Germany is in a crisis of stagnant growth and ... it could potentially challenge Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrats for first. Hamas handed over yesterday what it said were the remains of ...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz told Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu that he would invite him to Germany in defiance of an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Israeli prime minister's office said on Monday.

I think it is a completely absurd idea that an Israeli prime minister cannot visit the Federal Republic of Germany,' Merz said.

Israel and the terrorist group Hamas Tuesday agreed in principle to further exchange Palestinian prison inmates for the bodies of four Israeli hostages as part of the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire,