Alexander Dobrindt

Israelis commemorate October 7 attack as election looms

At a rare public hearing Germany's intelligence agencies identified Russia as the country's most dangerous adversary

Nearly half of Germans view former Chancellor Angela Merkel as better suited to handle Germany's challenges than current Chancellor Friedrich Merz

Greece has even proposed temporarily suspending asylum applications in emergency situations

Estonia has accused Russian security services of ordering an arson attack on defence company Milrem Robotics, which supplies unmanned ground vehicles to Ukraine

Last month, an explosives-laden drone struck a cargo aircraft at Leipzig airport but failed to detonate, an attack Germany subsequently blamed on Russian intelligence

The escalation fears come as the UN general assembly convenes in New York later this week, and amid intensifying airstrikes on both sides of Russia’s war on Ukraine

The suspect was reportedly spotted near the Weisweiler power station, close to Aachen in western Germany, after being sought by authorities for several days

Several German cities will receive rapidly deployable units capable of defending against drone strikes on critical infrastructure, Bild am Sonntag newspaper reported

He was meeting Danish, Greek, Austrian and Dutch counterparts to agree on the controversial hubs

The pessimism reflects concern that Russia may be winning a so-called hybrid war with Europe, weakening the options available to Nato war planners in the event of military conflict

Power grid sabotage overshadows German elections

Dozens killed after Russian drone strike on busy shopping mall in Zelensky's hometown

Germany has announced punitive measures after publicly blaming Russia for an attempted airport drone attack

Meanwhile, Germany's Greens have sounded a warning about low gas storage levels ahead of winter

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky vowed to retaliate after a double-tap drone strike on his home town killed 16 people

While Alexander Dobrindt, the interior minister, was careful not to point a finger at any nation, the news came amid increased fear of destabilizing “hybrid” attacks that European governments have blamed, publicly and privately, on Russia

The German government has approved a draft law aimed at lifting many of the restraints on its spy agencies imposed during the postwar period as the country reels from two attacks in a month that have exposed serious security gaps

Drone went undetected by authorities and airport staff, flying freely for about 2 hours

American intelligence experts believe Russia was behind an attack on a German airport last week with a drone laden with explosives, US media have reported, as Berlin remained silent on the likely culprit

An investigation is underway following the drone incident that occurred early Wednesday morning

Germany is investigating two related security incidents: unidentified drones were reported over a Bundeswehr base in Mechernich, western Germany, days after an explosives-equipped drone was discovered near Ukrainian Antonov cargo aircraft at Leipzig/Halle Airport

U.S. Intel Finds Putin Could Test NATO’s Resolve With Limited Incursion

German authorities have begun a counterterrorism ⁠investigation into a drone laden with explosives found near a Ukrainian transport plane at Leipzig Airport

Meanwhile, Lithuania also fears that Putin may be planning a “false flag” strike on the Baltics, following a spate of recent drone incursions along Europe’s eastern frontier

Drone found in close proximity to a Ukrainian cargo plane at Leipzig/Halle airport

An increase in Russia-backed disinformation campaigns has been recorded in Germany ahead of regional elections in the federal states

German authorities are investigating two unusual security incidents at Leipzig Airport after a drone carrying an explosive device was discovered inside the airport's secured area and a DHL cargo aircraft collided with an unidentified object shortly after takeoff

Ceuta latest: Trump lashes out over migrant ‘catastrophe’ as 60,000 cross into Spanish enclave

60,000 cross into Spanish territory of Ceuta and at least 34 die after border breach

As part of the tighter immigration policy pursued by conservative Chancellor Friedrich Merz since he took office last year, on Tuesday the latest in a series of flights took off from Germany carrying 31 Afghans returning to a country run by Taliban authorities

Christopher Street Day, one of Europe’s largest Pride events, was winding down near Tiergarten when a rented van was driven into the crowd

Germany is on high alert after a deadly vehicle-ramming and knife attack near Berlin's Christopher Street Day (CSD) Pride parade left one woman dead and 29 people injured

Germany is on high alert after a deadly vehicle-ramming and knife attack near Berlin's Christopher Street Day (CSD) Pride parade left one woman dead and 29 people injured

Meanwhile, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt will present a report on sexual offenses against children

Meanwhile, a train security guard was critically injured after falling from a moving train

German Far Right Grows More Extreme as It Surges, Report Shows

The call comes after Sweden, alongside ten other nations, sent a letter on Wednesday to EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and migration commissioner Magnus Brunner

The backlog of trials in Scotland's highest criminal courts has nearly tripled, due in part to an increase in complex cases involving serious organised crime and historic sex abuse

Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt have publicly acknowledged Iranian threats linked to the war against Iran

No arrests were made in Wednesday's raids, which took place in 12 states, mainly in the east and south of Germany, including Bavaria, Berlin, Brandenburg and Saxony

European lawmakers have voted to make it easier to send rejected asylum-seekers to detention sites in third countries, echoing tough U.S. deportation tactics that some far-right parties praise

On "CBS Mornings," two former counterterrorism officials and CBS News national security contributors, Sam Vinograd and Joe Zacks, discussed the potential threats to the U.S. and what Americans should know to help protect themselves

As Israel and the United States pound Iran and Lebanon with airstrikes, Tehran is now openly threatening to treat every Israeli embassy on the planet as a “legitimate target” if its mission in Beirut is hit vowing worldwide retaliation through its proxy network, missile forces and escalating attacks on U.S. assets across the region

Dobrindt moved to drastically bolster checks along the country’s national borders on his first full day in office last year

The incident left 45,000 households without power in freezing temperatures

From January to November 2025, 106,298 first-time asylum applications were recorded by the national migration agency Bamf, putting Germany on course for its smallest annual total since 2013

The far-left Volcano activist group claimed responsibility for the attack which also shut down mobile phone connections, cut heating during freezing weather, stopped trains and forced hospitals to switch to back-up generators

Donald Trump roared back into the White House promising to deport one million illegal immigrants as part of the 'largest deportation operation in the history of the country.'

Measures include border rejections, refusal to admit family members, scrapping fast-track citizenship applications, and increasing migrant returns