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According to data released by the Gesellschaft für Deutsche Sprache (Society for the German Language), the most popular boy’s name for newborn babies in Berlin is Mohammed.

Angela Merkel has again defended her decision to open the German border in 2015, insisting welcoming the influx of more than a million third world migrants was “not a mistake”.

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) praised United States Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell Wednesday during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing and showed respect to German Ambassador to the United States Emily Haber.

A 22-year-old Syrian asylum seeker was arrested in the German city of Augsburg for injuring four police officers after they attempted to identify him in a routine check.

BERLIN (AP) – German authorities are investigating after police found thousands of litres (gallons) of harmful chemicals and gas containers stored in a depot in western Germany.

International human rights lawyer Amal Clooney slammed the Trump administration for pressuring the U.N. Security Council to expunge its euphemistic pro-abortion language from a resolution that was supposed to condemn the use of rape as a weapon of war but also demanded support for abortion.

A 21-year-old German-Algerian woman who was captured in the Middle East after joining Islamic State has been charged in a German court for being a member of the group’s morality police and taking children as slaves.

As knife crime continues to be a major issue in Germany, one German women’s magazine has written an article on the treatment of stab wounds in its “health and fitness” section.

An index of German business optimism fell in April as Europe’s largest economy struggles with a slowdown in trade and manufacturing even as it finds support from a strong labor market.

More than 20 people were injured at a church in Germany after mass panic ensued when a ‘mentally confused’ Somali stormed into an Easter service, shouting and throwing stones.

The number of antisemitic incidents in the German capital continues to grow with experts warning that incidents are becoming more violent.

A former Nazi concentration camp guard has been charged by German prosecutors with 5,230 counts of accessory to murder.

All the 29 people killed in a tour bus crash on Portugal’s Madeira Island were German, Portugal’s foreign ministry confirmed Thursday.

A Berlin court has dismissed a lawsuit from comedian Jan Böhmermann who attempted to ban German Chancellor Angela Merkel from criticising a poem insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

A bomb dropped by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) during World War II was safely detonated Sunday in a Frankfurt river.

OSWIECIM, Poland — “I really thought it would be my last journey… I weighed 32 kilos [70 pounds].” Three quarters of a century have passed but all those years cannot dim the memories of Esther Senot as she recalls the horrors of Auschwitz.

Recently revealed figures have shown that efforts to teach newly arrived immigrants the German language are struggling, with only half of the migrants passing basic language standard tests.

Migrant crime in Germany is on the rise with Germans being for more likely to be victims of migrant criminals than the other way around.

The parents of a young boy have received a fine from a German court after they prevented their child from going to school to avoid a trip to a local mosque.

Former German intelligence chief Hans-George Maassen told Hungarian media this week that the door of immigration was “still open” and slammed the asylum policy of Chancellor Angela Merkel.

A German Islamic State member is facing trial for murder after she allowed a five-year-old child who had been enslaved in Iraq to die of thirst.

The President of the European Council has published an open letter to European leaders explaining why the European Union should ignore British Prime Minister Theresa May’s request for a Brexit extension to June, and give a full year instead.

Arabic-speaking youths were caught on video assaulting and stabbing a homeless Berlin man in what some believe could have been an anti-Christian motivated attack.

“We can’t label everyone who is disturbed by immigration as racist,” former President Barack Obama told a youth group in Berlin on Saturday. 

Theresa May is due to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin and French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Tuesday in a bid to delay Brexit.

Failed U.S. Senate candidate and 2020 contender Robert “Beto” O’Rourke on Thursday compared President Donald Trump’s remarks on foreign nationals and gang members to the rhetoric of Nazi Germany.

A court in Germany has found a 29-year-old Syrian man guilty of war crimes for torturing members of pro-government forces in Syria.

Two German parents say were shocked when a school headmaster suggested they make their daughter wear an Islamic headscarf to solve her issues with bullying from Muslim girls.

The BBC has attacked Jacob Rees Mogg-for the alleged crime of quoting a stirring speech on Brexit by the co-leader of Germany’s AfD party.

Germans are more unwilling than willing to defend NATO ally the United States should she be attacked by Russia, according to a YouGov survey.

Senior EU figures are calling for the European Union to reject Theresa May’s appeal for a short extension to the UK’s Brexit leaving date from April 12th to May 22nd.

Rabbis stand ready join the ranks of the German army for the first time in 100 years, as the Bundeswehr looks to expand pastoral care for Jews in all services amid signs of a resurgence of anti-Semitism.

Rising ‘Islamophobia’ in Germany is behind anti-Semitic attitudes amongst Muslim youths living in the country, according to a study by taxpayer-funded “experts”.

UNITED NATIONS — Britain, France and Germany accused Iran of developing missile technology in contravention of a UN resolution, and called for a full UN report on recent activities, according to a letter released Tuesday.

Germany’s Foreign Minister has branded Brexit a ‘big shitshow’ in an anti-populist, pro-EU speech ahead of the European elections.

The eurozone economy received a double dose of bad news Monday as inflation fell further away from the European Central Bank’s target and a closely monitored survey showed the crucial manufacturing sector shrinking at its fastest rate in six years.