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 […]
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 […]
WOLFSBURG, Germany—Volkswagen plans to shut at least three factories in Germany, lay off tens of thousands of staff and shrink its remaining plants in Europe’s biggest economy as it plots a deeper-than-expected overhaul, the carmaker’s works council head said. Europe’s biggest carmaker has been negotiating for weeks with unions over its plans to revamp its […]
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 […]
Germany is taking action to protect its domestic wind industry, as well the European wind industry, from being harmed by China’s dominance in the sector. Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection Robert Habeck set out a plan to ensure a level playing field, upgrade cybersecurity, and reduce dependence.
President Joe Biden is en route to visit Germany, where he will discuss the Russia–Ukraine war. Germany is set to present him with the country’s highest honor, the Grand Cross special class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. Meanwhile, Vice President Kamala Harris is attending three campaign events in the […]
President Joe Biden will depart for Germany on Thursday to discuss the war in Ukraine and other international challenges concerning the two nations. Biden originally planned to visit Germany earlier this month but delayed the visit as hurricanes hit the United States. The rescheduled visit offers the president a chance to meet with German Chancellor […]
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 […]
BERLIN—A man has been arrested after allegedly setting two fires in the western German city of Essen that left 30 people injured and driving a van into two shops, authorities said Sunday. Emergency services were alerted to two fires in residential buildings in quick succession shortly after 5 p.m. Saturday, police said. The injured people […]
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.
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” […]
