Friedrich Merz’s €1tn spending plan wins final approval from Germany’s upper house – Financial Times

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  1. Friedrich Merz’s €1tn spending plan wins final approval from Germany’s upper house  Financial Times
  2. Germany Set for Trillion-Euro Defense and Infrastructure Splurge  The Wall Street Journal
  3. Germany's upper house clears historic defence spending bill  Euronews
  4. Germany Has Traded Austerity for a Mess  Foreign Policy
  5. How will Germany spend its €1 trillion loans?  DW (English)
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Families flock to Mexican murder ranch, hoping for signs of loved ones – Los Angeles Times

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  1. Families flock to Mexican murder ranch, hoping for signs of loved ones  Los Angeles Times
  2. Clues From Inside an ‘Extermination Camp’ Promise Despair and Hope  The New York Times
  3. ‘Mexican Auschwitz’ opens its doors: ‘The only truth is that they don’t care about the missing’  EL PAÍS USA
  4. At Mexico's 'ranch of horror' families of the missing hope for answers  Reuters
  5. ‘Extermination camp’ discovery horrifies Mexico  Financial Times
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Courts push back, wars heat up and 3 more takeaways from Trump’s moves this week – NPR

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  1. Courts push back, wars heat up and 3 more takeaways from Trump's moves this week  NPR
  2. Alien Enemies Act and deportations: Trump's week in review  MSNBC
  3. Tracking Trump: The trade war, Ukraine and U.S. strikes against Houthis  Axios
  4. What did President Donald Trump do this week? Here are 6 things you should know  The Arizona Republic
  5. Gold cherubs, autopens - and a court crisis: one week in Trumpworld  CBS19 News
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Winston Churchill’s grandson reveals he was abused at prep school

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CBI chair Rupert Soames tells podcast he is ‘completely unembarrassed’ about abuse that occurred in early life

A grandson of Winston Churchill has revealed he was abused as a child while boarding at a prep school and said he was “completely unembarrassed about it”.

Rupert Soames, the chair of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), spoke about his childhood on the Crisis What Crisis? podcast.

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Sudan’s army recaptures presidential palace in major battlefield gain

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Compound was last bastion in the capital, Khartoum, held by rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces

Sudan’s military has retaken the presidential palace in Khartoum, the last bastion in the capital of rival paramilitary forces, after nearly two years of fighting.

Social media videos showed soldiers inside giving the date as the 21st day of Ramadan, which was Friday. A Sudanese military officer wearing a captain’s epaulettes made the announcement in the video, and confirmed the troops were inside the compound.

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UK borrowing rises to £10.7bn in setback for Rachel Reeves

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February figure comes in higher than forecasts less than a week before chancellor’s spring statement

UK government borrowing rose by more than expected in February to £10.7bn, underscoring the challenge for Rachel Reeves before next week’s spring statement.

Figures from the Office for National Statistics showed borrowing – the difference between total public sector spending and income – was little changed from the same month a year earlier. However, over the financial year to date borrowing was up nearly £15bn on the same period last year.

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Teenager who allegedly tried to force way on to Jetstar flight in Victoria charged with attempted hijacking

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The 17-year-old was originally charged with 12 Victorian offences but is now facing further federal charges

A 17-year-old boy who allegedly tried to force his way on to a Jetstar flight at Victoria’s second largest airport with a shotgun earlier this month, before being dramatically overpowered by passengers, is facing fresh commonwealth charges including attempted hijacking.

Police allege the boy climbed through a hole in a fence at Avalon airport, near Geelong, on 6 March before making his way on foot to the aircraft at about 2.20pm.

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Sydney ‘science nerd’ may face jail for importing plutonium in bid to collect all elements of periodic table

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Emmanuel Lidden, 24, to learn fate after breaching nuclear non-proliferation laws by shipping samples of radioactive material to parents’ suburban home

A “science nerd” who wanted to collect all the elements of the periodic table could face jail time after ordering radioactive material over the internet.

But Emmanuel Lidden, 24, will have to wait to learn his sentence after breaching nuclear non-proliferation laws by shipping samples of plutonium to his parents’ suburban Sydney apartment.

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