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Protesters take part in a demonstration against racism and far-right politics on January 28, 2024 in front of the city hall in Hamburg, northern Germany. (MORRIS MAC MATZEN / AFP)
January 28, 2024, 11:54 pm
Germany’s far-right AfD party suffers regional electoral defeat after mass protests
Candidate from center-right CDU wins slim victory over AfD challenger in run-off in eastern Thuringia for a district administrator post, in first election since national uproar
By Hui Min NEO
Greece's Prime Minister and leader of New Democracy Kyriakos Mitsotakis votes at a polling station in Athens, Greece, May 21, 2023. (Yorgos Karahalis/AP)
May 21, 2023, 11:35 pm
Incumbent Greek PM routs competition at ballot box, with second round expected
With most votes counted, Kyriakos Mitsotakis leads his opponent by 20 points; conservative leader expected to call another election in hopes of winning an outright majority
By Hui Min NEO and John Hadoulis
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (center) is awarded the International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen 2023 by Juergen Linden (left), chairman of the Charlemagne Prize board of directors and Aachen's mayor Sibylle Keupen (right) on May 14, 2023 in Aachen, western Germany. (Federico Gambarini/ POOL/ AFP)
May 14, 2023, 8:17 pm
EU fetes Zelensky, Ukrainian people for championing Europe’s values
Ukraine’s president receives standing ovation as he accepts Charlemagne Prize at ceremony in Germany, will travel to Paris later for talks with French counterpart Macron
By Michelle Fitzpatrick and Hui Min NEO
Dead fish on the banks of the river Oder in Schwedt, eastern Germany, on August 12, 2022, after a massive fish kill was discovered in the river in the eastern federal state of Brandenburg, close to the border with Poland. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)
August 14, 2022, 3:40 am
‘Dead fish everywhere’ in German-Polish river after suspected chemical waste dump
Thousands of fish wash up dead on banks of Oder river, as Berlin warns of ‘environmental disaster’ and accuses Warsaw of failing to take timely action
By Hui Min NEO and Bernard OSSER
People carry crosses during a silent protest against abortion in front of the Berlin Cathedral in Berlin, September 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Franka Bruns, File)
June 25, 2022, 2:08 pm
Germany scraps Nazi-era abortion law, just hours before US Supreme Court ruling
Bundestag removes one of the most controversial sections of German penal code prohibiting the ‘promotion’ of abortion, a crime punishable by up to 2 years of imprisonment or a fine
By Hui Min NEO
Part of a mural by Indonesian art group Taring Padi on display at the Documenta 15 art festival. On the right, a man is depicted with sidelocks often associated with Orthodox Jews, fangs and bloodshot eyes, and is wearing a black hat with the SS-insignia. (Screen capture/Twitter)
June 20, 2022, 11:37 pm
Israel, Jews voice ‘disgust’ over antisemitic imagery at German art festival
Hateful caricatures feature at Documenta art fair, despite controversy; German culture minister urges curators to ‘draw the necessary conclusions’
By Hui Min NEO
Ukrainian Military Forces servicemen of the 92nd mechanized brigade use tanks, self-propelled guns and other armored vehicles to conduct live-fire exercises near the town of Chuguev, in the Kharkiv region, on February 10, 2022 (Sergey Bobok/AFP)
February 12, 2022, 9:59 am
Biden and Putin to speak as US warns Russia could attack Ukraine ‘any day’
Washington says it is bracing for the worst, urges all Americans to leave Ukraine within 48 hours
By Sebastian Smith and Hui Min NEO
A woman tapes the word 'Omicron' to a handmade doll depicting the COVID-19 Omicron variant in Managua, Nicaragua, on December 27, 2021. (Oswaldo Rivas/AFP)
December 28, 2021, 10:44 pm
Despite milder variant, WHO warns of Omicron overload, as Europe imposes new curbs
Even though it’s facing much smaller outbreak compared with global virus hotspots, China has not relaxed its ‘zero COVID’ strategy, imposing stay-at-home orders in many areas
By Hui Min NEO
Christian Democratic Union CDU leader and chancellor candidate Armin Laschet (R) and German Chancellor Angela Merkel react on stage during their campaign rally in Aachen, western Germany, on September 25, 2021, one day ahead of the German federal elections. (Ina Fassbender / AFP)
September 26, 2021, 3:12 am
Merkel makes final push for successor in Germany’s knife-edge polls
Armin Laschet, 60, has been trailing his Social Democrat challenger Olaf Scholz in the race for the chancellery, but the contest is close
By Yann Schreiber, Raphaelle LOGEROT and Hui Min NEO
US President Joe Biden leaves after speaking about the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, from the East Room of the White House, on August 16, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)
August 17, 2021, 2:24 am
US allies tear into Biden administration over Afghanistan ‘failure’
Merkel says US-led operation achieved less than planned, soldiers seemingly died in vain; candidate to replace her calls operation ‘biggest debacle’ in NATO history
By Hui Min NEO
In this file photo taken on July 21, 2020 a woman is seen next to a gas chamber at the museum of the former Nazi Death Camp Stutthof, in Sztutowo, July 21, 2020. (Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
February 5, 2021, 5:16 pm
In rare case against a woman, Berlin charges Nazi camp aide with role in murders
Using testimony from survivors, Germany says woman, 95, had ‘concrete responsibility’ in murder of 10,000 victims while serving as assistant, stenographer for Stutthof camp head
By Hui Min NEO
Doses of the Pfizer-Biontech COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination center in Magdeburg, eastern Germany, on December 27, 2020. (Ronny Hartmann / POOL / AFP)
December 27, 2020, 11:54 am
How BioNTech-Pfizer won the great global coronavirus vaccine race
As the German biotechnology firm worked on a shot to defeat virus, other companies around the country already began organizing the infrastructure needed to deliver it to billions
By Hui Min NEO, Yannick Pasquet, Michelle Fitzpatrick and Yann Schreiber
A man wearing a mask walks in the street in the center of Lyon, central France, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020. France is bracing for a potential new lockdown as the president prepares a televised address Wednesday aimed at stopping a fast-rising tide of virus patients filling French hospitals and a growing daily death toll. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)
October 29, 2020, 4:14 am
France locks down, Germany closes down, as virus cases hit record
Fresh restrictions come after weeks of exponentially rising new infections across Europe, with governments reinstating punishing stay-at-home orders seen during first wave
By Adam PLOWRIGHT and Hui Min NEO
In this Oct. 4, 2020 photo a man and a boy walk towards the cordoned-off area in front of a synagogue in Hamburg, Germany that was the scene of an attack (Jonas Walzberg/dpa via AP)
October 5, 2020, 7:09 pm
Merkel condemns ‘repulsive’ attack on Jewish student in Hamburg
After 26-year-old seriously injured outside synagogue, German chancellor says ‘every such act is a disgrace’; police probing attack as attempted murder with anti-Semitic intent
By Hui Min NEO
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 4, 2020, 6:16 am
German police identify ‘murder’ suspect in Madeleine McCann case
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 Hui Min NEO and Joe JACKSON
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