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Shaul Ladany survived a Nazi concentration camp and narrowly escaped the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.

Berlin police have opened a preliminary investigation against Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas over his comments that Israel had committed “50 Holocausts” against Palestinians.

Two roller coaster trains crashed into each other Thursday at an amusement park in southern Germany, injuring at least 34 people, two of them severely, German media reported. One roller coaster train braked heavily and another train collided with it at the Legoland park in Guenzburg, the German news agency dpa reported. Three helicopters were deployed to the scene, and…

German officials say water levels on the Rhine River could reach a critically low point in the coming days, making the transport of goods along the river increasingly difficult.

A cat survived on her own at Boston’s Logan International Airport for almost three weeks after getting lost at the airport after a flight from Germany in June, officials said. The 4-year-old cat, named Rowdy, was found safe and sound Wednesday morning, according to Massport. She’d been missing ever since she landed in Boston with one of her owners...

Russia has shattered weeks of relative calm in Ukraine’s capital with a missile attack as Western leaders meeting in Europe prepared to reaffirm their support for Ukraine and condemnation of Russia.

President Joe Biden and Western allies at a three-day summit in the Bavarian Alps say they’re intent on keeping economic fallout from the war in Ukraine from fracturing the global coalition working to punish Russia’s aggression. Britain’s Boris Johnson warned the leaders not to give in to “fatigue” even as Russia lobbed new missiles at Kyiv. Biden says the coalition...

The German soccer federation is allowing transgender women to decide whether they want to play in men’s or women’s teams.

Here are five things to know about Thomas Müller, forward for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the German national team.

French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italian Premier Mario Draghi have arrived in Kyiv.  

The Russian military said it used long-range missiles Wednesday to destroy a depot in the western Lviv region of Ukraine where ammunition for NATO-supplied weapons was stored, and the governor of a key eastern city acknowledged Russian forces are advancing in heavy fighting. The battle for Sievierodonetsk in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas area has become the focus of Russia’s offensive...

Mass shootings are not unique to the United States, with gun violence impacting almost every Western country. Here’s how lawmakers around the world have responded to mass shootings.

A FedEx plane carrying a second shipment of specialized infant formula arrived at Dulles International Airport on Wednesday.

The first shipment of baby formula being sent to the U.S. from Europe arrived at an airbase in Germany Saturday.

A 60-year-old man allegedly had himself vaccinated against COVID-19 dozens of times in Germany in order to sell forged vaccination cards with real vaccine batch numbers to people not wanting to get vaccinated themselves

One of the early casualties of Russia’s territorial ambitions in Ukraine was the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, a massive energy project that cost $11 billion.

European stocks closed lower on the last trading day of March, a month marked by global geopolitical and economic uncertainty after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

NATO countries across Europe have done an about-face on defense spending in the immediate wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

There are rapidly rising concerns over what Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine will mean for European economies.

Poland’s government says it’s taking steps to cut Russian oil imports by the end of 2022 as Germany triggered an early warning level for natural gas supplies amid Russia’s war in Ukraine.