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The German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel believes that the sanctions against Russia can be relaxed if a cease-fire comes into force in eastern Ukraine.

High visit the next few days in Munich. World leaders talk about this at the annual international security conference. Our Prime Minister Rutte is there, but also the Russian Minister Lavrov (Foreign Affairs) and the British Prime Minister May. He spoke about the brexit on Saturday and about future cooperation with the EU.

The pilot of a plane to Munich felt compelled to return to Oslo Airport after it appeared that the toilets in the aircraft were faulty. And that, while there were 60 plumbers on board.

A group of Jewish survivors of the Second World War appears to have made a detailed plan just before the end to poison six million Germans for revenge.

A 30-year-old skier was killed in the south of Germany after he ended up in an avalanche on Sunday. The man from the German state of Saxony got buried in the snow near the Geigelstein. A 57-year-old man who was with him could free himself and came to his aid. The victim eventually died in the hospital.

A court in Munich in Germany sentenced a man to seven years in prison for supplying the gun and ammunition with which an 18-year-old man committed an attack in the Bavarian town in July 2016. This caused nine people to die.

In Germany, train traffic is severely affected by the storm and the snow. In North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Lower Saxony, train traffic has been shut down.

Natural disasters have cost insurers a new record of claims for damages. That is a precursor for what will come next in the coming years, according to the German reinsurer Munich Re.

Women who feel unsafe or have been harassed during the New Year's Eve can go to a special safe zone. Sunday is the year of exuberance celebrated in Berlin, it is the largest Sylvester party in Germany and is held around the Brandenburg Gate.

A 24-year-old German was run over by two trains. He survived despite very serious injuries.

CSU leader Horst Seehofer is in principle willing to transfer his position as prime minister of Bavaria to a successor for the state elections in the autumn of 2018. As possible time he has mentioned the first quarter of next year. This has confirmed a source within the party management vis-à-vis the DPA news agency.

On a square in Munich people got injured when a man started to knock around a knife.

The Portuguese António Campinos will be the new European Patent Office (EOB), the European Patent Office, which has a large branch in Rijswijk with 2700 employees. He follows Frenchman Benoît Battistelli, who, according to some of the staff, had a 'tyrannical terror'.

Motorists can not put a camera in Germany in Germany. A judge imposed a fine of 150 euros on it because she was in violation of the privacy of others.

The cocaine found last week in ten Bavarian supermarkets has a street value of about 10 million euros. In total, more than 180 kilograms of drugs were discovered in banana boxes, the Bavarian police reported Monday.

In several German cities, Sunday night hundreds of people went up to demonstrate against the right-populated Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), chosen in the Bundestag.

The CSU, the Bavarian sister party of Angela Merkels CDU, suffered a considerable loss in the German parliamentary elections. According to the exit polls, the CSU only achieved 38.5 percent of the votes for the party, where a score of 49.3 percent was four years ago. This is the worst federal election result for the CSU since 1949.

The rise for the German Bundestag elections is significantly higher at noon than Sunday at the same time during the 2013 elections.

On Friday, almost cocaine was made available in several Bavarian supermarkets. In ten stores, drugs were found in boxes of bananas that were just delivered.

At the Oktoberfest in Munich, the police held a 37-year-old thief whose two hands were amputated.

German planner and architect Albert Speer junior died on Friday night at the age of 83. That has heard DPA press office from political circles in Frankfurt. The Bild magazine reported that Speer had fallen a day earlier, including a broken hip in the hospital.

At 11 o'clock the traditional Oktoberfest in Munich starts. The fanatics have gathered early, but got bad news from above: it rains pipes.

The German Public Prosecutor's Office has been claiming for a long time against Beate Zschäpe, who would have been involved in racist murders as a member of the National Socialist Underground (NSU). The 42-year-old woman denied having previously participated in the atrocities, but has indicated to feel guilty because she did not prevent the murders.

Google is going to help car drivers find a car park. The tech giant has rolled out a new version of Google Maps containing two new features.

A money thief has just failed to bring more than one million euros from Munich to his place of residence in Serbia. The driver of a money transfer decided on Thursday, when his adventurers just entered a customer, no longer drove to another bank or the depot but home. At the Hungarian-Serbian border he was caught.

The second 'black saturday' is coming. Especially in France, Germany and Italy, it is busy on the roads, the ANWB predicts.

The German Public Prosecutor General complains Beate Zschäpe (42) for complicity in all the murders and attacks between 2000 and 2007 of the Neonazist National Socialist Underground (NSU). If the court is involved in this, then it imposes a lifelong imprisonment on her head.

The German schlager singer Andrea Jürgens died on Thursday after a short sick bed at the age of fifty in her residence Recklinghausen. That has disclosed her record company in Munich.

Nature kept itself relatively cool in the first half of this year. The worldwide damage caused by natural violence was considerably less than a year earlier. The number of fatal casualties has so far fallen.

The US Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis allows the United States to continue to provide the United States with the Kurdish YPG militia in Syria after the collapse of IS Raqqa, a robbery of weapons and equipment. According to NATO ally Turkey, who regards the YPG as a danger, Mattis has written in writing that the Americans retrieve the weapons when Islamic State is defeated.