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LONDON (AP) — Europe was marking the 75th anniversary of the surrender of Nazi Germany to Allied forces following six years of war in a low-key fashion Friday due to coronavirus lockdown restrictions across the continent.

After weeks of being closed to the public, a restaurant in the Netherlands will start serving diners in enclosed glass greenhouses in order to prevent the spread of the Chinese coronavirus.

TEL AVIV – Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah blasted Germany for outlawing his terror group, saying the European country surrendered to U.S. pressure and aimed to please Israel.

Swedish climate worrier Greta Thunberg asked the U.N. on Tuesday to back her lawsuit against Germany and a selection of other countries that use fossil fuel to drive their economies.

Several German parties, including the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of Chancellor Angela Merkel, have expressed support for allowing public broadcasts of the Islamic call to prayer during Ramadan across Germany.

Germany’s total ban on the Lebanon’s Hezbollah terrorist organization drew a swift response Friday from Iran, with the Islamic republic saying “consequences” would follow.

TEL AVIV – Germany on Thursday announced it officially recognizes all of Hezbollah, and not just its military wing, as a terrorist organization, marking a departure from its previous position which was in line with the EU.

Chinese Communist Party (CCP) diplomats attempted to pressure members of the German government into praising China’s handling of the Wuhan virus pandemic, Germany’s interior ministry claimed in a letter.

A member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union has said that the United Kingdom must extend the Brexit transition period because of coronavirus.

As many countries attempt to develop tech to trace Wuhan coronavirus infections, Germany has reportedly adopted new contact tracing technology developed by Apple and Google.

BERLIN (AP) – Germany’s labour minister wants to enshrine into law the right to work from home if it is feasible to do so, even after the coronavirus pandemic subsides.

BERLIN (AP) – Two former members of Syria’s secret police go on trial Thursday in Germany accused of crimes against humanity for their role in a government-run detention centre where large numbers of opposition protesters were tortured.

Aiman ​​Mazyek, chairman of the Central Council of Muslims, has called on the German government to give aid to mosques struggling financially due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

Chinese officials and state media responded with fury after Germany’s Bild, the most widely read newspaper in Europe, called on Beijing to pay over $160 billion in reparations to Germany for its losses due to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.

WERNECK, Germany (AP) – The Werneck Brewery has survived a lot: world wars, economic crises and decades of declining beer consumption. But after 400 years in existence it has finally met a challenge it can’t overcome: the coronavirus outbreak.

Dozens of asylum seekers at migrant reception centres in France and Germany have confirmed cases of the Wuhan coronavirus.

Two migrants were injured following a mass brawl in a German asylum home currently under quarantine due to confirmed cases of the Wuhan coronavirus.

BERLIN — German authorities say police have arrested four suspected members of the Islamic State group alleged to be planning an attack on American military facilities.

A report published by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) this week denounced China’s official coronavirus statistics as mathematically improbable and estimated the true number of infections from the epidemic in China was about 2.9 million, over a hundred times the total of 81,907 infections claimed by Beijing as of Friday.

An Algerian failed asylum seeker is said to have watched pornography on his phone after killing a German mother of three in a pub toilet in Hamburg.

Chinese state media on Tuesday pushed back against bombshell reports of Chinese companies buying up medical supplies around the world, leaving countries like Australia with critical shortages of equipment to fight the coronavirus whose true danger level was long concealed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), by accusing the United States of being even more guilty of “scooping up medical supplies worldwide.”

AP, BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she´s as anxious as anyone for life to return to normal in the country. Merkel says “we´re still living in the pandemic” and now isn´t the time to talk about an end

Aircraft and trains are finding a new lease of life amid the coronavirus epidemic as European nations activate emergency healthcare capacity.

A district mayor in Berlin said that he “almost deliberately” infected himself with coronavirus in order to develop an immunity to the Chinese virus.

King of Thailand Maha Vajiralongkorn is currently self-isolating from the Chinese coronavirus in a luxury hotel in Germany with an entourage of 20 concubines and female servants, local reports claimed this week.

A group of Italian politicians have warned that the European Union will “cease to exist” if countries in the bloc refuse to increase funding to the nations hardest hit by the Chinese coronavirus.

Police arrested a 27-year-old Tunisian migrant in the German city of Augsburg after he randomly attacked two people with a machete and an axe. The migrant started his random attack at around 4am on Tuesday, first attacking a bus carrying

The German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) has declared that the Hanau mass shooter Tobias Rathjen was not motivated by far-right or racist politics when he shot nine people in February.

German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) findings indicate that the Turkish government purposely incited riots by planting members of its security services among crowds of migrants. 

BERLIN (AP) – A German court on Thursday convicted a 31-year-old Tunisian man of planning to carry out a ricin attack in the name of the Islamic State group.

Asylum seekers and migrants in Germany and Italy are not respecting measures to help prevent the spread of the Chinese coronavirus, with some becoming violent when confronted.

According to a recent report, UPS is working with German drone-maker Wingcopter to develop futuristic package delivery drones for us in the United States and worldwide.

A man in Munich, who claimed to have tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus, has been arrested after filming himself licking ticket machines and handrails on the city’s subway.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel introduced a string of new emergency guidelines, banning public gatherings of more than two people, in an attempt to slow the spread of coronavirus.

Throughout the world, some 13,500 people have died from the coronavirus, with at least 313,000 confirmed infections. Europe is now considered by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to be the epicentre of the virus, leading to economic and health crises across the continent.

Germany’s Angela Merkel has gone self-quarantined in her home after contact with a doctor infected by the Wuhan coronavirus.