Uganda has “suspended” all military cooperation with Germany, its army spokesperson said Sunday, claiming the German ambassador is “engaged in subversive activities” in the east African country.The escalation follows another army statement on Friday, which alleged some European diplomatic missions had been supporting “negative and traitorous groups” opposed to the government, also singling out German […]
Germany mass stabbing suspect has ‘psychological illness’: Police (Photo: AP) A German woman accused of a mass stabbing attack that wounded 18 people at a train station in Hamburg suffers from mental illness, police said Saturday.The suspect, a 39-year-old woman, is accused of going on a stabbing spree on Friday at the main station in […]
Berlin: At least 12 people were injured in a knife attack in Hamburg station on Friday evening, Germany’s Bild newspaper reported, and local police confirmed they had arrested the suspected assailant. Three victims are in critical condition, three others are seriously injured, and six people sustained minor injuries, Bild reported, saying the motive for the […]
The group planned and carried out arson attacks on buildings housing asylum seekers, authorities said, warning that far-right extremist organizations are increasingly attracting young people. Source link
Johann Wadephul (Deutscher Bundestag) US President Donald Trump can feel vindicated: Germany‘s new foreign minister, Johann Wadephul, said this week that the government had accepted the president’s demand to invest 5% of GDP in defense. Speaking at a meeting of Nato foreign ministers in Antalya, Turkey, on Thursday, Wadephul also said Germany would support Nato’s […]
People attend a pro-Palestinians demonstration to commemorate the Nakba Day in Berlin, Germany (AP) Several protesters and police officers sustained injuries during violent confrontations at a pro-Palestinian demonstration marking Nakba Day in Berlin on Thursday.According to police, who made over 50 arrests, approximately 1,100 people took part in the demonstration in the Berlin district of […]
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, right, and German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil (AP) Germany’s baby boomers are retiring. Those born between 1955 and 1969, when the birth rate was at an all-time high, are also living longer. The workforce is not growing at the same rate.So who will pay the elderly’s pensions? A considerable chunk of […]
A spokeswoman for Germany’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office said the founder of the “Reich Citizens” subgroup “Kingdom of Germany,” Peter Fitzek, had been taken into custody on Thursday. Fitzek and three other suspected ringleaders of the group, part of a conspiracy theorist movement that rejects the legitimacy of the modern German republic, were arrested.What do we […]
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has filed a lawsuit against the German domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), which recently labeled the far-right party as “confirmed right-wing extremist.”On Thursday, the BfV complied with the AfD’s request to follow a so-called “standstill commitment” (Stillhaltezusage). This means that the agency […]
