A network of more than 700 fake social media accounts has sprung up in the last week of Germany's election campaign.

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Friedrich Merz, who is set to become the new German chancellor, has vowed to prioritise European unity and the continent’s security as it grapples with the new Trump administration and Russia’s war on Ukraine. Mr Merz’s task will be complicated by ...