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Chinese nationals accused of posing as descendants of Nazi victims to obtain German citizenship

The fraud involves people claiming to be descendants of Jews persecuted by the Nazis, with falsified documents and biographical info submitted to the Federal Office of Administration in Cologne.

(ILLUSTRATIVE) Masked German police officers and an officer of Germany’s Federal Police BKA enter a house after having arrested eight suspected members of a right-wing militant group in Dresden, Germany, November 5, 2024.
Lead candidate Ulrich Siegmund of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) political party, makes a selfie with a supporter during the final campaign rally on the eve of state elections in Saxony-Anhalt on September 5, 2026 in Magdeburg, Germany.

How will an AfD victory in Saxony-Anhalt impact Germany - and should Jews be worried?

Top candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), Ulrich Siegmund, stands at the polling station after voting in the Saxony-Anhalt state election, in Tangermuende, Germany, September 6, 2026.

Germany’s far-right AfD wins historic 44.5% in Saxony-Anhalt election, exit polls show

BAYREUTH FESTIVAL HALL in Germany, built specifically for the performance of Wagner’s stage works.

To play or not to play: A Swiss theater director comes to Israel to test the murky Wagnerian waters


Europe’s summer heatwave reveals Ice Age mammoth bones, sunken Nazi relics in receding Danube River

Near Opatovac, Croatia,receding water levels have also begun to reveal a shows the wreckage of the Hungarian cargo ship Fulton which sunk in the Danube in 1937 while transporting coal.

A drone view shows people swimming near a sunken German warship from World War II, exposed due to low Danube River levels caused by drought and extreme heat, in Prahovo, Serbia, July 30, 2026.

Plane near explosive drone found at German airport was carrying ammunition, media reports say

Forensic experts found that the explosives attached to the drone were of a high military grade, reported the outlets, which also included broadcasters NDR and WDR, citing a confidential police report

Police officers work in the vicinity of an Antonov cargo plane, near which a drone was found, at Leipzig/Halle Airport in Schkeuditz, Germany, August 5, 2026.

DHL plane hits unknown object over Germany, forcing unscheduled Hanover landing

Authorities said they were investigating a drone found near a runway at the airport during the night, which the Bild newspaper said contained a detonator.

A DHL Boeing 757 cargo airplane is pictured at the Leipzig/Halle airport in Schkeuditz, Germany, August 21, 2019.

Berlin attack highlights Europe’s shift to individualized, multi-layered terror threats - analysis

Online radicalization, lone-actor violence, and Iran-linked networks are placing European security services under pressure from distinct but increasingly simultaneous threats.

Tourists and visitors observe and pay respects at a makeshift memorial set in Pariser Platz in front of the Brandenburg gate, one week after the Christopher Street Day pride parade attack on August 2, 2026 in Berlin, Germany.

Not just Berlin: Israelis return to Germany – and rediscover it

Germany recorded 685,000 Israeli overnights last year, up 11%, offering more than Berlin with 341 Michelin-starred restaurants, scenic nature, culinary routes, and global cultural events.

Hamburg, Germany.

German high court rules comparing Israel to Nazi Germany is protected speech

A German appeals court acquitted a woman who compared Israel to Nazi Germany online, ruling that the posts were protected expression and did not meet the legal threshold for incitement.

Israel flag and Germany flag.

Hamas official says group will reject Board of Peace disarmament deal if Israel does not approve

Ghazi Hamad, a Hamas official involved in the negotiations, said the agreement was a "comprehensive framework" that went beyond the issue of disarmament.

Gunmen stand guard at the funeral of Marwan Issa, a senior Hamas deputy military commander who was killed in an Israeli airstrike during the conflict between Israel and Hamas, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip, February 7, 2025.

Zohran Mamdani's genocide accusation matters far beyond Israel - opinion

Using "genocide" to describe Israel weakens the term's meaning and fuels hostility toward New York's Jewish community.

DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE for New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani speaks outside the Islamic Cultural Center of the Bronx on Friday. The writer asks: Does Mamdani still not understand that anti-Israel rhetoric has generated a sharp spike in antisemitic violence?

I left Germany looking for free speech and found it in a room full of Israelis, Arabs, and Iranians

In London, my instinct to filter my words slowly faded. I found myself speaking more freely than I had in years – not because everyone shared my views, but because I no longer had to soften them

 The Mediterranean Sea.

Berlin Pride attacker recorded masked pledge of allegiance to ISIS on phone, prosecutors say

Though the person in the video was masked, authorities assume it shows the suspected attacker, 21-year-old German citizen Abdul Ballout, a spokesperson for the federal prosecutors' office said.

Forensic pathologist van at an allotment garden complex in the Berlin suburb of Spandau after a known Islamist, suspected of ramming a minivan into a crowd near Berlin's annual Christopher Street Day Pride parade on Saturday evening, was shot and killed in a police operation, in Berlin, Germany