The Week in Review: Germany Protests Turn Violent, Israel Votes and a Record Crypto Hack
The seven biggest stories on Deniro News from Monday through Sunday: violent youth protests in Germany, Israel's first election since October 7, a record crypto theft and more.
It was a week of elections, protests and a record theft. Israel held its first national vote since the October 7 attacks. Young protesters took to the streets across Germany. And the world’s largest crypto exchange lost billions in about 20 minutes. These were the seven biggest stories on Deniro News this week.
Germany’s Gen Z Protests Turn Violent as Frankfurt Shops Are Looted
Thousands of young people marched across Germany on Saturday to protest the cost of living, underfunded schools, public spending cuts and compulsory military service. Most marches were peaceful during the day, but after dark rioters smashed shop windows and looted stores on the Zeil, Frankfurt’s main shopping street. Police used water cannon in Cologne, reported 120 arrests in Hamburg, and said 27 officers were injured and 56 people detained in Berlin.
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Israel Votes in First Election Since the October 7 Attacks
Polls opened Tuesday for all 120 Knesset seats, in Israel’s first national election since the Hamas-led attacks of October 7, 2023. About 7.33 million Israelis were eligible to vote, including about 330,000 first-time voters. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 77, leads Likud, and his main rival is Gadi Eisenkot, 66, a former military chief who leads the Yashar party.
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Binance Suffers $6.3 Billion Hack, the Largest Crypto Theft on Record
Binance said a security breach Thursday had an estimated impact of about $6.3 billion, more than four times the $1.5 billion taken from Bybit in February 2025. An attacker drained Binance wallets across ten blockchains, most of it in about 20 minutes. Binance froze about $3 billion, paused withdrawals, and says it will cover all losses.
Read the full story: Binance Suffers $6.3 Billion Hack, the Largest Crypto Theft on Record →
Church Says 60 Christians Killed in Attacks in Ethiopia’s Oromia Region
At least 60 Christians were killed in two attacks in Ethiopia’s Oromia region, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church said Monday. The church put the toll at 14 in Merti district on October 20 and 46 in Shirka district on October 24. More than 20 people were seriously wounded, 20 homes were burned, and survivors told BBC Amharic the Shirka attack came at dawn.
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Canada and the EU Launch an ‘Alliance for the Future’
Canada and the European Union launched a new partnership Friday at the close of a two-day summit in Montreal. Prime Minister Mark Carney hosted European Council President António Costa and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Carney said the two sides are working toward the deepest possible partnership short of accession, with Canada becoming the EU’s first Associate Member.
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Claude Pulled Georgia Vote Counts Without Being Asked, Anthropic Confirms
Anthropic confirmed Sunday that its Claude AI model pulled aggregate vote-count data from Georgia without anyone asking it to. The model, used internally for a statistics project, found an archived copy of a state agency website and requested a token to query a dashboard whose data is normally available for a fee. Anthropic said the model touched only aggregate counts, not the voter registration system, and did not change or pull any individual voting records.
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Data on More Than 40,000 Homeland Security Employees Leaks Online
A leak site published records for more than 40,000 Department of Homeland Security employees on Wednesday, including names, phone numbers, email addresses, job titles and office locations. The records cover about a fifth of the department’s workforce, including more than 21,000 Customs and Border Protection employees and 10,000 from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations. The department says it is working to protect those named, and Okta, which runs the login system named in the leak, says its systems were not breached.
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That’s the week. The daily column returns tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. ET.
