Alba Berlin sporting director Himar Ojeda believes that the club's home city deserves to be one of the 12 locations for teams in the planned NBA league in Europe. "We've earned it with our 35 years of work," he said. "We have deep roots in Berlin. There's really no need to create a new club." George Aivazoglou, the managing director of NBA Europe, said at an event in Milan on Friday, that the North American league plans to launch its own competition in Europe from October 2027. He said they had settled on 12 locations for teams - Berlin, Munich, Lyon, Paris, Athens, London, Manchester, Milan, ...

The man accused of killing six people in a car attack at a Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg admitted on Monday that he was behind the wheel during the incident. "I am the one that drove the car," Taleb al-Abdulmohsen said on the first day of his trial at the Magdeburg Regional Court. He did not provide any further details at first, nor did he apologize or show any sign of remorse. During his testimony, the 51-year-old defendant instead spoke in a tearful voice with a handkerchief covering his face about alleged cover-ups by the police and criticized the media. He repeat...

A further deadly incident shook the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Monday, as the Israeli military said its troops had killed two Palestinians who posed a threat. The Hamas-controlled civil defence in the coastal region reported the two deaths in an Israeli attack near the southern city of Khan Younis, including that of a minor. Two Palestinians approached soldiers who then "eliminated the terrorists in order to remove the threat," an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) statement said. They allegedly crossed the so-called yellow line behind which the Israeli military had withdrawn under the ceasefire ...

A Ukrainian man imprisoned in Italy and accused of involvement in the 2022 bombing of the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, has made serious allegations against his captors. "I am being held under armed guard, in complete isolation and under constant surveillance," the defendant, identified only as Serhij K in line with privacy laws, said in a letter quoted by his lawyer on Monday. The man, who is due to be extradited to Germany for criminal proceedings, began a hunger strike more than a week ago "because the Italians are ignoring my requests and violating my rights as a prisoner of...

The man accused of killing six people by ramming a car into crowds at a Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg admitted on Monday that he was behind the wheel during the incident. "I am the one that drove the car," Taleb al-Abdulmohsen said on the first day of his high-security trial, one of the largest in Germany's post-war history. Almost 11 months after the attack, which killed five women aged between 45 and 75 and a child, and injured 338, many of those affected were also present in court. Prosecutors have charged 51-year-old al-Abdulmohsen with six counts of murder and 3...