
Police stand next to a damaged car after an assailant drove a car into pedestrians in Mannheim, Germany, on March 3, 2025. Two people are reportedly dead and 25 injured. Police arrested the attacker. The incident comes in the wake of a string of car attacks and stabbings committed in recent months by Syrians and Afghans in Germany radicalized by Islamic extremism. Florian Wiegand/Getty Images

(C L–R) Austrias Minister of Foreign Affairs Beate Meinl-Reisinger, Federal Chancellor Christian Stocker, Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen, and Vice Chancellor and minister of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media, and Sports Andreas Babler pose for a group photo during the swearing-in ceremony of the new federal government at the Presidential Chancellery in Vienna on March 3, 2025. Roland Schlager/APA/AFP via Getty Images