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Today — 22 December 2024Main stream
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3-Minute Christmas Market Rampage Shakes Germany

At least five people, including a 9-year-old child, were killed in the attack, which took place in the eastern city of Magdeburg. The authorities are still seeking a motive.

© Ebrahim Noroozi/Associated Press

Security guards early Saturday in front of the cordoned-off Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, where an S.U.V. plowed into a crowd on Friday evening.

Musk Expresses Support for Far-Right Party in Germany’s Election

It was not the first online intervention by Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and adviser to Donald Trump, on behalf of once-fringe anti-immigrant parties in Europe.

© Pool photo by Allison Robbert

Elon Musk has long made heavy use of X, which he bought in 2022, to express his views on politics in the United States and abroad.
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Who Is Friedrich Merz of Germany?

19 December 2024 at 02:04
If polls are correct, Olaf Scholz’s successor could be the 69-year-old leader of the Christian Democratic Union. He is offering to get the German economic engine humming again.

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Friedrich Merz, right, the leader of the Christian Democratic Union, addressing Germany’s lower house of Parliament ahead of a no-confidence vote against Chancellor Olaf Scholz, left, on Monday.
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