David Rising

Read the latest stories and analysis from David Rising.

A police officer leaves a house where the head of an ultraconservative Islamic Salafist group lived after searching for evidence, in Cologne , western Germany, Thursday June 14, 2012. German authorities are conducting raids on properties linked to an ultraconservative Islamic organization after the interior minister banned the group. Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich on Thursday banned the Salafist organization Millatu Ibrahim, saying it has been calling on Muslims to fight against Germany's "constitutional order." (AP Photo/dapd/Roberto Pfeil)

Germany bans Salafist organization amid raids

David Rising · June 14, 2012 2:23 pm

People look at a display of looted art on a video screen as they attend the Provenance Research Training Program to the Nazi-looted art, in Magdeburg, central Germany, Thursday, June 14, 2012. Experts from museums, auction houses, government agencies and other institutions are meeting in Germany this week as part of an international effort to train art-world professionals in issues related to recovering and restituting art and cultural treasures looted during the Nazi era. The six-day conference brings together 35 experts from more than a dozen countries. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer)

Art experts discuss recovering art looted by Nazis

David Rising · June 14, 2012 1:08 pm

FILE-This file photo provided by the Montreal Police Service shows Luka Rocco Magnotta. The family of a Chinese student who was killed and dismembered in Canada said they are deeply troubled by his death but have been moved by the outpouring of sympathy and charity. Jun Lin's family arrived in Montreal last week. The family said in a statement made public late Monday June 11, 2012 that Lin was "the pride for our whole family clan." Magnotta is accused of killing Lin. (AP Photo/Montreal Police Service via The Canadian Press)

Canadian porn actor ordered held in dismembering

David Rising · June 13, 2012 11:23 pm

FILE - In this May 12, 2011 file picture John Demjanjuk leaves the court room, in Munich, southern Germany. John Demjanjuk's attorney has filed a complaint with Bavarian prosecutors charging that pain medication administered to his client helped lead to his death as he awaited an appeal of his conviction on Nazi war crimes. Attorney Ulrich Busch is asking prosecutors in Rosenheim to open an investigation of five doctors and a nurse on suspicion of manslaughter. Prosecutor Juergen Branz said Wednesday June 13, 2012 officials are obliged to investigate all such claims to determine whether to open a case. Demjanjuk, who suffered from kidney disease, anemia and other ailments died March 17 at age 91. He was convicted by a Munich court in May on 28,060 counts accessory to murder on allegations he was a guard at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp. Demjanjuk denied ever being a guard and was appealing. (AP Photo/dapd/ Lennart Preiss,File)

Demjanjuk attorney files complaint against doctors

David Rising · June 13, 2012 3:39 pm

Berlin police release photo of “forest boy”

David Rising · June 13, 2012 8:14 am

In this photo taken Saturday, June 9, 2012, workers unload the engine of a German Junkers Ju 87 'Stuka' dive bomber from a salvage vessel in Sassnitz, on the Baltic Sea, eastern Germany. A German military museum on Saturday recovered the wreck of a Stuka dive bomber from the floor of the Baltic Sea, a rare remaining example of the plane that once wreaked havoc over Europe as part of the Nazis' war machine. (AP Photo/dapd/Jens Koehler)

Germans recover Stuka bomber wreck from Baltic Sea

David Rising · June 11, 2012 10:27 am

Former US army commander on trial in Germany

David Rising · June 10, 2012 6:01 pm