All news on the topic: Germany

Tech

13 Oct 2024 726

Three-armed robot conductor makes its debut in Dresden

German city’s Sinfoniker says aim is not to replace humans but to play music human conductors would find impossible

World

12 Oct 2024 722

Neo-Nazi falls 200ft to his death while climbing Hitler’s favorite mountain

A German neo-Nazi plunged 200ft to his death while climbing Adolf Hitler’s favourite mountain.

News

08 Oct 2024 870

Christian B, Madeleine McCann suspect, cleared of unrelated sexual assault charges

Christian B’s lawyer says his client was put on trial for the sex crimes only because he is the suspect for the abduction of Madeleine, who vanished from her family’s rented holiday apartment in Portugal in 2007.

World

28 Sep 2024 879

German far-right politician accused of exploiting political prisoners as cheap labour in Belarus

Reports of dissenters working for £4 a day on onion plantation owned by Saxony state parliament AfD member Jörg Dornau

World

27 Sep 2024 795

Tesla home visits to workers on sick leave defended by boss in Germany

Carmaker wants to ‘appeal to employees’ work ethic’ but move prompts outrage from plant’s union

Investigation

26 Sep 2024 1161

How Europeans are recruited via Telegram for sabotage, arson, and murder: ’Make a Molotov cocktail’

The cases are multiplying across Europe: Young men with pro-Russian views instructed on Telegram to carry out sabotage attacks. Western security officials point to the Russian special services. For this story, journalists went undercover to reveal how the recruitment works.

Investigation

15 Sep 2024 881

Death on the Costa del Sol: The hidden double life of a German police informant ends in tragedy

Investigative files shed new light on the dangerous dealings of a German police informant whose life was cut short by a brutal murder.

Politics

06 Sep 2024 895

Germany is considering a Rwanda deportation plan, potentially using UK facilities, after Labour scrapped the scheme in the UK

Downing Street said it would not comment on the discussions between two foreign governments.

World

05 Sep 2024 925

An armed man was shot dead by police outside the Israeli embassy in Munich

German Police have shot and killed a ‘suspicious person’ near Munich’s Nazi doumentation centre and the Israeli Consulate after he was spotted carrying a ‘long firearm’.

World

02 Sep 2024 832

Volkswagen is considering closing German plants to cut costs by billions

Plans underline European carmakers’ problems in switching from petrol and diesel vehicles to electric models

World

01 Sep 2024 658

German far-right party AfD poised for state election win in the east

Alternative für Deutschland leader speaks of ‘historic success’ of top place in Thuringia and second in Saxony

World

30 Aug 2024 866

High-profile politician sprayed with liquid as Germany prepares for key state elections

Sahra Wagenknecht, whose alliance opposes Nato and military aid for Ukraine, said she was ‘scared but fine’ after incident in Erfurt

Politics

29 Aug 2024 800

Keir Starmer plans to stop migrant boats with Germany in a Brexit reset deal

Keir Starmer flew to Berlin to kick off negotiations on a "once-in-a-lifetime" new treaty with Germany - and Chancellor Scholz said his country would "take this hand reached out to us"

World

27 Aug 2024 718

Nato base security raised over ‘threat of Russian drone attack’

The German military has received a tip off one of their bases is at risk of a Russian drone attack.

World

25 Aug 2024 927

An ISIS terror suspect is forcibly removed from a police helicopter and taken away by authorities

A 26-year-old man was pictured being dragged from a police helicopter after he turned himself in over the knife attack that left three people dead and eight other injured at a German festival.

World

24 Aug 2024 969

ISIS has claimed responsibility for a knife attack that resulted in the deaths of three people at a festival

ISIS has claimed responsibility for the knife attack that killed three people at a festival in Germany.

World

24 Aug 2024 743

Several dead after knifeman randomly attacks festival-goers in Germany

At least three people have been killed and eight wounded in a mass attack on a festival in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

World

20 Aug 2024 758

German court rejects appeal by former Nazi secretary over involvement in 10,500 murders

Irmgard Furchner, 99, was found guilty in 2022 of being an accessory to killings at Stutthof concentration camp

News

20 Aug 2024 749

Rocket explosion during testing at the new UK spaceport in Shetland

Rocket Factory Augsburg reports that an ‘anomaly’ caused the ‘loss of the stage,’ confirming no injuries occurred.

World

18 Aug 2024 869

Over 20 injured in Ferris wheel fire at music festival in Germany

A Ferris wheel at a music festival in Germany has caught fire, leaving around 30 people injured.

World

16 Aug 2024 959

Russian nuclear bombers rush NATO border as World War III tensions escalate

Germany’s Air Force confirmed in a post on social media this week that it had deployed fighters to intercept the Russian planes as they navigated over seas bordering NATO nations

World

01 Aug 2024 945

Russia frees Evan Gershkovich and others in biggest prisoner swap since cold war

Several foreigners and Russian political prisoners released as Germany frees hitman Vadim Krasikov as part of deal

Finance

30 Jul 2024 935

Europe’s €10 trillion gamble

From Athens to Berlin, governments are coalescing around an idea to turbocharge the economy. If successful, it could be transformative ― but it’s a big if.

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