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Germany is paying tribute to Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, a high-ranking soldier in the Third Reich who came close to assassinating Adolf Hitler. The assassination attempt, which took place exactly 80 years ago, ultimately failed.

Opioids, like morphine, are effective painkillers but have led to widespread addiction and serious side effects like respiratory depression, notably seen in the U.S. opioid crisis that claimed nearly 645,000 lives from 1999 to 2021. Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have identified a potential alternative, aniquinazolin B, from the marine fungus Aspergillus nidulans, which binds to opioid receptors and could replace opioids with fewer undesirable effects, after rigorous testing including over 750,000 calculations per substance using the MOGON supercomputer. Researchers at Mainz University have discovered a natural compound that could potentially serve as a long-term alternative to opioids and...

Germany banned the right-wing Compact magazine on Tuesday, accusing it of being a "mouthpiece of the right-wing extremist scene" and inciting hatred of Jews and foreigners. Stepping up the government's fight against what it says is a surge in far-right extremism in Germany, the interior ministry said Compact had been working against the constitutional order and ordered property searches in four states. Compact magazine, widely seen as a mouthpiece of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party's radical wing, has a circulation of 40,000 and a wide-reaching social media presence. The ban also applies to Compact's subsidiary, Conspect Film, and...

German aid to Ukraine will be cut to 4 billion euros ($4.35 billion) in 2025 from around 8 billion euros in 2024, according to a draft of the 2025 budget seen by Reuters. Germany hopes Ukraine will be able to meet the bulk of its military needs with the $50 billion in loans from the proceeds of frozen Russian assets approved by the Group of Seven, and that funds earmarked for armaments will not be fully used.

German court has ruled that members of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party can be banned from owning firearms, citing the party’s right-wing “extremist” views.In its July 1 judgment, the 22nd Chamber of the Düsseldorf Administrative Court explained that the AfD members and affiliates engage in “anti-constitutional activities” and are presumed ineligible to own weapons under the country’s strict gun control laws.The decision, which can be appealed, comes after a married couple, both of whom are AfD members, filed a precedent-setting lawsuit against the revocation of their firearms licenses. The court ruled that the couple fulfilled the criteria of ineligibility...

“Which country in the world allows itself to be exploited in this manner?”.. The argument that mass migration is needed to support GDP levels and pay for pensions took another blow when it was revealed 47.3% of welfare recipients in Germany are foreign migrants. According to newly released government statistics, nearly half of the 5.49 million people in Germany on benefits are foreign migrants, four percentage points higher than in 2022. €42.6 billion euros is now being paid out in welfare compared to to €36.6 billion in 2022. “In addition, there was another record €6.3 billion worth of administration costs...

The US just announced plans to place new long-range weapons in its European ally Germany in 2026.The planned deployment of new weapons systems to Germany follows the collapse of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty and comes as NATO learns key lessons from the war in Ukraine, one being the value of ground-launched long-range strike options.The US and Germany released a statement on Wednesday on the coming "episodic deployments of the long-range fires capabilities of its Multi-Domain Task Force in Germany in 2026, as part of planning for enduring stationing of these capabilities in the future."The allies wrote that "these conventional...

ROME — Pope Francis warned Sunday democracy is in “crisis” around the world, likely with an eye to a rise in right-wing parties across Italy, Austria, Argentina, Netherlands, and Germany. It is evident that in today’s world, democracy “is not in good health,” the pontiff told a group of 900 participants in the 50th annual Social Week, celebrated in the northern Italian city of Trieste. The pope went on to compare the modern “crisis of democracy” to a wounded heart that has suffered a heart attack, manifested by “various forms of social exclusion” that “limit participation.”

Katarina Jovanovic, a 28-year-old woman from Germany, has been found guilty of manslaughter in the death of her newborn baby girl. After Jovanovic gave birth at home in secret on September 12, she then dropped her newborn daughter out of the apartment window. Prosecutors alleged she committed the crime because she feared motherhood would ruin her career. Jovanovic was sentenced to just seven and a half years in prison. “The accused was not prepared to put her life plans, especially her professional advancement, on hold for a child,” argued public prosecutor Mareike Hafendoerfer. “That was her decision when the baby...

In a March 2023 interview, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz promised his country economic growth reminiscent of the post-war economic miracle. “Because of big investments in climate protection, Germany will achieve growth rates for some time which we last saw in the 1950s and 1960s,” said Scholz. Germany achieved annual growth rates of around 8 percent during the 1950s and early 1960s. Chancellor Scholz reiterated his certainty in the accuracy of his March 2023 forecast during a parliamentary session on July 3, 2024. However, the reality is exactly the opposite! Germany is once again the sick man of Europe. According to...

Germany is not the well-functioning, environmentally super-conscious, high-tech nation it used to be. You go to a train station, half the trains are cancelled, the other half is delayed, the escalators are broken, the announcements are barely audible, and in the unlikely event that you can connect to the wifi it’s so slow that by the time the news is streaming it’s become a historical documentary. Or maybe it’s quantum wifi, collapses the moment you touch it

On this date in 1987, then President Reagan made his famous Tear Down This Wall Speech. “General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace–if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe–if you seek liberalization: come here, to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”

In 2023, a substantial number of individuals, totaling 402,694, decided to formally dissociate themselves from the Catholic Church in Germany, a significant figure though slightly less than the record set in 2022. The German Bishops’ Conference, which came out with these statistics, said while these numbers are high, they reflect a slight decrease from the 522,821 departures recorded the previous year, indicating that this was the second-highest departure rate to date, according to National Catholic Reporter. In Germany, church membership has financial implications due to the church tax system, which is a part of the broader tax structure. Members who...

Germany on Friday condemned Israel’s move to regulate five communities in Judea and Samaria, part of a package of measures approved by the Cabinet in response to the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) steps against Israel. “The federal government clearly condemns the so-called legalization of Israeli outposts and the approval of new housing. Israel's policy of building settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories constitutes a serious violation of international law and undermines efforts to achieve a two-state solution,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Sebastian Fischer said at a news conference in Berlin, according to the Anadolu news agency. “The expansion of settlements endangers the...

Adolf Hitler Uunona won a seat in Oshana, Namibia, but insisted he has "nothing to do with" the ideologies of the Nazi Party, claiming his father likely didn't understand what the name stood forA politician named after Nazi leader Adolf Hitler has been elected to a seat in Namibia. Adolf Hitler Uunona - representing the southern African country's ruling SWAPO party - received 85 percent of the vote, but insists he has "nothing to do with" the ideologies of one of the most evil men in history. His constituency remains home to a small German-speaking community, while multiple street names...

A politician named Adolf Hitler has won a regional election in Namibia. Adolf Hitler Uunona has been elected with 85 percent of the vote for a seat on the regional council in the former German colony, where street names, people and places still have German names. However, Adolf Uunona says he wants to assure people that he has no plans for world domination. He told German tabloid paper Bild: "My father named me after this man. He probably didn't understand what Adolf Hitler stood for. As a child I saw it as a totally normal name. Only as a teenager...

It has become known as the first genocide of the 20th century: tens of thousands of men, women and children shot, starved, and tortured to death by German troops as they put down rebellious tribes in what is now Namibia. For more than a century the atrocities have been largely forgotten in Europe, and often in much of Africa too. ..In 1884, as European powers scrambled to carve up Africa, Berlin moved to annex a new colony on the south-west coast of the continent. Land was confiscated, livestock plundered and native people subjected to racially motivated violence, rape and murder....

... President Orban was traveling to the airport in Germany, when suddenly a car made an unexpected turn into his motorcade. ...

A German police officer escorting Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Stuttgart has died after a car rammed into the Hungarian leader’s convoy. While on the way Monday to the airport after watching his national football team compete against Scotland in the UEFA European Championship in Stuttgart, Germany the previous night, Prime Minister Orbán’s motorcade was hit with tragedy. According to a report from the German daily Bild, a 69-year-old woman ignored signs for road closures as the Hungarian leader’s convoy made its way through the city, ramming into the police motorcycle of a 61-year-old officer accompanying Orbán’s car. The strength...

A 20-year-old woman in Hamburg, Germany, has been sent to prison after making “hateful” remarks towards a migrant who was involved in the gang rape of a child. The woman is just one of 140 people being investigated for making “harmful comments” towards the rapists. The horrific assault took place in 2020, and involved multiple groups of migrant men independently attacking a 14-year-old girl in Hamburg’s Stadtpark over the course of one night. The park had become a popular hang-out spot for youth during the COVID-19 lockdowns, and the girl had been there drinking with her friends. But they became...