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Merkel appeals court order to reveal chats with journalists

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, shakes hands with the Prime Minister of Iraq Haider al-Abadi for the media ahead of bilateral talks during the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017. The annual weekend gathering is known for providing an open and informal platform to meet in close quarters.

Pence visits Dachau concentration camp

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence paid a somber visit to the site of the Dachau concentration camp on Sunday, walking along the grounds where tens of thousands of people were killed during World War II. Pence visits Dachau concentration camp DACHAU, Germany – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence paid a somber visit to the site of the Dachau concentration camp on Sunday, walking along the grounds where tens of thousands of people were killed during World War II.

US vice president visits former Nazi concentration camp

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, second from right, his wife Karen and their daugher Charlotte, right, walk through the former crematories during a visit to the former Nazi concentration camp in Dachau near Munich, southern… . U.S. Vice President Mike Pence looks into during a visit to the memorial site in the former Nazi concentration camp in Dachau near Munich, southern Germany, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2017, one day after he attended the Munich Secur… .

Europeans wonder if Trump will act on Pence’s reassurances

United States Vice President Mike Pence, left and Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, talk prior to their meeting during the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017. America’s commitment to NATO is “unwavering,” Pence said Saturday, reassuring allies about the direction the Trump administration might take but leaving open questions about where Washington saw its relationship with the European Union and other international organizations.

Russia, Ukraine Agree to Ceasefire in Eastern Ukraine

European powers are backing a new ceasefire agreement announced Saturday for embattled eastern Ukraine, where Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatists have been locked in conflict for three years. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the deal, set to begin Monday, was settled with input from German and French counterparts, and comes after two other internationally-brokered ceasefires have fizzled in a region where the fighting has only raised tensions between Russia and the West.

Just Shoot Me

The problem was deadly serious: In 1943, U.S. bombers in Europe were being shot down at an alarming rate. But one attempted solution provides a smile some 67 years later: an unloved American fighter stripped of its guns, painted clown-orange, and sheathed with armor that made it fly like an anvil, so that aerial gunnery students in B-17s and B-24s could shoot at it.

ISACA Announces 2017 Global Events

ISACA, a global association serving IT assurance, governance and cybersecurity professionals, announced its 2017 event schedule, which includes expansion in all types of learning. Serving professionals in 180 countries, ISACA offers education, networking, credentialing and career development opportunities.

Extreme cold weather continues to batter East Europe

Icicles hang from a roof of a house in Oberstdorf, southern Germany, Sunday Jan. 8, 2017. Heavy snowfall and below-freezing temperatures continued to sweep the European continent, causing more than a dozen deaths, grounding airplanes and crippling ferries in Italy and Turkey.

A German court has shut down hopes for a breakaway Bavaria

Bavarian riflemen and women in traditional costumes fire their muzzle loaders in front of the “Bavaria” statue on the last day at the 183rd Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich on Monday, Oct. 3, 2016. Would Germany be Germany without Bavaria? The wealthy southern state comprises roughly one-fifth of Germany’s landmass.

German town evacuates on Christmas morning for WWII bomb

Police help a man to leave his apartment in Augsburg, Germany as the town was evacuated so authorities could disarm a World War II bomb. FRANKFURT, Germany – Thousands of people in the southern German city of Augsburg have left Christmas presents and decorations behind, forced to evacuate while authorities disarm a large World War II aerial bomb.

Assassination 101, KGB style

In the summer of 1950, Soviet police arrested a young Ukrainian man for riding a train without paying the fare. Just over a decade later, the same man was found guilty of committing two political assassinations for the KGB.

Berlin Christmas market attack suspect a refugee, security sources say

The man suspected of deliberately ramming a large truck into a Christmas market in Berlin is a refugee from the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, two German intelligence officials and a police official told CNN. The sources said the suspect in Monday evening’s attack, which killed 12 people and injured dozens more, arrived in Passau, a city on Germany’s border with Austria, on December 31, 2015, after traveling through the Balkans.