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'The time for playing games is over,' warns the German Foreign Minister, Heiko Maas, Wednesday morning after rejecting the Brexit deal by the British...

The camp beds are already ready at a number of German airports. Travelers at German airports have to take into account delays and canceled flights again this week. The…

A series of bomb threats led Friday to the evacuation of several German courts. People had to leave the buildings in Potsdam, Magdeburg, Erfurt, Saarbrücken, Wiesbaden and Kiel. In all…

'A black day for democracy.' This is how Alternative für Deutschland typifies the attack on Frank Magnitz, Bundestag member and deputy chairman of the party in the port city of Bremen,...

The German police have arrested a 20-year-old student who would be involved in distributing personal information about hundreds of German politicians. He was arrested in Hessen on Monday.

Several flights were canceled on Monday at various airports in the German capital Berlin. Due to a strike at security personnel at the Tegel and Schönefeld airports at 05.00...

Hackers have distributed personal information about hundreds of German politicians. Among other things telephone numbers, addresses, chat data and credit card information appeared on the internet, message...

In Germany a large scam with travel documents of refugees has been discovered.

The German magazine Der Spiegel reports against the fallen journalist Claas Relotius. The magazine suspects that he has put money that he collected among readers in his own pocket. Earlier, Relotius gave...

The German government has agreed on new rules to make it easier for asylum seekers and other migrants to come to Germany and work there with a certain degree of craftsmanship. To…

The toddler of a right-wing politician in Berlin has been refused at a primary school.

The police in Berlin on Tuesday early in a mosque invaded because of terrorist suspicions.

Germany is investing tens of billions of euros extra in the Bundeswehr to satisfy the NATO partners. The growth is so explosive, however, that a parliamentary committee of inquiry against...

Turkey would kidnap and torture political prisoners, say German media after extensive research. The people were forced to admit that they were supporters or terrorists of the Gülen movement...

The draft Brexit agreement between the EU and Great Britain is not affected. That was the message German Chancellor Angela Merkel gave British Prime Minister Theresa May during the...

The current Russian president Vladimir Putin has spied in his youth for the East German Stasi. His former pass has been sunk by the newspaper BILD.

The Iranian government has increased the number of missile tests this year. In addition, missiles have been tested that the European Union can achieve. This is stated in documents from Western intelligence services that the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag has recognized.

The German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer expects that the so-called 'Union' of CDU and CSU will again be able to win electoral gains now that Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has been elected as successor to Angela Merkel.

At the secret services in Germany, several thousand functions are not occupied. Sources at the Federal Audit Office said to the magazine Der Spiegel that it is very difficult to find suitable employees for the domestic secret service BfV who speak foreign languages.

While President Putin is imprisoning Ukrainian sailors from the Gulf of Azov, his gas is becoming less welcome in Germany. The candidates to succeed Chancellor Merkel in her ruling party CDU react with a series of warnings to the Kremlin.

The problems with the government plane of Chancellor Merkel are not caused by sabotage. There is no indication that there was a malicious intent in the technical malfunction, according to a spokesman for the German Air Force.

The emergency landing of the German government aircraft with Chancellor Angela Merkel on board Thursday night was possibly the result of sabotage. The Rheinische Post reports this Friday on the basis of sources within the security services.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel had to interrupt her trip to Buenos Aires for the G20 summit on Thursday evening. After an hour of flying the pilot found technical problems with the Airbus over Dutch territory. Some electrical systems fell out. The aircraft turned and made a stopover in Cologne to allow the passengers to transfer to another aircraft.

The German Bundestag has approved the UN Migration Pact and sees nothing in it that undermines or changes existing law in Germany. Especially the right-wing populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) strongly opposed the proposal because it would lose control over its own migration policy.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Vladimir Putin talked by telephone on Monday evening about the situation in Ukraine.

Government officials from Germany, Russia, France and Ukraine come together in Berlin on Monday to find a solution to the conflict over the Ukrainian ships that the Russians have seized. A German government spokesman has reported this. Shortly before, Minister of Foreign Affairs Heiko Maas had called on Russia and Ukraine to stop the quarrel.

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The Public Prosecution Service in Berlin has sued a former guard (95) of the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen for complicity in the murder of 36,000 prisoners and incitement to murder. This is what the German magazine Der Spiegel reports.

The UN migration declaration, the so-called Pact of Marrakesh, has become a divisive part of the main government party in the Federal Republic, the conservative CDU of Chancellor Merkel. The non-binding migration treaty will determine the upcoming party congress, in which Merkel's successor is elected.

A 15-year-old boy was sentenced in Germany to nine years of juvenile detention for the death stabbing of a 14-year-old fellow student. The girl Keira was killed with more than twenty knife stabs in her parental home in Berlin.