Germany

Frankfurt to evacuate 60,000 people to defuse British WWII bomb

FRANKFURT: Around 60,000 inhabitants of Germany's financial capital Frankfurt will be ordered to leave their… Read More

Merkel has no regrets over refugee policy despite political cost

BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she has no regrets about her 2015 decision to… Read More

One killed in stabbing in western Germany, attacker on the run: police

GERMANY: Berlin,One man was killed and another injured in a stabbing in the western German city… Read More

Merkel embarks on Germany’s ‘strangest’ campaign

BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has returned from a three-week Alpine holiday to embark on… Read More

One dead, four wounded in Hamburg supermarket knife attack

HAMBURG: A man wielding a large kitchen knife stormed into a supermarket in the German… Read More

Macron outshines Merkel as EU’s top diplomat

BERLIN: Germany has for years longed for a stronger French partner, but may have got… Read More

France and Germany to develop new European fighter jet

PARIS: France and Germany unveiled plans on Thursday to develop a European fighter jet, burying… Read More

Ivanka Trump sits in for president at G20

HAMBURG: For a moment at the G20 summit on Saturday the United States was represented… Read More

Man jailed for kicking Berlin woman down station stairs

BERLIN: A man who kicked a woman down the stairs at a Berlin subway station… Read More

Trump versus the rest as violent G20 wraps up

HAMBURG: US President Donald Trump heads Saturday into the final day of a fractious and… Read More

Germany imposes heavy fines for online hate speech

BERLIN: Germany's parliament voted Friday to punish social media giants with fines of up to… Read More

Federer thrashes Zverev to win ninth Halle title

HALLE WESTFALEN, GERMANY: Swiss great Roger Federer thrashed Alexander Zverev to win his ninth title… Read More

Helmut Kohl, father of German reunification, dies at 87

BERLIN: Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the architect of Germany's 1990 reunification and mentor to Angela Merkel,… Read More

Germany’s Merkel says walls don’t solve immigration problems

BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday that putting up walls will not solve… Read More

German rock festival to resume after terror scare: organisers

BERLIN: Germany's biggest rock festival will resume after being disrupted by fears of a possible… Read More

German rock festival evacuated over ‘terrorist threat’: Police

BERLIN: One of Germany’s biggest music festivals was interrupted on Friday over a “possible terrorist threat,”… Read More

Trump lashes out at Germany over trade and NATO

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Tuesday to complain about a US trade… Read More

G7 leaders turn gaze to Africa, climate harmony elusive

TAORMINA, ITALY: Leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations meet African heads of state on… Read More

Germany investigates 20 for alleged spying for Turkey

BERLIN: Germany is investigating 20 people for allegedly spying on followers of an exiled preacher… Read More

Babies cry more in UK, Canada and Italy, less in Germany, study finds

NEW YORK: Babies cry more in Britain, Canada, Italy and Netherlands than in other countries,… Read More