Despite the lockdowns in many countries due to the Wuhan virus pandemic, Europe saw at least seven terrorist attacks in 2020, with radical Islamic terror seeing a particular resurgence in France.
NATO says that Russian military activity increased slightly this year as its jets across Europe scrambled more than 400 times.
Berlin police launched an investigation on Boxing Day, Saturday, after several people were shot in a city district overnight.
Since March, the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) has reported 297 politically motivated crimes relating to the coronavirus pandemic.
At least 190 police officers were involved in an anti-terrorism raid targeting a 15-year-old Syrian migrant boy who had allegedly threatened to carry out a terror attack. The massive raid took place on Tuesday at 6 am in the Marzahn area
Finland’s Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto has admitted that the country has repatriated Islamic State members from a prison camp in Syria with the assistance of Germany.
BERLIN (AP) — Germany has organized the return of three women and 12 children from camps in northeastern Syria for humanitarian reasons.
Germany’s fourth-term Chancellor, Angela Merkel, banged her podium in the German parliament and spoke of families’ “last Christmas with the grandparents” as she moves to shut down the country. 66-year-old Merkel, widely regarded as the most powerful and influential leader
Germany’s Angela Merkel has rejected Boris Johnson’s pleas for face-to-face talks to help secure an 11th-hour Brexit deal, with a source saying she is “determined to make Britain crawl across broken glass” for an agreement.
Germany will enter a new lockdown this week, with Angela Merkel’s government warning residents to not go out for Christmas shopping.
Tehran — Iran’s foreign ministry Sunday summoned Germany’s envoy to protest the EU’s condemnation of the execution of an opposition figure, describing it as an “unacceptable interference” in Tehran’s affairs, state media reported.
BERLIN (AP) — Calls grew Friday for tougher lockdown measures soon in Germany as the country’s disease control centre reported record daily increases in both coronavirus cases and deaths.
(AFP) — Germany said Friday it would allow deportation of Syrians to their war-ravaged homeland from 2021 if they are deemed a security risk, five years after a massive migrant influx.
BERLIN (AP) — A 33-year-old Italian citizen was going on trial Friday in Berlin on allegations that he threatened to blow up a British National Health Service hospital unless he was paid off with 10 million pounds ($13.2 million) in crypto currency.
Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), has claimed the anti-lockdown “Querdenker” movement could be capable of violence.
The EU is pushing for a “partnership agreement” in the dying hours of talks, Brexit leader Nigel Farage warns as Boris Johnson heads Brussels.
BERLIN (AP) – After a lengthy political standoff, Germany’s top security official has commissioned a study into police work that will include examining the extent of racism in the force. The study is to be conducted over three years, the
Eurocrats met in Brussels to discuss strategies for working closer with Biden, on issues such as the green agenda and the Chinese coronavirus.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is sticking to his guns over his power to veto the EU’s entire seven-year budget over a new ‘rule of law’ condition that would leave the door open for Brussels to blackmail conservative countries like Hungary and Poland.
German police are investigating a Syrian refugee YouTuber on suspicion of glorifying violence after he released a video showing him and others “shooting” a man dressed as a police officer.
A man named Adolf Hitler Uunona won a local election in northern Namibia on November 26, Africanews reported Thursday.
Leipzig has completely banned the sale of hot alcohol in the city, including mulled wine, as part of new coronavirus lockdown restrictions.
Trier residents placed flowers and lit candles Wednesday at the base of the southwestern German city’s landmark Roman gate in tribute.
Seventy-six Catholic nuns have tested positive for COVID-19 after an outbreak at a Franciscan convent in northwestern Germany.
A car sped through a pedestrianised street in the German city of Trier on Tuesday afternoon, a ‘rampage’ that killed two.
Merkel urged Germans to remain patient with restrictions meant to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
The Leipzig police taskforce on far-left extremism (Soko Linx) has opened an attempted homicide investigation after Antifa black bloc members brutally attacked anti-lockdown protesters.
A 41-year-old Afghan migrant living in Munich is believed to be on the run after allegedly stabbing his wife to death, hiding her corpse, and fleeing Germany.
A car crashed into the front gate of German Chancellor Merkel’s offices on Wednesday morning, but appeared to have caused little damage.
BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s defense minister on Tuesday rejected Turkey’s complaints over the search of a Turkish freighter in the Mediterranean Sea by a German frigate participating in a European mission, insisting that German sailors acted correctly. Sunday’s incident prompted
A Berlin woman had said she forgives a Malian migrant currently on trial for biting off part of her mouth and nose over the summer in a city park and said she wants him to be set free. Malian migrant
The German government has come out in opposition to President Donald Trump’s plan to bring American troops home from Afghanistan, arguing that putting an end to America’s longest war would be too “hasty”.
BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors said Friday there is evidence of “cannibalism” in the killing of a 44-year-old man whose remains were found on the northern edge of Berlin earlier this month.
BERLIN (AP) – German police fired water cannons Wednesday at demonstrators protesting coronavirus restrictions in Berlin’s government district, after crowds ignored calls to wear masks and keep their distance from one another in line with pandemic regulations. As the cannons
A German member of the Islamic State may have played a central role in a network which the Vienna terrorist was also a part off, according to Austrian media. The man, a former Hamburg resident identified by his initials W.A.,
A fire broke out in a subway station in Berlin, injuring four people, one seriously, the German news agency dpa reported Monday.
Police in Frankfurt, Germany fired water cannons at Antifa counterprotesters on Saturday as the far-left attempted to shut down an anti-lockdown rally against the government’s Chinese coronavirus restrictions. Approximately 600 Querdenker (lateral thinker) protesters took to the streets of Frankfurt,
BERLIN (AP) — Prince Charles is attending ceremonies on Germany’s traditional day of remembrance Sunday, seen as part of Britain’s diplomatic outreach to Europe’s biggest economy days before a deadline to strike a post-Brexit deal with the European Union.
(AFP) — A swathe of new restrictions to curtail a second wave of coronavirus infections were announced or came into force from Austria to Greece, Italy to Portugal on Saturday as the global death toll climbed above 1.3 million.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made the improbable claim on Thursday that opposition leader and vehement Putin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned in Germany, though he was already ill when on a plane out of Russia to that country.
