{"id":91361,"date":"2026-04-20T16:45:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/merz-war-benefits-no-one-and-harms-many\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T16:45:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:45:47","slug":"merz-war-benefits-no-one-and-harms-many","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/merz-war-benefits-no-one-and-harms-many\/","title":{"rendered":"Merz: War \u2018benefits no one and harms many\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \tBRADUFOSS, Norway: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday that the Middle East war must end \u201cas soon as possible\u201d as the conflict \u201cbenefits no-one and harms many economically, including us.\u201d \tAsked whether Europeans should make direct contact with Iran to ask for the Strait of Hormuz to be reopened, Merz said: \u201cWe are making every effort to end this war &#8230; all diplomatic channels are being used.\u201d<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/2636321\/world\">World<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRADUFOSS, Norway: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday that the Middle East war must end \u201cas soon as possible\u201d as the conflict \u201cbenefits no-one and harms many economically, including us.\u201d Asked whether Europeans should make direct contact with Iran to ask for the Strait of Hormuz to be reopened, Merz said: \u201cWe are making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[213,20385,387,28822],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}