Russia has what it needs to fight on in Ukraine for at least another year but is struggling to replace its destroyed tanks, experts at a leading security research organisation said yesterday.

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban hailed the leader of Germany&s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as an ally who could help &lift the boot& of Brussels from Hungary&s chest, welcoming her less than two weeks before a German election.

The daughter of murdered British MP David Amess has said a counter-terrorism review linked to his killer is &a paper exercise& that &doesn&t mean anything&.

Angst (a German word) is spreading across the Bundesrepublik. Amid talk that the country is the &sick man of Europe,& just one-tenth of Germans describe themselves as confident, with more describing their mood as fearful, mistrustful, fatigued and sullen.