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An independent experts commission recommended Monday that abortion in Germany should no longer fall under the country’s penal code and be made legal during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Currently, abortion is considered illegal in Germany but not punishable if a woman undergoes mandatory counseling and a three-day wait period before she has the procedure. Germany’s progressive government coalition …

International world leaders collectively condemned Iran’s drone and missile attacks on Israel, calling for peace in the Middle East. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he condemned Iran’s “reckless” attack against Israel. “I condemn in the strongest terms the Iranian regime’s reckless attack against Israel,” Sunak said in a statement. “Iran has once again demonstrated that it is intent on …

BERLIN (AP) — Four teenagers suspected of planning an Islamic extremist attack have been arrested in Germany, authorities said on Friday. Three of the suspects — two girls who are 15 and 16, and a 15-year-old boy — come from various parts of the western North Rhine-Westphalia state, Germany’s most populous. They were arrested after a court issued warrants for …

Berlin’s zoo is celebrating the 67th birthday of Fatou the gorilla, its oldest resident, who it believes is also the oldest gorilla in the world. NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM’S 500-POUND, 95-YEAR-OLD SEA TURTLE GETS CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH Fatou was born in 1957 and came to the zoo in what was then West Berlin in 1959. Ahead of her official birthday …

BERLIN (AP) — A prominent British-Palestinian surgeon who volunteered in Gaza hospitals during the first weeks of the Israel-Hamas war said he was denied entry to Germany Friday to take part in a pro-Palestinian conference — an event that police later ended early. Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta said he arrived at Berlin airport on Friday morning before being stopped at …

Elements of George Patton’s Third Army confronted the human horror inflicted by Hitler’s National Socialist Workers Party when American GIs entered the Buchenwald concentration camp on this day in history, April 11, 1945. “We are told that the American soldier does not know what he is fighting for,” Supreme Allied Commander U.S. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower said after visiting another …

Germany is one of the most visited countries in the world, attracting travelers from far and wide with its thousands of years of history, rich culture and picturesque landscapes. More than 183 million tourists visited the European country in 2023, according to the Statista Research Department. From the natural beauty of Bavaria to the urban streets of Berlin, Germany offers …

Protesters in Dearborn, Michigan, shouted “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” during an International Al-Quds Day rally held in the town. “Imam Khomeini, who declared the International Al-Quds Day, this is why he would say to pour all of your chants and all of your shouts upon the head of America,” Tarek Bazzi, a Michigan-based activist associated with the …

BERLIN (AP) — An incendiary device was thrown at a door of a synagogue in northwestern Germany on Friday but caused only minor damage, police said. No one was injured. PERPETRATOR OF FAILED GERMAN SYNAGOGUE ATTACK CONVICTED IN JAILBREAK ATTEMPT The incident in the city of Oldenburg happened early Friday afternoon. The fire was discovered quickly and didn’t spread, and …

German investigators said Friday they have seized counterfeit U.S. dollar bills with a face value of over $103 million, which apparently came from Turkey and were being stored ahead of transport to the United States. The criminal police office in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’s northernmost state, said officers found 75 cartons of fake dollars in searches of an apartment and two company …