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F-16 fighter jet crashes at US air base in western Germany prompts major emergency response

A US F-16 fighter jet crashed near Spangdahlem Air Base in western Germany, leaving one person slightly injured and triggering a major emergency response. The pilot ejected safely.

The sign of the U.S. Air Force Spangdahlem Air Base stands on October 22, 2020 in Spangdahlem, Germany.
 A force of hard-hitting and aggressive American soldiers in large-scale manoeuvres, circa 1942.

US National Archives recovers over 120 previously unknown American POW statements from WWII

German Chancellor and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party leader, Friedrich Merz, walks to attend a press conference, after the state elections, in Berlin, Germany, September 21, 2026.

'Unrestrained antisemitism': German politicians, Jewish leaders warn over Left Party’s rise

Demonstrators protest an AfD campaign event in Wietze, Lower Saxony, ahead of the local elections, Sept. 10, 2026.

Germany’s Left Party, AfD win big in German state elections in setback for Merz’s CDU


Lithuania's Jewish partisan bunkers caught between Holocaust memory and military expansion

Lithuania was for centuries a center of rich Jewish thought, religious life and secular culture; Vilna, as the capital was known in Yiddish, was nicknamed the “Jerusalem of the North.”

A partisan bunker is seen in Rūdninkai Forest.

Antisemitic ideology deeply embedded within the far-right German AfD party, new AJC report shows

The AJC report found that while Germany’s AfD party denies antisemitism, “antisemitic ideas, codes, and narratives” are present throughout its rhetoric, mobilization strategies and memory politics.

Ulrich Siegmund, top candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Germany's Saxony-Anhalt state election, speaks at a party convention in Magdeburg, Germany, April 11, 2026.

Two killed at school near Berlin, suspected attacker detained

An 18-year-old student and a 30-year-old man were killed in an attack at a school near Berlin, according to local reports. A suspect was detained.

Illustrative: German police guard the Reichstag building, the seat of the German lower house of parliament Bundestag, before the German presidential election in Berlin, February 12, 2017

Third drone, suspected explosive substance found at German Leipzig/Halle airport

The drone was found on August 14, 10 days after the incident, to the west of the airport, where investigators also discovered about 50 grams of a substance they suspected to be a military explosive.

The empennages of a DHL cargo plane and Ukrainian Antonov cargo planes at Leipzig/Halle Airport in Schkeuditz, Germany, August 5, 2026

German prosecutors identify likely suspect in deadly 1970 Munich Jewish center arson

On the evening of 13 February 1970, the building of the Jewish Community of Munich at 27 Reichenbachstraße in Munich, which was also a retirement home, was set alight using a petrol mixture.

Some hundreds of people gather on the square in front of the synagogue in Munich, during a protest against anti-Semitism on October 11, 2019; illustrative

Which countries, tech giants around the world are regulating kids' social media access?

What are countries and companies doing to regulate access to social media amid mounting concerns over the impact of social media on children's health and safety?

Social media and the algorithm move faster than facts and claims can be verified.

The Odyssey holds a mirror to the breakdown of human society after October 7 - opinion

This may be history’s most important warning: Barbarism does not always come from outside. Sometimes it grows from within a society that regards itself as enlightened.

ZENDAYA PLAYS the apparition of Athena who appears to Odysseus (Matt Damon) and gives him some aphoristic guidance.

German giant acquires Israeli company for $575 million

Munich Re will acquire Israeli cyber insurer At-Bay for $575M. Founded in 2016 with 280 employees, the company will join Munich Re subsidiary HSB.

Munich Re to Acquire Israeli Cyber Insurer At-Bay for $575 Million.

German court convicts Ukrainian man over parcel bomb plot linked to Russia

For the Russian organizers of the plot, these shipments were designed to scope out potential opportunities for future acts of sabotage, the court said.

Defendants Daniil B., Vladyslav T. and Yevhen B. cover their faces as they arrive in the courtroom, where a court is expected to conclude the trial against the three Ukrainian nationals suspected of conspiracy to commit arson attacks on behalf of a Russian intelligence service.

German state bans anti-Israel ‘Palästina e.V.’ group over antisemitic propaganda, terror support

The state announced the ban on Tuesday, after an administrative court determined that Palästina e.V.'s purpose and activities go against Germany's constitutional order.

A protester holds a sign reading "One Holocaust Does Not Justify Another Genocide," with the last word written in German, as she attends a demonstration in support of Palestine on November 18, 2023 in Berlin, Germany.