Latest Hamburg News

Exiled Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof's definition of home is shifting

Dec. 05, 2024 16:45 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — Shortly before he was to be flogged and imprisoned for eight years, Mohammad Rasoulof fled Iran. His weekslong journey would take him from Tehran, through rural Iranian villages, on foot across a mountainous borderland and ultimately to Hamburg, Germany. As arduous...

Criminal investigation launched after drones spotted by US Air Force over UK bases

Nov. 27, 2024 15:02 PM EST

LONDON (AP) — A criminal investigation has been launched after the U.S. Air Force reported that drones were spotted flying over English military bases, a British official said Wednesday. The U.S. Air Force reported several incursions occurred in the past week at four bases where...

Ursula Haverbeck, German far-right activist repeatedly convicted for Holocaust denial, dies at 96

Nov. 21, 2024 07:02 AM EST

BERLIN (AP) — Ursula Haverbeck, a prominent German far-right activist who accumulated a string of convictions for denying the Holocaust, has died. She was 96. Haverbeck died on Wednesday, her lawyer Wolfram Nahrath told German news agency dpa on Thursday. Haverbeck...