Iranian President Hassan Rouhani boasted Saturday his country is beating advanced economies such as Germany during the coronavirus pandemic. However, in a country where telling the truth is regarded as an act of sedition, he made no mention of some 60 million Iranians now relying on state aid to survive.
BERLIN — Germany’s justice minister on Monday called an attack on a Jewish student outside a synagogue “a horrible act of violence.”
BERLIN (AP) — Germany is marking the 30th anniversary of its reunification on Saturday, drawing a generally positive picture of the progress made in knitting together east and west amid celebrations that are low-key because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Unemployment rose for a fifth straight month in Europe in August, narrowing the gap with the U.S. The continued rise in unemployment across the continent is feeding concerns that extensive government support programs won’t be able keep many businesses hit
Two Iraqi migrant brothers are on trial in a Berlin court after being accused of dragging young women into an SUV and then raping them for hours.
Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Germany on Sunday to demand that the government take in more migrants following the fire that destroyed the Moria migrant camp in Greece. In Berlin, around 5,000 pro-migrant activists staged a mass
A majority of Germans have expressed concern that the German government taking in large numbers of migrants from Greece after the Moria migrant camp fire could trigger a new wave of migration.
A 19-year-old German was stabbed at random on a tram in the city of Cottbus by a Pakistani migrant who later told officials he stabbed him to stay in the country.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Tuesday posted a photo of himself from his hospital room in Germany and said he was able to breathe for an entire day without the aid of a ventilator. Navalny reportedly told German officials he plans to return to Russia as soon as he has recovered from what several international diagnostic teams have now confirmed as Novichok poisoning.
Police say a jeweler in the northern German city of Celle has shot dead two men suspected of trying to rob his business.
Russian police announced on Friday they have been investigating opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s poising, officials established a detailed “timeline of events” up to his collapse, and Moscow wants to send investigators to Berlin to work on the case.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s condition has improved and he is now able to discuss the poisoning attack that nearly killed him with doctors and investigators German media reported on Thursday.
The Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Wednesday that accused the German government of “stonewalling” on the health of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader poisoned with Novichok nerve agent according to German doctors – a chemical weapon Russia has employed in previous assassination attempts.
Doctors removed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny from a medically induced coma and say he is “responding to verbal stimuli,” Berlin’s Charité hospital announced Monday.
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has announced plans for a fundamental redesign of Tesla’s electric vehicles and the construction of a “ravecave” at the company’s planned Berlin production plant.
Five years after the height of the European migrant crisis, at least 210,000 underage migrants have applied for asylum in the European Union, according to NGO Save the Children.
Hours after the Russian government skeptically requested exhaustive details from German doctors who said traces of poison were found in comatose Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Germany announced there is “unequivocal proof” that Navalny was poisoned with Novichok, the same nerve agent Russia used in a bungled attempt to assassinate former intelligence agent Sergey Skripal and his daughter in London two years ago.
The former president of the banned Turkish-background Osmanen Germania motorcycle club has been accused of being the mastermind behind a grenade attack on a shisha bar in Germany.
The unemployment rate across the 19 countries that use the euro currency rose modestly to 7.9% in July, official figures showed Tuesday.
Herbert Brecker, an expert on migration issues, has admitted that Germany is undergoing a rapid “demographic shift”, saying the country needs more migrants to offset the ageing labour force.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has boasted that she would repeat her actions in 2015 which opened the gates to Europe and led to the migrant crisis.
A second national lockdown may be coming down the pike in England should there be a significant “second wave” of Chinese coronavirus infections, the Health Secretary of the United Kingdom said on Friday.
A Syrian asylum seeker who is recognised as a terrorist threat due to his Islamic State sympathies costs German taxpayers 4,000 euros a day to monitor but has never been placed on trial.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Europe for a “charm offensive” this week but found himself shadowed by human rights activists and Hong Kong democracy champions.
A verdict is expected Friday in the trial of an Eritrean man who fatally threw a boy under a train in Germany.
The Russian government continued to signal its disinterest on Wednesday in investigating the “illness” of Alexei Navalny, the opposition leader widely suspected of being poisoned while aboard an aircraft last week.
Authorities in Berlin on Wednesday banned several protests planned for the weekend against coronavirus pandemic measures.
The Russian government said on Monday there is no need to investigate the “illness” that suddenly befell opposition leader Alexei Navalny last week and accused German doctors of “rushing” to announce that traces of poison were found in his system.
ATHENS, Greece — Germany’s foreign minister was visiting Greece and Turkey on Tuesday in an effort to ease increasing tension between the two neighbors, which are at loggerheads over prospecting rights in the eastern Mediterranean.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who became seriously ill aboard a flight from Siberia to Moscow last week, was transferred to a German hospital on Saturday at the request of his family, staff, and political allies who deeply distrust the Russian government.
The Hungarian government has hit back at Angela Merkel’s Minister of State for Europe alleging that anti-Semitism is “rampant” in their country, saying that it is in fact multicultural Germany where Jews are threatened by racially and religiously aggravated attacks.
BERLIN (AP) – The organizers of the Berlin International Film Festival say they will stop awarding separate acting prizes to women and men beginning next year. Berlinale organizers said Monday the performance awards will be defined in a gender-neutral way
The European Commission on Friday urged Moscow to allow ailing opposition leader Alexei Navalny to seek medical treatment in Germany.
A 30-year-old Iraqi who caused several car crashes in Berlin on Tuesday evening purposely struck other vehicles in an apparent radical Islamic terror attack, according to authorities. Investigators say that the multiple traffic accidents, which saw six people injured, three
German researchers will give 120 people €1,200 a month for three years to see how their behaviour changes, after a study in Finland found that a similar experiment did not encourage unemployed Finns to find work.
BERLIN (AP) – German authorities arrested a Syrian national Tuesday on suspicion he was a member of two militant groups that fought against the government of President Bashar Assad during the early stages of the conflict in Syria. The suspect,
Swedish climate worrier Greta Thunberg will meet with Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday, giving the German leader 90 minutes to outline Europe’s approach to the global “climate emergency.”
BERLIN – Authorities in a Bavarian town have ordered 120 people into quarantine after a resident returning from a trip to Italy tested positive for the coronavirus, but only learned of his results after attending a large birthday party. The
Frankfurt am Main — Israeli combat pilots and their German counterparts will on Tuesday honour Holocaust victims with a symbolic flyover of Dachau concentration camp, as they carry out their first joint military exercises in Germany.
The German Federal Cartel Office is reportedly investigating e-commerce giant Amazon over allegations that the firm abused its market position during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. The German government is specifically focusing on Amazon’s treatment of third-party sellers on the platform.
