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Thousands Protest AfD as Musk Addresses Its Rally

Organizers call Berlin demonstration a 'sea of light against the right turn'

(Newser) - Thousands of Germans on Saturday protested in Berlin and other cities against the rise of the far-right and anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany party ahead of a Feb. 23 general election. At Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, participants lighted up their phones, blew whistles, and sang anti-fascist songs, and in Cologne, protesters...

Musk Hosts, Backs Far-Right Leader on X

Alice Weidel appears on audio livestream, praised as 'very reasonable'

(Newser) - Elon Musk further involved himself in Germany's politics on Thursday, hosting a leader of a far-right party for an audio livestream on X and urging its citizens to cast their ballots for Alice Weidel's Alternative for Germany party in the elections next month. "I'm really strongly...

Death Toll Rises Again After 'Dreadful' Attack in Germany

6th person dies after tragedy at Magdeburg Christmas market

(Newser) - A sixth person has died more than two weeks after a car attack on a Christmas market in Germany last month. The 52-year-old woman had been critically injured in the Dec. 20 attack, DW reports. Authorities say at least 299 people were injured after the suspect plowed into the crowd...

Musk Goes Further in His Support of Far-Right Party

He claims party with neo-Nazi links is Germany's last hope

(Newser) - Elon Musk on Saturday endorsed Germany's far-right AfD party for the second time in little more than a week, this time going further than his initial X post backing the party , which has links to neo-Nazis. In a guest opinion column for the Welt am Sonntag, a major German...

He Awaits Societal Collapse. Just Don't Call Him a Doomer
'The Collapse of Society
Is ... Imminent'
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Dec 21, 2024 11:30 AM CST

'The Collapse of Society Is ... Imminent'

Hazlitt magazine visits Ben Green at his unusual retreat in Germany

(Newser) - At the start of dinner with his guests, Ben Green offers this pick-me-up of a toast: "We're here because it's already too late," he tells them. "The collapse of society is inevitable, and it's imminent. There's absolutely nothing we can do about it....

Musk Endorses Germany's Far-Right Party

Scholz points out that free speech rights apply to bad political advice

(Newser) - Elon Musk, already busy with US politics , stepped into Germany's on Friday, drawing the attention of millions of X users and leaders who don't share his support of the far-right Alternative for Germany party. "Only the AfD can save Germany," Musk wrote in response to a...

Car Drives Into Christmas Crowd at German Market

Suspected attack, which killed two people and injured scores, echoes one from 2016

(Newser) - A car drove into a group of people at a Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg on Friday, per the AP . The BBC reports that at least two people, including a child, were killed. Officials said 15 people were seriously injured and another 53 were less seriously...

Scholz Loses in Parliament, Setting Up an Election

Lawmakers deny chancellor on confidence vote

(Newser) - Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote in the German parliament on Monday, putting the European Union's most populous member and biggest economy on course to hold an early election in February. Scholz won the support of 207 lawmakers in the 733-seat lower house, or Bundestag, while 394 voted...

German VW Workers Go on 'Warning' Strike

Struggling automaker wants to close 3 plants in Germany, cut worker pay by 10%

(Newser) - Volkswagen workers launched rolling two-hour strikes Monday at nine plants across Germany to underscore their resistance to pay cuts and factory closures the company says are necessary to cope with a slack European auto market. The work stoppages included the company's base plant at Wolfsburg, where workers rallied against...

Sabotage Suspected After 2 Cables in Baltic Sea Are Cut
Chinese Ship Suspected
in Baltic Cable Sabotage
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Nov 21, 2024 11:36 AM CST

Chinese Ship Suspected in Baltic Cable Sabotage

Yi Peng 3 being monitored by Danish navy

(Newser) - Swedish authorities have labeled a Chinese ship "part of the sphere of interest" after two fiber-optic cables were cut in the Baltic Sea. The Yi Peng 3 is believed to have passed over the undersea cables around the times they were severed on Sunday and Monday, the Guardian reports....

IKEA Paying $6.5M to Compensate Prisoners for Forced Labor

Company is putting money into fund Germany is establishing

(Newser) - In what CNN is describing as a "landmark move," IKEA will pay about $6.5 million to compensate the former prisoners who were forced to build furniture for the company in communist East Germany during the Cold War era. The money will be put in a government fund...

Far-Right Party Wants to Buy 'Haunted' Nazi Castle

Germany's AfD plans to use Sanatorium Schwarzeck as a 'patriotic center'

(Newser) - Germany's far-right AfD party is trying to get its hands on a crumbling castle long rumored to be haunted. The Nazis used the Sanatorium Schwarzeck in eastern Germany as a training academy for Luftwaffe pilots, the Telegraph reports The building, later used by East Germany's Communist government, fell...

Cops: Pizzeria's No. 40 Came With Cocaine

They say it was one of the best-selling pizzas at German restaurant

(Newser) - "The number 40 was one of the best-selling pizzas" at a pizzeria in western Germany, police say, and it wasn't because of the toppings. Police say they broke up a drug ring after learning that customers who asked for the No. 40 received a side order of cocaine....

She's the Princess on Alito's Disclosure Form

Gloria von Thurn und Taxis of Germany has befriended the justice and his wife

(Newser) - The New York Times has gotten to the bottom of an unusual item on the most recent financial disclosure form of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. It read: "Gloria von Thurn und Taxis. Concert tickets. $900." Alito, however, declined to shed light when asked by reporters about it....

Brand-New Fire Station Burns Down
Brand-New
Fire Station
Burns Down
Oct 18, 2024 4:08 AM CDT

Brand-New Fire Station Burns Down

Station in Germany didn't have fire alarm system

(Newser) - A brand-new fire station in Germany that was destroyed in a fire did not have a fire alarm system, officias say. The fire broke out early Wednesday morning at the Stadtallendorf fire station in Hesse and destroyed, among other things, the equipment hall and almost a dozen emergency vehicles, German...

50 Years Later, Ex-Stasi Officer Is Sentenced

Unnamed 80-year-old gets 10 years for shooting a Polish national in then-divided Germany

(Newser) - An 80-year-old former officer with communist East Germany's secret police, the Stasi, was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for the murder of a Polish man at a border crossing in divided Berlin 50 years ago. The Berlin state court said in its ruling that there was no...

Germans Not Happy With New Rules on 'Idiot's Apostrophe'

Or would that be 'idiots apostrophe' in German?

(Newser) - Worldly punctuation pros know that Germans typically don't use an apostrophe to indicate the possessive—meaning it's correct to write "Newsers readers," not "Newser's readers." According to the Council for German Orthography, however, which dictates grammar for schools and other public institutions in...

The Dark Nazi Ties of Germany's Biggest Fortune
The Dark Nazi Ties of
Germany's Biggest Fortune
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Sep 29, 2024 8:30 AM CDT

The Dark Nazi Ties of Germany's Biggest Fortune

Vanity Fair looks into the family history of Klaus-Michael Kuehne

(Newser) - The richest man in Germany is 87-year-old Klaus-Michael Kuehne, who heads the global transportation empire Kuehne + Nagel and has a fortune pegged at $44 billion by Bloomberg Billionaires Index . Kuehne's grandfather founded the company back in 1890, and a Vanity Fair story explains that the company is the...

In Germany, Tesla Bosses Visit Homes of Workers Out Sick

Factory director says company wants to appeal to their work ethic

(Newser) - Germany's most powerful union is clashing with Tesla over the automaker's decision to send bosses to check up on workers who reported being sick. In recent weeks, managers have visited the homes of around two dozen workers on sick leave from Tesla's gigafactory around 10 miles east...

At This Year's Oktoberfest, a Big Security First

Metal detectors have been added in Munich after attack in Germany city of Solingen in August

(Newser) - Germany's Oktoberfest is open. Mayor Dieter Reiter officially started Oktoberfest at noon local time on Saturday when he inserted the tap into the first beer keg, signaling the 189th start of the festival. Thousands of beer lovers celebrated at the Munich fairground as the first to clink their mugs...

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