A weekly poll found that support for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union of Germany party fell for the second consecutive week (Bloomberg), while support for the Social Democratic Party of Germany surpassed support for the Greens party for the first time in a year. Germany holds elections in six weeks.
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Turkey: More than seventy people have died (Anadolu) in flooding in the country’s Black Sea region that began with heavy rains last week, authorities said. Rescue efforts are still underway.
