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German police were searching on Saturday for a pair of suspects involved in the assault of two Green Party politicians in the city of Essen on Thursday evening. The State Protection Office had taken over the investigation due to the possibility that the assault could have been politically motivated. German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser on Saturday wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that "this act is another attack against our democracy." Kai Gehring, who serves in the German parliament in Berlin, was with Rolf Fliss, a local Essen politician, when they were approached on a major city street at aro...
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Hundreds of people took to the streets in Hamburg on Saturday to protest against Islamism and anti-Semitism and in support of the liberal values of Germany's democratic constitutional order. The demonstration in Hamburg was planned as a counter-rally to a march organized by Islamists last week which caused nationwide outrage. Participants in the Islamist march had made calls for a caliphate. The caliphate as a form of rule originated after the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632 AD and refers to a system based on Islamic law. As the representative of Muhammad, the caliph acts as both a religi...
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German police were searching on Saturday for a pair of suspects involved in the assault of two Green Party politicians in the city of Essen on Thursday evening. The State Protection Office had taken over the investigation due the possibility that the assault could have been politically motivated. Kai Gehring, who serves in the German parliament in Berlin, was with Rolf Fliss, a local Essen politician, when they were approached on a major city street at around 10:30 pm on Thursday. After an initially friendly conversation, an argument and insults ensued. Fliss was punched in the face and slight...
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Germany has summoned the acting chargé d'affaires of the Russian embassy in response to a Russian cyberattack on the governing centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) last year. He had been summoned for around midday, a spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry announced in Berlin on Friday. "[It is a clear diplomatic signal] to make it clear to Moscow that we do not accept this behaviour, that we clearly condemn it and that we reserve the right to impose consequences," the spokesman added. The chargé d'affaires is Alexei Korlyakov. The European Union and NATO on Friday issued statements con...
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Germany has summoned the acting chargé d'affaires of the Russian embassy in response to a Russian cyberattack on the governing centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) last year. Chargé d'affaires Alexei Korlyakov had been summoned for around midday, a spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry announced in Berlin on Friday. "[It is a clear diplomatic signal] to make it clear to Moscow that we do not accept this behaviour, that we clearly condemn it and that we reserve the right to impose consequences," the spokesman added. In June 2023, the SPD said that email accounts belonging to its execut...
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The European Union and NATO on Friday issued statements condemning the Russian cyberattack on Germany and the Czech Republic, which says it was also targeted. The EU statement, issued by EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrel on behalf of all 27 member states, said the bloc "is determined to make use of the full spectrum of measures to prevent, deter and respond to Russia’s malicious behaviour in cyberspace." Earlier, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Berlin blames a unit of the Russian military intelligence service GRU for a 2023 cyberattack on the centre-left Social Democrats, wh...
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Germany has summoned the acting chargé d'affaires of the Russian embassy in response to a Russian cyberattack on the governing Social Democratic Party (SPD) last year. He has been summoned for noon, a spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry announced in Berlin on Friday. Earlier, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Berlin blames a unit of the Russian military intelligence service GRU for a 2023 cyberattack on the centre-left SPD, which is in coalition with the Greens and pro-business Free Democrats (FDP). "Russian state hackers attacked Germany in cyberspace," Baerbock said in Adelaide d...
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Hardline Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich warned on Sunday that he would bring down Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government if a planned military ground assault on Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip is called off. Smotrich's warning came amid attempts in Egypt to secure a fresh ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages held by the militant Palestinian organization Hamas. "Agreement with the Egyptian deal is a humiliating capitulation and grants the Nazis a victory on the backs of hundreds of heroic soldiers who have fallen in the battle," Smotrich said in a video post on ...
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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has cancelled a planned panel discussion on the Gaza war at his official residence in Berlin amid criticism that no Palestinian voice had been invited to take part. At the event called "How do we talk about the war in the Middle East?" originally scheduled at Bellevue Palace for Thursday, Steinmeier had intended to give a speech and discuss the topic with three guests, Meron Mendel, director of the Anne Frank Educational Centre, journalist Tilo Jung and Melody Sucharewicz, an expert on German-Israeli relations. Critics have called out the lack of a Pale...
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Two top German government ministers have defended last year's closure of the country's last nuclear power plants before parliament, rejecting new allegations levelled in a magazine piece that they'd suppressed internal concerns about the plan. In a piece published over the weekend, the magazine Cicero alleged that key government ministries sought to block the public release of internal reports raising concerns about the final shut-down of reactors and suggested that operations could be extended at some nuclear power plants. Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck and Environment Minister Steffi Lemke, b...
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