Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is going to Europe next week to talk with leaders about the threat Iran would pose. On Monday he will speak with Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin and in the evening he will go to Paris for consultation with the French president Emmanuel Macron.
Italian President Sergio Mattarella has commissioned former IMF official Carlo Cottarelli to form a government.
On Sunday in Berlin, the police deployed 1,800 people to keep participants of a demonstration of the populist party AfD and a series of counter-demonstrations apart. This was reported by German media Thursday.
It has been confirmed several times, but thanks to French medical scientists it is now one hundred percent certain: Adolf Hitler committed suicide in 1945. The French investigated the jaw of the Fuehrer who has been in possession of Russia since the end of the Second World War, and established that it is authentic.
The Open Society Foundations (OSF) of philanthropist and billionaire George Soros closes its office in the Hungarian capital Budapest. The foundation says that it has decided to do so because of the 'increasingly repressive political and legal climate' in the Central European country.
A conventional war against the West is too expensive and too dangerous for Russia. That is why Moscow is conducting a hybrid war with disinformation and propaganda, smoldering conflicts and sabotage, settlements and cyber attacks. For this dangerous aggression, Western espionage services warned in Berlin yesterday.
Three babies who were found abandoned in the Berlin region have the same mother. That has shown research. The police have now set out to find a woman who was pregnant three years in a row in the summer and gave birth in August or September, but was never seen behind the pram. A spokeswoman said on Monday that a valuable tip has already arrived.
Germany and France do not intend to withdraw from the nuclear deal with Iran. The French minister Jean-Yves Le Drian (Foreign Affairs) said at a joint press conference with his German colleague Heiko Maas that Paris, Berlin and London would like to keep to the agreement, regardless of what the United States decides.
Researchers have found no evidence of hidden spaces at the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Some experts had speculated that the remains of Queen Nefertiti might be in an undiscovered room.
Tunisia promises Germany that it will not torture a former bodyguard of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden if it is deported to his native country by Berlin. German media quote a Tunisian minister who promises it.
European countries have responded cautiously to accusations of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Iran. He claimed Monday that Tehran lied for years about the development of nuclear weapons. The British minister Boris Johnson (Foreign Affairs) said in a reaction that the nuclear agreement 'is not based on trust in the good intentions of Iran.'
The crime figures in Germany show a decreasing trend. In 2017 they declined in all federal states, the most in Bavaria (-28.7 percent). Of the persons suspected of a criminal offense, 8.5 percent were immigrants. In total there are 167,268 cases. That writes the newspaper Die Welt, relying on the statistics of the police. These will be officially published on 8 May.
Thousands of people have taken to the streets in a number of German cities to show their solidarity with the Jewish community and to express their concerns about growing anti-Semitism. Many demonstrators wore a yarmulke, the traditional Jewish head covering.
The Central Jewish Council in Germany advises Jews to wear a yarmulke in large German cities. The president of the council speaks in German media about a 'turning point' for the German community.
The Berlin Central Station will be evacuated on Friday to clear a bomb from the Second World War. An important part of the center is also shut down while the bomb of 500 kilos is made harmless.
The Open Society Foundations (OSF) of philanthropist George Soros allegedly leave Budapest. The foundation moves the Hungarian office to Berlin, reports the Austrian newspaper Die Presse.
The man on the street in Berlin attacking an Israeli who carried a yarmulke by way of experiment, reported to the police. According to German media, it is probably a 19-year-old refugee from Syria who reported to a police station in the German capital together with a lawyer.
The boy who was molested in Berlin because he was wearing a yarmulke, says he is an Israeli boy from an Arab family, and that the yarmul was meant as an 'experiment'.
In the middle of Berlin's Prenzlauerberg district, a place for the well-to-do bourgeoisie, this week a Jewish boy was brutally molested by Arab assailants with a belt. The student veterinary medicine was mistreated because of his keppeleltje.
An F16 pilot from the military base in Kleine Brogel in Belgium was blinded by the rays of a laser pen on Tuesday evening. A man from the town of Peer is suspected of having blindly dazzled the pilot.
A court in Berlin sentenced a man to life imprisonment for the murder of a retired man and the hiding of the dismembered body in a freezer. He then also illegally received the pension from the elderly for ten years.
The former Catalan Prime Minister Carles Puigdemont may remain in Berlin pending a decision on his possible extradition. The Schleswig-Holstein court ruled that Monday. As a condition it is stipulated that the separatist leader reports once a week to the police in the German capital instead of in Neumünster, as was previously the task.
Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the possible deployment of blue helmets in Eastern Ukraine. Both were agreed, according to the German government spokesman Steffen Seibert, that the Minsk agreement must be promptly and completely transformed into action to put an end to the conflict in the area.
The German authorities have released the six men who were arrested on the day of the Berlin half marathon. There is no evidence that they actually wanted to commit a terrorist attack during the sporting event, reports German media.
The police may have prevented a terrorist attack on the Berlin half marathon today. Four men have been arrested. It would be friends of the Islamic terrorist Anis Amri, who with a truck on the metropolitan Christmas market in 2016 at the Gedächtniskirche killed twelve people and wounded about fifty.
The former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont is settled in Berlin and wants to remain in the German capital for the time being, pending a decision on his possible expulsion to Spain. He said that Saturday at a meeting with the press.
In the winter weather, northern Germany, including Berlin, delivered a white Easter. On the Baltic Sea coast in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, according to Deutscher Wetterdienst (the German KNMI), 35 centimeters of snow fell locally. Such a thick suit in April was last measured in 1970.
Italian authorities hold their hearts for Easter attacks, the most important feast for Christianity. The outgoing Minister of the Interior Marco Minniti warns that Muslim terrorists have Rome in their sights.
The Italian police rolled up a terror cell that was in contact with the perpetrator of the attack on the Christmas market in Berlin, Anis Amri. The police arrested five suspects in Rome and nearby Latina.
Poland and the US signed the agreement on Wednesday for the delivery of US Patriot air missiles to Warsaw. The delivery involved an amount of more than 3.8 billion euros. It is therefore the largest defense purchase in Poland ever.
