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World in brief: September 25, 2024
Samsung workers who are on strike shout slogans during a protest near their plant in Sriperumbudur, on the outskirts of Chennai, India, September 24, 2024

GERMANY: The co-leaders of the Greens, one of three parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s troubled coalition government, are to step down after the latest in a string of disappointing election results.

Under Omid Nouripour and Ricarda Lang, support for the Greens declined sharply in June’s European Parliament election. Voters ejected them from two state parliaments in eastern Germany this month, most recently in Brandenburg on Sunday.

PHILIPPINES: United States and Filipino security officials agreed today to keep a US mid-range missile system in the north of the country indefinitely to boost deterrence, despite the move alarming China. 

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