49 h. ago Oktoberfest: German festival shut down by police after fatal explosion

Authorities responded to a house fire early this morning as residents reported hearing explosions

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4 d. ago Madeleine McCann suspect tries to confront prosecutor who accused him of murder

Christian Brueckner told Sky News he wanted the official to help him get his life back as he was being ‘hounded by the media’.

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7 d. ago Nottingham stabbings police watchdog staff probed over 'politically motivated' comments about inquiry

Police watchdog staff are being investigated over allegations they told officers being probed over failures around the 2023 Nottingham stabbings that the inquiry was 'politically motivated'.

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9 d. ago Drunk Jet2 thug causes holiday flight to be diverted after spitting on passenger

Courtney Maich, 27, was being hauled of the plane by German police officers when she launched the "disgraceful and disgusting" assault on the mother of a child on board the Jet2 flight

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1 week ago German police probing 'political motive' after train cables were cut

There was considerable disruption to services in the region, Cologne police added, saying that 'a political motive cannot be excluded at this time'.

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1 week ago Trump’s DOJ shut down investigation into Tom Homan after he allegedly accepted $50,000 from undercover FBI agents, report claims

A White House spokesperson called the probe ‘blatantly political’ and said it yielded ‘no evidence of illegal activity’

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1 week ago History teaches us that authoritarians use any excuse to seize power | Judith Levine

Nazis used the 1933 Reichstag blaze to justify snuffing out civil liberties. In the US, the calls for a crackdown have already begunOn the night of 27 February 1933, six days before national elections, the German Reichstag was set on fire. Firefighters and police discovered a Dutch communist named Marinus van der Lubbe at the scene, who confessed to being the arsonist. The Nazi Reichstag president, Hermann Göring, soon arrived, followed by the future propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Hitler, who had been dining together.Two competing, still unresolved, conspiracy theories would circulate about the real culprit: the Nazis, with van der Lubbe as front; or a communist cabal. But the three men had no doubts. Göring pronounced the crime a communist plot. Hitler called it “a God-given signal”, adding: “If this fire, as I believe, is the work of the communists, then we must crush out this murderous pest with an iron fist.”Judith Levine is Brooklyn-based journalist, essayist and...

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2 w. ago German court convicts suspect of murder in police killing, sentences him to life in prison

The suspect in a knife attack that killed a police officer in Mannheim, Germany, last year has been convicted of murder

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2 w. ago Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner refuses to speak to Met Police before German prison release

The force says the 49-year-old German national remains a suspect in its own investigation

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3 w. ago Internet disrupted across Asia and Middle East after Red Sea cable cuts

India, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates are among the countries impacted

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3 w. ago Revealed: German woman investigated by police probing Madeleine McCann 'hit

The three-year-old British girl (pictured) vanished while sleeping in a holiday apartment in the Praia da Luz area of the Algarve coast in Portugal, on May 3, 2007.

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4 w. ago Disney Adventure stormed by police just days after new cruise ship launched

The Disney Adventure cruise liner set sail this week, but it was overrun by police just two days later at a German port which led to the arrest two members of staff

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4 w. ago Angela Rayner's position hangs in the balance as stamp duty row deepens

Deputy PM Angela Rayner's political future hangs in the balance amid an ethics probe into her admission she underpaid stamp duty on the seaside home in Hove

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4 w. ago Angela Rayner fights for her political life: Ethics probe could seal her fate within days

She received £162,500 from a trust fund set up to care for 17-year-old Charlie, who was born prematurely.

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4 w. ago Starmer ‘determined’ to save Angela Rayner amid tax dodge probe

Prime minister reportedly fears he will hand a ‘scalp’ to critics by sacking his deputy

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