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Femke COLBORNE

US tech billionaire and businessman Elon Musk (L) is seen on a large screen as Alice Weidel, co-leader of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, addresses an election campaign rally in Halle, eastern Germany on January 25, 2025. (AFP)
February 16, 2025, 3:47 pm
Germany’s far-right AfD party, shunned by Berlin, basks in Elon Musk’s spotlight
Billionaire Trump confidant insults Chancellor Scholz and lavishes endorsements on far-right party, which commands some 20% in polls, as Germany barrels toward Feb. 23 election
By Frank Zeller and Femke COLBORNE
Forensic police use torch lights on August 24, 2024 to inspect the scene where at least three people were killed and several injured when a man attacked them with a knife on late August 23, 2024 in Solingen, western Germany, according to German media, as the city celebrated its 650th anniversary. (Photo by INA FASSBENDER / AFP)
August 24, 2024, 6:03 am
Three killed, several wounded in knife attack at German festival
Police launch ‘major operation’ to find suspect on the run after targeting event celebrating city’s 650th birthday; assailant ‘stabbed people indiscriminately,’ newspaper says
By Ina FASSBENDER and Femke COLBORNE
Far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) candidate Joerg Prophet poses as he campaigns for local elections in Nordhausen, central Germany, on September 21, 2023. (Ronny Hartmann/AFP)
September 24, 2023, 1:40 pm
German far-right candidate tipped to win mayoral race in city near former Nazi camp
Joerg Prophet, who once called for end of German ‘guilt cult’ over Holocaust, will likely lead city of Nordhausen, near slave labor camp where V-2 rockets were built
By Femke COLBORNE
German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach addresses the media during a press conference in Berlin, Germany, on February 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)
April 14, 2022, 11:42 pm
Germany arrests anti-vaxxer neo-Nazis for plot to kidnap health minister
Suspects from ‘Vereinte Patrioten’ group accused of ‘preparing explosive attacks and other acts of violence,’ as well as planning ‘kidnapping of well-known public figures’
By Femke COLBORNE
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (L) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) arrive for a joint press conference in Kyiv, on February 14, 2022. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP)
April 12, 2022, 10:17 pm
Pressure mounts on Berlin to up war response as Kyiv snubs German president
Germany is facing growing criticism for its years-long detente policy toward Russia, with leaders hesitant on providing heavy weapons to Ukraine or cutting energy ties with Moscow
By Femke COLBORNE
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) arrives with her designated successor Olaf Scholz (L) for a press conference following a meeting with the heads of Germany's federal states, at the Chancellery in Berlin, on December 2, 2021. (John MacDougall/Pool/AFP)
December 2, 2021, 6:45 pm
Germany excludes unvaccinated from public life as COVID surges
Merkel announces sweeping rules banning those without immunity against coronavirus from restaurants, markets, gatherings and more; voices support for compulsory vaccination
By Femke COLBORNE
ISIS fighters parade in commandeered Iraqi security forces armored vehicles down a main road at the northern city of Mosul, Iraq, more than two weeks after taking over the country's second largest city, June 23, 2014. (AP Photo)
October 25, 2021, 10:18 am
German woman who joined IS faces verdict over murder of Yazidi girl, 5, in Iraq
Jennifer Wenisch and husband ‘bought’ woman and child as slaves in Mosul; girl was chained up outside and died ‘agonizing death of thirst in the scorching heat,’ say prosecutors
By Femke COLBORNE
Top candidates for the upcoming German general elections (Left to right) Olaf Scholz of the Social Democrats SPD; Annalena Baerbock of Germany's Greens (Die Gruenen); and Armin Laschet of the conservative CDU-CSU party union pose for pictures before a "Triell" television debate, on September 19, 2021, in Berlin, ahead of Germany's general elections scheduled for September 26. (Tobias Schwarz/AFP)
September 26, 2021, 5:58 am
Germany votes in pivotal election ushering in post-Merkel era
Conservatives and the center-left Social Democrats are neck and neck and pollsters say the race is ‘wide open’
By Femke COLBORNE
Joerg Urban, leader of the Far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Saxony, is seen on displays as he gestures while addressing delegates during an AfD party congress in Dresden, eastern Germany, on April 10, 2021. (JENS SCHLUETER / AFP)
April 10, 2021, 9:59 pm
Germany’s far-right AfD seeks to capitalize on pandemic ahead of election
Running with the slogan ‘Germany. But normal,’ anti-immigration party apparently targeting anti-lockdown protesters and COVID-19 deniers
By Femke COLBORNE
People attend a so called 'A light for democracy' silent demonstration, initiated by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Erfurt, central Germany, March 3, 2020. The words at the German flag read 'We are the people'. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
March 4, 2021, 12:54 am
Germany to surveil far-right party for posing threat to democracy
Head of Central Council of Jews calls decision to monitor AfD over suspected extremist links a ‘right and necessary step’
By Femke COLBORNE
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier delivers his speech during a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the start of the Nuremberg war crimes trials in Nuremberg, southern Germany on November 20, 2020 (Daniel Karmann / POOL / AFP)
November 21, 2020, 2:47 pm
German president urges honoring ‘legacy’ of Nuremberg trials on 75th anniversary
Steinmeier says legal proceedings against Nazis laid the foundation for a global criminal justice system to bring people to account for war crimes and crimes against humanity
By Femke COLBORNE
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (C) and President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany Josef Schuster (2nd-L) attend a commemoration service on the first anniversary of the antisemitic attack on the synagogue in Halle, Germany, on October 9, 2020. (Ronny Hartmann/AFP)
October 10, 2020, 8:43 pm
German leaders voice shame as tribute defaced a year after anti-Semitic attack
‘Everyone must stand up when the human dignity of others is violated,’ German president says in Halle, during commemoration to mark a year since deadly shooting on Yom Kippur
By Femke COLBORNE
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny delivers a speech during a demonstration in Moscow, September 29, 2019. (Yuri KADOBNOV / AFP /File)
August 24, 2020, 10:06 pm
Berlin hospital: Russian dissident Navalny’s test results ‘indicate poisoning’
Contradicting Russian doctors, who blamed a metabolic disorder, German medical officials say Putin critic was probably hit by substance that targets central nervous system
By Femke COLBORNE
Paratroopers from the KSK (Kommando Spezialkraefte) special unit of Germany's armed forces taking part in a military exercise in Ahrenvioelfeld, northern Germany. (Carsten Rehder/dpa/AFP)
July 1, 2020, 4:40 am
Germany shakes up elite army force over far-right links
Top commando unit to be partially dissolved due to extremism, ‘toxic leadership,’ defense minister says
By Femke COLBORNE
This undated file photo shows Madeleine McCann. British police said on Wednesday June 3, 2020, a German man has been identified as a suspect in the case of a 3-year-old British girl who disappeared 13 years ago while on a family holiday in Portugal. (AP Photo/File)
June 17, 2020, 8:30 pm
German prosecutors say they have ‘concrete evidence’ Madeleine McCann is dead
13 years after British 3-year-old disappeared from family holiday apartment in Portugal, officials say jailed German man with a history of child sex abuse may have killed her
By Femke COLBORNE
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