Germany

Even the heat wave passing over Europe isn’t enough to keep the popular public baths open, as authorities react to a rising tide of violence, allegedly by migrant men.

Climate activists blocked flights at two German airports for several hours Thursday to demand tougher government action.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appears to be unhappy with reports that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit currently underway in Vilnius, Lithuania will culminate with an offer of increased support for Ukraine against the Russian invasion, but not an offer of full membership in NATO.

NATO’s annual summit in kicked off with new pledges of military support, with new missiles and tanks heading east from Germany and France.

The dismembered body of a missing German businessman was found in a freezer inside a house in southern Thailand, police said Tuesday.

Australia announced Monday it will deploy an E-7A Wedgetail surveillance aircraft to help ensure the uninterrupted flow of military and humanitarian aid into Ukraine. The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) asset will be based in Germany.

Germany announced Monday it is sending sending elite troops to Australia as part of joint drills with some 30,000 service members from 12 other nations. The first-time deployment underlines Berlin’s increased focus on the Indo-Pacific as tensions with China build across the region.

A man who attacked two schoolgirls and killed one of them in Germany last year was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday.

Germany saw net migration hit a record high in the country last year, yet the government is set to ease immigration standards even further.

Germany’s populist AfD shocked the political establishment in the country after securing its first-ever district council election victory.

The confessionals where generations of Belgians admitted their sins stood stacked in a corner of the Church, having outlived their purpose.

Chinese Premier Li Qiang began a five-day trip to Germany and France on Sunday, arriving in Berlin just as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was visiting Beijing. The optics of Li working to peel away vital U.S. allies as American influence fades under the Biden administration were unmistakable.

Germany and France are joining forces to try to curb deaths on dangerous routes across the Mediterranean Sea from countries like Tunisia.

Police are appealing for further pictures and videos taken by witnesses of a sexual assault and killing near Neuschwanstein castle.

Germany’s parliament on Friday commemorated the 70th anniversary of a popular uprising that was brutally crushed by the Soviet dictatorship.

Two young American citizens were sexually assaulted and then thrown into a ravine at Neuschwanstein Castle, the attack killing one.

The populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has overtaken the left-wing Social Democrats of Chancellor Olaf Sholz in popular support.

Archaeologists have hailed the discovery of an “extraordinary” well preserved bronze sword found at an ancient burial site in Bavaria.

Germany on Wednesday called China a “partner, competitor and systemic rival” in the release of its first national security strategy.

Russian President Vladimir Putin made a rare admission of loss, but Ukraine says they’ve destroyed twice as many.

While Ukraine celebrates counteroffensive taking back territory from Russian occupation, Kremlin makes boast about ‘trophy’ tanks.

An independent German commission recommended that a painting by Wassily Kandinsky currently owned by the Bavarian state bank be returned.

Against a background of Ukrainian battlefield losses of Western-built tanks, Kyiv is asking Germany to send more armour east.

A Christian pastor declared that “God is queer” at the final service of the Protestant Church Congress in Germany on Sunday.

An air deployment exercise billed as the biggest in NATO’s history and hosted by Germany got underway on Monday.

An MEP from Germany launched an interactive website using government-sourced statistics to detail the demographic changes in his home country.

Just four per cent of Germans think the hard left poses no threat to society, with an overwhelming near-six-in-ten saying it does.

The German state could successfully defeat the surging right-wing AfD party by simply banning it, a government-funded agency has said.

A Lutheran church service held in Germany was almost entirely generated by AI, with a virtual preacher delivering a ‘soulless’ sermon.

A senior economist in Germany has warned that an increase in populism will hurt immigration into the country, a statement that seems unlikely to deter voters.

Ukraine has sent Western tanks into battle with Russia for the first time as the counteroffensive appears to have started in earnest.

An EU scheme to supply more ammunition to Ukraine is a moved aimed at “usurping military powers”, an MEP has warned.

A fire at a refugee shelter in eastern Germany killed one person and injured 10 others early Sunday, according to local police.

Far-left supporters of a woman convicted of attaking people with a hammer clashed with police in the eastern German city of Leipzig.

Bring back the draft but make it gender-neutral to save the nation’s ailing military, Germany’s national military commissioner has said.

A left-wing parliamentarian in Germany has openly voiced his support for an Antifa activist convicted on Wednesday of being involved in a gang that violently attacked people with hammers.