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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 535

Michelle Fitzpatrick

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
File: A waiter hangs a picture of missing Madeleine McCann on a restaurant's window, May 10 2007, in Praia da Luz, southern Portugal. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)
April 22, 2022, 9:59 pm
15 years on, Portugal eyes German suspect in disappearance of Madeleine McCann
No formal charges brought against Christian B. in case of missing British toddler; he is currently jailed over 2005 rape of tourist at same resort where 3-year-old disappeared
By Levi Fernandes and Michelle Fitzpatrick
Police officers review the sence following a gun attack on the grounds of the Heidelberg University Botanical Garden in Heidelberg, Germany, January 24, 2022. (Michael Probst/AP)
January 24, 2022, 3:55 pm
One killed, three seriously wounded in German campus shooting; gunman dead
Lone shooter opens fire in lecture hall in southwestern city of Heidelberg; perpetrator dies after turning gun on himself; no clear motive yet for incident
By Sebastien ASH and Michelle Fitzpatrick
Defendant Alaa M (L), accused of crimes against humanity including torture and murder in his war-torn homeland Syria, stands next to his lawyer Ulrich Endres (R) as he waits on January 19, 2022 at court in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany (Boris Roessler / POOL / AFP)
January 19, 2022, 1:27 pm
Germany puts Syrian doctor on trial for crimes against humanity
Alaa Mousa, 36, accused of torturing 18 detainees at military hospitals; allegedly administered lethal injection to prisoner
By Michelle Fitzpatrick and Yann Schreiber
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz addresses a press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin on January 7, 2022. (John MacDougall/Pool/AFP)
January 7, 2022, 9:39 pm
Resistance grows to new German chancellor’s push for vaccine mandate
Despite Olaf Scholz’s backing of measure, his coalition partner says while ‘protecting human health and life is highly desirable… our greatest asset…is and remains our freedom’
By Michelle Fitzpatrick
Family members react after they receive information about the death of the relative by COVID-19 coronavirus in Kiev, on November 1, 2021. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP)
November 4, 2021, 10:03 pm
WHO warns of another 500,000 deaths in Europe as COVID cases soar
Germany and Croatia see new record numbers of daily infections, with continent recording some 3,600 deaths daily, led by Russia, Ukraine and Romania
By Michelle Fitzpatrick
Voters stand in front of a European, German and Berlin flag at a polling station to cast their votes in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Sept. 26, 2021. German elect a new national parliament. (Sebastian Gollnow/dpa via AP)
September 27, 2021, 5:58 am
Germany heads into unknown as rivals scramble to lead next government
With Merkel set to depart, her center-right Christian Democrats have worst showing ever, running neck-and-neck with Social Democrats, with both claiming right to lead
By Michelle Fitzpatrick
A worker (L) takes a picture of a destroyed area in Insul near Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, western Germany, on July 17, 2021. (Photo by CHRISTOF STACHE / AFP)
July 18, 2021, 8:56 am
Merkel to visit flood zone as western Europe death toll tops 180
Germany to set up special aid fund as national fatalities reach 156; worst storms in living memory draw attention to climate change policy ahead of elections
By Christof STACHE and Michelle Fitzpatrick
Members of the public stand next to a damaged boat after the floodings in Liege on July 15, 2021. (BERNARD GILLET / BELGA / AFP) / Belgium OUT
July 16, 2021, 6:25 am
Death toll climbs to 118 in Germany, Belgium as devastating storms ravage Europe
Around 15,000 members of German emergency services, police and army on the ground in worst-hit areas; in battered Ahrweiler district, around 1,300 people unaccounted for
By Michelle Fitzpatrick and Deborah Cole
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 demonstrator carries a cross with the inscription "German Constitution Law" during a protest against measures imposed by the German government to limit the spread of the coronavirus, on November 18, 2020 near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. (Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)
November 22, 2020, 4:15 pm
German FM slams anti-mask protesters for ‘making a mockery’ of Nazi victims
Heiko Maas says recent comparison to Anne Frank and resistance fighter Sophie Scholl ‘trivializes the Holocaust and shows an unbearable forgetting of history’
By Michelle Fitzpatrick
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addresses the audience on the podium during the 56th Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, southern Germany, on February 15, 2020 (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / POOL / AFP)
February 15, 2020, 4:23 pm
US, Europe clash over claim that Washington retreated from global stage
Pompeo says ‘death of the transatlantic alliance is grossly over-exaggerated,’ but Macron argues there’s a ‘weakening of the West’ as the US reassesses its relationship
By Michelle Fitzpatrick
A child lights a candle in the Frauenkirche cathedral (Church of Our Lady) in Dresden, Germany, February 11, 2020. (Jens Meyer/AP)
February 13, 2020, 2:49 pm
German far right reopens wounds of Dresden bombing
Commemoration events draw neo-Nazis, who seize upon anniversary to downplay Nazi crimes and inflate number of victims of Allied air raids
By Michelle Fitzpatrick
Newly elected Prime Minister of Thuringia Thomas Kemmerich of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) addresses a press conference at the State Chancellery in Erfurt, eastern Germany, on February 6, 2020. (Jens Schlueter/AFP)
February 6, 2020, 6:56 pm
German state premier quits after winning ‘unforgivable’ far-right support
A day after taking office, Thuringia PM Thomas Kemmerich laments his election victory came with votes of Alternative for Germany party, calls new elections amid nationwide outrage
By Michelle Fitzpatrick
Afghan men watch German Army soldiers patroling near Char Darah, outside Kunduz, Afghanistan, September 20, 2011. (Anja Niedringhaus/AP)
January 20, 2020, 8:43 am
German-Afghan army adviser on trial for spying for Iran
After tip-off from ‘a friendly secret service,’ translator and his wife accused of passing classified information to Tehran
By Michelle Fitzpatrick
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