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“Who belongs to Germany and who doesn’t?” This is a central question that drove director Marcin Wierzchowski in his documentary “Das Deutsche Volk” (The German People). The work premiered at the Berlinale, marking the fifth anniversary of the racially-motivated shootings that shook Germany on February 19, 2020. That night, a far-right extremist terrorist killed nine people — Gökhan Gültekin, Sedat Gürbüz, Said Nesar Hashemi, Mercedes Kierpacz, Hamza Kurtović, Vili Viorel Păun, Fatih Saraçoğlu, Ferhat Unvar and Kaloyan Velkov — and injured five more in the city of Hanau, near Frankfurt, in the state of Hessen. After his rampage, the perpetrator…

What did WADA and Sinner agree upon? The tennis world number one seems to have got off lightly with a three-month ban. He tested positive for the banned anabolic agent Clostebol in spring last year — on March 10 at the ATP Masters tournament in Indian Wells in the US and on March 18 during training — but he was not suspended. So the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) took the matter to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and demanded a ban of one to two years. CAS was planning to hear the case in mid-March. But WADA has now withdrawn its…

Washington-based US District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Tuesday declined to immediately block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, from directing the laying-off of workers and accessing sensitive information. However, Chutkan did say the case — filed by more than a dozen US states — raised legitimate questions about Musk’s seemingly unchecked authority. What did the judge say? In her decision, Chutkan wrote that the states “legitimately call into question what appears to be the unchecked authority of an unelected individual and an entity that was not created by Congress and over which it has no oversight.” However, the judge said the states…

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro knew and agreed to a plan to poison his successor and current President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as part of an attempted coup, Brazil’s Prosecutor-General Paulo Gonet said Tuesday. Gonet formally charged Bolsonaro and 33 accomplices with attempting a coup to stay in office after losing the 2022 election. What are the allegations against Bolsonaro? “The members of the criminal organization structured at the presidential palace a plan to attack institutions, aiming to bring down the system of the powers and the democratic order, which received the sinister name of ‘Green and Yellow Dagger,'” Gonet said in the…

The bodies of the family of an Israeli hostage who was released two weeks ago will be handed over on Thursday, Hamas has said.Yarden Bibas was freed on 1 February – only to find out his wife and two children, aged four and nine months, had reportedly died in an airstrike.Israel has said it is extremely concerned about their condition but has never confirmed their deaths.Hamas leader Khalil al Hayya said on Tuesday that the Bibas family would be among four bodies to be handed over.Mr Bibas was taken hostage separately from his wife Shiri and children Kfir and Ariel.…

US President Donald Trump’s comments on February 4 about Gaza revived an idea previously touted by both him and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. His latest plan positions Gaza in terms of real estate potential, rather than the humanitarian or political situation for its inhabitants. After claiming that the US would “take over the Gaza Strip” and “own it,” Donald Trump said: “We have an opportunity to do something that could be phenomenal. And I don’t want to be cute. I don’t want to be a wise guy. But the ‘Riviera of the Middle East,’ this could be something that could be so, this could be so…

The praise is effusive from a man who signs his reviews as “Dan”: “The rooms are an absolute dream: spacious, stylishly furnished and well-conceived down to the last detail,” he writes in a Google review of The Flamingo hotel at Timmendorfer Strand on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast. “We would particularly like to emphasize the cleanliness and the wonderful view — simply wonderful!” he writes. “Anja,” on the other hand, was not impressed: “If you want cleanliness and quality, then this is not the right place,” she writes. Hair in the drain, dust, dirty towels, mold, fingerprints — the list of shortcomings is long. The hotel…

Germany’s shift to the right has left its mark on the country’s national game, causing all kinds of ructions. Many German football clubs and fan groups have held demonstrations against the far right over the past year, both in the stadiums on match days and in the streets of their cities. Several major clubs from Germany’s top two leagues, including Werder Bremen, VfL Bochum, FSV Mainz 05, 1. FC Köln, and Hannover 96, have called on their supporters to oppose right-wing extremism. The sustained success of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) appears to have sharpened attention leading up to the federal…

Skip next section Macron speaks with Trump and Zelenskyy after European meeting02/18/2025February 18, 2025Macron speaks with Trump and Zelenskyy after European meetingFrench President Emmanuel Macron said he spoke with US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after Monday’s meeting of European leaders. Macron stressed that a peace agreement could only be sustainable if Russia ends its aggression and there are credible security guarantees for Ukraine. “We will work on this together with all Europeans, Americans, and Ukrainians. This is the key,” he wrote on social media. European leaders met in Paris on Monday for an emergency summit to…

A Delta regional jet overturned in Canada while landing Monday at Toronto Pearson Airport after a blizzard, injuring 18 of the 80 people aboard, according to authorities. Three people on the flight, which came from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport in the US, were seriously injured, including one child, officials said. What happened to the plane? According to the US carrier Delta, a 16-year-old CRJ900 aircraft operated by its Endeavor Air subsidiary was involved in an accident with 76 passengers and four crew members on board.  “Initial reports indicate there are no fatalities and 18 customers with injuries have been transported…