The German vote count is in. Now for the horsetrading: The center-left SDP won the most votes in the German elections, but the party hasn’t yet made it to government. Neither the SDP nor the outgoing chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union won a majority of the vote, meaning weeks of negotiations on a coalition lie ahead. The two parties that hold the balance of power, the Greens and the liberal FDP, both upped their vote share and are set to enter coalition talks with SDP leader party leader Olaf Scholz, who hopes to put a government together in the coming weeks. Reuters, the FT and the NYT have more.

Israel and Iran trade barbs at UN debate: Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett accused Iran of crossing “all red lines” with its nuclear program and reiterated that Tehran would not be allowed to develop a weapon during his first UN General Assembly speech yesterday, Reuters reports. In response, Iran’s ambassador to the UN called Bennett’s speech “full of lies.”

“What about Apple?” Google asked an EU court yesterday, as the tech firm kicked off its attempt to get repealed a record EUR 4.3 bn antitrust fine handed to it last year for anticompetitive practices relating to its Android mobile operating system, according to Reuters. Lawyers for the Silicon Valley giant told the court that Apple, too, had acquired significant market power and framed its activities as disrupting spaces dominated by Tim Cook and co.