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Lawmakers in Germany are reportedly considering imposing mask mandates every year from October to Easter to slow spread of the coronavirus.

The leaders of France, Germany, and Italy travelled on a special Ukrainian train originally created for holidaying oligarchs, to Kyiv.

Officials in Russian gas addict Germany appear to be beginning to sweat as the Kremlin turns down its supply to the country over what it describes as technical issues.

The highest court backed AFD’s complaint against Angela Merkel’s comments that the party’s involevement in state politics was “inexcusable”.

Germany is proposing new antitrust powers to clamp down on oil companies after a cut in fuel taxes saw little impact for consumers.

Germany’s Antifa-linked Interior Minister is ignoring “fanatical Islamism” as well as extremism on the far-left in order to attack the right, a CDU politician has alleged.

The German national football team not only took a knee prior to their match against England this week but also donned the shirts of the German women’s team to promote the women’s European Championship. The German national side wore the

STIKO’s recommendations are not legally binding but usually followed by German authorities.

BERLIN (AP) – Investigators are trying to make sense of “confused” statements by a man who drove into a school group in Berlin in what appears to have been a deliberate rampage, the city’s mayor said Thursday.

An unrepentant Angela Merkel has refused to accept any blame for failing to prevent or indeed enable the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Around 100,000 migrants scheduled to be deported from Germany may soon be granted amnesty under draft plans drawn up by the country’s open borders government.

A German-led European police taskforce claims to have arrested eight “highly dangerous” people smugglers and 127 others who operated a major migrant smuggling network that allegedly helped 10,000 enter Europe illegally. The European Union police agency Europol announced the results

At least one person has died after a car drove through a group of people on a Berlin shopping street Wednesday morning.

The interior minister of one German state has openly advocated for anti-lockdown protesters to be classified as “right-wing extremists”.

A man apparently fatally shot a woman and then himself at a supermarket in central Germany on Tuesday, police said.

Messaging and social networking app Telegram, which has built a reputation for guarding users from invasive government surveillance and censorship, appears to be buckling under official pressure, shutting down two dissident channels in Hong Kong following threats from regulators.

Thousands of negotiators from 200 countries have flown to Bonn, Germany, to begin two weeks of “round the clock” talks planning the next round of climate meetings and conferences.

A German state agency has said that it will likely soon be providing over 400,000 more Ukrainian migrants with unemployment benefits over the next few weeks.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has criticised Turkey’s intrusion of Greek airspace, calling for the countries to work together as NATO allies. 

A train accident in the Alps in southern Germany on Friday left at least four people dead and many more injured, authorities said.

Germany’s parliament approved raising the country’s minimum wage to 12 euros per hour, fulfilling a campaign pledge of Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

A special, one-off German spend of $108 billion on new military equipment is expected to be approved Friday with U.S. manufacturers amongst those to benefit.

A German woman who allegedly took advantage of an enslaved Yazidi woman was convicted Wednesday of membership in a terrorist organization.

A number of NGOs in Europe are pushing for the population to use China-style software to report instances of racism, hate speech and “digital violence” to them.

Olaf Scholz has been accused comparing radical climate change activists to the Nazis after he criticised black bloc protesters.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Wednesday his country will rush modern anti-aircraft missiles and radar systems to Ukraine as the world is called on to do even more to finance and back Kyiv against Moscow.

A 23-year-old woman has taken the phrase “mile-high club” to a whole new level by professing her sexual attraction to airplanes.

BERLIN (AP) – German police recorded a significant increase of depictions of sexual abuse against children last year compared to the year before, the country’s top criminal police official said Monday.

BRUSSELS (AP) – European Union leaders will gather Monday in a new show of solidarity with Ukraine but divisions over whether to target Russian oil in a new series of sanctions are exposing the limits of how far the bloc can go to help the war-torn country.

A shortage of gas triggered by Russia could leave six million without power, the govt asks coal stations it ordered close to remain open. 

French president Emmanuel Macron and German chancellor Olaf Scholz urged Russian president Vladimir Putin to lift the blockade on Ukrainian grain in order to mitigate the growing global food crisis.

Germany’s federal authorities are considering a bailout for low-income citizens as the country’s cost of living crisis looks “likely” to worsen.

Gas rationing in Europe may be coming down the pike should Vladimir Putin follow through on his threat to cut off supplies to those who refuse to pay Russia in rubbles, the European Union’s energy commissioner has warned. This week,

Last year’s German elections in Berlin were so riddled with irregularities that six contingencies should redo their votes, an official said.

China’s state-run Global Times on Monday boasted that Chinese companies are already prepared to cash in on monkeypox panic with nucleic acid test kits and vaccines.

Germany rejected suggestions it is reneging on a promise to provide Poland with tanks to make up for those that Warsaw delivered to Ukraine.