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Seit Monaten verhandeln Spaniens Profifußballerinnen mit ihren Verbänden um bessere Arbeitsbedingungen. Zuletzt wurden ihnen Teilzeitverträge und 8.000 Euro Jahresgehalt angeboten. Zum Vergleich: Männliche Profis erhalten 155.000 Euro. Die Spielerinnen wollen nun am 16. und 17. November streiken: Sie verlangen mindestens 12.000 Euro und einen Tarifvertrag. Zu Recht, schreiben die Kommentatoren.

Premier Bodo Ramelow's Left Party has won the elections to the state parliament in Thuringia. With 31 percent of the vote this is the first time that it has emerged as the strongest party in a state election. The former Left Party-SPD-Green Party coalition lost its majority, however. In second place came the right-wing populist AfD with roughly 23 percent. Commentators ask if it's time for an unconventional alliance.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader and founder of the Islamic State, is dead. President Trump announced that a special unit of the US army led an operation against al-Baghdadi on Saturday night which culminated in the terrorist leader blowing himself up with his suicide vest. Donald Trump has called the operation a big success and described it in great detail. Commentators don't share his glee.