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Germany is shutting down half of the six nuclear plants it still has in operation, a year before the country will shut all nuclear plants.

Germany’s highest court said that officials must craft rules to protect disabled people if hospitals triage patients during the pandemic.

BERLIN (AP) – German prosecutors said Tuesday they have charged two Afghan brothers with murder over the July killing of their sister, whom they allegedly wanted to punish for her Western way of life.

An industry group has said that German retail trade over Christmas has been ‘dramatically bad’ due to the country’s COVID Pass rules.

Poland’s Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of the country’s governing ruling Law and Justice party (PiS), has accused Germany of trying to create a “Fourth Reich” by pushing for a European Union federal state.

Of all the folk tales, pageants, legends, and fables to accompany Christmas, few have achieved the level of immortality as “The Nutcracker.”

Germany’s health minister said he expects a surge in coronavirus cases around New Year’s and people will likely need a fourth vaccine.

Leading political figures in Germany have signalled that they would support a vaccine registry to collect a list of those vaccinated.

VIENNA (AP) – Germany is tightening travel restrictions for people coming from Britain in response to the rapid spread of the omicron variant there.

Members of Germany’s center-right CDU have chosen prominent conservative Friedrich Merz as its new leader.

Frustrated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told reporters Wednesday that the European Union and Biden administration’s tactic of threatening Russia with sanctions in the event that Moscow invades Ukraine “won’t matter to anyone.”

Olaf Scholz has said that he remains “chancellor of the unvaccinated”, despite his support for mandatory vaccination.

Germans protesting against the country’s Wuhan coronavirus restrictions clashed with police on Sunday, as the government looks to crack down on encrypted messaging apps used to organise the demonstrations.

Several windows at a mosque in the eastern German city of Leipzig were broken after dozens of people set off fireworks.

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.

15 EU member-states have agreed to take in nearly 40,000 migrants from Afghanistan, with over half being taken in by Germany alone.

A man who slipped and broke his back while working from home was “commuting” to work during his walk from his bed to his desk, a German court has ruled. According to the court, “the first morning journey from bed to the home office [was] an insured work route.”

A German court has ruled that a man who broke his back while moving from his bed to his home office was commuting and is owed compensation.

BERLIN (AP) – German security officials said Friday that they have foiled a planned Islamist attack, after arresting a man in the northern city of Hamburg over the summer who had been trying to buy weapons and make explosives.

BERLIN (AP) – German lawmakers are debating a bill Friday that would require staff at hospitals and nursing homes to get vaccinated against the coronavirus or risk losing their jobs.

The Social Democratic Party’s Olaf Scholz has been elected Chancellor of Germany, marking the end of Angela Merkel’s 16-year reign.

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

MILAN (AP) – Italy is making life more uncomfortable for unvaccinated people this holiday season, excluding them from indoor restaurants, theatres, and museums starting Monday to reduce the spread of coronavirus and encourage vaccine sceptics to get their shots.

Scholz announced that an epidemiologist who has been a prominent voice of caution on coronavirus will be Germany’s new health minister.

UFC legend Conor McGregor has branded “forced” vaccination a “war crime” and slammed the EU and its “lapdogs” in the Irish government.

Markus Lohi, chairman of the Finnish parliament’s Social Affairs and Health Committee, has said he will not support a European Union-wide vaccine mandate.

An Eritrean migrant has been convicted of attacking two men with a knife while also threatening to kill children in the car park of a local shopping centre in the German city of Dresden.

Sen. Ted Cruz is pushing for reinstating sanctions against Russia for the pipeline it is building to export natural gas to Germany.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage has exclaimed “thank goodness we left” the EU in response to reports that the head of the bloc, European Commission Ursula von der Leyen saying mandatory vaccination should be considered, while countries like Greece are threatening to fine senior citizens for every month they go unvaccinated.

BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s health minister said Friday that more than 1 per cent of the population – almost a million people – are currently infected with the coronavirus, and called on citizens to get vaccinated if they haven’t done so yet.

BERLIN — German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle said Friday it is suspending four employees and one freelancer during an investigation into allegations that they expressed anti-Israel and antisemitic views.

Angela Merkel has announced a de facto lockdown of the unvaccinated, and that Germany’s parliament will soon vote on making vaccination mandatory.

Inflation within the Eurozone hit nearly 5 per cent in November, the highest level recorded since the Euro was introduced in 1999.

A poll on Austria’s proposed forced mandatory vaccination mandate has revealed that 55 per cent of the public in the country are in favour of the policy.

European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen has called for discussions regarding the implementation of forced vaccination throughout the entire EU, in a move that has been described as the “Chinafication of Europe”.

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has complained that the European Union is seeking to punish member-states which protect their borders, while funding pro-migration organisations linked to George Soros.