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In 2017, 147 women were killed by their partner or ex-boyfriend in Germany. In total, 140,000 people were victims of domestic violence last year.

Germany has imposed an entry ban on eighteen Saudi's. They are suspected of having been involved in the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The journalist lived and worked in the US and was very critical of the Saud family clan that rules Saudi Arabia.

The German Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer wants to end his political career. To the members of his Bavarian conservative party Seehofer announced that he wants to resign as party chairman. He also wants to give up his ministry, reported several German media Sunday.

The German politician Horst Seehofer will resign from his position as Minister of the Interior if he can not remain chairman of the CSU. The newspaper Bild am Sonntag reports this on the basis of a confidant from Seehofer. According to the source, the minister does not like to stay on the post 'muddling.'

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned against increasing Jew-hatred in Germany. She wants resolute action against racism, xenophobia and exclusion. Merkel spoke Friday during the commemoration of the Kristallnacht, which took place 80 years ago.

The CEO of Google, Sundar Pichai, has apologized to all employees for tackling intimidation within the company. 'We recognize that we have not always dealt with it properly in the past and we sincerely regret that. It is clear that we have to make changes ', Pichai wrote in a mail to the staff on Thursday.

The German Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer has sent his intelligence chief Hans Georg Maassen out of the way. Maassen had accused coalition partner SPD of left extremism and refused to spy on the patriotic party AfD, which links up with right-wing radical groups, neo-Nazis and football hooligans.

A German ICE high-speed train has been the target of an extreme right-wing terrorist attack. The perpetrators, however, put the blame down to Muslims. The Bavarian police say this, according to RND news agency yesterday.

The head of the German internal security service BfV, Hans-Georg Maassen, has been finally taken early by Minister Horst Seehofer of the Interior. His departure had been in the air for several days.

An 80-year-old German has slaughtered a wild boar with an ax in the parking lot of a Berlin supermarket. First the man chopped off the head of the animal. Then he began to take out the guts of the dead beast.

The chief of the German intelligence service BfV, Hans-Georg Maassen, is fired anyway. He would become a special adviser at the Ministry of the Interior with retention of salary. That transfer is reportedly unavailable because Maassen in the farewell speech he wrote strongly criticized the coalition. The text of his speech had already been distributed to the BfV.

The long political career of Angela Dorothea Merkel (64) is slowly coming to an end. On Monday, the German CDU-cheffin told fellow party members and the equally bewildered journaille in Berlin that she stops as a powerful chairman of her own Christian party: 'There is a need for fresh wind and space for the future.'

Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel has now also said that she renounces her CDU presidency after the massive loss of votes in the elections in the state of Hessen on Sunday. She announced that she would remain a chancellor until the end of her term. Previously, party sources already hinted at their plans.

UPDATE- German chancellor Angela Merkel stops after eighteen years as chairman of her conservative CDU party. She also does not stand as a chancellor after 2021 and she does not aspire to a position in Brussels, German media write. The search for possible successors at the DCU starts immediately; a former rival of Merkel is a candidate.

The boss of the troubled airport that is being built at the German capital Berlin is certain that the last deadline for the opening will be met. Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) will open its doors in the autumn of 2020. ' This time we'll manage \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27 ;, says Engelbert Lütke Daldrup in an interview in the Welt am Sonntag.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has told Saudi King Salman by telephone to condemn the murder of critical journalist Jamal Khashoggi 'sharply.' According to a spokesperson, she demanded 'fast, clear and credible explanation' on Thursday evening. Riyadh must hold the perpetrators to account.

Germany too needs hundreds of thousands of new homes quickly. The offer is small and the prices are rising. The Merkel government introduced a kind of child benefit for their own home to stimulate the market. Families and single-parent families, provided their taxable income is not too high, can receive a subsidy of 1200 euros per child per year for the purchase or construction of a house. The scheme is guaranteed for ten years.

Woodstock is next year in the top 3 tourist regions recommended by Lonely Planet. The legendary hippie festival then celebrates its 50th anniversary.

Germany will not supply weapons to Saudi Arabia until it has been clarified what happened to the missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi. This is what Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday at a campaign meeting of her party.

The Scottish Jenny Graham (38) is the first woman to cycle around the world alone in 125 days with all her luggage. She arrived in Berlin on Thursday evening at the Brandenburger Tor, where she had left in the east on 16 June.

The German 'Energiewende' is a very expensive mammoth project. This controversial change to a much more sustainable energy supply was started years ago by Chancellor Merkel- but without the desired effects on the climate. And the Court of Auditors with our eastern neighbors makes minced from the exorbitant costs.

According to various media, the German authorities have prevented a major terrorist attack by Islamic State. This was preceded by a survey of more than a year. It was intended that in June three jihadist teams would travel to Germany to make the preparations and ensure implementation.

After the heavy defeat of the CSU at the state election in Bavaria, the pressure on 69-year-old party leader Horst Seehofer has increased considerably. Two district administrations demanded the resignation of the former prime minister of Bavaria. The Oberbayern department, the largest in the German federal state, wants an extraordinary party day to be held this year.

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 German AfD has set up an anonymous click line, where students can indicate their teachers. The patriotic opposition party, which occupies second place in the polls, is afraid that teachers will not tell them neutrally.

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 great-nephew of Adolf Hitler gets a page in the German newspaper Bild to review a few world leaders.

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.