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European Union countries possessing U.S.-made Patriot air defense systems appeared hesitant Monday to share their assets with Ukraine as Kyiv called for seven of the missile batteries to help repel ongoing Russian air assaults.

Two German-Russian dual citizens accused of membership of a pro-Kremlin terrorist organisation and planning bombings have been arrested. 

German authorities conducted a large-scale raid against an international human smuggling gang early Wednesday, police said in a statement.

Olaf Scholz said he hoped Berlin and Beijing could help achieve “just peace” in Ukraine, as he met President Xi Jinping.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrived in China for a visit focused on mending economic and political relationship between Beijing and Berlin.

German police arrested three teenagers accused of planning a knife or firebomb attack on churches and police stations for the Islamic State. 

Would allow minors to change name and legal gender with approval from their parents; if they don´t agree, a family court could overrule them.

Nearly six in ten suspects in violent crime cases in Germany were committed by foreign migrants, according to federal police crime statistics.

NATO member Lithuania hailed “historic event” as Germany began deploying troops to the Baltic, the first time since World War II.

An incendiary device was thrown at a door of a synagogue in northwestern Germany on Friday but caused only minor damage, police said.

Police say the attack at a food store appears to be random, with the suspect and “seriously injured” child victim being totally unrelated. 

German police are facing a serious uniform shortage — the war in Ukraine is blamed — and officers have gone trouserless to make the point. 

NATO leaders have already said that while they want Ukraine to join, it doesn’t meet eligibility — including not being at at war and occupied.

BERLIN (AP) — The German soccer federation and Adidas have stopped the sale of Germany jerseys with the number 44 because of a resemblance to the logo of the Nazi Party’s notorious SS paramilitary units.

Germany’s hardliner covid boss has succeeded in pushing through his cannabis legalisation pet project in the teeth of opposition.

At least five people were killed when a bus headed from Berlin drove off a highway and ended up on its side, authorities said.

German investigators said Wednesday they were working through hundreds of new tips on the on the left-wing Red Army Faction terror group.

German court rejected ISIS woman’s appeal of her 14-year sentence for allowing a 5-year-old girl she kept as a slave to die of thirst.

Austrian identitarian activist Martin Sellner has been banned from entering Germany after the city of Potsdam obtained a three-year entry ban.

German police accused pair of planning to attack police near the Swedish parliament in response to the burning of copies of the Quran.

Vladimir Putin suggested that Russia may seek to extend a buffer zone into Ukrainian territory to prevent strikes on Russian territory.

Germany, France and Poland vowed to procure more weapons for Kyiv and step up production of military equipment with partners in Ukraine.

Germany was one of the worst-performing major economies last year, weighed down by energy prices, global weakness and interest rate hikes.

Denmark is more than doubling the period of mandatory service, calling up more young people, and requiring women to enrol for the first time.

Less than 40 per cent of Germans said they would be unwilling to defend their nation with weapons even if it came under attack, a survey has found.

Germany’s newspaper of record postulates whether Ukrainian men of military age should be encouraged or forced to go home.

German authorities carried out raids Thursday across Germany against people suspected of posting misogynistic hate speech online.

Germany has refused to apologise to the United Kingdom for appearing to disclose that British troops are active on the ground in Ukraine.

A majority of Germans said their country reached its limit of refugees, with asylum applications hitting the highest level since 2016.

Berlin confirmed leaked conversation between military officers about British soldiers assisting Ukraine in using advanced missiles took place.

Ukraine took responsibility for “disabling” a railway bridge in the Russian mainland region of Samara in the early hours of Monday morning.

German Chancellor Scholz stands accused of handing Russia a propaganda coup in order to smooth over his own political difficulties.

The Chinese Communist Party announced on Wednesday that it would send its top diplomat on Russia, “Special Representative of the Chinese Government on Eurasian Affairs Li Hui,” on a tour of Russia, Ukraine, and relevant European actors to discuss Moscow’s ongoing invasion.

Germany inadvertently attempted to shoot down a U.S. Reaper drone on Tuesday night, but the missiles malfunctioned and fell into the sea. 

The ease with which a ‘most wanted’ fugitive was able to live in Berlin for decades begs questions about the left-wing networks in the city. 

There was a rare activation of the emergency alert system in the UK as thousands of residents were evacuated from a Second World War bomb.