AfD’s Ulrich Siegmund:

If I have a class of 30 children and one migrant child joins it, then of course that child has the opportunity to integrate, if they want to.

But if I have classes with 29 migrant children and one German child, the question is: who is integrating whom?

We don’t want that, because that isn’t integration. Quite the opposite: we give ourselves up, we give up our way of life, we give up our culture.

Houthis Seize Perim Island and Complete Takeover of Bab-el-Mandeb Strait

The capture of Perim Island gives the Houthis control of key positions across Bab-el-Mandeb, increasing pressure on a shipping artery carrying about 10% of global seaborne trade.

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Germany's Volkswagen is still the world’s highest-revenue automaker, generating €158.1B in H1 2026, but its profitability has deteriorated sharply.

Toyota earned €12.7B, nearly 5× Volkswagen’s €2.57B, while also selling more vehicles.

Volkswagen’s profit fell 36%, squeezed by Chinese competition, EV-transition costs and a high cost base.

CFO Arno Antlitz summed it up:

Our operating margin remains too low and underscores the need for action.

Volkswagen now wants to raise profit per vehicle from roughly 3.8% to 9% and plans 50,000 additional job cuts, after previously considering as many as 100,000.

Investors initially welcomed the restructuring, although VW shares were still down nearly 24% YTD at the article’s publication.

Revenue: VW €158.1B vs. Toyota €144.2B

Profit: VW €2.57B vs. Toyota €12.67B

Vehicles: VW 3.97M vs. Toyota ~4.7M

Source: EL PAÍS

Pakistan is trying to avoid being pulled into the Saudi–Houthi conflict despite its defence commitments to Riyadh, because it also wants to preserve relations with Iran.

A Pakistani official put it plainly:

Pakistan is trying to keep a low profile in the Saudi-Houthi conflict because Pakistan’s own stakes are high. It does not want to spoil relations with Iran.

Islamabad has reportedly passed Saudi warnings to Tehran to restrain the Houthis, while simultaneously pushing diplomacy.

Pakistan says no military response is currently under discussion.

Foreign ministry spokesman Sajjad Haider Khan said Pakistan has “consistently opposed escalation and advocated restraint, dialogue and diplomacy.”

The balancing act could become harder because Pakistan’s defence agreements with Saudi Arabia and Türkiye treat an attack on one member as an attack on all.

Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said there is “no ambiguity” that serious spillover into Saudi territory could activate the pact.

For now, Pakistani sources say any involvement would be limited to defending Saudi territory — not sending troops into Yemen or joining retaliatory strikes.

Source: Reuters

AfD’s Ulrich Siegmund on alleged intelligence infiltration of the party:

Who knows which of these people entered our party with a particular mission?

Everyone knows that we have been infiltrated by certain intelligence services with different interests.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned after twelve years in politics, it’s that coincidences are relatively rare.

AfD’s Ulrich Siegmund on remigration:

In the AfD’s understanding, remigration means reorganizing migration from the ground up. Asylum is not the same thing as immigration.

The second part is reversing misguided migration. It isn’t enough to say that the number of new arrivals has fallen.

We first have to deal with what we already have in the country.

In Saxony-Anhalt alone, we have around 4,800 people required to leave.

Sending them home is part of this. They have to leave the country.

Türkiye’s AKINCI drone has now successfully test-fired both ROKETSAN’s UAV-300 and UAV-122 missiles.

The key milestone was the UAV-300 supersonic ballistic missile, which scored a bull’s-eye at 250+ km, confirming AKINCI’s long-range ballistic strike capability.

The smaller UAV-122 was also successfully fired during the test.

AfD’s Ulrich Siegmund:

We have roughly two or three million Germans who have left this country in recent years.

Our doctors go to Switzerland and Norway because they can’t stand the conditions here.

I want to make them an offer to come back.

I’ve already received thousands of inquiries—from Germany, across Europe and sometimes around the world—from people who want to do exactly that if we succeed here.

Gulf foreign ministers are expected to meet Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Salalah, Oman, on Monday to discuss a temporary arrangement for shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

Source: FT

AfD’s Ulrich Siegmund:

You can rebuild anything. You can repair highways, you can rebuild schools.

But what we cannot rebuild is ourselves—our own identity.

We have uncontrolled migration which, in my view, is having catastrophic consequences for our identity.

That is difficult to reverse. So we simply don’t have much time.

Anthropic claims China’s Moonshot AI secretly routed some Kimi users’ requests to Claude, then presented Claude’s answers as if they came from Kimi.

Anthropic says Moonshot generated 23M+ Claude exchanges from May–July 2026 through 5,380 allegedly fraudulent accounts.

During one 10-day period alone, about 300,000 real customer requests were allegedly routed to Claude, mostly Opus.

Anthropic further claims Moonshot saved exchanges and used “cross-session replay” to reconstruct Claude reasoning traces for model training.

Some allegedly rerouted prompts contained enterprise code, credentials and sensitive imagery, raising concerns that Kimi customers may not have known their data was reaching a U.S. AI provider.

Netanyahu was warned before October 7.

And he told no one about it.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Iran:

When Iranian citizens have nothing to eat, nothing to drink, no job and no electricity… eventually they will have nothing to lose.

And in the end, what will bring down the regime — and that is our ultimate objective — is economic distress.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Iran:

In the end, Trump did what no president before him had done. We went into this campaign shoulder to shoulder.

He did it with 40% support among the American public.

I don’t know many politicians who would go against their base like that.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Iran:

If Iran attacks us, we will simply destroy all of its energy facilities — including the domestic ones.

Oil, gas, refineries — it barely has much left, but whatever remains.

That brings down a country.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Iran:

We’re not under pressure. Trump has all the time in the world, and we have all the time in the world — and they are the ones under pressure.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Syria:

You have the Sunni axis. Syria is already an ISIS state. Jolani [Ahmed al-Sharaa] put on a suit and disguised himself, and they like him a little in the United States, but Syria is problematic.

And its connection with Türkiye — that is a rising Sunni axis.

We will have to be a strong and powerful country.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich:

We need a larger ground army. And I’m telling you, there are plans for a significant force buildup, including adding more formations.

We are dramatically enlarging the army.

Netanyahu:

On September 11th, America was hit by pure evil.

On October 7th, Israel was hit by it again.

Netanyahu:

There is no context for burning families alive.

There is no grievance that justifies murdering innocents deliberately.

Israel has expelled British soldiers who were monitoring settler violence in the West Bank and feeding intelligence to the Trump administration.

The team had been due to expand, but was ordered out after Britain imposed sanctions on Israeli settlements.

Source: The Telegraph