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.
The German government takes into account that the United States will not extend the exceptions that apply to Europe in respect of additional import duties. This reports government circles in the German capital just before the visit of Chancellor Angela Merkel to the White House.
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.
Germany donates one billion euros for aid to the ailing population in Syria and Syrian refugees in neighboring countries. Minister of Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas announced that on Wednesday.
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.
A former bodyguard of al-Qaeda boss Osama bin Laden has lived for years at the expense of the state in Germany and can not be extradited to his native Tunisia. From answer to questions from the party AfD it appears that the 42-year-old Sami A. gets more than 1150 euros per month for his family of six people that also has German passports.
The SPD in Germany has chosen Andrea Nahles as the new chairman. It is the first time in the nearly 155-year history of the Social Democrats that a woman is in charge.
Chancellor Angela Merkel told the Israeli channel Channel 10 how regrettable she thinks that anti-Semitism has re-emerged in Germany.
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.
German farmers think it's time to withdraw the hunting ban on wolves. The reason is that since the reintroduction in Germany in 2000, after an absence of 130 years, the animals pose an increasing threat to herds of sheep and other farm animals.
Merkel's right-wing enemies of the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) receive help from an unexpected corner. Numerous writers and well-known thinkers have signed a declaration against open borders and immigration. Their protest letter was already signed a hundred thousand times.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel concludes that her country is taking part in military attacks on Syria. She said Thursday that Germany would do everything to make it clear that the use of chemical weapons is unacceptable.
German and Spanish prosecutors meet in the Netherlands about Carles Puigdemont, the former prime minister of Catalonia. According to sources of the Spanish newspaper El País, the meeting would take place at Eurojust, the European Union (EU) legal organization based in The Hague.
German and Spanish prosecutors meet in the Netherlands about Carles Puigdemont, the former prime minister of Catalonia. According to sources of the Spanish newspaper El País, the meeting would take place at Eurojust, the European Union (EU) legal organization based in The Hague.
An accident with a German army helicopter killed a man. The rotor of the transport device had hit a building at an airport in Bavaria. Subsequently, flying debris hit the employee, the authorities announced. The four-man crew of the CH-53 helicopter remained unharmed.
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.
Staff at four German airports put the work down on Tuesday. The airline Lufthansa therefore cancels around eight hundred flights. This has consequences for about 90,000 travelers.
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.
The German military security service MAD is afraid of attacks on vehicles of the German army. In an internal safety advice, the service says that 'it must be assumed that it can lead to further attacks' in response to the Turkish offensive in Syria against Kurds.
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.
