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Aircraft from the UK and Germany reportedly returned with hardly anyone on board, claims the UK has belatedly denied.

The German Chancellor decried the Afghan war as having been “in vain” while President Macron said it must not become a hub of terrorism. 

BERLIN (AP) – Luxembourg has rejected an application by Russian state broadcaster RT for a licence to distribute its German-language service via satellite.

Berlin Senator Elke Breitenbach has denied a possible honour motive in the case of an Afghan woman who was allegedly murdered by her brothers who disapproved of her Western way of life.

Striking railway workers in Germany kept much of the country’s train service suspended Thursday as they continued their nationwide work stoppage for a second day.

Top members of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government are lobbying for the implementation of vaccine passports in Germany.

German prosecutors said Wednesday they have detained a British citizen who is accused of spying for Russia.

TOKYO (AP) – A German coach at the Tokyo Olympics was suspended Saturday after being filmed hitting an uncooperative horse during the women’s modern pentathlon competition.

BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s Green party has come under fire on social media for tweeting a photograph of its election candidates cropped in such a way as to remove all the men.

Belarusian athletes Yana Maksimava and Andrey Krauchanka, a married couple currently living in Germany, announced on Tuesday they will not return to their home country. “You can lose not just your freedom but your life,” Maksimava said of the Russia-backed tyranny in Belarus on her Instagram account.

A far-left extremist group have desecrated a memorial to soldiers who fought in the First World War in Hamburg, painting over parts of the monument to make it state “Germany must die”.

PRAGUE (AP) – Two passenger trains collided in the south-west of the Czech Republic on Wednesday, killing three people and injuring dozens of passengers.

A man died in police custody as the German force launched a crackdown of Sunday’s anti-lockdown protest, in which 600 people were arrested.

German police said three people were slightly injured Monday morning when they were targeted with darts likely shot from a blowgun.

The British government will reportedly begin rolling out 32 million “booster” vaccines by next month to all those over the age of 50.

An average of two women or girls is being gang-raped in Germany per day, with foreigners making up half of all perpetrators.

Police in the German city of Leipzig have come under fire after describing three suspects involved in an alleged gang rape case as having an “Arab phenotype”.

Anti-lockdown protesters have been banned from gathering in Berlin over the weekend by judges who argued they may spread the coronavirus.

A court in Germany has ruled that Facebook illegally removed the posts and account of an unnamed author, because it did not inform the user of why the posts had been taken down.

Several men described as being of a  “southern appearance” attacked and seriously injured a 21-year-old man after a Berlin gay pride event.

The candidate to succeed Merkel in Germany´s next election apologized for failing to credit a source in a book he wrote about immigration.

Police shot a 27-year-old Somali migrant in Frankfurt, Germany, who was attacking a man and threatening to kill the officers who asked him to drop his weapons.

A German woman who traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State group has been charged with membership in a terror group.

Rescue teams in Germany continued searching for missing workers at an industrial park where an explosion killed at least two people.

An explosion at an industrial park for chemical companies shook the German city of Leverkusen on Tuesday, sending a large black cloud rising into the air. At least 16 people were injured and five remain missing.

BERLIN (AP) – German politicians were deeply divided Sunday over a warning by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief of staff that restrictions for unvaccinated people may be necessary if COVID-19 infection numbers reach new heights in the coming months.

A German-Tunisian Islamic State widow has been sentenced to just four years in prison after being convicted of enslaving two Yazidi women while living in the former caliphate.

ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) – A bus swerved off a highway and crashed in Croatia early Sunday, killing 10 people and injuring at least 30 others, police said.

BERLIN (AP) – Some 35,000 revellers marched for LGBTQ rights at Berlin’s annual Christopher Street Day celebration on Saturday, twice as many as expected.

The German female gymnastics team at the Tokyo Olympics debuted full-body unitards this week in a protest against the sexualization of their sport.

Germany’s national weather service said Thursday that regions hit by deadly floods last week could again see heavy rain at the weekend.

Officials are defending their preparations for flooding in the face of the raging torrents that left over 180 people dead in Western Europe.

BERLIN (AP) – The death toll from flooding in Western Europe climbed above 180 on Sunday after rescue workers dug deeper into debris left by receding waters.

At least 100 people have died in devastating floods across parts of western Germany and Belgium, officials said Friday.

BERLIN (AP) – More than 30 people have died and dozens of people were missing Thursday in Germany and neighbouring Belgium after heavy flooding turned streams and streets into raging torrents, sweeping away cars and causing buildings to collapse.

German airline Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines have stopped making “ladies and gentlemen” announcements on flights to become more gender-neutral.