Germany - Page 55

Iran President Hassan Rouhani expressd his total surprise Wednesday that elements of the country’s military had downed a Ukraine passenger jet last week,  saying ” we did not think such a mistake would happen.”

Swedish climate worrier Greta Thunberg again castigated Australia for its insistence on mining coal in spite of her complaints, adding a call Saturday for an end to the activity to her list of climate demands to be delivered at the upcoming World Economic Forum in Davos.

A young man in Germany has died four years after being poisoned by a co-worker and falling into a coma.

A Somali migrant in Germany called the police after he attacked a man on New Year’s Eve and his victim defended himself.

BERLIN (AP) – German factory orders dropped 1.3% in November compared with the previous month, pushed down by a drop in foreign demand and low bulk orders. The drop in orders, an important indicator for Europe’s biggest economy, followed a

The German armed forces have removed a proportion of their small deployment to Iraq following the killing of General Qassem Soleimani.

The German equivalent of the Oxford English Dictionary has added the Arabic word “inshallah” to the German language lexicon. 

German police shot dead a Turkish citizen Sunday evening after he allegedly attempted to attack officers with a knife.

They said that the suspect entered Germany in June 2015 and was initially granted refugee status, which was revoked in June last year.

The district court of Leipzig has ordered warrants for the arrest of four far-left extremists accused of assaulting police officers and engaging in bodily harm on New Year’s Eve.

ROME (AP) – A car ploughed into a group of young German tourists in northern Italy early Sunday, killing 6 people and injuring 11, Italian fire officials said.

BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s security services have reviewed domestic and international threat levels following the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Iraq this week.

German Free Democratic Party (FDP) deputy parliamentary group leader Alexander Graf Lambsdorff has warned Iran could target Europe for retaliatory terror attacks after the killing of General Qasem Soleimani. Mr Lambsdorff, the FPD’s foreign policy expert, said that the killing of the

Police in the city of Leipzig have opened an attempted murder investigation after far-left extremists brutally attacked a police officer on New Year’s Eve, resulting in him needing emergency surgery.

The German Green Party has vowed to ban all vehicles from driving in city centres by the year 2030 to cut down on urban emissions.

VW said they will hold talks on a possible settlement in a case over compensation for cars affected by the diesel emissions scandal.

Following a surge in left-wing extremist Antifa attacks this year, the Leipzig police say they will be increasing their presence in the city on New Year’s Eve to protect emergency services from potential attacks. The announcement comes after left-wing extremists

Police in Germany shot a man to death after he went on a rampage in Stuttgart and threatened officers with a sword.

The socialist left in Europe has suffered a bruising year, leaving the Independent to review a decade of decline while populist parties rise.

A plurality of people in Germany believe that the President of the United States, Donald Trump, is the biggest threat to world peace.

German prosecutors have filed terrorism charges against a German woman who allegedly joined the Islamic State group in Syria.

A teenage boy who has been missing for more than two and a half years was found alive in the closet of a suspect wanted for child pornography charges, authorities said.

A criminal complaint has been filed after it was revealed that Germany’s Defence Ministry wiped data from the phone of its former boss and new European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen — echoing similar incidents involving Hillary Clinton in the United States.

Angela Merkel’s government is preparing a new bill that will force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to hand over data, including passwords, of those accused of engaging in “hate speech” online.

The German parliament has passed a non-binding resolution to encourage the government to ban the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terrorist group.

Members of the German Green Party have proposed that so-called “climate refugees” should be allowed to move to the country and receive a German passport upon their arrival.

Merkel is meeting top German business to discuss how to attract skilled workers from outside the EU to tackle a shortfall of qualified labor.

The new leader of the German Social Democrats (SPD), Saskia Esken, has been accused of spying on her own employees in the past by German media

THIMISTER-CLERMONT, Belgium (AP) – As a schoolboy three-quarters of a century ago, Marcel Schmetz would regularly see open trucks rumble past to a makeshift American cemetery – filled with bodies, some headless, some limbless, blood seeping from the vehicles onto the roads that the U.S. soldiers had given their lives to liberate.

One of Germany’s richest families, which owns Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Pret A Manger and other international brands, is giving millions to support Holocaust survivors as it seeks to atone for its use of forced laborers during the Nazi era and its enthusiastic support of Adolf Hitler, The Associated Press has learned.

A former spy of the notorious East German Stasi has announced his bid for a leadership position of the far-left Die Linke (The Left) in the eastern region of Thuringia.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pronounced himself unsatisfied with his first in-person meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Monday, telling reporters that “very little” was accomplished in multilateral talks on Russia’s invasion and colonization of eastern Ukraine.

A poll has found that a majority of people in Germany would scale back or scrap their festive Christmas lights altogether to combat allegedly man-made climate change.

A gang of seven “youths” has been arrested in the German city of Augsburg after an off-duty fireman was attacked and beaten to death outside of the city’s Christmas Market.

TEL AVIV – World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder announced that he was pledging $25 million of his own money to launch a new organization aimed at rooting out antisemitism in American politics, the New York Times reported Monday.  

According to data from the new Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) study, immigrants in Austria still perform far below their native counterparts. In Germany, 20 per cent of 15-year-olds can barely read.