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In an unexpected twist, German MP Roderich Kiesewetter has set off a storm by suggesting attacks on Moscow’s government buildings, specifically targeting Russia’s Ministry of Defense and intelligence services. This bold proposal, shared during a ZDF debate, has ignited debates on the ethics of such aggressive actions and the potential fallout in an already tense Russia-Ukraine conflict. Kiesewetter argues for empowering Ukraine to take the war into Russian territory, aligning with German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius’s views. However, the call for direct attacks on Russian government institutions introduces a more confrontational approach, raising concerns about the ripple effects and potential...

German frigate Hessen caused a blunder in the Red Sea as it led EU's anti-Houthi mission. The German warship opened fire at American MQ-9 Reaper drone as it spotted it flying in the area. The warship mistook it for being a Houthi drone, however, its missiles failed to reach the drone due to a reported "technical defect." RT News reported that the Reaper drone was flying in the area with its transponder shut off. Watch for more details.

The German government believes if Ukraine loses the war with Russia, a mass exodus of up to ten million migrants will flee the country, particularly into Germany, where the asylum system is already cracking under the pressure of the past decade of open borders policies. Berlin is expecting that approximately ten million more people would leave the country in the event of a Russian victory, with the vast majority heading towards countries in Western Europe, a newspaper report citing parliamentary and security services sources claims.

Same story, same result. For the third time this week, President Biden told an audience that he discussed the Jan, 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol with European leaders who were actually dead at the time. On Wednesday, Biden told Democratic donors in New York that he spoke about the riot with former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, whose death pre-dates the event by nearly half a decade. The shocking gaffe comes just days after the 81-year-old president confused French President Emmanuel Macron with the country’s ex-leader Francois Mitterrand — who died in 1996. Biden made the blunder Wednesday in...

The total number of full-time and reservist Bundeswehr German military personnel shrank by roughly 1,500 in 2023, despite efforts to recruit more troops, Germany's Defense Ministry told the dpa news agency on Friday. As of December 31, 2023, the total stood at roughly 181,500 men and women, compared to 183,050 at the end of the previous year. A spokeswoman for the ministry told dpa that the Bundeswehr's goal was still to sustainably increase the size of its ranks. "We need qualified men and women ready for operations, who will stand ready in sufficient numbers for the tasks and missions ahead,"...

Official data from Germany’s federal statistics agency, Destatis, reveals a contraction in the German economy at the end of 2023. The 0.3 percent decline in output from October to December adds to the challenges facing Europe’s leading export nation. The contraction is attributed to factors such as high inflation and a slowdown in manufacturing. Destatis’s data aligns with earlier estimates for the fourth quarter, confirming a 0.3 percent shrinkage in output. Analysts surveyed by financial data firm FactSet had forecasted this outcome. The economic decline is particularly pronounced in sectors like construction and machinery and equipment, with notable reductions in...

Hundreds of police officers searched the properties of Hamas members and followers in Germany on Thursday morning following a formal ban on any activity by or in support of the terrorist group. The German government implemented the ban on Nov. 2 and dissolved Samidoun, a group that was behind a celebration in Berlin of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel.

Authorities were combing New Jersey woods for a man wanted on charges related to the January 6 riot at the Capitol. The search for 46-year-old Gregory Yetman began around 9am on Main Street in Helmetta, as police were trying to serve a warrant. The FBI described him as a white man in his 40s wearing a red jacket and a ball cap. Yetman fled into a wooded area, according to officials, who said he may be armed. Spotswood Public Schools sheltered in place and local streets were closed. Tactical teams could be seen in the backyard of homes. Aerial footage...

A body being paraded naked in a pickup truck by Hamas terrorists in a viral video amid the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict is being claimed to be of a German woman. Social media users have matched the clues of the woman’s body seen in the video with the pictures of a German woman — Shani Louk. Specifically, the tattoos spotted on the legs of the victim matched with that in Louk’s pictures, however an official statement on this is awaited. Shani Louk, a German tourist, had been attending the festival near the Gaza border when Hamas militants stormed the area, opening...

U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement told a German Christian family that was persecuted for homeschooling their children that they needed to prepare to be deported after living in the U.S. for 15 years, says Kevin Boden, an attorney for the Home School Legal Defense Association, who spoke with the Daily Caller News Foundation. Uwe and Hannelore Romeike fled with their family from Germany in 2008 after getting thousands of dollars in fines for refusing to stop homeschooling, which was outlawed in 1918, and sought asylum in the U.S. before being granted “indefinite deferred action status” in 2014, allowing them to...

A leading doctor who threw a backyard party for his sister's birthday in Queens claims their group was 'hosed' with water by a 'racist' white neighbor during a noise dispute Dr Yves Duroseau, who was the first US physician to receive the covid vaccine, and more than a dozen of his guests allege that neighbor Marcus Rosebrock, violated their civil rights by attacking the group. Rosebrock, a German national, denies the allegations and 'rejects any characterization that he is racist', according to a statement from his lawyer. Guests included Rigo Morales, a record executive who has worked with Eminem and...

A 98-year-old man has been charged in Germany with being an accessory to murder as a guard at the Nazis’ Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1943 and 1945, prosecutors said Friday. The German citizen, a resident of Main-Kinzig county near Frankfurt, is accused of having “supported the cruel and malicious killing of thousands of prisoners as a member of the SS guard detail,” prosecutors in Giessen said in a statement. They did not release the suspect’s name. He is charged with more than 3,300 counts of being an accessory to murder between July 1943 and February 1945.

Just when you may have thought things couldn’t get any crazier: American playwright and humorist C.J. Hopkins, profiled in this space on numerous occasions, has been sent a “punishment order” by a German judge, offering him a Sophie’s Choice of 60 days in jail or 3,600 euros. His crime? Essentially, insulting the German health minister in a tweet, and using a scarcely-visible image of a Swastika on a mask in a book critical of the global pandemic response, The Rise of the New Normal Reich. He was first accused of this “crime” in June, shortly after Roger Waters was placed...

I will mostly let Christine Anderson speak for herself other than to confirm that what she says is correct, if not understated.We are all imminently facing the most dangerous, ruthless totalitarian movement in all of human history. Covid was just the first trial. Much, much more is to come.Anderson knows what she is talking about. The Great Reset agenda, of which LifeSiteNews has written a great deal, is moving rapidly toward implementation.There is still hope, but that hope depends upon a great awakening of the masses and non-compliance becoming the norm.Far too many are amazingly still too trusting and asleep...

EEMSHAVEN, Netherlands — Tugboats towed a freight ship that burned for a week on the North Sea while carrying thousands of cars into a Dutch port on Thursday for salvaging, laying to rest fears that it could sink close to shipping lanes and a protected habitat for birds. The Fremantle Highway was taken to the northern port of Eemshaven, the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management said. A boat that has special booms to clean up oil spills accompanied the nearly 200-meter-long (around 650-foot-long) vessel as a precaution. The ship with 3,784 new vehicles, including 498 electric ones, on...

OAKLAND -- Domingo Germán tossed Major League Baseball's first perfect game since 2012 in the Yankees' 11-0 win over the A's on Wednesday night at the Coliseum. It was the fourth perfect game in franchise history, and the first since David Cone against the Expos in 1999. After allowing 17 runs (15 earned) over 5 1/3 innings in his previous two starts, Germán entered Wednesday with the potential to make the wrong kind of history by becoming just the fifth pitcher in franchise history to allow seven-plus runs in three straight games. Instead, Germán snapped a streak of another kind...

A spate of mass brawls in German outdoor swimming pools has led to calls for better security at the popular summer bathing spots. As temperatures soar across the country, many people traditionally head for their local municipal outdoor swimming pool. But over the last few years the start of summer has also been plagued by headlines of violence and mass brawls at open-air pools. And this summer is no different. A number of incidents have been reported in the last week alone. On Wednesday evening dozens of police officers cleared and shut down an outdoor swimming pool in the Berlin...

Fascism, explained by way of Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany.

The City of Frankfurt, Germany announced that a scheduled Roger Waters concert would be canceled. In their decision, the city council referred to the Pink Floyd rocker as "one of the world's most well-known antisemites." Waters was supposed to perform at the Festhalle concert hall in Frankfurt on May 28. The venue is not a privately held entity, as the city has a 60% share in the ownership. As such, the city council had the power to cancel Waters gig. The cancellation announcement cited Waters' boycott of Israel, his comparisons of Israel to apartheid South Africa, his declaration of his...

(AFP) – President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed Friday to do everything to defeat Russia this year, as the first Leopard tanks arrived in Ukraine on the anniversary of the start of Europe’s largest conflict since World War II. Street protests against the Russian invasion were held in many European capitals to mark the anniversary, and fresh Western sanctions targeted Russia’s banks, military industry and semiconductor access.