Five men have been found guilty of an audacious jewel heist in the German city of Dresden.
The thieves stole precious items worth €113m (£98m) from the city's state museum in 2019.
Police recovered many of the jewels, including a diamond-encrusted (...)
Police in eastern Germany carried out raids early on Wednesday as they investigated alleged threats to kill a state governor over coronavirus restrictions and vaccinations.
Several properties in Dresden were being searched in a probe into suspected (...)
Eight suspected far-right extremists from the "Freital Group" who attacked refugee homes and political opponents have been handed prison sentences between four and 10 years in the eastern German city of Dresden.
The group - seven men and one woman (...)
A major European train line linking Germany to the Czech Republic has partially reopened after a landslide blocked a 150-metre-long section of the track, a spokeswoman for Deutsche Bahn said, according to dpa.
She said operations resumed later on (...)
A group of 17 Syrian immigrants began a
hunger strike at a centre in the eastern German city of Hoyerswerda
to protest the length of time it has taken to process their asylum
applications, dpa quoted an official as saying Wednesday.
The hunger (...)
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warned ahead of a meeting on Thursday of the world's top financial
officials of the threat posed to the global economy's return to sustainable growth by a buildup of debt, dpa reported.
"We have set out our (...)
The world's major economies meeting in
Dresden agreed on Thursday to adopt Germany's tough fiscal rules, dpa reported.
Group of Seven (G7) ministers and central bankers meeting in the
eastern German city backed Germany's long-held stance that (...)
Germany rejected on Wednesday Athens' claims
that it was close to a deal with its international creditors as the
world's top financial officials gathered in Dresden for a meeting
overshadowed by the Greek debt crisis, according to dpa.
Global (...)
Six people were injured on Saturday in a
fire at an asylum seekers home in the east German city of Chemnitz, a
police spokesman said, according to dpa.
Two of those injured were admitted to hospital for smoke inhalation,
while the other four (...)
A police officer went on trial in Germany Friday, accused of murdering and chopping up a businessman he met on
a web forum for cannibalism fetishists, dpa reported.
Detlef G, whose surname has been withheld under media privacy
guidelines in Germany, (...)
Residents and emergency crews worked through the night in Dresden and other cities to bolster riverbanks and build sandbag barriers as floodwaters that have already claimed 16 lives in Europe roared farther north through Germany, AP reported.
The (...)
Storms in Germany have killed three, including a nine-year-old girl, and injured at least 20, officials said Saturday, reported the dpa.
The girl was struck by lightning late Friday near the eastern city of Dresden.
She was running through a (...)
Around 100 people were hospitalized late Thursday after a chemistry experiment at a German university went wrong, emergency services and a university spokeswoman said.
Only three of those hospitalized showed severe symptoms, said a fire brigade (...)
Any time she caught a teammate's eye, Abby Wambach held up one finger. It had nothing to do with the shrinking numbers on the clock.
“I kept saying, ‘All it takes is one chance. It takes one second to score a goal,'” Wambach said.
Regulation. (...)
More than 200 people today mourned the death of a young Muslim mother whose stabbing a year ago in Dresden,
Germany sent shockwaves throughout the Islamic world, dpa reported.
Many laid white flowers in the corridor outside the courtroom
where (...)
An Egyptian academic who lost his wife in a horrific courtroom stabbing in Germany is to skip this week's
memorial ceremonies on the first anniverary, according to associates
today, dpa reported.
The murder of Marwa el-Shirbini, 31, a pregnant (...)
The man who stabbed pregnant Egyptian pharmacist Marwa el-Shirbini to death in a German courtroom last year
has lost his final regular appeal, dpa quoted a German court official as saying today.
Russian-born Alex Wiens was given life (...)
German authorities put online Monday the names of 700,000 captured Soviet soldiers, most of whom died in
horrific Nazi prison camps during the Second World War, according to dpa.
The lists had previously been kept by German authorities who (...)
A German man found guilty of murdering a
pregnant Egyptian woman in a courtroom was sentenced to life
imprisonment without parole today, after a high-profile case
which has stirred emotions across both Germany and the Middle East, dpa (...)
The judge in the Marwa el-Shirbini murder
case said today that the motive of the convicted killer, Alex
Wiens, was hatred of foreigners, according to dpa.
A "hatred of foreigners ran right through the accused"s stay in
Germany," judge Birgit (...)
The east German city of Dresden paid its
last respects on Saturday to an Egyptian woman knifed to death in a
racially motivated courtroom attack, according to dpa.
More than 1,500 people attended a memorial service, which heard
pleas for racial (...)
Prodding the international community, President Barack Obama called Friday “for all of us to redouble our efforts” toward separate Israeli and Palestinian states. “The moment is now for us to act,” he declared.
Alongside German Chancellor Angela (...)
President Barack Obama called Friday for a redoubling of efforts toward separate Israeli
and Palestinian states, saying «the moment is now for us
to act,» , according to AP
With German Chancellor Angela Merkel by his side, the U.S.
president (...)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Friday that President Barack Obama's speech in Cairo
this week opened doors to the Arab world and pointed to a
«unique opportunity» to revive Middle East peace efforts, according to AP.
The German leader said (...)
U.S. President Barack
Obama expressed hope today of making serious progress in
Middle East peacemaking this year and said Israelis and
Palestinians had to "get serious" and make tough compromises, according to Reuters.
On a visit to Germany, (...)
