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

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

Police have arrested a 24-year-old Syrian migrant on suspicion of planning a “bomb attack” on a church in Sweden.

A German man has been fined over $17,000 for insulting two German politicians over their support for COVID lockdown rules.

Germany is in danger of seeing its economy lose nearly €200 billion should the Kremlin decide to end its supply of Russian gas.

A number of federal states in Germany have said that the symbolic use of the letter ‘Z’ can now be considered a criminal offence.

Germany is considering recruiting teachers from its refugee population in the hopes of reinforcing its school system, which is reportedly being overwhelmed as a result of an influx of children fleeing Ukraine.

Dozens of rallies have taken place across Germany, as tens of thousands continue to protest COVID restrictions in the federal republic.

BERLIN (AP) – German prosecutors said Tuesday they have charged two Afghan brothers with murder over the July killing of their sister, whom they allegedly wanted to punish for her Western way of life.

Germans protesting against the country’s Wuhan coronavirus restrictions clashed with police on Sunday, as the government looks to crack down on encrypted messaging apps used to organise the demonstrations.

VIENNA (AP) – Children from 5 to 11 years old will be eligible to begin receiving COVID-19 vaccine doses this week in Berlin, health officials said Sunday, joining other German states in opening up appointments to younger children.

A 49-year-old German is on trial for allegedly pimping his 12-year-old step-daughter to men at a truck stop, sexually abusing the girl for years, and producing child pornography.

Germany will enter a new lockdown this week, with Angela Merkel’s government warning residents to not go out for Christmas shopping.

BERLIN – Authorities in a Bavarian town have ordered 120 people into quarantine after a resident returning from a trip to Italy tested positive for the coronavirus, but only learned of his results after attending a large birthday party. The

A 37-year-old Afghan asylum seeker was arrested after stabbing his estranged wife to death on a public bus in the German municipality of Obergünzburg on Monday.

A gang of seven “youths” has been arrested in the German city of Augsburg after an off-duty fireman was attacked and beaten to death outside of the city’s Christmas Market.

Schools around Munich in the German state of Bavaria are putting forth a proposal to create a bathroom for a “third gender” for children who do not identify as boys or girls.

German authorities are taking “very seriously” an apparently failed attempt to damage and derail a high-speed ICE intercity train after Arabic messages threatening attacks were discovered nearby.

Members of the Bavarian Alternative for Germany (AfD) youth had their homes searched by police following a protest in which they wrote down the names of victims of migrant criminals outside the offices of the Christian Social Union.

The Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini has scolded German Chancellor Angela Merkel after bruising results in the Bavarian elections.

The Christian Social Union (CSU) is projected to win the Bavarian election but the allies of German Chancellor Angela Merkel has seen huge losses in support while the Green Party has surged.

Fresh polls ahead of Bavarian elections on Sunday could spell disaster for the Christian Social Union (CSU) who look set to face their worst result in decades, as the left rally around the Green Party.

Local residents in the Bavarian town of Kaufbeuren have voted to reject a proposal from the Turkish-German Muslim association to build a new mosque in the area.

The body of a 28-year-old woman attempting to hitchhike from Leipzig to Bavaria has been found in Spain following the arrest of a Moroccan truck driver believed to have been involved in her murder.

The era of Angela Merkel may be coming to an end as longstanding disagreements on migration policies between her and her Bavarian allies threaten to come to a head and potentially unseat the German leader, who has been at the country’s helm since 2005.

Bavarian Minister President Markus Söder has proposed the region use its own aircraft to deport failed asylum seekers and illegal immigrants rather than wait for the German federal government to carry out deportations.

A German Roman Catholic cardinal has slammed the Bavarian conservatives’ plan to put crucifixes in government buildings saying the plan will cause “agitation” and “division”.

BERLIN (AP) — Bavaria’s conservative government is ordering Christian crosses to be placed at the entrance of all state administrative buildings.

Hungary’s Viktor Orbán has told a conference of German conservatives in Bavaria that 2018 will the year “the people’s will” is restored in Europe, as eurosceptic, anti-mass migration leaders take the fight to the globalist establishment.

An Israeli man has appealed against a German court’s decision to uphold Kuwait Airways’ right to ban him from boarding a flight due to his citizenship, a legal decision that triggered uproar in Jewish groups.

The Bavarian government has defended classifying asylum homes in the region as ”dangerous places” allowing police to enter or raid asylum homes without a warrant after an outcry by pro-migrant groups.

BERLIN (AP) — An often-awkward conservative ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel is to step down as Bavarian governor in favor of a younger rival, attempting to end a power struggle that has been an unwelcome distraction as Merkel tries to form a new government.

An Ohio brewery has honored Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI by brewing a special beer in his name, called “Beer-nedict XVI: Pint-ifex Maximus.”

Potential coalition partners in the new German government are expected to extract a high price from the leading Christian Democrats in return for their cooperation, and fears persist that the country may not be able to form a government at all.

Two Afghan asylum seekers were arrested for the brutal rape, and a third for attempted rape, of a 16-year-old girl in the Bavarian town of Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn just south of Munich.

Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI, who turned 90 years old on Easter Sunday, gave a rare birthday speech inside the Vatican expressing his thanksgiving to God for the gift of life.