Germany was left in mourning on Saturday after an individual intentionally drove into a crowded Christmas market in Magdeburg, killing at least five people, including a child, and injuring over 200 others.
Authorities arrested a 50-year-old man at (...)
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has lost a confidence vote in parliament, paving the way for its dissolution and fresh national elections.
Scholz gained 207 votes in the 733-seat parliament to his name, nowhere near the 367 majority he needed to hold (...)
Across Germany Syrians have been celebrating in the streets the downfall of former president Bashar al-Assad. But now many will be feeling less euphoric, as some politicians question their future in Germany.
There are around a million people with (...)
Germany's Olaf Scholz arrived in Ukraine on Monday for his second trip to the region during his tenure as Chancellor.
His visit comes both at a time on escalated Russian attacks on Ukraine and as his government faces political crisis at home that (...)
The former German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, was once described as the world's most powerful woman. Here she talks to the BBC's Katya Adler about Ukraine, Vladimir Putin's nuclear threat -- and how she handled Donald Trump.
Angela Merkel led Germany (...)
In the 44 years since Beckhoff Automation opened for business, owner Hans Beckhoff says he hasn't seen an economic crisis like this one.
"You can usually expect a crisis about once every five to eight years," says Beckhoff. "This time it's a (...)
The world is already becoming dangerously overheated, and climate change is accelerating, says the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), as the COP29 UN Climate Summit kicked off in Azerbaijan's capital city Baku on Monday.
The latest WMO Global (...)
Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said he is willing to hold a confidence vote in parliament before Christmas after the ruling three-party coalition collapsed under a week ago.
In an interview on Sunday night with public broadcaster ARD, Scholz (...)
Germany's governing coalition has collapsed after Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired a key minister and said he would call a vote of confidence in his government early next year.
The chancellor said he had no trust in Finance Minister Christian Lindner, (...)
German police on Tuesday arrested eight alleged members of a far-right militant organization suspected of plotting a neo-Nazi takeover in eastern Germany.
More than 450 law enforcement officials raided properties across the state of Saxony as well (...)
Germany ordered the closure of all three Iranian consulates in the country on Thursday following Tehran's execution of Iranian-German dual citizen Jamshid Sharmahd, who had spent four years in an Iranian prison on terror charges.
Sharmahd, 69, a (...)
Iran has executed German-Iranian dissident Jamshid Sharmahd, following his conviction for "leading terror operations", state media is reporting.
Sharmahd was sentenced to death last year for "corruption on Earth", having been accused of leading a (...)
It costs €15,000 (£12,500) for the whole "package" of an inflatable dinghy, with an outboard motor and 60 life jackets, to get across the English Channel, according to a BBC report.
This is the "good price" offered by two small-boat smugglers to an (...)
Russian missiles have hit a civilian container ship at a port in Ukraine's Odesa region, killing eight people, according to local officials.
"This is the third attack on a civilian vessel in the past four days," said the region's governor, Oleh (...)
BERLIN — Minister of Finance Mohammed Al-Jadaan participated in the Berlin Global Dialogue, which was held on October 1-2 at the European University of Management and Technology in the German capital along with a number of government officials and (...)
BERLIN — Minister of Finance Mohammed Al-Jadaan and Minister of Economy and Planning Faisal Al-Ibrahim met with German Federal Minister of Finance Christian Lindner.
This was on the sidelines of the Berlin Global Dialogue to discuss bilateral (...)
The world's richest person, Elon Musk, has hit back after not being invited to the UK government's International Investment Summit.
He was not invited due to his social media posts during last month's riots, the BBC understands.
"I don't think (...)
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD) party narrowly won an election in the eastern German state of Brandenburg on Sunday.
Three weeks after the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party made gains in two other east German (...)
In a Muslim graveyard in Delhi, a tombstone stands out.
It has an inscription written in the Urdu language, but beneath it lies the name of a German-born Jewish woman — Gerda Philipsborn — followed by the epithet 'Aapajaan' or 'elder sister'.
This (...)
Germany has begun new controls at all of its land borders as part of a crackdown on migration, placing restrictions on a wide area of free movement known as the Schengen Zone and stirring anger among its European neighbors.
From Monday, as well as (...)
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has denounced as "unacceptable" Germany's decision to extend temporary controls to all its land borders as part of its response to irregular migration.
He is one of several figures from neighboring countries to (...)
Germany is set to expand border checks following a knife attack that left three people dead in the town of Solingen in August.
The government has come under pressure to take a harder line on immigration since the stabbing, in which the suspect is a (...)
Germany will provide 12 additional self-propelled howitzers 2000 worth €150 million ($166.14 million) to Ukraine, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius announced on Friday during a meeting of the Ukraine contact group at the U.S. Air Force base in (...)
German police shot and killed a suspect near Israel's Consulate General in Munich on Thursday, Bavaria's Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann confirmed.
"The man was carrying a long gun and had fired several shots," Herrmann said, noting that police (...)
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer met with French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday to discuss the ongoing conflict in Ukraine and the situation in the Middle East, amid concerns over the rise of far-right movements across Europe.
The meeting marks (...)
