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Climate protesters have been accused of endangering human lives after they once again blocked motorways in Germany.

VIENNA (AP) – Children from 5 to 11 years old will be eligible to begin receiving COVID-19 vaccine doses this week in Berlin, health officials said Sunday, joining other German states in opening up appointments to younger children.

German police officers conducted dozens of raids across the country to crack down on human trafficking of workers from outside the EU.

Berlin archbishop Heiner Koch has barred unvaccinated Catholics from attending Mass in his archdiocese, sparking protests by members of the German faithful and an outcry from Catholics worldwide.

BERLIN (AP) – Berlin’s police chief apologized on Monday for an incident in which officers were pictured practising push-ups on a part of the German capital’s memorial to the 6 million Jews killed in the Nazi Holocaust.

A 36-year-old man was brutally beaten in Berlin on Monday evening by a group of men who had demanded that he shout the phrase “Free Palestine”.

Berlin’s Constitutional Court announced that it will be reviewing last month’s election results, amid widespread reports of irregularities.

BERLIN — The first soccer game involving an Israeli team at the stadium built for the 1936 Olympics hosted by Nazi Germany was marred Thursday by antisemitic abuse aimed at visiting fans.

Radical climate change activist Greta Thunberg slammed President Joe Biden at a climate change protest in Berlin on September 24.

BERLIN (AP) – A 29-year-old Afghan man in Germany attacked and severely injured a 58-year-old landscape gardener who was working in a park in Berlin, allegedly because he didn’t like the fact that as a woman she was working, police said Sunday.

Berlin Senator Elke Breitenbach has denied a possible honour motive in the case of an Afghan woman who was allegedly murdered by her brothers who disapproved of her Western way of life.

BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s Green party has come under fire on social media for tweeting a photograph of its election candidates cropped in such a way as to remove all the men.

A man died in police custody as the German force launched a crackdown of Sunday’s anti-lockdown protest, in which 600 people were arrested.

Anti-lockdown protesters have been banned from gathering in Berlin over the weekend by judges who argued they may spread the coronavirus.

Several men described as being of a  “southern appearance” attacked and seriously injured a 21-year-old man after a Berlin gay pride event.

BERLIN (AP) – Some 35,000 revellers marched for LGBTQ rights at Berlin’s annual Christopher Street Day celebration on Saturday, twice as many as expected.

Namibia said Germany’s acknowledgement that it had committed genocide during its colonial occupation was a “step in the right direction.”

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Police in Germany say they are investigating a Jewish man’s report of being punched in the face and abused with antisemitic language while walking home in Berlin early Saturday.

Opposition politicians have questioned whether Berlin’s Social Democrat (SPD) Mayor Michael Müller abused his power after he triggered a police operation and search of the home of a woman who had criticised him on social media in actions later deemed unlawful.

The Israeli flag hoisted outside of Düsseldorf’s city hall was set on fire in the latest instance of flag burning in Germany since the start of the conflict in Israel earlier this week, with similar protests in Milan, Italy.

A mishmash of Antifa banners, foreign flags, and communist and LGBT symbols covered the streets of Berlin, Germany as crowds of leftists turned out for International Workers’ Day, or May Day, on Saturday. 

Hundreds of German police officers conducted coordinated raids early Thursday in the investigation of Islamic extremism.

Police in the German capital of Berlin were called out to the area around the Antifa stronghold of Rigaer 94 a total of 717 times in 2020 to deal with incidents ranging from violence to threats and property damage.

Berlin prosecutors said on Twitter that two people were arrested in the raids targeting illegal drug and weapons trafficking.

The Netherlands has halted on all international adoptions after a study revealed that many children brought to the country had been stolen from their parents.

Police in Berlin broke up a church service of around 170 people over the weekend for violating Germany’s Chinese coronavirus lockdown rules.

Berlin police launched an investigation on Boxing Day, Saturday, after several people were shot in a city district overnight.

At least 190 police officers were involved in an anti-terrorism raid targeting a 15-year-old Syrian migrant boy who had allegedly threatened to carry out a terror attack. The massive raid took place on Tuesday at 6 am in the Marzahn area

A Berlin woman had said she forgives a Malian migrant currently on trial for biting off part of her mouth and nose over the summer in a city park and said she wants him to be set free. Malian migrant

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors said Friday there is evidence of “cannibalism” in the killing of a 44-year-old man whose remains were found on the northern edge of Berlin earlier this month.

BERLIN (AP) – German police fired water cannons Wednesday at demonstrators protesting coronavirus restrictions in Berlin’s government district, after crowds ignored calls to wear masks and keep their distance from one another in line with pandemic regulations. As the cannons

A fire broke out in a subway station in Berlin, injuring four people, one seriously, the German news agency dpa reported Monday.

The cast and crew of the upcoming “Matrix 4” film skirted Germany’s ban on parties and large social gatherings by reportedly throwing a party scene in the movie, Germany’s media have reported.

A group of around 150 or so Muslims took to the streets of the German capital of Berlin this week to protest against French president Emmanuel Macron.

Police have said they expect violence and retaliation from Antifa after a massive operation involving 1,500 officers to remove extremists from a long-standing squat.

BERLIN — Germany’s justice minister on Monday called an attack on a Jewish student outside a synagogue “a horrible act of violence.”