Germany

A suspect is under arrest after driving a vehicle into a crowd of people in Mannheim, Germany.

The news comes 18 days after at least 28 people were injured in a car ramming in Munich.

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives are on course for a lackluster victory in a national election Sunday, while Alternative for Germany nearly doubled its support, the strongest showing for a far-right party since World War II.

Alternative for Germany appears to be headed for the strongest showing by a far-right party since World War II in Sunday’s national election and is fielding its first candidate to lead the country. The party is highly unlikely to take a share of power soon. But it has become a factor that other politicians can’t ignore and is helping shape...

Police in Berlin say they have arrested a man suspected in a stabbing attack at the city’s Holocaust Memorial that left one man seriously injured.

Birkenstock sandals are ubiquitous in the summer. But can the well-known sandals be considered art? That’s what Germany’s Federal Court of Justice had to decide on Thursday, and it ruled they’re just comfy footwear. Birkenstock, which is headquartered in western Germany, had filed a lawsuit against three competitors who sold sandal models that were very similar to its own. The...

The driver drove into a labor union demonstration in central Munich. Officials said it was believed to be an attack and the suspect, an Afghan asylum-seeker, was arrested.

Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are expected to attend a major security conference in the German city on Friday.

German authorities say they received tipoffs last year about the suspect in a car attack at a Christmas market in Magdeburg as more details emerged about the five people killed.

The suspect has been identified as Taleb al-Abdulmohsen. Police have not cited a motive, but a minister confirmed that the suspect was “clearly Islamophobic.”

The violence shocked the country and the city, bringing its mayor to the verge of tears and marring a festive event that’s part of a centuries-old German tradition.

A car drove into a group of people at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg on Friday, German news agency dpa reported.

More than 200 people were injured, many seriously, when a Saudi doctor intentionally drove a black BMW into a busy Magdeburg, Germany, Christmas market Friday evening.

Germany’s federal prosecutor office said it arrested an American citizen on Thursday who allegedly spied for China.

Biden plans to send Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Israel early next week to discuss securing Gaza, recovering hostages and the future of the Palestinian people

If the Cookie Monster was on the way to get sweet treats – they were in too much of a hurry.

Germany’s far right is on course to win the most votes in a state election for the first time since the Nazi era, in a major rebuke of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ruling center-left coalition.

German police said early Sunday that a 26-year-old man turned himself in, claiming to be behind the deadly Solingen knife attack that left three dead and eight wounded at a festival marking the city’s 650th anniversary.

German police early Sunday detained a suspect in the Solingen knife attack that killed three people and wounded eight others, the state internal affairs minister of North Rhein Westphalia said.

At least three people were killed and six others injured in an attack at a festival in Germany, police said.