A new study from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Germany's public health institute, has found that tens of thousands of people die each year in the country due at least in part to antibiotic-resistant infections.

Published in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy-Antimicrobial Resistance, the study found that antibiotic-resistant pathogens were connected with the deaths of at least 45,700 people in 2019.

Of those, 9,600 were thought to be entirely related to drug-resistant bacteria. 

The RKI called antibiotic resistance "one of the greatest global health challenges of our time."

The institute called for restraint in the use of antibiotics. Scientists have long noted that the biggest driver of resistance is the overuse of the drugs in the meat and dairy industries. 

According to a new YouGov poll carried out for German dpa news agency, around 65% of Germans support Chancellor Friedrich Merz's decision to suspend some of its weapons deliveries to Israel.

About 19% opposed the move, and 16% were undecided.

While Merz has maintained that Germany is Israel's ally, there has been an increasingly loud outcry both at home and abroad against Israel's military campaign in Gaza.

The United Nations and rights groups have accused the Israeli government of war crimes, including forced starvation, mass displacement and genocide.

The YouGov poll found that opinion was slightly more divided on whether the European Union should review its political and economic ties with Israel, with 45% backing Berlin's stance that dialogue must remain open.

Andreas Scheuer, who was federal minister of transportation and digital infrastructure from 2018 to 2021, has confirmed media reports that he has been charged with making a false statement to the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament.

Scheuer is a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the Bavarian sister party to the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the conservative party of current Chancellor Friedrich Merz as well as former longtime Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Indeed, it was under Merkel that Scheuer served as a Cabinet member, handling the final stages of Merkel's ill-fated attempt to introduce tolls on Germany's highways.

An extremely unpopular proposal both at home and abroad, Scheuer is accused of lying to the Bundestag about having signed a contract with a company to run the toll operations despite knowing that the European Court of Justice was likely to declare the scheme illegal.

Scheuer has denied the charges.

A wunderschönen guten Morgen from our newsroom in Bonn.

Today, we will be looking at the court case against Germany's former transport minister, current Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul's trip to Indonesia, and a major video game convention kicking off in Cologne.

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