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Berlin: Germany is set to hold the crucial federal election on Sunday (February 23) to elect its next chancellor. The snap polls were called by chancellor Olaf Scholz when his coalition government fell apart at the end of last year, the results of which will shape the future of Europe’s most influential nation and the…
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Berlin: The German government pledged Sunday to fully investigate whether there were security lapses before the Christmas market car-ramming attack that killed five people and injured over 200. Political pressure has built on the question of potential missed warnings about Saudi suspect Taleb al-Abdulmohsen, a 50-year-old psychiatrist who had made online deaths threats and previously…
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Berlin: This year has been Germany’s hottest since records began 143 years ago, its weather agency said Tuesday, matching unprecedented temperature highs felt around the globe. “Never since the end of the 19th century has it been as warm in Germany as in 2024,” Tobias Fuchs of the German Meteorological Service (DWD) said in a…
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Germany has offered to re-deploy Patriot air defence systems to NATO ally Poland. Berlin: Germany has offered to re-deploy Patriot air defence systems to NATO ally Poland at the start of the new year, the German defence ministry said on Thursday. The units could be deployed for up to six months, the ministry said in…
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Volkswagen’s headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany. (Photo: Krisztian Bocsi / Bloomberg) Volkswagen AG is considering unprecedented factory closures in Germany in a bid for deeper cutbacks, delivering another blow to Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government. The potential measures, targeting its main passenger car brand as well as other group operations, also include trying to end the company’s…
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Solingen, Germany, on September 1, 2024. | Photo Credit: via Reuters The Alternative for Germany (AfD) became the first far-right party to win a state legislature election in Germany since World War Two German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called the results of two regional elections that saw big wins for the…
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A police officer stands outside the Islamic Center Hamburg with the Imam Ali Mosque during a raid Wednesday, July 24, 2024, Hamburg, Germany. | Photo Credit: AP The German government on July 24 banned a Hamburg-based organization accused of promoting the Iranian leadership’s ideology and supporting Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group, as police raided 53 properties…
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Olaf Scholz on Saturday condemned the attack as a threat to democracy.(Representational) Berlin: A 17-year-old has turned himself in to police in Germany after an attack on a lawmaker that the country’s leaders decried as a threat to democracy. The teenager reported to police in the eastern city of Dresden early Sunday morning and said…
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Passengers wait at a Lufthansa check-in counter at Munich Airport, Germany on March 7. 2024. The Verdi trade union is paralysing important parts of German air traffic on Thursday and Friday with renewed warning strikes by several professional groups. | Photo Credit: AP Millions of travellers across Germany were affected by strikes again on March…