“The Berlin government has repeatedly shown its willingness to break the law to suppress Palestine activism. The violence is the logical outcome of this political climate.” #Berlin #Polizei #Gewalt #CDU #Gaza

Borussia Dortmund CEO Carsten Cramer is 100% committed to the club’s sponsorship deal with Germany’s biggest arms manufacturer. (AP) #Rheinmetall #HejaBVB 💣 apnews.com/article/dort...

Free admission to U.S. national parks on Trump’s birthday. It’s being scrapped for Martin Luther King Jr Day and Juneteenth. (AP) #MAGA 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/nati...

Syria's interim president Ahmad al-Sharaa says Israel is fighting 'ghosts' and searching for enemies (AP) #Syria #Israel apnews.com/article/syri...

Ireland, Spain, Slovenia and the Netherlands to boycott Eurovision because Israel is in. “Germany, a major Eurovision backer, had signalled it would not take part if Israel was barred.” (RTÉ) #Eurovision #Israel #warcrimewashing www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

Palestinian farmers are being terrorized by armed Israeli settlers as they try to gather their olive harvests in the West Bank (AP) #WestBank #Israel #olives #land apnews.com/article/sett...

Netanyahu, wanted by the ICC to face charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, asks for a pardon to end his ongoing corruption trial in Israel (AP) #Netanyahu #accusations apnews.com/article/mide...

Israeli forces kill Palestinian men in West Bank after they appear to surrender (AP) #Israel #WestBank #occupation apnews.com/article/mide...

Former AP photographer’s vintage images of Ireland capture a world before it disappeared (AP) #Ireland #rareoldtimes #vintage #photography #roadtrip ☘️ apnews.com/article/irel...

BREAKING: Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau have appeared on state television saying they have seized power in the country.

Maybe just call it Dublin Airport – it has worked perfectly fine as a name for Dublin’s airport up to now.

One of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre's last survivors, Viola Ford Fletcher, dies at age 111 She “spent her later years seeking justice for the deadly attack by a white mob on the thriving Black community where she lived as a child.” (AP) #ViolaFordFletcher #Tulsa #racism apnews.com/article/viol...

UN climate talks were another abject flop. The words “fossil fuels” weren’t even mentioned in the final resolution. (AP) #COP30 #Brazil #climatechange #fossilfuels #SaudiArabia apnews.com/article/clim...

Bucha’s sense of betrayal over peace plan’s amnesty clause reflects a dark mood across Ukraine (AP) #Ukraine #Russia #Bucha #betrayal apnews.com/article/ukra...

From today's episode of "What did Israel do now?" - Plans to seize swaths of major West Bank historic site - Settlers inaugurate new illegal outpost - Palestinian activist detained and hospitalized - Human Rights Watch: Israel committed war crimes in West Bank (AP) #Israel #WestBank #warcrimes

Tuxedo-clad Trump rolls out the red carpet for the man whom his own U.S. intelligence said likely approved the slaying of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018. (AP) #Trump #Khashoggi #MbS #SaudiArabia

Dublin City ⚓️

Aer Lingus’ Irish breakfasts are much smaller now than they used to be. One sausage, one lump of pudding. And the hot drink is no longer included. #AerLingus #inflation #breakfast ☘️

Israeli settlers attack two Palestinian villages in the West Bank (AP) #Israel #WestBank apnews.com/article/isra...

At UN climate talks in Brazil, the only sign of the United States is an empty chair (AP) #COP30 #ClimateChange #Trump #USA #MAGA apnews.com/article/clim...

BBC faces leadership crisis after news bosses quit over Trump speech edit and bias claims (AP) #BBC #Trump #mediabias #media apnews.com/article/brit...

36 years ago, AP’s Frieder Reimold was watching a briefing by Günter Schabowski, who said he thought new restrictions on travel to West Germany were being lifted "immediately." Reimold sent an alert, "DDR öffnet Grenzen," and the rest is history. An incredible night. (AP) #DDR #Mauerfall #Berlin

Rayo Vallecano, unbeaten by Real Madrid and Barcelona this season⚡️

UN report on the situation in the West Bank, October 2025 only: -260 settler attacks (average 8 per day), highest number since the UN started recording in 2006 -140 Palestinians injured -150 attacks on olive harvesting -4,200 olive trees vandalised in 77 villages www.ochaopt.org/content/huma...

The Football Association of Ireland has voted to submit a motion to UEFA to ban Israel from its European club and international competitions. (RTÉ) #Ireland #Israel #UEFA www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...

Bundesliga preview with Bayern Munich hoping to tie its 10-game winning start from 2015. Union Berlin will have a thing or two to say about that in Köpenick today. (AP) #FCBayern #Eisern #Bundesliga apnews.com/article/bund...

Triple Trabi trouble at the Berlin Wall today. #Trabi #Berlin #DDR

GERMANY - A Berlin court has confirmed that the "political activity ban" on British-Palestinian doctor Ghassan Abu-Sittah in the context of the “Palestine Congress” in April 2024 was unlawful.

You know those people on boats the United States has just been blowing up in the Caribbean? The AP went to find out about who they were. (AP) #Trump #USA #Venezuela #humanrights apnews.com/article/trum...

We've reached the stage where someone or some people are painting swastikas with human blood in Hanau of all places. (AP) #Hanau apnews.com/article/germ...

He’s done it! Zohran Mamdani wins NYC mayor's race, capping a stunning ascent (AP) #Zohran #NYC apnews.com/article/mamd...

Former Kilkenny hurling star DJ Carey sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison for fraud. He conned people out of nearly €400,000 by falsely claiming he needed money for cancer treatment. (RTÉ) #DJCarey #Kilkenny #fraud #Ireland www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik

Can we make this guy Berlin mayor, too?

Good overview of what’s happening in Sudan. Sudan war takes a turn as paramilitary force captures Darfur, threatening to split the country (AP) #Sudan 🇸🇩 apnews.com/article/suda...

The Irish government’s lurch to the right on immigration will only create space for fascists to thrive “The governments of Germany, the UK and France have been trying for years to prevent the rise of the far right through ceding ground to them and have failed spectacularly.” (Indo) #Ireland #Nazis

What did Pasolini know? Fifty years after his brutal murder, the director’s vision of fascism is more urgent than ever

Ukraine's attack drones are striking much further inside Russia than before. "The strikes have caused gasoline shortages in Russia, even forcing rationing in some regions and underscoring a growing vulnerability in the country’s infrastructure." (AP) #Ukraine #Russia apnews.com/article/ukra...

Israel says the ceasefire is back on after it kills 104 people including 46 children. Someone needs to tell Israel how ceasefires work. (AP) #Israel #Gaza #warcrimes #still apnews.com/article/isra...

Israel’s military says it has resumed enforcing the ceasefire, and that aid deliveries will resume. (AP) #Israel #Gaza #ceasefire apnews.com/article/isra...

The daylight robbery at the Louvre happened with visitors already inside and “as staff complained that crowding and thin staffing are straining security.” (AP) #Louvre #robbery #jewelheist #yougetwhatyoupayfor apnews.com/article/fran...

It didn’t last long. (AP) #Israel #Gaza #warcrimes #ceasefire apnews.com/article/isra...

Mohammed Abu Moussa, a 45-year-old medical technician, says he and many others were subjected to horrific abuse in Israeli prisons. Israel is a country where people – including prisoners – are supposed to have basic rights. (AP) #Israel #abuse #humanrights apnews.com/article/gaza...

AP's photos of the month for September, including this by Niranjan Shrestha of a protestor in Kathmandu, Nepal. (AP) #photography apimagesblog.com/blog/2025/10...

My photo is of KaDeWe, Berlin. It’s one of my favourite shops. It’s also part of German history. It was a Jewish owned business that was stolen by the Nazis. By the time people wake up to living in a fascist state, it’s too late & that anonymity that matters so much now to you, will no longer exist

A thread on Barney Ronay's article criticising the decision Birmingham City Council and supported by West Midlands police to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters from traveling to Birmingham. It might be a depressing decision but it's not a terrible one. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

No shit, Sherlock. "Mainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda, researchers in Germany have found." #AfD #CDU #SPD #politics #Germany #everywhere www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

"Even if the fighting can be brought to an end, it's unclear when – or even if – Gaza can be rebuilt, and the broader Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which predates the war by decades, would remain volatile as ever." (AP) #Israel #Gaza #warcrimes apnews.com/article/isra...

Thousands of people are missing in Gaza. No one knows the true death toll with so many under the rubble. Israel’s military has also taken bodies and “returned several hundred corpses with no identification to Gaza, where they were buried in anonymous mass graves.” (AP) #Israel #Gaza #warcrimes

Peace plans cannot solely be relied on to address grave abuses in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. 30+ years of escalating repression of Palestinians as "peace processes" played out made that clear. Trump's plan is no substitute for urgent action in Gaza.