Skip next section What you need to know What you need to know The Saudi-born doctor accused of carrying out a deadly car attack on the Christmas market in the eastern city of Magdeburg has said he wishes to testify "for hours, perhaps days" from Tuesday as his trial continues.
Published November 11, 2025 last updated November 11, 2025 Moscow is ramping up pressure in several pivotal points along the frontline in eastern Ukraine. Meanwhile, an overnight drone strike targeted energy infrastructure in Odesa. DW has more.
A German-Polish man has been arrested in the western German city of Dortmund on suspicion of having issued calls to attack politicians, and offering rewards for doing so, federal prosecutors said on Tuesday. They said the man, identified only as Martin S.
The man accused of killing six people by ramming a car into a crowd at a Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg last December said on Monday that he was the one behind the wheel during the incident.
A Paris appeals court on Monday decided to release former French President Nicolas Sarkozy from prison three weeks into a five-year sentence, and place him under judicial supervision. He left La Sante prison in Paris later Monday afternoon.
A car as a weapon: That brought back memories of the attack by Anis Amri on the Christmas market at Berlin's Breitscheidplatz in 2016 and a similar attack by an Islamic extremist with a truck in the southern French city of Nice.
Words have meaning. They shape how people feel about an issue, remember events and respond to developments that affect their lives. For decades, people in Germany have referred to the anti-Jewish violence that cascaded across the country on November 9, 1938, as the "Kristallnacht" or "Reichskristallnacht." The translation "Night of Broken Glass" is widely used in English.
Bundestag President Julia Klöckner, of the center-right Christian Democrats (CDU), recently implied that Germany had become the "brothel of Europe" — reigniting the national debate about sex work. In a speech read out at an award ceremony on Tuesday, Klöckner criticized Germany's current legislation, saying sex workers are not adequately protected.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine sparked a rethink in Germany's security policy: Since then, Berlin has been trying to support Ukraine while also bolstering its own defense capabilities. "The war in Ukraine has shown that NATO has insufficient production.
The date on which the monarchy fell in 1918, Adolf Hitler staged his failed coup attempt in 1923, the Nazis and antisemitic mobs attacked synagogues and Jewish homes and businesses in 1938, and the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, November 9 is known as the "day of destiny" in Germany.
Pope Leo XIV met on Saturday with a group of people who were sexually abused by members of the clergy in Belgium. The group of fifteen were victims of abuse when they were minors, the Holy See Press Office said.
The battle for Pokrovsk has been the subject of military reports for days. For Ukrainian troops, the entrenched fighting on this stretch of the front line is critical.