
— Final results showed AfD receiving 43.8% of the vote, more than double its showing five years ago in the region of 2.1 million people west of Berlin. However, falling three seats short, with 39 lawmakers in an 83-member parliament. The Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the party of Germany's unpopular leader, Chancellor Friedrich Merz, slumped to a disastrous result in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, with only 17.2% of the vote, and won 15 seats. The centre-left Social Democrats got 9.3%, the Greens 8.9% and the Left Party 8.6%, all winning 8 seats apiece.
— Jared Kushner said the US president had instructed them to find a way to end the war and "create the right conditions for a long-term, durable peace".
— Commission President Ursula von der Leyen: "For the next EU budget, we have proposed to more than double our investment in Greenland. Because we are building this partnership for the long term." Greenland has been under renewed geopolitical focus since US President Donald Trump's threat earlier this year to seize the island by force.