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Police in the German city of Leipzig have come under fire after describing three suspects involved in an alleged gang rape case as having an “Arab phenotype”.

A court in Germany has ruled that Facebook illegally removed the posts and account of an unnamed author, because it did not inform the user of why the posts had been taken down.

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

The candidate to succeed Merkel in Germany´s next election apologized for failing to credit a source in a book he wrote about immigration.

A German woman who traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State group has been charged with membership in a terror group.

Rescue teams in Germany continued searching for missing workers at an industrial park where an explosion killed at least two people.

An explosion at an industrial park for chemical companies shook the German city of Leverkusen on Tuesday, sending a large black cloud rising into the air. At least 16 people were injured and five remain missing.

A German-Tunisian Islamic State widow has been sentenced to just four years in prison after being convicted of enslaving two Yazidi women while living in the former caliphate.

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) – A bus swerved off a highway and crashed in Croatia early Sunday, killing 10 people and injuring at least 30 others, police said.

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.

The German female gymnastics team at the Tokyo Olympics debuted full-body unitards this week in a protest against the sexualization of their sport.

Germany’s national weather service said Thursday that regions hit by deadly floods last week could again see heavy rain at the weekend.

Officials are defending their preparations for flooding in the face of the raging torrents that left over 180 people dead in Western Europe.

BERLIN (AP) – The death toll from flooding in Western Europe climbed above 180 on Sunday after rescue workers dug deeper into debris left by receding waters.

At least 100 people have died in devastating floods across parts of western Germany and Belgium, officials said Friday.

BERLIN (AP) – More than 30 people have died and dozens of people were missing Thursday in Germany and neighbouring Belgium after heavy flooding turned streams and streets into raging torrents, sweeping away cars and causing buildings to collapse.

German airline Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines have stopped making “ladies and gentlemen” announcements on flights to become more gender-neutral.

Germany launched a space command tasked with overseeing satellites, watching for space junk and analyzing other countries’ activities.

A 20-year-old Afghan migrant has been arrested by police in Hamburg after allegedly attacking four people in the outdoor area of a local restaurant with a knife. The incident is said to have taken place on Sunday evening in the

A President Erdogan-critical journalist living in exile in Germany was attacked outside his home by men who warned him to stop writing.

Germany saw over 10,000 new asylum applications in June, the first time the monthly number has been reached that level in over a year.

Angela Merkel’s policies on immigration have been “fatal” to Germany, the countries former top domestic intelligence chief has said.

President Joe Biden plans to nominate University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann as the U.S. ambassador to Germany, the White House announced, after the university paid him more than $911,000 after he left the White House as vice president.

German investigators said Tuesday that an Islamic extremist motivation for last week’s fatal knife attack in Wuerzburg appears likely.

Würzburg’s Mayor decried the possibility that migrants may be stereotyped after a Somali refugee stabbed three women to death in his city.

The EU said the number of people seeking protection hit its lowest level last year since 2013, but that was due mostly to coronavirus.

Thunderstorms hit Germany late Monday and torrential rain poured down on southern and western parts of the country.

A man attacked and injured two passersby in Erfurt Monday, apparently with a knife, before fleeing. Police said the suspect was arrested.

Authorities also were looking at the possibility of the man having been radicalized as an Islamic extremist. Kallert said a store detective and police officers reported hearing the suspect say “Allahu akbar,” Arabic for “God is great.” Bavaria’s top security official, Joachim Herrmann, said that “further cautious indications” in that direction emerged from his questioning, without elaborating. Material with “hate messages” also was found but has yet to be evaluated, police said.

BERLIN (AP) — The United Nations said 12 German troops and a Belgian soldier serving in the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali were wounded Friday in an attack in the country’s restive north.

German authorities have not ruled out an Islamist motive, as one witness had reported hearing the suspect shout “Allahu akbar”.

At least three people have died with several more injured after a knife-armed man rampaged through the German city of Würzburg, Bavaria. 

In its ongoing obsession with Adolf Eichmann, the Palestinian Authority’s official daily has extolled a man for naming his child after the infamous Nazi officer in a bid to “anger Zionism.”

The German Chancellor said Europe is “on thin ice” in its battle against the coronavirus, as the delta variant threatens to undo progress.

Officials say a vaccination center was flooded and five people were injured by hail during heavy storms in southwestern Germany overnight.

The likely successor to Angela Merkel said Germany should refrain from containing the rise of Communist China and avoid a second Cold War.