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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 591

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A ballot box is sealed with the electoral seal of the German State of Bavaria in Memmelsdorf, Germany, Feb. 23, 2025, during the national election. (Pia Bayer/dpa via AP)
February 23, 2025, 10:31 am
Germans head to voting booths with far-right expected to surge
Polls predict Alternative for Germany party set to become second largest in Bundestag, but other factions vow to boycott it
By Geir Moulson
People hold hands in front of Germany's parliament Reichstag at a demonstration against the AfD party and right-wing extremism in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
February 3, 2024, 7:09 pm
Approximately 150,000 gather in Berlin for latest protest against German far right
Recent polls show ultranationalist Alternative for Germany party leading in three states
By EMILY SCHULTHEIS and PIETRO DE CRISTOFARO
Climate activists of the "Letzte Generation" (Last Generation) protest group smeared a black liquid and put up posters on a monument near Germany's lower parliamentary chamber on which the articles of the country's constitution are inscribed. in Berlin on March 4, 2023 (Sven Kaeuler/various sources/AFP)
March 5, 2023, 1:18 pm
Climate activists soak Israeli artist’s work in ‘oil’ at German parliament
Dani Karavan’s ‘Grundgesetz 49’ displays constitution’s articles on glass plates; Last Generation group says it targeted piece because use of oil is incompatible with rights
By AP
Klaus Schirdewahn (C R), representative of the LGBTQ community, receives applause during the annual ceremony in memory of Holocaust victims and survivors in the plenary hall of the Bundestag, the German lower house of parliament, in Berlin on January 27, 2023, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. (Photo by STEFANIE LOOS / AFP)
January 27, 2023, 1:26 pm
In a first, German parliament spotlights Nazis’ LGBTQ victims
Jewish community, Yad Vashem welcome move to broaden Germany’s remembrance culture during a ceremony on International Holocaust Memorial Day
By Deborah Cole
An election campaign poster of the far-right Alternative for Germany, AfD, party stands near a road in the federal state Saxony-Anhalt's capital in Magdeburg, Germany, on June 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
July 8, 2021, 9:27 pm
German court delays ruling on monitoring far-right party until after election
Court says it will not be able to tackle whether domestic intelligence agency can put the Alternative for Germany party under observation, as vote is too close
By AP
The Binnenhof, the seat of the Dutch government, in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2014 (AP Photo/Phil Nijhuis)
June 30, 2020, 6:02 pm
Dutch MPs urge list of possible sanctions in response to Israeli annexation
Non-binding motion calls annexation a ‘gross violation of international law’ and notes the Netherlands has taken similar measures against other countries
By Raphael Ahren
The Austrian parliament session in Vienna, Austria, January 10, 2020. (Ronald Zak/AP)
June 24, 2020, 10:54 am
Over 1,000 MPs from across Europe call for ‘decisive action’ against annexation
Left- and right-wing lawmakers say failure to ‘adequately respond would encourage other states with territorial claims to disregard basic principles of international law’
By Raphael Ahren
German MP Benjamin Strasser in front of the historic Reichstag building in Berlin (Tanja Ruetz)
December 19, 2019, 2:27 pm
German lawmaker behind Hezbollah ban says move in ‘our own national interest’
‘You can’t prohibit people or ideas. But we can make it more difficult,’ says Benjamin Strasser, author of Bundestag resolution urging outlawing of Lebanese terror group
By Raphael Ahren
Stephan Brandner at a committee meeting in the German Bundestag in Berlin, November 13, 2019. (Bernd von Jutrczenka/picture alliance via Getty Images via JTA)
November 15, 2019, 6:30 am
Far-right German lawmaker ousted from committee for comments deemed anti-Semitic
Stephan Brandner of AfD party removed from parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee for saying a singer received a ‘Judas award’ for taking a stand against his party
By Marcy Oster
The Awakening of German Patriots party logo features a blue cornflower (Facebook)
January 12, 2019, 1:09 am
German far-right leader forms new party with a Nazi symbol
Breaking away from AfD for its ‘shift to the left,’ Andre Poggenburg chooses as new logo a blue cornflower — used among Nazi sympathizers in 1930s Austria to identify each other
By AP and ToI Staff
Volkhard Knigge, foundation director of the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald memorial place, stands in front of vitrines with concentration camp inmates' uniforms near Weimar, central Germany, April 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
August 7, 2018, 8:54 pm
Buchenwald memorial chief demands answers from far-right MP
Official at site of former Nazi concentration camp will meet AfD lawmaker Stephan Brandner to ask him about ‘historical revisionism and anti-democratic positions’ of his party
By AFP
This file photo taken on February 27, 2018, shows German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin. (AFP Photo/Tobias Schwarz)
March 14, 2018, 12:59 pm
Angela Merkel elected for 4th term as German chancellor
After an unprecedented 171-day period of coalition wrangling, latest ‘grand coalition’ faces a fractured EU and potential trade war with the US
By Geir Moulson
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