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Trump’s director of national intelligence said Russian President Vladimir Putin was the clear winner after his summit with Biden last week.

A man who worked at a German university has been arrested on suspicion of espionage, allegedly passing information to Russian intelligence.

North Rhine-Westphalia’s Interior Minister Herbert Reul could face fines of up to €10,000 (£8,590/$11,864) for referring to reading a conservative German newspaper as a sign of far-right extremism after a new court ruling.

The German government responded Sunday to a rise in antisemitic attacks by banning flags of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.

Germany has bucked years of decline with a sudden ten per cent surge in new children nine months after pubs and bars reopened in summer 2020.

Germany has recorded its lowest number of corona infections in nearly nine months, and officials are floating loosening mask rules.

The German city of Frankfurt has entirely dissolved its police special operations team after allegations of far-right extremism among its members in chat groups.

A German 19-year-old woman reportedly escaped an apartment in Rome where she had been forcibly confined and sexually abused.

African artists and scientists will be invited to help “contextualise” the statue which is presently being restored in Hamburg. 

Special police units searched around 30 buildings Tuesday in connection with money laundering and organized crime in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The German military says it has found a solution for an unusual logistics problem its troops in Afghanistan face: a glut of beer.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared to accuse President Joe Biden of deceiving him into thinking the White House would oppose Russia’s lucrative and highly strategic Nord Stream 2 pipeline to Europe, telling Axios in an interview published Sunday he was “unpleasantly surprised” when Biden did nothing to stop it.

Final results saw a larger-than-expected win for Chancellor Merkel’s party in the last state election before a national vote in September.

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) – When the sun rises over Omaha Beach, revealing vast stretches of wet sand extending toward distant cliffs, one starts to grasp the immensity of the task faced by Allied soldiers on June 6, 1944, landing on the Nazi-occupied Normandy shore.

The progressive German Cardinal Reinhard Marx has tendered his resignation to Pope Francis, citing the need to confront his “errors and omissions” in dealing with the clerical sex abuse crisis.

Prosecutors allege that the defendant administered anesthetics to women who complained of pain following operations, and then abused them.

Denmark’s intelligence services are alleged to have worked with the Obama administration to spy on German leaders, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to a report shared with top European news agencies.

Allegations of coronavirus test fraud, which are being carried out now in cellphone stores, beauticians and art galleries across the country.

Germany’s foreign minister on Tuesday rejected the idea of delivering weapons to Ukraine after the country’s president indicated that he would like military help from Berlin.

Eurozone inflation rose to 2.0% in May, driven higher by rising oil prices as other inflationary pressures appeared to remain subdued.

The NFL’s popularity in Germany is on the rise, and as a result, the NFL is very eager to start playing regular-season games there.

BERLIN (AP) — Two suspects were arrested in Germany and Slovakia in raids Monday on a group accused of smuggling Vietnamese into Germany and other European countries for large fees that they had to work off in massage parlors, brothels and other places, authorities said.

BERLIN (AP) – The German government is following up on media reports that coronavirus test centres across the country have overbilled authorities for the number of tests taken.

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

PARIS (AP) – France will impose a mandatory quarantine on visitors from Britain to prevent the spread of a worrying virus variant first detected in India, the French government said Wednesday. Government spokesman Gabriel Attal said the new measure will

Two allies of Angela Merkel have called for Spain and Italy to build more migrant reception centres as arrivals continue to increase. 

President Joe Biden defended on Tuesday his decision to allow the Russian Nord Stream 2 pipeline to finish construction, arguing that blocking it would hurt his relationship with European countries.

A radicalised Syrian refugee who came to Germany during the height of the migrant crisis has been sentenced to life in prison for an attack on a gay couple that led to the death of a 55-year-old man.

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.

Germany has banned non-essential travel from the United Kingdom over “concern” of the Indian variant of the coronavirus, as cases of the strain spike by 80 per cent in London.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday celebrated a “constructive” conversation with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, saying Blinken shared his “understanding of the need to overcome the unhealthy situation that developed between Moscow and Washington in previous years.” 

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.

BERLIN (AP) – Police raided sites in seven German states on Wednesday as German authorities announced a ban on three groups linked to the Lebanese militant organization Hezbollah.

BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s environmentalist Greens party wants to boost rail travel at the expense of domestic flights to help the country achieve its goal of sharply reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Greens’ candidate for chancellorship in this year’s national

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) – German soccer federation president Fritz Keller resigned Monday, nearly a month after he compared one of the organization’s vice presidents to a Nazi-era judge.

BERLIN (AP) – Germany said Monday it is close to an agreement with Namibia on the killings of tens of thousands of people when Germany was the southern African country’s colonial ruler over a century ago.