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Germany set a new all-time heat record during a weekend heatwave, reaching 41.7°C at the Neißemünde-Coschen station in Brandenburg after yesterday’s record; the extreme heat caused road surfaces to buckle and tram infrastructure in Leipzig to melt, with storms forecast to cool conditions by Monday and authorities urging cooling spaces such as churches.
Britta Ernst, the wife of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, has resigned as education minister of the east German state of Brandenburg due to tensions with her own parliamentary group over her plans to combat the shortage of teachers in the state. Ernst's plans to cut 200 vacant teaching positions and staff them with social workers instead did not find support from the SPD parliamentary group in the state parliament. She will be replaced by the current state secretary, Steffen Freiberg.