Around 9.5 million voters in Bavaria can vote for a new parliament on Sunday. According to opinion polls, a totally different parliament is elected than the conservative state is used to. The Christian Social Union (CSU), which had been running for decades, would suffer considerable losses under the leadership of Prime Minister Mark Söder.
In Berlin, according to the organization of a demonstration against racism, about 240,000 people went into the state. That is much more than the organization had expected, because in advance only 40,000 people had signed up. The police did not want to say anything about attendance figures.
The popular diesel engine is, after Hamburg and Frankfurt, also in the German capital under the spell. A court in Berlin ruled Tuesday that only the air quality in the metropolis will improve. Around two hundred thousand motorists with cars up to the Euro 5 standard are affected.
A car was driven into a group of pedestrians on Friday in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg. Witnesses said that at least five people were injured. The vehicle stopped at a café.
The Open Society Foundations (OSF) of philanthropist and billionaire George Soros has moved to Berlin and started working there. According to German media, it will be eighty employees and their families for the time being, but ultimately 150 people will work for the foundation in the German capital.
The police in Berlin suspect a colleague of having spied on members of the Turkish opposition in the German capital for the Turkish secret service. The corps started an investigation against the man, as was announced on Thursday.
Pussy Riot activist Pjotr Verzilov is fired from a hospital in Berlin. He was treated there to poisoning symptoms, but his health has improved considerably. The activist has stated in the newspaper Bild the suspicion that the Russian secret service has poisoned him.
The former head of the German intelligence service BfV, Hans-Georg Maassen, becomes a special adviser at the Ministry of the Interior. His salary remains unchanged. That said Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) after a coalition meeting on Sunday evening in Berlin.
The publisher, the director and editor-in-chief of the Greek newspaper Filelefteros were arrested Saturday in Athens. According to Greek media, Minister of Defense Panos Kammenos had filed a complaint against the three.
At dawn, the workers painted yesterday morning the 'hero portrait' of the recently wounded Mafioos Nidal R., under the protection of the Berlin police. The removed graffiti on the crowded Tempelhofer Feld, directly on the crime scene, was a blow in the face of the authorities.
In the run-up to the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's visit to Germany, opponents of the head of state have planned a series of demonstrations. The organizers have announced protests in Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Essen, Bremen, Hannover, Stuttgart and Bielefeld for Saturday afternoon.
The sick Piot Riot activist Pjotr Verzilov, who ended up in the intensive care unit of a Moscow hospital last week, has most likely been poisoned with a substance that affects the nervous system. A doctor from a hospital in Berlin, where Verzilov now resides, has announced on Tuesday.
Bas Eickhout, GroenLinks' delegation leader in the European Parliament, is throwing the presidency of the European Commission. He is a candidate to succeed the current boss Jean-Claude Juncker on behalf of the European Green Parties (EGP).
Pussy Riot activist Pjotr Verzilov, who ended up in the intensive care unit of a Moscow hospital last week with poisoning symptoms, was admitted to a hospital in Berlin. According to another member of Pussy Riot, it is better with Verzilov.
Pussy Riot activist Pjotr Verzilov, who ended up in the intensive care unit of a Moscow hospital last week with poisoning symptoms, is likely to be flown to Berlin. Veronika Nikoelsjina, a friend of Verzilov, said Saturday that it is the intention that the medical treatment of Verzilov in the German capital will be continued.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has promised his compatriots to gradually raise the minimum wage and pensions in the coming months and years and to reduce the tax burden. However, the country can only be stabilized for the long term if the reforms continue and investments are made.
The international community wants to spend more than 1.7 billion euros extra for aid to the crisis area around Lake Chad. During a donor conference in Berlin, the needy population of one of the poorest regions in the world was pledged about three times as much as a year ago at a similar meeting in Oslo.
The best, the biggest and the fastest. These are the goals that the Chinese Huawei has in mind and it is well on the way to reach them. At the electronics fair IFA in Berlin, CEO Richard Yu introduced the Kirin 980, the most advanced 'brain' of a smartphone ever.
Germany has given Namibia the physical remains of 27 people who were killed in the colonial period. Robbed parts of the body were then taken from the African country to be used in so-called 'race studies'.
The son of a German multimillionaire was convicted at the court in Cologne because he misbehaved as a hooligan.
In a shopping mall in Berlin, a man pushed a boy into a jute bag in which he found two snake snakes. Then he got out of his feet. The police brought out this unconventional story 'from the big city jungle' on Monday via Facebook.
More and more Turks are fleeing their country and applying for asylum in Greece. In July alone, that happened 687 times, reports Greek media. Since the beginning of this year, Athens has already registered almost 2,000 Turks. According to a Coast Guard officer, the actual number is much larger, because many do not report to the authorities. They travel to Western or Central Europe.
Despite the difficult integration, more and more refugees are finding a job in the Federal Republic. The German economy runs like a tier, and employers are wringing their hands in search of staff. At a large job fair in a Berlin hotel, both parties sniffed together.
The large forest fire in the southwest of the German state of Brandenburg is not yet under control. Hundreds of firefighters are still busy with fire fighting on Saturday morning. The residents of the evacuated villages Klausdorf and Tiefenbrunnen are not allowed to go home yet.
Some of the people who had to leave their homes because of the large forest fire in southwest Brandenburg can return home. The evacuation of the village of Frohnsdorf was lifted on Friday afternoon, said Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke of the German state during a visit to the area.
The fire brigade succeeded on Friday to protect the three villages threatened by forest fires in the German state of Brandenburg against the flames. About five hundred residents of the villages of Frohnsdorf, Klausdorf and Tiefenbrunnen had to leave their homes on Thursday evening because of the fire about 50 kilometers south of Berlin.
A large forest fire southwest of Berlin led to the evacuation of two villages on Thursday evening. The authorities of the municipality of Treuenbrietzen instructed the inhabitants of Tiefenbrunnen and Klausdorf to leave their homes as quickly as possible with the help of the most necessary (papers and medicines) and to follow the instructions of aid workers.
The German authorities have arrested a man on suspicion of preparing a bomb attack. The police arrested the 31-year-old Russian Magomed-Ali C. in Berlin. The criminal investigation department was supported by anti-terrorist unit GSG 9, reports the Public Prosecution Service in Karlsruhe.
The once-hated Berlin Wall will be rebuilt over a month or so. However, the public will have to pay fifty euro entrance to voluntarily stay behind the concrete limit of more than a kilometer. 'We expect a world level event,' said Minister of Culture Monika Grutters against a local newspaper.
Greece has not yet been saved after the third aid package, says Yannis Varoufakis, the former Greek Minister of Finance, Monday in the German newspaper Bild. ' Greece is at the same point, is in the same black hole, and it sinks deeper every day. Also because the savings guidelines of the creditors prevent investments and consumption.
