Ministry of Transport. More than 10,000 passengers were affected. The DPRK is using the balloons to respond to previous actions from South Korea in which propaganda material was also sent north in balloons.
If anyone else wants to have a look here is a download link.
Some choice quotes on the current situation from the title article which is for the most part just a liberal history of Germany after WW2:
Here too, Botho Strauß was right: Russia is a force of tradition that is turning against the dynamics of the Western way of life.
Germany was too greedy for cheap gas from Russia, has to break away from it with difficulty, and is now paying for having been driven more by economics than politics. Inflation, prices are soaring. A weak economy is plaguing the country, which has, among other things, relied on the combustion engine for too long. German engineers are somehow having a hard time with the electric car. No German government has taken climate change seriously, to the dismay of many young people.
The good news from recent times: Germany unexpectedly becomes world champion in basketball.
The bad news: violence against Green and Social Democratic election campaigners, an echo of Weimar conditions on German streets. Anti-Semitic excesses break out during protests against Israel's actions in the war against Hamas, especially at universities. Some Jews no longer feel comfortable in Germany, they are afraid. In the country of the perpetrators, which has pledged to "never again". Nevertheless, this is not a "failed state"; all in all, this is a successful country that has set the framework for a pleasant life for its citizens: freedom, security, stability, progress. For its allies and neighbors, it is a fair, peaceful partner. Congratulations, Federal Republic of Germany.
Is the robot at the end something they captured from the IOF?
Seems to be this thing. So I would assume definitely captured from the IOF.
Johnathan Shite 
While looking for some numbers on this I came up on a news article about people arrested at Palestine protests and it had this line from the pigs union which I thought sums up pretty well the cops attitude to all of this:
The police union (GdP) condemned the attacks on the police. “We are experiencing the effects of a religious war on the streets of the capital, in which our emergency services are becoming the targets of religious fanaticism.”
Couldn't find much on how many Jews where arrested at Palestine protests. Some tidbits on the situation in general I picked up though:
Props to the sqirrel antifa division keeping the porkies on edge 
Hope nobody got hurt though
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Not really news but still pretty funny and I just heard about it for the first time.
A different kind of blowback: