17:12⇢Damascus Snubs Baerbock's Hand
⌨The newspapers report on Baerbock's diplomatic mission to Damascus, where Syria's new leader al-Sharaa refused to shake her hand while greeting her French counterpart (Spiegel, Tagesspiegel, merkur.de, Sueddeutsche). The media continues to analyze Elon Musk's controversial text in "Welt am Sonntag", with questions about its authorship and AI involvement (FAZ), while FDP politician Strack-Zimmermann warns her party against alignment with Musk (FR).