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What we know about the suspect behind the German Christmas market attack

Dec. 21, 2024 07:59 AM EST

MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP) — Germany on Saturday was still in shock and struggling to understand the suspect behind the attack in the city of Magdeburg. Identified by local media as 50-year-old Taleb A., a psychiatry and psychotherapy specialist, authorities said he has been living in...

Death toll in attack on Christmas market in Germany rises to 5 and more than 200 injured

Dec. 21, 2024 07:17 AM EST

MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP) — Germans on Saturday mourned both the victims and their shaken sense of security after a Saudi doctor intentionally drove into a Christmas market teeming with holiday shoppers, killing at least five people, including a small child, and wounding at least 200 others. ...

At least 2 dead and 60 hurt after a car drives into a German Christmas market in a suspected attack

Dec. 20, 2024 23:56 PM EST

MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP) — A car plowed into a busy outdoor Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg on Friday, killing at least two people and injuring at least 60 others in what authorities called a deliberate attack. The driver was arrested at the scene shortly...

VW wage deal for 120,000 German workers avoids layoffs, plant closures

Dec. 20, 2024 14:39 PM EST

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Volkswagen and its employee representatives said Friday they have reached a wage deal for 120,000 German workers that avoids plant closings and bars involuntary layoffs through 2030. The agreement includes provisions for VW to shed more than 35,000 jobs through early...

Scholz dismisses Musk's assertion that only a far-right party can 'save' Germany

Dec. 20, 2024 09:49 AM EST

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday dismissed an assertion by Elon Musk that only a far-right party can “save Germany,” but said that freedom of opinion "also goes for multibillionaires.” Germany is expected to vote in an early election on Feb. 23 after Scholz's...

German lawmakers back plan to protect supreme court against meddling by authoritarians, extremists

Dec. 19, 2024 08:42 AM EST

BERLIN (AP) — German lawmakers on Thursday approved legislation designed to protect the country's highest court against possible future manipulation or obstruction by authoritarian or extremist politicians. Officials have cited experiences in Poland, Hungary and elsewhere as...

Swedish police to go aboard Chinese ship that was seen near Baltic cable ruptures

Dec. 19, 2024 07:26 AM EST

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish police said Thursday they would participate as observers as Chinese authorities conduct investigations aboard a China-flagged ship in the Baltic Sea that was seen in an area where two undersea data cables were damaged last month. Sweden's prime minister...

Thousands of Syrian doctors work in Germany. It hopes they will stay after Assad's fall

Dec. 19, 2024 03:48 AM EST

BERLIN (AP) — Thousands of Syrian doctors work in Germany, and the fall of Bashar Assad is raising concern over the potential consequences for the health sector if many of them were to return home. Germany became a leading destination for Syrian refugees over the past decade, and...

Democracies across the globe are at a crossroads, as authoritarians seek to chip away at freedoms

Dec. 18, 2024 08:30 AM EST

In November, the world's most powerful democracy elected as its next president a man who schemed to overturn its last presidential election. A month later, South Koreans swarmed their legislature to block their president's attempt to impose martial law. The contrast sums up a year...

The Unify League is soccer's latest incarnation of a breakaway European Super League

Dec. 17, 2024 10:26 AM EST

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Organizers of a breakaway European Super League have revealed new plans to create a rival to the Champions League. The Unify League is the latest incarnation of a proposed elite competition for the biggest soccer clubs in Europe. It comes after the...