Author: Deutsche Presse-Agentur - Dpa
Police in the German port city of Bremerhaven arrested a man on Sunday evening who threatened severe criminal acts at the city’s Christmas market in a TikTok video. The news comes after a 50-year-old man drove a car through a Christmas market in the east German city of Magdeburg on Friday, killing five, including a 9-year-old child, and wounding 200. Crime experts have often warned of so-called “copycat” events following a serious crime. Police were able to identify the suspect “very quickly” after the video was published and provisionally detained him, they said. Authorities did not provide additional details about…
Japanese carmakers Honda and Nissan are discussing a merger with Mitsubishi Motors in a bid to counter fierce global competition in the field of electric vehicles, the companies said in a statement released after an emergency press conference on Monday. Honda and Nissan, Japan’s second and third largest car manufacturers, plan to complete negotiations by June 2025 for a holding company from August 2026, the statement said. Mitsubishi Motors, which is partly owned by Nissan, is to decide by the end of January whether to participate in a merger, it said. Nissan and Honda had already announced in March that…
Italy’s right-wing government under Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is intent on maintaining its controversial reception centres for migrants in Albania despite several legal defeats. In a statement following a meeting on Monday between Meloni and several ministers, the government reaffirmed its “firm intention” to continue working on “so-called ‘innovative solutions’ to the migration phenomenon.” Italian courts have twice thwarted Meloni’s policy to have asylum applications from migrants crossing the Mediterranean decided in Albania. Judges initially justified their rejection of the measure on the basis that the migrants – who were sent to Albania after being picked up in the Mediterranean…
Japanese carmakers Honda and Nissan are discussing a merger with Mitsubishi Motors in a bid to counter fierce global competition in the field of electric vehicles, the companies said in a statement released after an emergency press conference on Monday. Honda and Nissan, Japan’s second and third largest car manufacturers, plan to complete negotiations by June 2025 for a holding company from August 2026, the statement said. Mitsubishi Motors, which is partly owned by Nissan, is to decide by the end of January whether to participate in a merger, it said. Nissan and Honda had already announced in March that…
More than a thousand people gathered in Magdeburg on Saturday evening to commemorate the victims of the attack on a Christmas market in the central German city a day earlier. Five people were killed, including a nine-year-old child, and 200 injured when a car sped through the crowd at the busy festive market on Friday evening, according to the authorities. The suspect, a 50-year-old man from Saudi Arabia, was arrested at the scene and taken into custody. Relatives of the victims, emergency responders and invited guests including German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Chancellor Olaf Scholz attended a private memorial service…
More than a thousand people gathered in Magdeburg on Saturday evening to commemorate the victims of the attack on a Christmas market in the central German city a day earlier. Five people were killed, including a nine-year-old child, and 200 injured when a car sped through the crowd at the busy festive market on Friday evening, according to the authorities. The suspect, a 50-year-old man from Saudi Arabia, was arrested at the scene and taken into custody. Relatives of the victims, emergency responders and invited guests including German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Chancellor Olaf Scholz attended a private memorial service…
A hospital in the north of the embattled Gaza Strip has urgently appealed to the international community for medication and food, saying it is no longer able to care for patients. The Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia is also struggling with a shortage of drinking water, the Health Ministry said on Saturday. The Israeli military is refusing to supply the hospital with the essentials and is blocking access for doctors and nurses, the ministry said. The director of the hospital, Hussam Abu Safiya, warned that a number of patients would die if help was not provided quickly. Israel has…
Saudi Arabia had warned Germany about the man suspected of carrying out the incident at the Magdeburg Christmas market, according to Saudi Arabian security sources. Saudi Arabia requested the extradition of the suspect, named under German law as Taleb A., but Germany had not responded, the sources said. They said the man was a Shiite Muslim who comes from the city of Al-Hofuf in eastern Saudi Arabia. Shiites are a minority in the country, making up only around 10% in the majority Sunni nation. German authorities were alerted about the man about a year ago, dpa has learned, however the…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has threatened further attacks on military installations in Russia, after Ukrainian strikes hit the Russian city of Kazan and a village in the Kursk border region. “We will definitely continue to strike Russian military targets – with drones and missiles, increasingly with Ukrainian-made ones, specifically targeting military bases and Russian military infrastructure used in this terror against our people,” he said in his evening video address from Kyiv on Saturday. He said the clean-up operations after a ballistic missile attack on Kyiv on Friday had only just been completed. The president also said that a cancer…
Tyson Fury says the joking stops here, vowing to put unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk in the “hurt locker” when they meet for their rematch in Riyadh on Saturday. Fury, known for his colorful antics, has been all business during the week’s promotional events. At Thursday’s press conference, the typically outspoken 36-year-old Brit kept his words brief but his demeanor intimidating. Tensions peaked during an intense 12-minute face-off as Fury taunted Usyk, prompting the Ukrainian champion to fire back with insults and a smirk before the two were pulled apart. Fury promised a brutal rematch, vowing to deliver “pain and…