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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 589

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Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party candidate for chancellor Alice Weidel, second from left, and other top party officials applaud after German television publishes the first exit polls in the German general elections, during the electoral evening in Berlin, Germany, February 23, 2025. (Soeren Stache / Pool / AFP)
May 8, 2025, 5:33 pm
German spy agency pauses extremist classification of AfD until court decision
Far-right party celebrates; US officials had urged Berlin to reverse move, called for halting intelligence cooperation until AfD treated as ‘legitimate opposition party’
By Andreas Rinke
An unnamed suspect, second right, is escorted from a police helicopter by officers in Karlsruhe, Germany, Dec. 7, 2022 (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
June 20, 2023, 2:27 pm
Germany sees rise in number of extremists and crimes in 2022
Minister warns of ‘right-wing terror,’ threat from Islamist extremists; intelligence agency says threat posed by Russian espionage in Germany higher since Moscow’s Ukraine invasion
By AP
Illustrative: A man wears a kippah at a demonstration against an anti-Semitic attack in Berlin, Germany, April 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
April 20, 2022, 5:50 pm
German intel agency warns antisemitism is filtering into mainstream discourse
BfV chief Thomas Haldenwang says hateful imagery present at protests over COVID restrictions, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Russia’s war in Ukraine
By AP
In this file photo, police use water canons to clear a blocked road near the German federal parliament, as people attend a protest rally in Berlin, Germany, against the coronavirus restrictions in Germany in July 2020. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, file)
June 15, 2021, 3:52 pm
German officials, Jewish groups warn far-right extremism on the rise
Head of Jewish umbrella group says report shows ‘shocking extent’ to which threat has grown; authorities say neo-Nazis sought to join protests against virus restrictions
By Frank Jordans
Picture taken June 18, 2019, shows people attending a protest rally in Berlin, Germany, against far right violence. Slogan reads 'Stop Far Right Violence' (Christoph Soeder/dpa via AP)
June 27, 2019, 8:09 pm
German report points to sharp rise in anti-Semitic violence
Annual study by domestic intelligence agency shows attacks targeting Jews almost doubled in 2018
By AP and ToI Staff
A participant in a European election meeting of the Alternative for Germany party, AfD, wears a cap with the party's logo in the Saxony-Arena in Riesa, Germany, January 13, 2019. (Monika Skolimowska/dpa via AP, File)
February 14, 2019, 10:16 pm
German spy agency said examining far-right’s ties to Russia
Report says intelligence officials are concerned that Moscow sees extreme nationalist groups as potential allies in destabilizing West
By Stuart Winer
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