| PIEGEL ONLINE | INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER |
| Compiled on September 03, 2013, 06:31 PM CET |
| THE UNDECIDED How Merkel Could Lose German voters are deciding later than ever whom to vote for this election cycle. That is not good news for Chancellor Angela Merkel. With party loyalty on the wane, many of her core supporters could defect for tactical reasons at the last minute. |
| SUPER-SIZED Merkel Gets XXL Billboard Treatment In what her party is claiming to be the largest billboard ever used in a German election, Chancellor Angela Merkel's famous hand gesture is featuring prominently in downtown Berlin. Is it an emblem of self-irony or of an overgrown personality? |
| GAS ATTACK Germany Offers Clue in Search for Truth in Syria German intelligence agrees with other Western agencies that the Assad regime was behind the Aug. 21 poison gas attack in Syria. One important clue was provided by a telephone conversation intercepted by German agents. |
| 'APPALLING MILESTONE' Number of Syrian Refugees Tops 2 Million Two and a half years have gone by since the Syrian civil war began. As the world debates the merits of military intervention for the alleged chemical weapons attack last month, the UN now says that more than two million have fled the country. |
| SCION OF AUSTERITY A Tall Order for New Greek Reform Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has only been minister for administrative reform for a few weeks. But he is already under heavy pressure from the troika to reduce Greek spending. To show he means business, the ambitious son of an old political family will soon cut thousands of jobs. |
| LATE JUSTICE Germany to Prosecute 30 Auschwitz Guards Germany's top official for investigating Nazi war crimes announced on Tuesday he has recommended 30 suspected former Auschwitz guards be prosecuted for accessory to murder. |
| REBRANDING THE IHT 'New York Times Is the Stronger Name' It is the end of an era at the International Herald Tribune, with the paper soon to be rechristened as the International New York Times. In an interview, journalists Stephen Dunbar-Johnson and Dick Stevenson discuss the name change and the future of independent journalism. |
| BAD BLOOD Report Suggests Doping in German Football Blood doping is not a problem in soccer -- that, at least, is the position of the German Football Association. But a new study identified anomalously high levels in blood samples taken from hundreds of players. |
| JEW IN THE BOX 'I Don't Blame Germans for their Ignorance' After two decades of life in Germany, an American Jew reflects on the Berlin Jewish Museum's controversial "Jew in the Box" exhibition and her experiences in a country that still has a dearth of Jews, even decades after the war. |
| PATH OF A TYRANT Uncovering Genghis Khan's Lost Legacy As competing researchers race to locate Genghis Khan's tomb, discoveries by German and Mongolian archaeologists are shedding light on his son Ögödei's equally impressive accomplishments. |
| MYSTERY INTENSIFIES Attic Mummy Contains Human Bones Many thought the mummy found last month by a boy in his grandmother's eastern German attic would turn out to be a phony. But scans show it contains real human bones, though probably not those of an ancient Egyptian. |
| PICTURE THIS Germany or Bust |