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Palestinian statehood comes at the end of negotiations for a two-state solution and that process can no longer be held in abeyance, Germany’s Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said Thursday.

European leaders appear to be in two minds about the historic trade deal negotiated by U.S. President Donald Trump and EU chief Ursula von der Leyen, with some praising the pragmatism of avoiding a broader trade war and others lambasting the deal as an effective surrender on behalf of Brussels.

In the hours following the Sunday announcement of the landmark trade deal agreed to by the United States and the European Union, a stinging reality began to sink in across the Old Continent: Brussels blinked, and the EU leadership had been utterly routed by President Donald Trump and his White House.

A regional passenger train derailed Sunday in southern Germany injuring at least three people, federal police told German news agency dpa.

Turkey and Britain on Wednesday signed a preliminary agreement for the sale of Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets to Turkey, a significant step in Ankara’s efforts to modernize its air fleet.

A German court on Wednesday acquitted a satirist who was charged with having approved of an assassination attempt against Donald Trump during last year’s U.S. election campaign in a social media post and disturbed the public peace.

A majority of Germans oppose efforts to ban the populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, with many believing that it is merely an attempt by the Berlin establishment to sideline its opposition.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi suggested in a letter to senior United Nations leaders, Iranian media reported on Monday, that the heads of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom “be held to account in international criminal tribunals as defendants for complicity in war crimes” for their support of Israel.

The fees to operate Germany’s electricity grid have more than doubled over the past decade, primarily due to Berlin’s green agenda, according to official statistics.

Dozens of Afghans with serious criminal records were handed $1,100 in cash and put on a plane to Kabul on Friday morning.

A German-Franco-led summit on Friday saw six nations demand that the European Union as a whole enact stricter regulations on asylum and step up border controls, in an apparent departure from the open borders orthodoxy that has dominated over the past decade.

German authorities say at least 19 people were injured, four seriously after a fireworks show went awry at a fair in the western city of Düsseldorf.

Banning the nation’s second-largest political party, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), has become a matter of constant conversation. Yet, a prominent academic has warned that there could be serious consequences for breaking the democratic system.

Mass migration will see the population of the United Kingdom rise faster than any country in the European Union this century, says the U.N..

Nations agreed to restore U.N. sanctions on Iran by the end of August if there has been no concrete progress on a nuclear deal.

Largest-ever war-fighting drills in Australia, Exercise Talisman Sabre, are underway and expected to attract the attention of Chinese spies.

A rising number of young German women are being converted to Islam through hardline Salafist outreach on social media, according to Berlin’s domestic political intelligence agency.

A Polish bare-knuckle boxing troupe has vowed to join the ranks of vigilante groups who have taken to policing the nation’s borders from illegal immigration.

Germany stated a Chinese warship, unprovoked and without warning, fired a laser weapon at an aircraft on a European Union military mission. 

Algerian teens are 56 times more likely to be suspected of a crime than their German-born counterparts, according to new statistics.

Poland has activated border controls apparently after being embarrassed by citizen vigilantes taking on border defence roles themselves.

The German government has begun the process of lifting the protection status for some Syrian refugees with the aim of returning them to their homeland now that the civil war has ended.

A Muslim student organisation has been barred from holding any further events at Germany’s prestigious Charité university over accusations of segregating events by sex.

Foreigners account for 15% of people living in Germany, but welfare data suggests many recipients might be of migrant-heritage communities.

A Syrian migrant was arrested by police after several people were injured in an axe attack on a high speed train travelling to Austria.

A man suspected of gathering information for Iran on Jewish locations and individuals possibly with a view to attacks has been arrested.

Architect of the European Migrant Crisis, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, criticised the current government in Berlin for refusing migrants claiming asylum at the border.

Four Syrian nationals have been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting nine underage girls at a swimming pool in a small German town.

In a significant blow to the censorship apparatus in Germany, a court has lifted the ban imposed on the Compact magazine by former leftist Interior Minister Nancy Faeser for supposedly spreading right-wing “extremism”.

Germany’s socialist Die Linke party has seen its membership nearly double since the start of the year, largely driven by an influx of support from women and young people

French President Emmanuel Macron has urged the Islamist regime in Tehran to demonstrate “restraint” from retaliating in response to the American bombings of three nuclear sites in Iran over the weekend.

Iranian officials vowed to get revenge for this weekend’s U.S. airstrikes against their illegal nuclear program by launching terrorist attacks, and pledged to resume enriching uranium as quickly as possible.

The UK, France, and Germany met with Iran on Friday and said they’d urged Tehran to open dialogue with the United States for peace.

Iran’s foreign minister arrived Friday for talks with top European diplomats in Geneva after war erupted between Israel and Iran.

Foreign ministers planning to meet Iranian counterpart on Friday in a bid to persuade the country to give up its nuclear ambitions for peace. 

French President Emmanuel Macron warned that regime change in Iran could lead to “chaos”, as officials in France and Germany expressed concerns over potential Tehran-linked terror attacks in Europe amid the Middle East conflict.