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Hamburg’s historic outdoor Christmas market is planning to segregate vaccinated and unvaccinated people this year, with the unvaccinated banned from drinking mulled wine.

Europe’s dependency on Russia for energy has once again been shown to be foolhardy as gas prices soared on Monday.

VIENNA (AP) — A 27-year-old man who stabbed four people with a knife on a German high-speed train apparently attacked his victims “at random” and showed signs of mental illness, authorities said Sunday.

New details have emerged regarding a gang rape last year in Hamburg that saw a 15-year-old girl raped over a period of two and a half hours by 12 men, ten of whom had a migration background.

BERLIN (AP) – A Russian diplomat has died in Berlin in what the Russian Embassy on Friday called a “tragic accident.”

Syrian nationals were picked up off the coast of the French island of Corsica late Tuesday night and into early Wednesday morning after setting off from Turkey to reach Europe.

A 30-year-old Turkish national has been accused of deliberately running down a group of German schoolchildren in Hesse, leaving an eight-year-old girl dead and two other girls seriously injured.

BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s outgoing health minister is calling on state governments to reactivate some specialized COVID-19 vaccination centres that were closed in the late summer to help administer booster shots as new coronavirus infections increase rapidly.

BERLIN (AP) — German federal police apprehended 23 migrants along the German-Polish border on Sunday morning and detained two suspected traffickers, German news agency dpa reported.

A 36-year-old man was brutally beaten in Berlin on Monday evening by a group of men who had demanded that he shout the phrase “Free Palestine”.

BERLIN (AP) – A German electrician went on trial Thursday accused of murder in the death of one man, and mutilating several others by performing illegal operations on their genitals.

BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s newly elected parliament held its first meeting Tuesday and elected a lawmaker from the centre-left Social Democratic Party as speaker of the 736-member lower house, or Bundestag.

German police have halted the activities of around 50 vigilantes along the country’s border with Poland who were armed with weapons and searching for illegal immigrants.

BERLIN — A German convert to Islam was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday on charges that, as a member of the extremist Islamic State group in Iraq, she allowed a 5-year-old Yazidi girl she and her husband kept as a slave to die of thirst in the hot sun.

German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has stated that Moscow is ultimately responsible for Belarus sending thousands of migrants to the EU, with over 3,000 arriving in Germany since the start of the month.

A 96-year-old former Nazi concentration camp secretary who absconded before her trial was set to begin is due to appear in court in Germany on Tuesday.

German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer is reportedly backing the introduction of border controls on the Polish border in response to a surge of migrants passing through the country and heading to Germany.

The British Museum will display what it says is the world´s oldest surviving map of the stars in a major upcoming exhibition on Stonehenge.

Germany’s pro-business Free Democrats became the last of three parties to back the start of formal coalition talks on forming a new govt.

Berlin’s Constitutional Court announced that it will be reviewing last month’s election results, amid widespread reports of irregularities.

The Group of 20 (G20) held a video conference on Tuesday at which they agreed the Taliban must be actively involved in distributing humanitarian aid to the people of Afghanistan. The group insisted this concession should not be construed as formal recognition of the Taliban’s legitimacy.

German composers Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss are among 45 historical figures whose names could be removed from city streets in Munich due to their political beliefs.

All 35 mosques in the German city of Cologne have been granted permission by the local government to publicly broadcast the Muslim call to prayer every Friday between noon and 3 p.m.

Merkel said that Germany remains committed to reviving the international nuclear agreement with Iran — a step Israel opposes.

One of three parties holding talks on forming a new German govt says discussions have “a long way to go” over significant policy differences.

Germany and Denmark have brought back 11 Islamic State women and 37 children from prison camps in Syria, with Denmark arresting three of the women immediately upon their return.

Police in Berlin, Germany, recently launched an investigation into several suspected cases of “Havana Syndrome” at the capital’s U.S. Embassy, the German newspaper Der Spiegel reported Friday.

Joe Biden and environmentalists are trying to shut down the fossil fuel sector while the world is demanding more oil, gas and coal.

Armin Laschet, the successor to Angela Merkel as leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), has hinted at resigning as party leader.

A criminal gang leader deported to Afghanistan in 2017 has threatened German police, stating that he has a small army of 100 Afghans set for deportation he could incite against them.

The likely kingmakers from Germany’s election said they will hold talks on a possible new govt under the leadership of the Social Democrats.

A 40-year-old Turkish man arrested last month is being investigated on suspicion he may be a Turkish government assassin tasked with murdering opponents of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right bloc sought to win over the environmentalist Greens for a possible coalition on Tuesday.

Police fatally shot a Sudanese asylum seeker armed with a knife at an asylum home in Lower Saxony, after the African man attacked the officers.

Antifa far-left extremists have called for the murder of 53 members of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD), publishing their home addresses on a well-known far-left web platform.

BERLIN — The first soccer game involving an Israeli team at the stadium built for the 1936 Olympics hosted by Nazi Germany was marred Thursday by antisemitic abuse aimed at visiting fans.