Damage to two undersea fiber-optic communication cables in the Baltic Sea—one between Lithuania and Sweden, and the other between Finland and Germany— should be regarded as sabotage, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said on Tuesday. “No one believes that these cables were cut accidentally. I also don’t want to believe in versions that these were […]
BERLIN—Eleven people were injured when a Lufthansa flight from Buenos Aires to Frankfurt hit severe turbulence while travelling over the Atlantic, the airline said on Tuesday. “Unfortunately, five passengers and six crew members suffered mostly minor injuries,” a Lufthansa spokesperson told Reuters in an email, confirming a report by the DPA news agency. “The safety […]
BERLIN—Tens of thousands of people celebrated the fall of the Berlin Wall 35 years ago in Germany’s capital on Saturday with open-air concerts, art installations, and official events commemorating one of the country’s most historic days on Nov. 9, 1989. It was “a lucky day for which we Germans are still grateful today,” Chancellor Olaf […]
Germany has arrested a U.S. citizen on suspicion of providing China with U.S. military intelligence. That’s according to statements by the German federal prosecutor’s office on Thursday. Meanwhile, Italy is preparing plans to keep its technology out of foreign countries’ hands. The strategy targets Italian universities and research institutions.
BERLIN—German opposition parties and business groups on Thursday urged Chancellor Olaf Scholz to trigger a new election quickly to minimize political uncertainty after his rocky three-way coalition collapsed. The coalition fell apart on Wednesday when years of tensions culminated in a row over how to plug a multi-billion-euro hole in the budget and revive Europe’s […]
BERLIN—Germany’s ruling coalition collapsed on Wednesday as Chancellor Olaf Scholz sacked his finance minister and paved the way for a snap election. After sacking Finance Minister Christian Lindner of the Free Democrats (FDP) party, Scholz is expected to head a minority government with his Social Democrats (SPD) and the Greens, the second-largest party. He would […]
BERLIN—German police are searching for a man who abandoned a bag of explosives at a Berlin train station and ran away after being stopped by federal officers, according to police. “We are investigating all possibilities,” a police spokesperson told Reuters on Thursday, adding that authorities had not yet been able to identify the suspect. Police […]
President Joe Biden is urging the United States’ European allies to continue supporting Ukraine as he prepares to leave office in January. Biden is currently in Germany, where he met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron, and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Oct. 18. The four discussed Ukraine and the future […]
HELSINKI—Two German men died when their World War II-era airplane crashed and caught fire in southern Finland minutes after takeoff, police said Thursday. The single-engine, two-seater T-6 Texan plane—a popular American military trainer aircraft introduced in the 1930s and now used mainly in air shows—crashed into a forest near the Rayskala aviation airfield on Wednesday, […]
BRAUNSCHWEIG, Germany—A German court on Tuesday acquitted a man who is also under investigation in the 2007 disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann in a trial on charges of unrelated sexual offenses. The Braunschweig state court acquitted the 47-year-old German national, who has been identified by local media as Christian Brueckner, of two counts of […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters on Sept. 12 that if NATO allows Ukraine to strike inside Russia with Western-supplied long-range missiles, it would be tantamount to becoming directly involved in the war and would change the nature of the conflict. “If this decision is taken, it will mean nothing less than the direct involvement […]
MOHACS, Hungary/PRAHOVO, Serbia—The wrecks of explosives-laden Nazi ships sunk in the River Danube during World War II have emerged near Serbia’s river port town of Prahovo, after a drought in July and August that saw the river’s water level drop. Four vessels dating from before 1950 have also come to light in Hungary’s Danube-Drava National […]
CAIRO—Prominent Egyptian archaeologist and former antiquities minister Zahi Hawass has launched a petition for the return to Egypt of the pharaonic bust of Queen Nefertiti from the Neues Museum in Berlin. Nefertiti’s famous painted limestone bust was uncovered at Tell el-Amarna, around 300 km (185 miles) south of Cairo, in 1912 by a German archaeological […]
Germany’s migration commissioner has proposed deporting illegal immigrants to Rwanda. There, they could use asylum facilities built as part of Britain’s now-scrapped Rwanda deportation plan. It comes amid growing pressure on the German coalition government to restrict and deter illegal immigrants from entering the European Union. NTD’s international correspondent Malcolm Hudson has more.
German automaker Volkswagen announced recently that it might need to close German factories—a move unprecedented in the company’s history. In addition, VW is considering ending an employment protection agreement that’s been in place since 1994. The CEO also said that layoffs and early retirement or severance packages are no longer sufficient. This comes amid EV […]
MUNICH—Police in Munich exchanged fire with a man on Thursday, fatally wounding the suspect in an area near a museum on the city’s Nazi-era history and the Israeli Consulate. According to a police spokesperson, officers were alerted to a person carrying a “long gun” in the Karolinenplatz area, near downtown Munich, at around 9 a.m. […]
Germany’s Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD), a right wing party, secured a historic win in a state election—its first in 60 years—and is within striking distance of another victory in a neighboring state. The Sept. 1 state-level elections in Germany’s two eastern states were to elect new state Legislatures, the Landtage, which handle local matters—similar to […]
German opposition leader and Christian Democratic Union Chairman Friedrich Merz holds a news conference in Berlin at 9 a.m. ET on Aug. 27 after a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Merz is expected to comment on a mass stabbing in the city of Solingen on Friday that has stoked debate in Germany over asylum […]
FRANKFURT—German police said they were holding a 26-year-old Syrian man in custody on Sunday after a knife attack in the city of Solingen in which three people were killed and eight injured, adding that they were looking into the suspect’s possible links with the ISIS terrorist group. The attack occurred during a festival on Friday […]
SOLINGEN, Germany—A man suspected of a stabbing rampage in the western German town of Solingen has been taken into police custody, a state official told German television on Saturday, some 24 hours after the attack that killed three people. North Rhine-Westphalia’s interior minister Herbert Reul told the ARD broadcaster that he was “a bit relieved” […]
