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Far-right AfD Eyes New Win In East German State Vote

Germans began casting ballots Sunday for a regional election in a formerly communist eastern state where the far-right AfD party is narrowly ahead in opinion polls.

International Business Times

German president inaugurates the rebuilt tower of a church with Nazi-era historical baggage

Germany’s president has inaugurated the rebuilt tower of a church that became associated with the Nazis’ takeover of power and whose remains were demolished under communist rule

The Independent UK

Germany's Sanssouci Park seeks solutions as its trees struggle with climate change

The avenues, monuments and gardens in the park surrounding Sanssouci Palace, a sprawling green oasis in the heart of the German city of Potsdam and a UNESCO world heritage site, look as magnificent as ever

The Independent UK

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German police foiled IS attack hours before England vs Spain Euro 2024 match

Cops swooped on Potsdam addresses in hours before fan park gathered in Berlin

Evening Standard

Chasing the 2024 solar eclipse means dorm life for some New York spectators (including me)

I really thought I left dorm life behind 20 years ago. But just when I thought I was out, the 2024 total solar eclipse pulled me back in.

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I'm driving 6 hours through New York's Adirondacks to see the 2024 total solar eclipse from Potsdam. Here's why.

The first total solar eclipse I saw in 2017 was a work event. For the 2024 total solar eclipse, I'm bringing my kid.

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Germans take to streets after AfD meeting on mass deportation plan

Protests held amid calls for party to be banned after meeting neo-Nazis to discuss removing asylum seekers

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The Guardian view on Germany’s far right: it’s penetrating the mainstream

Editorial: Recent revelations confirm that dangerously extreme forces are at work in the Alternative für Deutschland party, which lies second in the polls

The Guardian - UK

Demonstrations against the far right held in Germany following a report on a deportation meeting

Thousands of people have gathered in Germany for demonstrations against the far right, among them Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his foreign minister

The Independent UK

Berlin blockade 75 years on: how Russian occupation tactics in Ukraine echo Soviet actions in East Germany

A Soviet blockade of the three western sectors of Berlin started on June 24 1948. At that point, the city, like the rest of Germany, was split into areas of Russian, British, US and French control as part of the post-second world war settlement that was shaped in allied conferences…

The Conversation

From European glory to relegation: the decline of Turbine Potsdam

German side’s 26-year stint in top flight ended this month, highlighting difficulties facing independent women’s teams

The Guardian - UK

Why food is such a powerful symbol in political protest

Food is a hot issue in today’s activism. Last year, UK climate group Just Stop Oil hurled tomato soup at Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London. Later they smeared cake on a Madame Tussauds waxwork of King Charles. Protesters affiliated with the German group Letzte Generation…

The Conversation

Commentary: Throwing food on famous art to sound alarm on climate change distracts from the cause

The worldwide debate over climate change is descending into a political food fight. On Sunday, climate activists threw mashed potatoes on Claude Monet’s famous “Les Meules” painting, which is housed at the Barberini Museum in Potsdam, Germany. This is the latest in a series of incidents in which activists are…

Chicago Tribune

Climate Protesters Throw Mashed Potatoes at Monet Painting

Climate protesters threw mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting in a German museum to protest fossil fuel extraction but caused no visible damage to the glass-covered painting Sunday. Two activists from the group Last Generation, which has called on the German government to take drastic action to protect the…

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The Guardian - UK

Climate activists throw mashed potatoes at Monet work in Germany

Two protesters pelt painting with potatoes and glue their hands to wall at Museum Barberini in Potsdam

The Guardian - UK

‘Healing a wound’: from neglected East German relic to lauded art gallery

German billionaire restores Minsk cafe in Potsdam as showpiece of socialist realist architecture

Asharq Al-Awsat

British Worker at UK Embassy in Berlin Charged with Russian Spying Offenses

A British man who worked in the British embassy in Berlin has been charged with offenses under the Official Secrets Act related to passing on information useful to Russia, London police said. David Ballantyne Smith, 57, who was living in Potsdam, Germany and was employed as a security guard at…

The Independent UK

Police appeal for witnesses as family and school mourn murdered 21-year-old cellist

Upstate New York police appeal for witnesses in gun murder of SUNY Potsdam student; funeral planned for Saturday

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