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.
Germany's infamous symbol of division, the Berlin Wall, split West Berlin — an isolated enclave of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) — from East Berlin, in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) for 28 years.
In March 1938, paramilitary groups in leather boots and brown uniforms marched through the streets of Vienna. Part of Adolf Hitler's Sturmabteilung (SA) paramilitary, they were celebrating Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria.
Skip next section Thank you for reading November 10, 2025 Thank you for reading Thank you for reading. On Monday, the trial for a man accused of carrying out an attack on a Christmas market in the eastern city of Magdeburg is set to begin Monday.
The world of social media is flashy and fast-paced: those who stand out rise to the top with their ballrooms, space rockets, and chainsaws, dominating the headlines.
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