A new museum opened on Wednesday in the central German city of Weimar to focus on the topic of forced labour under Nazism. The extensive special exhibition "Bauhaus and National Socialism" at the Weimar Classicism Foundation, or Klassik Stiftung Weimar in German, is opening at the same time. This is a clear statement on the relevance of dealing with Nazi crimes for the self-perception of democratic society in Germany, the director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation, Jens-Christian Wagner, said on Wednesday in Weimar on the occasion of the opening of both sites. Even toda...
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US President Joe Biden has threatened Israel with further restrictions on the supply of military equipment were Israel to carry out a major military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. "I made it clear that if they [Israel] go into Rafah... I'm not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities – that deal with that problem," Biden told broadcaster CNN in an interview, stressing "they haven't gone in Rafah yet." On Wednesday, the US said it paused a large shipment of weapons to Israel amid ongoing concerns in Washington about milita...
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Terminal 1 at Munich Airport in southern Germany was temporarily evacuated early on Wednesday evening due to a security incident. At around 4:30 pm (1430 GMT), a person entered the security area from the public area of the airport, a spokesman for the Federal Police said. A search was launched for the person. Whenever a person enters the security area unchecked, the terminal building has to be evacuated. The building is then searched and then reopened. In the end, the wanted person was not found. The lockdown was lifted again after around two and a half hours, the police spokesman said. Accord...
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Chancellor Olaf Scholz urged Germans in a video message released on Thursday to vote in the upcoming European elections in light of recent attacks targeting politicians. Scholz said the spate of attacks on politicians and political campaign workers in the past few days are unacceptable. "Attacks on our democracy concern us all," Scholz said. "One answer that every one of us can give is quite simple: Go and vote!" On Tuesday, a local Green Party candidate in the eastern city of Dresden was assaulted while campaigning. That attack followed the brutal beating on Friday of a Social Democratic memb...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has touted the Moscow-led Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) as an effective tool against Western sanctions. "The Eurasian Union has shown its effectiveness in the face of new challenges, including those related to the policy of sanctions pursued by some countries and the dismantling of many pillars of international trade," Putin said on Wednesday at the EAEU's anniversary summit in Moscow. The EAEU, which was founded 10 years ago, includes Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan alongside Russia. The common market and joint decisions to protect investments had...
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The right-wing opposition in North Macedonia was poised for victory in the parliamentary and presidential elections on Wednesday. After 79.2% of the polling stations had been counted, the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization–Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity (VMRO-DPMNE) candidate Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova won the run-off election for president with 64.8% of the votes, according to the state election commission in Skopje. She prevailed against the incumbent Stevo Pendarovski, who was supported by the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM) and garnered 29.2%. In th...
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Real Madrid will face Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League final after coming from behind to claim a late and dramatic 2-1 win against Bayern Munich at their Santiago Bernabeu stadium on Wednesday. The teams played out a 2-2 draw in the first leg, and Bayern were en course to set up a rematch of their 2013 Champions League final against Dortmund in Wembley after Alphonso Davies found the breakthrough in the 68th minute. But a bizarre mistake by goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, who made one save after another throughout the match, allowed Joselu in the 88th to tap in the rebound from Vinicius Juni...
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Germany has ordered €23 billion ($24.7 billion) worth of weapons and equipment for its armed forces, or Bundeswehr, during a visit by Defence Minister Boris Pistorius to the United States. A total of around 380 contracts are in place with US defence companies, Pistorius said on Wednesday in the US city of Philadelphia during a tour of a helicopter factory belonging to the US company Boeing. The CH47-F Chinook heavy-lift transport helicopter, 60 of which Germany has ordered in the state-of-the-art Block II variant, is produced there. After the visit, Pistorius said that the company had confirme...
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On the anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has compared his country's current defence against a Russian invasion to Ukrainian efforts to the defeat of Nazi Germany. "Eighty years ago, millions of Ukrainians fought to defeat Nazism forever," he said in a video message recorded during his Wednesday visit to the town of Yahidne in the northern Ukrainian region of Chernihiv, the scene of an alleged Russian war crime in 2022. "But today Ukrainians are once again standing against the evil that has been reborn, has come back and wants to destroy us...
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