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A 20-year-old Afghan migrant has been arrested by police in Hamburg after allegedly attacking four people in the outdoor area of a local restaurant with a knife. The incident is said to have taken place on Sunday evening in the

Germany saw over 10,000 new asylum applications in June, the first time the monthly number has been reached that level in over a year.

Angela Merkel’s policies on immigration have been “fatal” to Germany, the countries former top domestic intelligence chief has said.

President Joe Biden plans to nominate University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann as the U.S. ambassador to Germany, the White House announced, after the university paid him more than $911,000 after he left the White House as vice president.

Würzburg’s Mayor decried the possibility that migrants may be stereotyped after a Somali refugee stabbed three women to death in his city.

The EU said the number of people seeking protection hit its lowest level last year since 2013, but that was due mostly to coronavirus.

Thunderstorms hit Germany late Monday and torrential rain poured down on southern and western parts of the country.

Authorities also were looking at the possibility of the man having been radicalized as an Islamic extremist. Kallert said a store detective and police officers reported hearing the suspect say “Allahu akbar,” Arabic for “God is great.” Bavaria’s top security official, Joachim Herrmann, said that “further cautious indications” in that direction emerged from his questioning, without elaborating. Material with “hate messages” also was found but has yet to be evaluated, police said.

BERLIN (AP) — The United Nations said 12 German troops and a Belgian soldier serving in the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali were wounded Friday in an attack in the country’s restive north.

German authorities have not ruled out an Islamist motive, as one witness had reported hearing the suspect shout “Allahu akbar”.

At least three people have died with several more injured after a knife-armed man rampaged through the German city of Würzburg, Bavaria. 

In its ongoing obsession with Adolf Eichmann, the Palestinian Authority’s official daily has extolled a man for naming his child after the infamous Nazi officer in a bid to “anger Zionism.”

The German Chancellor said Europe is “on thin ice” in its battle against the coronavirus, as the delta variant threatens to undo progress.

Officials say a vaccination center was flooded and five people were injured by hail during heavy storms in southwestern Germany overnight.

The likely successor to Angela Merkel said Germany should refrain from containing the rise of Communist China and avoid a second Cold War.

UEFA rejected Munich lighting up the stadium in ‘pride’ colours for Germany’s Euro 2020 match with Hungary on Wednesday.

Trump’s director of national intelligence said Russian President Vladimir Putin was the clear winner after his summit with Biden last week.

“…our country belongs at the top on climate protection and it must become better able to resist pandemics, cyberattacks, populism…”

A man who worked at a German university has been arrested on suspicion of espionage, allegedly passing information to Russian intelligence.

North Rhine-Westphalia’s Interior Minister Herbert Reul could face fines of up to €10,000 (£8,590/$11,864) for referring to reading a conservative German newspaper as a sign of far-right extremism after a new court ruling.

The German government responded Sunday to a rise in antisemitic attacks by banning flags of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.

The Republican Party’s fight against the teaching of Critical Race Theory (CRT) in schools is akin to neo-Nazis in Germany seeking to revise history and put an end to Holocaust education, according to Jason Stanley, a professor of philosophy at Yale University.

Germany has bucked years of decline with a sudden ten per cent surge in new children nine months after pubs and bars reopened in summer 2020.

Germany has recorded its lowest number of corona infections in nearly nine months, and officials are floating loosening mask rules.

The German city of Frankfurt has entirely dissolved its police special operations team after allegations of far-right extremism among its members in chat groups.

A 36-year-old Lebanese migrant who was shot dead late last month by German police after yelling “Allahu Akbar” and attacking several people with a knife has been revealed as a convicted sex offender.

A German 19-year-old woman reportedly escaped an apartment in Rome where she had been forcibly confined and sexually abused.

African artists and scientists will be invited to help “contextualise” the statue which is presently being restored in Hamburg. 

Special police units searched around 30 buildings Tuesday in connection with money laundering and organized crime in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The German military says it has found a solution for an unusual logistics problem its troops in Afghanistan face: a glut of beer.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared to accuse President Joe Biden of deceiving him into thinking the White House would oppose Russia’s lucrative and highly strategic Nord Stream 2 pipeline to Europe, telling Axios in an interview published Sunday he was “unpleasantly surprised” when Biden did nothing to stop it.

Final results saw a larger-than-expected win for Chancellor Merkel’s party in the last state election before a national vote in September.

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France (AP) – When the sun rises over Omaha Beach, revealing vast stretches of wet sand extending toward distant cliffs, one starts to grasp the immensity of the task faced by Allied soldiers on June 6, 1944, landing on the Nazi-occupied Normandy shore.

The progressive German Cardinal Reinhard Marx has tendered his resignation to Pope Francis, citing the need to confront his “errors and omissions” in dealing with the clerical sex abuse crisis.

Prosecutors allege that the defendant administered anesthetics to women who complained of pain following operations, and then abused them.

Denmark’s intelligence services are alleged to have worked with the Obama administration to spy on German leaders, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to a report shared with top European news agencies.