Authorities in Germany have located a 96-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary who failed to turn up for the start of her trial in Germany on Thursday, a court spokeswoman said. Irmgard Furchner, who is charged with complicity in the murders of more than 10,000 people, “has been found”, said Frederike Milhoffer, a spokeswoman for […]
Donald Trump’s lies about mail-in voting have surfaced in Germany’s unusually wide open general election to replace longtime chancellor Angela Merkel. Three candidates — Armin Laschet, from Merkel’s conservative Christian Democratic Union, Olaf Scholz from the center-left Social Democrats and Annalena Baerbock of the Greens — are locked in a tight race just days ahead […]
Cuban scientists said Monday there was no evidence for claims of US diplomats coming down with so-called “Havana Syndrome” on the island. The mysterious affliction is said to cause headaches, nausea and possible brain damage, and is speculated to be caused by electronic weapons possibly wielded by a US rival such as Russia. Several suspected […]
By Rupam Jain (Reuters) -Teacher Shirin Tabriq spent five days and nights outside Kabul airport trying to get on a flight from Afghanistan. Humiliated and enraged by her ordeal, she has given up and plans to return to her village to start a new life under the Taliban. Midwife Shagufta Dastaqgir also tried, and failed, […]
Colourful washing strung on fences, children kicking a ball between hundreds of beige-coloured tents… A US army airbase in Germany has become a makeshift camp for thousands of Afghan evacuees who have made it out of their country in a harrowing journey. Since last week, grey military planes have been landing at the Ramstein airbase […]
Afghan citizens crowd on board US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III airplane as they are being evacuated from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. The evacuation is taking place due to the tense situation in Afghanistan after the takeover of the Taliban. Ssgt. Brandon Cribelar/U.S. Air/Planet Pix via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa An Afghan woman gave […]
One year after the poison attack on Russian dissident Alexei Navalny in Siberia, Russia has accused the West, and Germany in particular, of a smear campaign. In a statement, the Foreign Ministry in Moscow again demanded proof that Navalny was poisoned with the chemical agent Novichok. On the first “anniversary of the Navalny case” this […]
A 41-year-old teacher goes on trial in Germany on Tuesday accused of sado-cannibalism for sexual gratification. The teacher identified in the German media as Stefan R under the nation’s strict privacy laws, is alleged to have killed a 43-year-old technician in his apartment shortly after meeting him on a dating website. He then allegedly cut […]
A general view of the destroyed main road leading through the Ahr valley in the aftermath of the July 2020 deadly floods that engulfed parts of Germany. Thomas Frey/dpa The damage caused by Germany’s deadly floods in July is likely to exceed 26 billion euros (30.6 billion dollars), officials say. The cost alone in the […]
By Manas Mishra and Dania Nadeem (Reuters) -The World Health Organization is calling for a moratorium on COVID-19 vaccine boosters until at least the end of September, its head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday. The move was to enable that at least 10% of the population of every country was vaccinated, WHO Director-General Tedros […]
Humboldt-Forum – A restoration of a former royal palace, the Humboldt Forum museum and event building on Berlin’s Museum Island is the city’s newest and most hotly debated tourist landmark. – Jens Kalaene/dpa It’s been a disputed and changing site in Berlin for almost three decades. Today a buzzing tourist centre, Berlin’s island of museums […]
Floods in Germany – Half of the federal road 20 is being swept away after the flooding of the Ramsauer Ache river, shortly before the village of Berchtesgaden. – Peter Kneffel/dpa The devastating floods that struck parts of western Germany did around 2 billion euros (2.3 billion dollars) worth of damage to the region’s road […]
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Flash floods hit southern Germany on Sunday, killing at least one person and adding to the devastation after flooding in the country this week that killed more than 150 people. The Berchtesgadener Land district in Bavaria, which borders Austria, became the latest region to be hit by record rainfall and ensuing floods. […]
President Bashar al-Assad was sworn in Saturday for seven more years after a controversial May election dismissed by Europe and the US as “neither free nor fair”. His new term extends the Assad family’s rule to almost six decades; Assad’s father Hafez al-Assad led Syria for some 30 years. President Bashar al-Assad took the oath […]
Climate scientists on Friday were stunned by the intensity of flooding in Germany and Belgium that killed at least 120 people and damaged tens of thousands of homes, with experts saying they did not expect such extreme weather to result from the human-caused climate crisis as rapidly as it has. More than a dozen records […]
By Wolfgang Rattay and David Sahl SCHULD, Germany (Reuters) – At least 42 people have died in Germany and dozens were missing on Thursday as swollen rivers caused by record rainfall across western Europe swept through towns and villages, leaving cars upended, houses destroyed and people stranded on rooftops. As the water started to recede, […]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Companies may ban Muslim employees from wearing a headscarf under certain conditions, the European Union’s top court said on Thursday, in two cases brought by Muslim women in Germany who were suspended from their jobs after they started wearing the Islamic garment. “A prohibition on wearing any visible form of expression of […]
Floods in Rhineland-Palatinate – A general view of a flooded street as bad weather conditions floods the city. – Harald Tittel/dpa Six houses collapsed in western Germany due to flooding and ongoing rain overnight, leaving about 30 people missing Thursday morning, police said. The catastrophe was unfolding in the rural Eifel region of Rhineland-Palatinate state, […]
By Andrea Shalal and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The clock is ticking as President Joe Biden welcomes German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the White House on Thursday with both hoping to rebuild ties badly frayed under former President Donald Trump. The United States and Germany are key NATO allies but are at odds over […]
Ahead of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to the U.S. later this week, public health campaigners on Tuesday floated a large banner in front of the White House calling on the European leader to “stop blocking global Covid vaccines,” a reference to her continued opposition to suspending Big Pharma-friendly patent protections. “The Merkel-Biden summit will […]
Auschwitz survivor Esther Bejarano dies at the age of 96 – Holocaust survivor Esther Bejarano takes part in a reading campaign against the right. Esther Bejarano, a Jewish woman who survived Auschwitz concentration camp by playing in the girls’ orchestra, has died at the age of 96 in Hamburg, her adopted home. – Axel Heimken/dpa […]
Esther Bejarano, one of the last survivors of the women’s orchestra at Auschwitz, has died at the age of 96, the head of the Anne Frank Education Centre said on Twitter on Saturday. Bejarano, who played the accordion in the Auschwitz orchestra, died in the night from Friday to Saturday, Meron Mendel, head of the […]
Knife attack in Wuerzburg city centre in Germany – A young man lights a candle in front of a closed and cordoned off shop in the city centre, where three people have been killed and five injured in a knife attack in downtown Wuerzburg on Friday. The alleged attacker was caught and detained, police said. […]
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday said the United States had “no better friend” than Germany as the two nations pledged a common front on Russia and China following a still raw row over the Nord Stream pipeline. Meeting Chancellor Angela Merkel on his first visit to Berlin since taking office, Blinken hailed the […]
Pope Francis on Thursday rejected an offer by Cardinal Reinhard Marx, a top German bishop, to resign over the mishandling of sexual abuse and cover-up scandals. “Continue as you propose (in your pastoral work) but as Archbishop of Munich and Freising,” the pope wrote to Marx, referring to the position he was offering to vacate. […]
Franco-German Council of Ministers from Berlin – German Chancellor Angela Merkel holds a press conference via video with French President Emmanuel Macron after a plenary session of the Franco-German Council of Ministers, held via video conference. – Michael Sohn/POOL AP/dpa Berlin and Paris on Monday called for an explanation from Copenhagen after a report that […]
Pro-Palestine demonstration in Berlin – Protesters wave Palestinian flags during a pro-Palestine demonstration, amid the escalating flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian violence. – Manar Shahin/APA Images via ZUMA Wire/dpa After several German cities saw anti-Israel rallies in the wake of resurging conflict between Israel and Gaza in recent days, the government has strongly condemned anti-Semitic protests and […]
Blessing of homosexual couples in Munich – Rainbow flags are raised in St. Benedict’s Church during a Catholic service to bless homosexual couples at the church of St. Benedikt. Churches across Germany are planning services to bless homosexual couples this week, in defiance of a Vatican decree clarifying that such blessings are banned in the […]
German police said Monday they had shut down “one of the biggest darknet child pornography platforms in the world” and arrested four of its members in a series of raids in mid-April. The platform, named as “Boystown”, had existed since 2019, counted over 400,000 members and was “set up for the worldwide exchange of child […]
Mysterious wooden penis sculpture goes up again in Germany – A general view of a wooden phallus sculpture that suddenly appeared in the middle of a roundabout in the town of Heimenkirch. – Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/dpa A wooden phallus sculpture erected in the middle of a traffic roundabout in the southern German state of Bavaria last […]