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Switzerland's Breel Embolo celebrates after scoring his side's third goal during a Group A match between Hungary and Switzerland at the Euro 2024 soccer tournament in Cologne, Germany, Saturday, June 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Embolo scores on comeback as Switzerland holds on to beat Hungary 3-1 at Euro 2024

By James Ellingworth - Associated Press

Serbia fans lit flares during an international friendly soccer match between Austria and Serbia at the Ernst Happel Stadion in Vienna, Austria, Tuesday, June 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

War in Ukraine will make it hard for UEFA to keep political messages out of stadiums at Euro 2024

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

Soccer fans share a laugh in the 'Marienplatz' square, before a Group A match between Germany and Scotland at the Euro 2024 soccer tournament in Munich, Germany, Friday, June 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Scotland fans help their team feel at home ahead of Euro 2024 opener against host nation Germany

By Daniella Matar - Associated Press

Germany's head coach Julian Nagelsmann, front center, players and staff members walk on the pitch during a training session of the German national soccer team in Herzogenaurach, Germany, Thursday, June 13, 2024. (Federico Gambarini/dpa via AP)

Fans are anxious to see if Germany can fire up Euro 2024 in opener against canny Scotland

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Players of Ukraine's national soccer team warm up during a public training session in Wiesbaden, Germany, Thursday, June 13, 2024, ahead of their group E match against Romania at the Euro 2024 soccer tournament. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Ukraine get a patriotic welcome and vivid reminder of the war at Euro 2024

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

A bicyclist passes a billboard for the European Election opposite the Concertgebouw concert hall Amsterdam, Netherlands, Wednesday, June 5, 2024. Voters in the European Union are set to elect lawmakers starting Thursday June 6th for the bloc's parliament. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

The right rises as the EU votes, but will it matter?

By Eric J. Lyman and Andrea Pisani - Special to The Washington Times

German's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock speaks to Ukrainian Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko during official visit to a thermal power plant which was destroyed by a Russian rocket attack in Ukraine, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Germany’s foreign minister visits Kyiv as Ukraine battles to hold off a Russian offensive

By Samya Kullab and Illia Novikov - Associated Press

The highway entrance to the A620 in Saarbrücken is flooded as heavy continuous rain has caused multiple floods and landslides in Saarland, western Germany, Saturday, May 18, 2024. (Laszlo Pinter/dpa via AP)

The German chancellor tours flooded regions in the southwest in a show of solidarity

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, left and Minister President Anke Rehlinger speak to local residents as they visit Kleinblittersdorf, Germany, which was hit by flooding, Saturday, May 18, 2024. Scholz has toured flooded regions in the southwest, where rivers have swelled and caused flash floods and landslides after heavy rain and severe weather. (Harald Tittel/dpa via AP)

The German chancellor tours flooded regions in the southwest in a show of solidarity

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Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto, right, receives Bosnian Serb leader serving as the 8th President of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik in his office office in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, May 15, 2024. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)

U.N. resolution to commemorate the Srebrenica genocide in Bosnia sparks opposition from Serbs

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Berlin Mayor Franziska Giffey attends a commemoration for homosexual victims of the Holocaust, in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023. Giffey, the former Mayor of Berlin was violently assaulted at an event in a Berlin library and had to be treated in the hospital on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, adding to the list of the elected officials who have been exposed to brutal attacks in Germany recently. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Another German politician is attacked as concerns rise over violence ahead of EU elections in June

By Kirsten Grieshaber - Associated Press

Flowers and a small Ukrainian flag are laid at a shopping center in Murnau, Germany, Sunday, April 28, 2024. Police say two Ukrainian men have been stabbed to death in southern Germany and a Russian man was arrested by authorities as a possible suspect in the killings. German news agency dpa reported Sunday that the two Ukrainians, who were 23 and 36 years old and lived in the southern German county of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, were killed on the premises of a shopping center in the village of Murnau in Upper Bavaria. (Constanze Wilz/dpa via AP)

German police arrest a Russian man in connection with the fatal stabbings of 2 Ukrainian men

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FILE - Elderly women sit on a bench beside their walker in the sun at a park in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Wednesday, April 5, 2023. Germany's Cabinet on Wednesday, April 24, 2024, approved a 4.57% rise in retirees' pensions from this summer, an increase that is well above the current rate of inflation. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

German retirees will get an inflation-busting pension increase this year

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Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Germany will resume working with U.N. relief agency for Palestinians after a review

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German far-right politician of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) Björn Höcke arrives for a session of his trial over the alleged use of Nazi phrases, at the regional court in Halle, eastern Germany, on Tuesday, April 23, 2024. Höecke, one of the most prominent figures in the far-right Alternative for Germany party, went on trial last Thursday on charges of using a Nazi slogan, months before a regional election in which he plans to run to become his state's governor. (Jens Schlueter/Pool Photo via AP)

A well-known figure in a German far-right party tells his trial he is completely innocent

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Hundreds of German local state police and federal police practice tactics in preparation for the European Championship in the village of Stützerbach, in Ilmenau, Germany, Tuesday, April 23, 2024. Germany hosts the European Championship from June 14 to July 14. Security is a priority with hundreds of thousands of fans expected for the 24-country soccer tournament. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Hundreds of German police subdue ‘hooligans’ in training exercise for Euro 2024

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Germany's Maximilian Krah, of the far-right Alternative, calls during a session at the European Parliament, Tuesday, April 23, 2024 in Strasbourg, eastern France. A man who works for the prominent German far-right lawmaker in the European Parliament has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China, authorities said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

A far-right German EU lawmaker’s aide is arrested on suspicion of spying for China

By Geir Moulson - Associated Press

The town sign of Bad Homburg in the Taunus, Germany, Monday April 22, 2024. Three people suspected of spying for China and facilitating the transfer of information on technology with potential military uses were arrested in Germany on Monday. The homes and offices of the suspects, who were arrested in Duesseldorf and in Bad Homburg, near Frankfurt, were searched. (Boris Roessler/dpa via AP)

3 Germans arrested on suspicion of spying for China, transferring info on potential military tech

By Geir Moulson - Associated Press

In this image provided by the U.S. Army, U.S. Soldiers from Battery A, 41st Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, conduct live-fire exercises using the M109 Paladins at the Grafenwoehr Training Area, March 14, 2022. Police in Germany arrested two suspected Russian agents accused of plotting to bomb military sites and industrial areas to disrupt the delivery of aid to Ukraine. (Capt. Patrick M. Connelly/U.S. Army via AP)

Suspected Russian agents are accused of plotting to bomb sites in Germany where Ukrainians train

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

German far-right politician of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) Bjoern Hoecke, centre, attends his trial in the state court in Halle, Germany, Thursday, April 18, 2024. Bjoern Hoecke, goes on trial at the state court in Halle on charges related to his alleged use in a 2021 speech of a slogan used by the Nazis' SA stormtroopers. (Fabrizio Bensch/Pool via AP)

Prominent figure in German far-right party stands trial over alleged use of Nazi slogan

By Geir Moulson and Kerstin Sopke - Associated Press