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China’s General Administration of Customs (GAC) reported Sunday that total exports grew by 32.2 percent in the first two months of 2021.

Germany’s federal domestic intelligence service has allegedly declared the Alternative for Germany (AfD) a suspected extremist group, allowing the agency to actively spy on the populist party.

The majority of Germans have said that the European Union has mishandled the rollout of vaccines — a shock result for citizens from the historically pro-EU member state.

A seasoned German journalist has said that his home country is currently experiencing “unfamiliar feelings of post-Brexit envy” as “Brexit Britain races ahead” in its vaccine programme.

A German court has sentenced 37-year-old Abu Walaa to ten and a half years in prison for his role in trying to radicalise young people.

Germany’s Left has picked two women to lead the anti-capitalist party into this fall’s national election.

Psychiatrists voice alarm that school closures, restrictions and other measures are magnifying fear, disruption and stress in the pandemic.

A 33-year-old man was convicted of attempted extortion for threatening to blow up a hospital unless he was paid off with crypto currency.

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

A former member of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s secret police was convicted by a German court of facilitating the torture of prisoners.

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has defended his strong stance against mass migration, saying the European Union’s relaxed attitude towards illegal border crossings “has turned the Mediterranean into a cemetery”.

Europe’s best-selling tabloid has congratulated the UK for its coronavirus vaccine rollout, stating that Germany “envies” their neighbours.

The German federal Interior ministry reveals over half of 2020 migrants arrived without any sort of identification paperwork. 

A German man suspected in three heists against money transporters was arrested in the Netherlands on Tuesday, German investigators said.

Stephan Schwarz was hospitalised after a brutal attack by Antifa militants while campaigning for this year’s regional election. 

DOJ announced over the weekend that it has sent a 95-year-old former guard at a World War II concentration camp prison back to Germany.

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.

Taiwanese Health Minister Chen Shih-chung implied in a Wednesday radio interview that China bullied German pharmaceutical company BioNTech SE into putting an order for 5 million doses of coronavirus vaccine on hold.

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

The German state of Bremen will investigate Antifa extremists over alleged calls for violence at a recent protest in which the group called for “anti-fascist self-protection”.

German prosecutors said Monday they have charged five Tajik men with being members of the Islamic State group, accusing them of participating in a cell of the extremist organization in Germany.

BERLIN (AP) – Germany on Sunday implemented tighter border controls on its frontiers with the Czech Republic and Austria’s Tyrol province in an effort to stem the spread of more contagious coronavirus variants.

The number of people arrested in Denmark and Germany over an alleged terror attack plot rose to 14 on Friday.

The UK has overtaken the EU in the total number of people given a vaccination against coronavirus, despite having a sixth of the population. 

‘Green jobs’ in the German renewables sector have collapsed by 50 per cent in less than a decade. No prizes for guessing where they’ve gone…

Germany, Poland and Sweden on Monday each declared a Russian diplomat in their country “persona non grata”.

Transport disruption persisted into a second day on Monday as heavy snowfall and icy temperatures gripped parts of central and northern Europe

During the dive, a large hole in the hull of the ferry was spotted, raising questions about the cause of the sinking.

BERLIN (AP) – Industrial production in Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, stagnated in December after seven consecutive months of gains, official data showed Mond

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has spoken out against Germany’s plans to export Type 214 Class submarines to Turkey as tensions between the two NATO members are heightened.

(AFP) — A German firm has treated 52 containers of hazardous material at Beirut port and will ship them out of Lebanon, the German ambassador said Saturday, months after a monster port blast.

Germany’s Vice-Chancellor Olaf Scholz has reportedly criticised European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s vaccine programme, calling it “really s***”.

Belgian authorities sentenced an Iranian diplomat to 20 years in prison on Thursday for his role in a 2018 bomb plot targeting an exiled Iranian opposition group near Paris. The sentencing was announced as part of “the first trial of an

The U.K. govt says it will support a German company’s effort to develop vaccines to combat new variants of COVID-19.

German scientists have trained dogs to sniff out the “corona odour” in human saliva with a 94 per cent accuracy rate, even with those who are asymptomatic.

Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday that Germany will consider using the vaccine developed by Russia, as the European Union continues to struggle to inoculate their populations against the Chinese coronavirus. On Tuesday, the medical journal The Lancet said that