12:12⇢Le Pen Sentenced to Electronic Monitoring and Election Ban
⌨The newspapers extensively report on French far-right leader Marine Le Pen's guilty verdict for misappropriating EU funds. She has been sentenced to two years with an electronic ankle monitor, fined €100,000, and barred from running in elections for five years, preventing her candidacy in the 2027 presidential election (Bild, FAZ, Junge Freiheit, Sueddeutsche, TAZ, Tagesspiegel, Welt, Zeit). Other news includes Germany's inflation rate dropping slightly to 2.2% (FR, merkur.de), concerns about a wolf pack disappearing in Schermbeck (RP Online), and continued rescue efforts in Myanmar despite military operations (Spiegel).