🇩🇪⚡️ — Turnout at 2:00 PM reached 54.4% and is record-breaking – already higher than in the previous elections overall.

In the previous elections, turnout at 2:00 PM was 27.1%.

🇩🇪⚡️ — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated that Germany has "overcome nationalism" and that "it will never again allow ethnic nationalism to take hold in Germany."

🇺🇸🇫🇷🇬🇧🇺🇦⚡️ — In addition to Trump's special envoys, national security advisers from Britain, France, and Germany are also in Kiev.

- Reuters

🇦🇹⚡️ — Austria is preparing a constitutional BAN on political Islam, deemed incompatible with democracy and Western values by Chancellor Christian Stocker.

"I do not want our children and grandchildren to grow up in an Islamic state," he stated.

The Chancellor specifically denounced the influence of certain preachers and warned: "It cannot be allowed for a preacher to dictate the rules instead of Parliament."

The government promises to combat "political Islam by all available means."

🇷🇺⚡️ — An S8000 “Banderol” small cruise missile mounted on a Russian Mi-28NM attack helicopter.

🇺🇸⚡️ — The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) has moved eastward after getting cleaned up and undergoing maintenance in Thailand following months of deployment in the Middle East.