Saxony-Anhalt's Interior Minister has defended security measures in Magdeburg two days after a car drove into the city's Christmas market, killing five and injuring more than 200.
"Police made intensive preparations to secure Christmas markets (...)
German authorities received a warning last year about the suspected perpetrator of a car attack at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, a government office revealed on Sunday.
The attack left five people dead and over 200 injured.
"This was taken (...)
RIYADH — The arrested suspect in the deadly car-ramming attack at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg had plans to target Saudi ambassador to Germany, according to media reports.
A Saudi source told "Independent Arabia" newspaper that (...)
Germany was left in mourning on Saturday after an individual intentionally drove into a crowded Christmas market in Magdeburg, killing at least five people, including a child, and injuring over 200 others.
Authorities arrested a 50-year-old man at (...)
Saudi Arabia has condemned the tragic attack at a bustling Christmas market in the city of Magdeburg, Germany, where a car plowed into the crowd on Friday evening, killing at least two people and injuring over 60 others.
In a statement issued by the (...)
US diplomats are in the Syrian capital Damascus where they plan to meet representatives from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the group now in charge but which Washington still designates as a terrorist organization.
The visit follows those of (...)
Representatives from Germany, Finland and Denmark have boarded a Chinese cargo ship believed to be connected to the rupture of two data cables on the Baltic Sea bed in November.
Swedish police and Chinese officials were also part of the inspection (...)
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has emphasized the importance of discussing strategies to strengthen Ukraine in case of any future peace talks with Russia.
During a meeting on Wednesday with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky and other (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan administered the oath of office and secrecy to consuls general-designate to a number of countries in a ceremony held at the ministry's headquarters in Riyadh on Wednesday.
The newly (...)
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has lost a confidence vote in parliament, paving the way for its dissolution and fresh national elections.
Scholz gained 207 votes in the 733-seat parliament to his name, nowhere near the 367 majority he needed to hold (...)
UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said the British government has had "diplomatic contact" with the Syrian rebel group that toppled the Assad regime.
Lammy said Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) remains a proscribed terrorist organization, but the UK (...)
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 84, underwent hip replacement surgery on Saturday at the U.S. military's Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany following a fall during an event in Luxembourg.
Pelosi, who was in Europe with a bipartisan (...)
Romania and Bulgaria's shared journey to join the passport-free Schengen Area came to an end on Thursday morning as interior ministers from the European Union gave their final blessing to their hard-fought candidacy.
The momentous decision was made (...)
Across Germany Syrians have been celebrating in the streets the downfall of former president Bashar al-Assad. But now many will be feeling less euphoric, as some politicians question their future in Germany.
There are around a million people with (...)
A number of European countries, including the UK, have suspended the processing of asylum applications for Syrians, after the downfall of former president Bashar al-Assad.
Austria's caretaker government has stopped all asylum claims from Syrians and (...)
Amnesty International on Wednesday said that it had gathered "sufficient evidence to believe" that Israel's conduct during the war in Gaza amounts to genocide against the Palestinian people – a charge the Israeli government has vehemently (...)
In a courtroom in Munich, Nora sat across from the person who had bought her as a slave, abused her and murdered her five-year-old daughter.
Nora and Reda were being held captive in Iraq by the extremist group Islamic State (IS) in 2015, the year (...)
A judge in Italy has sentenced a 23-year-old man to life in prison for the stabbing murder of his former girlfriend, a heinous act of femicide that has put violence against women in the spotlight in this country.
Filippo Turetta who admitted to (...)
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited Ukraine for the first time in more than two years on Monday and vowed to keep supporting Kyiv in its fight against Russia.
However, he stood firm on his decision not to supply Taurus long-range missiles.
While (...)
Germany's Olaf Scholz arrived in Ukraine on Monday for his second trip to the region during his tenure as Chancellor.
His visit comes both at a time on escalated Russian attacks on Ukraine and as his government faces political crisis at home that (...)
Norway has paused its controversial project to open up its seabed for commercial-scale deep-sea mining.
Oslo had planned to let companies apply to mine 280,000 sq km (108,000 sq miles) of its waters for precious metals -- an area bigger than the (...)
Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk inspected military fortifications along the country's eastern border with Russia's Kaliningrad region on Saturday, describing the initiative as "an investment in peace."
The visit comes ahead of Poland assuming (...)
Sweden has formally asked China to cooperate with an investigation into damage to two cables in the Baltic Sea after a Chinese ship was linked to the incidents.
The cables — one linking Sweden to Lithuania and the other between Finland and Germany — (...)
Egyptian rescuers found four bodies and five survivors on Tuesday during a Red Sea search operation after a tourist boat carrying 44 people sank on Monday.
A total of 33 people have been rescued so far but seven were still missing as of Tuesday (...)
At least five people have died as Storm Bert swept across the United Kingdom, causing power outages and widespread train and flight cancelations.
Dramatic footage that emerged over the weekend showed rivers in Wales, one of the hardest hit areas, (...)
