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A man who slipped and broke his back while working from home was “commuting” to work during his walk from his bed to his desk, a German court has ruled. According to the court, “the first morning journey from bed to the home office [was] an insured work route.”

BERLIN (AP) – German security officials said Friday that they have foiled a planned Islamist attack, after arresting a man in the northern city of Hamburg over the summer who had been trying to buy weapons and make explosives.

BERLIN (AP) – German lawmakers are debating a bill Friday that would require staff at hospitals and nursing homes to get vaccinated against the coronavirus or risk losing their jobs.

The Social Democratic Party’s Olaf Scholz has been elected Chancellor of Germany, marking the end of Angela Merkel’s 16-year reign.

MILAN (AP) – Italy is making life more uncomfortable for unvaccinated people this holiday season, excluding them from indoor restaurants, theatres, and museums starting Monday to reduce the spread of coronavirus and encourage vaccine sceptics to get their shots.

Scholz announced that an epidemiologist who has been a prominent voice of caution on coronavirus will be Germany’s new health minister.

UFC legend Conor McGregor has branded “forced” vaccination a “war crime” and slammed the EU and its “lapdogs” in the Irish government.

An Eritrean migrant has been convicted of attacking two men with a knife while also threatening to kill children in the car park of a local shopping centre in the German city of Dresden.

Sen. Ted Cruz is pushing for reinstating sanctions against Russia for the pipeline it is building to export natural gas to Germany.

Brexit leader Nigel Farage has exclaimed “thank goodness we left” the EU in response to reports that the head of the bloc, European Commission Ursula von der Leyen saying mandatory vaccination should be considered, while countries like Greece are threatening to fine senior citizens for every month they go unvaccinated.

BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s health minister said Friday that more than 1 per cent of the population – almost a million people – are currently infected with the coronavirus, and called on citizens to get vaccinated if they haven’t done so yet.

BERLIN — German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle said Friday it is suspending four employees and one freelancer during an investigation into allegations that they expressed anti-Israel and antisemitic views.

Angela Merkel has announced a de facto lockdown of the unvaccinated, and that Germany’s parliament will soon vote on making vaccination mandatory.

Inflation within the Eurozone hit nearly 5 per cent in November, the highest level recorded since the Euro was introduced in 1999.

A poll on Austria’s proposed forced mandatory vaccination mandate has revealed that 55 per cent of the public in the country are in favour of the policy.

European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen has called for discussions regarding the implementation of forced vaccination throughout the entire EU, in a move that has been described as the “Chinafication of Europe”.

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has complained that the European Union is seeking to punish member-states which protect their borders, while funding pro-migration organisations linked to George Soros.

BERLIN (AP) — A World War II bomb exploded at a construction site next to a busy railway line in Munich on Wednesday, injuring four people, one of them seriously, German authorities said.

Incoming German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he will push for a vaccine mandate and blamed the unvaccinated for the surge in cases.

JERUSALEM  — Several dozen Holocaust survivors marked the third night of Hanukkah on Tuesday with a menorah-lighting ceremony at Jerusalem’s Western Wall that paid tribute to them and the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis.

Germany’s highest court rejected complaints against curfews and other restrictions imposed by federal legislation earlier this year.

The approval of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia was outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s “biggest mistake”, said Donald Tusk.

The incoming coalition government in Germany is set to push for a so-called ‘United States of Europe’ and create an EU Superstate.

The incoming German leftist coalition government is set to increase immigration by increasing family member chain migration.

A poll has found that the majority of Germans are in favour of making vaccination against the Chinese coronavirus compulsory.

Belarussian Dictator Alexander Lukashenko has demanded that either Germany or the EU take in 2,000 migrants.

Germany’s health minister said it’s likely everyone in the country who isn’t vaccinated will have caught COVID-19 by the end of the winter.

There are growing calls within Germany to follow the lead of neighbouring Austria and mandate vaccines for the Chinese coronavirus.

Police in Croatia said that a German reporter was detained and fined for illegally entering the country from Bosnia with a group of migrants.

German police say they found Islamic State videos in the possession of the Syrian migrant who stabbed four people on a train this month.

The head of Germany’s disease control agency has warned that the country faces a “really terrible Christmas” unless steps are taken.

The likely successor to Angela Merkel, Olaf Sholz has stated that he is open to the idea of mandatory vaccinations in Germany.

Jerusalem – The evening gowns shone under the spotlights and the tiaras sparkled, but this beauty pageant was like no other: all the contestants are Holocaust survivors.

A pig farm in northern Germany began culling all of its 4,000 animals Wednesday after a case of African swine fever was confirmed there.

Chancellor Angela Merkel told the citizens of Germany that it is their “duty” to get vaccinated and compared the coronavirus pandemic to the alleged climate crisis.

Outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to influence the Belarusian government to stop the migrant crisis unfolding along the Polish border.