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The Latest Breaking News from Dresden

Green Vault: Bulk of items stolen in £100m museum heist found by police

Police say they have retrieved most jewels taken in Dresden art theft dubbed ‘largest in modern history’

The Independent UK

German police recover bulk of booty from $173 million Dresden diamonds heist

Investigators in Berlin secure 31 pieces stolen by thieves from the historic art collection in 2019, with specialists still to verify their authenticity and condition.

ABC News

German police recover 31 items stolen in 2019 Dresden jewel heist

‘Considerable portion’ of priceless treasures from Green Vault museum recovered amid trial of suspects

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Germany Finds Most Items from 2019 Jewelry Heist

German authorities said Saturday they had found a "considerable portion" of items stolen in a spectacular 2019 robbery of priceless 18th-century jewels from a state museum. The authorities retrieved a total of 31 items in the night of Friday to Saturday in the capital Berlin, the police and prosecutors said.…

Asharq Al-Awsat

German police recover bulk of booty from $120 million Dresden diamonds heist

Most of the jewels stolen from a historic Dresden art collection in 2019 in a $120 million heist have been recovered, German police and prosecutors said on Saturday.

Reuters

Part of haul from 2019 German museum jewelry heist recovered

German authorities say they have recovered a significant part of the 18th-century treasures stolen from Dresden’s Green Vault museum in a spectacular break-in more than three years ago

The Independent UK

Four best European Christmas markets to visit by train

It all started in Germany in the 15th century – and European Christmas markets have been attracting visitors ever since. Bernadette Fallon selects the best ones to reach by rail

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The best new European train journeys for 2023

Overnight trains between Stuttgart and Venice and between Munich and Genoa are among several new services that have launched in recent days

The Guardian - UK

Man killed after taking hostages at shopping centre in Dresden

A man was shot dead by police during a hostage situation at a shopping centre in Germany.

Evening Standard

Hostage situation in Dresden, Germany, ends with suspect dead and hostages freed

German police evacuated parts of the eastern city of Dresden on Saturday morning after a man reportedly took two people hostage at a mall.

WEKU

German police confirm end of hostage situation at Dresden shopping centre with Christmas markets forced to close

Radio Dresden says a gunman tried to enter a building near the city's main train station and fired several shots before fleeing hours after a 62-year-old woman was found dead.

ABC News

‘All clear’: German police end hostage-taking in Dresden

Police say the situation is under control after a hostage-taking by a gunman at the Altmarkt-Galerie in central Dresden.

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German police give all-clear after hostage-taking in Dresden

German police gave the all-clear after a hostage-taking that had prompted it to evacuate a shopping mall in the historic city centre of Dresden and shut the famous Striezelmarkt Christmas market on Saturday.

Reuters

Police: Hostage situation in German city of Dresden

German police say a hostage situation is underway in the eastern city of Dresden, following reports of shots fired

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Suspect dies after killing mother and taking hostages in Dresden shopping mall horror

German police say their 40-year-old suspect, who took hostages in a pharmacy in Dresden's central Altmarkt-Galerie district, went on a rampage in the city centre after executing his own 62-year-old mum

Reuters

Germany says Dresden hostage taker was likely "confused" lone wolf

German authorities said they had ended a suspected hostage-taking in the eastern city of Dresden on Saturday by what appeared to be a psychologically confused man acting alone, after evacuating a shopping mall in the historic city centre.

The Independent UK

Hostage situation in Dresden shopping mall, German police confirm

Radio Dresden earlier reported that shots had been fired at a building near the main train station

Asharq Al-Awsat

4 Detained after Germany’s Largest Ever Heroin Seizure Traced Back to Iran

Four people were detained after police made their largest ever seizure of heroin in Germany, prosecutors said on Friday, with police confiscating some 700 kilograms (1,543 pounds) as part of an operation against a gang smuggling narcotics from Iran. The drugs were seized in the port city of Hamburg at…

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The Guardian - UK

English National Ballet announces Aaron Watkin as new artistic director

The 52-year-old Canadian will succeed Tamara Rojo in August 2023 and arrives after 16 years as artistic director of Semperoper Ballett in Dresden

Financial Times

The surprising revival of eastern Germany

Once a byword for economic decline, the region is being transformed into the centre of Europe’s electric car industry

Benzinga

GlobalFoundries-STMicro Discuss Partnering For Chip Plant In France

GlobalFoundries Inc (NASDAQ:GFS) and STMicroelectronics N.V. (NYSE:STM) are amid discussions to build a semiconductor factory in France with the help of government funds, Bloomberg reports. The European Commission looks to produce 20% of the world’s chips by 2030. The European Union executive arm proposed the 43 billion euro ($45.3 billion) Chips Act earlier to…

Zenger

HEIST DID IT: Courtroom Confession From Gang Member In $126 Million Theft

A member of a well-known Arab crime family in Germany says he helped plan the jewelry robbery. The loot has never been recovered.

InsideEVs

VW Halting EV Production This Week Amid Ukraine Supply Issues

VW will stop ID.3, ID.4, ID.5, Audi Q4 e-tron, Q4 e-tron Sportback and Cupra Born production in Zwickau (March 1–4) and ID.3 assembly in Dresden (March 2–4).

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Intel Picks Magdeburg in Germany for New European Chip Factory

Intel has chosen the east German city of Magdeburg as the site for a new multibillion-euro European chip factory and will make the decision public on March 4, a person familiar with matter told Reuters. The company said in September it could invest as much as $95 billion in Europe…

The Guardian - UK

Trial opens of six men accused of daring £95m Dresden jewellery heist

Suspects in carefully choreographed 2019 raid on city’s Green Vault appear in court amid tight security

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