French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen declared on Saturday that 2017 will be the "year of the awakening of the people of continental Europe" as she joined fellow nationalist leaders in Germany at the beginning of a year of high-stakes national (...)
Fifty-one people were injured in a lightning
storm at a rock music festival in western Germany, dpa cited organizers as saying Saturday.
Fifteen of the victims were listed in serious condition, organizers said.
Performances were suspended for about (...)
A 37-year-old German national was sentenced to six years prison Tuesday for training as a terrorist with al-Qaeda and another Islamist group in the mountains of Afghanistan, dpa reported.
Ahmad S, who is of Afghan extraction, "wanted to take part (...)
About 45,000 people were evacuated from their homes in Koblenz, Germany, Sunday while authorities worked to defuse a 2-ton, World War II-era bomb, according to UPI.
The BBC reported officials became aware of the massive British bomb last week when (...)
Officials in Germany gave the all-clear Sunday after defusing two World War II bombs discovered in the Rhine River, UPI reported.
The aging ordnance was found in the city of Koblenz where the water level in the Rhine fell enough to reveal (...)
Two German soldiers wounded in an Afghan
bomb ambush were being kept in an artificial coma Friday after their
arrival in Germany on an overnight medical-evacuation flight, according to dpa.
Both were in intensive care but neither was in critical (...)
An earthquake jolted the German town of Koblenz early Friday, but caused no casualties or damage, police
said, according to DPA.
The quake, which measured 4 on the Richter scale, roused people
from their beds at 5 a.m. It was followed (...)
A sports car prototype that was being
tested on Germany's no-speed-limits autobahn system spun out of
control in a quarter-million-dollar crash, police said Wednesday according to Deutsche Presse Agentur dpa.
At the request of the manufacturer, (...)
