Starting in early November, the notices began appearing across Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and elsewhere: Der Weihnachtsmarkt 2020 ist coronabedingt abgesagt (The 2020 Christmas Market is ...

The death toll in a car-ramming attack at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg has risen to five people, and more than 200 have been injured, many of them seriously, state premier Reiner ...

Vienna police said on Wednesday that they have "numerous measures" in place to protect tens of thousands attending the Austrian capital's famed balls, following jihadist calls for attacks throughout ...

The President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, delivered a message in favor of tolerance and coexistence on Thursday, ...

Holger Muench, president of the federal criminal police office (BKA), told public broadcaster ZDF during the weekend that Germany was reviewing security measures at Christmas markets and ...

At least five people are now known to have been killed in the vehicle-ramming attack on a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg on Friday. At least five people were killed, including a ...

Imagine winding through the snow-capped peaks of the Swiss Alps, the rolling hills of Austria, or quaint German towns while heading toward your next Christmas market. Some of Europe’s most ...

FOR WEEKS German officials had fretted about the risk of a terrorist attack on the country’s Christmas markets: crowded, difficult-to-secure gatherings with religious connotations that could ...

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The suspect in a deadly car ramming attack on a German Christmas market was mentally unwell, "massively Islamophobic and close to right-wing extremist ideologies", Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said ...