BERLIN—German police said dozens of people, including at least 26 officers, were injured during unrest surrounding an Eritrean cultural festival in the southwestern city of Stuttgart. Shortly before the event was set to begin Saturday afternoon, around 200 protesters gathered in the area outside and began throwing stones, bottles, and other items at police officers […]
BERLIN—A young man trapped under a bus in Berlin survived with minor injuries after 40 people joined forces to lift the vehicle off him in what police described as a heroic rescue effort. The 18-year-old got pinned by a tire of the rear axle when he fell down while running to catch the bus as […]
A German resident is appealing to politicians across the world to free his father, who was arrested in China for practising Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline rooted in Buddhist traditions. Practitioners continue to be persecuted in China for their faith and evidence shows they’re targets for forced organ harvesting.
Analysts are expressing concerns over continued signs of an economic slowdown in China. To help understand what’s causing it and how it impacts the rest of the world, including the United States, NTD spoke with Daniel Lacalle, chief economist at Tressis.
An American-funded climate group in Germany posted a video of a car dragging two of their protestors forward who were blocking a road in Munich, as the controversial group continues its campaign of disruptive climate action. The clip, posted to X on Monday, showed several protestors from the Letzte Generation (“Last Generation”) activist group blocking […]
BERLIN—A 98-year-old man has been charged in Germany with being an accessory to murder as a guard at the Nazis’ Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1943 and 1945, prosecutors said Friday. The German citizen, a resident of Main-Kinzig county near Frankfurt, is accused of having “supported the cruel and malicious killing of thousands of prisoners as […]
BERLIN—A teenager armed with a knife wounded an eight-year-old boy at a school in eastern Germany on Wednesday and then set himself alight, police said. Police were alerted to the incident in Bischofswerda, east of the city of Dresden, at about 9:45 a.m. (0745 GMT) and the school building was evacuated. The boy was taken […]
“Increasingly China is a rival when it comes to the very fundamentals of how we live together in this world,” according to Germany’s foreign minister. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, China’s been tightening its friendship with Russia. While Germany has aligned with other Western countries working to stop the war. In the past, Germany relied […]
Authorities in Germany have arrested two U.S. soldiers on suspicion of killing a local man in his late 20s following a reported “altercation” at the Wittlich Säubrenner funfair on Aug. 19, according to police. Police in the southwestern German city of Trier, located near the Luxembourg border, said in a press release on Aug. 20 that […]
FRANKFURT—Daimler Truck’s Chief Financial Officer Jochen Goetz has died in a “tragic accident,” the company said on Sunday. Mr. Goetz, 52, died on Saturday, a statement said, without giving details of the accident. Mr. Goetz spent his entire professional career, spanning more than 36 years, in the Daimler Group, and was largely responsible for the […]
BARCELONA, Spain—Spanish government researchers said Sunday they had identified 357 foreign fighters who went missing during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), the conflict that foreshadowed World War II. Researchers confirmed the names of 212 fighters from Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands, according to a statement from the government Sunday. Some 102 are of German origin, […]
BERLIN—Investigators looking into the theft of hundreds of ancient gold coins from a German museum have found lumps of gold that appear to have resulted from part of the treasure being melted down, but still hold out hope of finding the rest intact, officials said Thursday. Four suspects were arrested on Tuesday over the Nov. […]
BERLIN—German authorities said Wednesday that they have arrested four suspects in the theft of hundreds of ancient gold coins from a museum in Bavaria last year. Thieves broke into the Celtic and Roman Museum in Manching and took 483 Celtic coins that were discovered during an archaeological dig nearby in 1999. The coins dated to […]
BERLIN—Investigators found traces of undersea explosives in samples taken from a yacht that was searched as part of a probe into last year’s attacks on the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, European diplomats told the United Nations Security Council. The diplomats said the investigation has not yet established who sabotaged the pipelines, […]
DNA testing has led to the arrest of a Nebraska man who was repeatedly questioned over decades in the 1978 stabbing death of a woman while he was stationed with the U.S. Army in Germany, authorities said. Tommy Molina, 69, was arrested in the western Nebraska city of Gering on June 21, the U.S. Marshals […]
BERLIN—German police warned Wednesday of a potentially lethal “Blue Punisher” variety of ecstasy in circulation after the death of two teenage girls was linked to the drug. Police in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg Western Pomerania said that a 13-year-old girl from the town of Altentreptow died Monday at a hospital after taking one of […]
In Europe, a schism is currently forming over the question of which energy to develop. Germany is defending renewable energies like wind and solar, while France is advocating for nuclear energy. The increase in energy prices has made this question even more divisive.
BERLIN—As an international search determined the implosion of a vessel setting out for the underwater wreckage of the Titanic, a man who was one of the submersible company’s first customers characterized a dive he made to the site two years ago as a suicide mission. “You have to be a little bit crazy to do […]
China is getting a lead in quantum tech by tapping into Western research institutes, aiming to boost its military projection. Experts say this may further erode human rights. A recent probe sheds light on years of partnership between Beijing and a top German university.
French President Emmanuel Macron emphasized the importance of European independence on Monday by calling on France’s EU allies to look at a more home-grown air defense strategy in order to avoid becoming over-reliant on defense systems purchased outside of Europe. “When we talk about air defense, we would be wrong to rush into [increasing] capacity,” […]
A diplomatic visit is in progress between the world’s second and fourth-largest economies. China’s number two official—China’s Premier Li Qiang—arrived in Germany Monday. It’s his first overseas trip since taking office in March. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier welcomed him in Berlin. Li and his delegation will meet with his German counterpart Chancellor Olaf Scholz and […]
BERLIN—Police in southern Germany said Monday that an American tourist who was pushed into a ravine during an attack near Neuschwanstein castle in which her 21-year-old friend was killed has been released from the hospital. Kelsey Chang, 22, had tried to stop a 30-year-old Michigan man from allegedly assaulting her friend, Eva Liu, after luring them […]
Two American tourists who police say were attacked—one fatally—while hiking in Germany were identified as recent graduates of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, according to the school. Eva Liu, 21, was allegedly attacked by a 30-year-old American man she had met while hiking near one of Germany’s most popular tourist sights, Neuschwanstein Castle, on Wednesday, […]
BERLIN—A bronze sword made more than 3,000 years ago that is so well-preserved it “almost still shines” has been unearthed in Germany, officials say. Bavaria’s state office for the preservation of historical monuments says the sword, which is believed to date back to the end of the 14th century B.C.—the middle of the Bronze Age—was […]
BERLIN—Germany handed over to Colombia on Friday two masks made by the Indigenous Kogi people that had been in a Berlin museum’s collection for more than a century, another step in the country’s restitution of cultural artifacts as some European nations reappraise their colonial past. The wooden “sun masks,” which date back to the mid-15th […]
BERLIN—Police in southern Germany are appealing for photos and videos taken by witnesses of an attack near Neuschwanstein castle in which an American man allegedly pushed two women down a steep slope, killing one of them. A suspect was arrested following the attack. German news agency dpa quoted police as saying Friday that they have […]
BERLIN—An American man has been arrested over the death of one U.S. tourist and an assault on another near Neuschwanstein castle in southern Germany after he allegedly pushed the two women down a steep slope, authorities said Thursday. The incident near the popular tourist attraction happened on Wednesday afternoon near the Marienbruecke, a bridge over […]
LONDON—The European Central Bank raised interest rates for the eighth successive time, as expected, on Thursday and signalled further policy tightening, as it battles high inflation. The central bank for the 20 countries that share the euro also said it expected inflation to stay above its 2 percent target through 2025 and hinted once again […]
Germany is once again stepping up its game in countering China. Over the weekend, Berlin’s defense minister said that the nation will deploy two warships to the Indo-Pacific next year. He said that countries need to consolidate rule-based international order and maritime security. This announcement comes amid rising tensions between China and Taiwan, and over […]
German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has told China to immediately stop enlisting former German military pilots for the training of its own forces. Speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on June 2, Pistorius said that he was adamant there should be an immediate cessation of the policy. “I have made it clear that I […]
BERLIN—German prosecutors said Thursday that they will examine objects that were found in a search in Portugal last week for clues regarding the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, but can’t yet say whether they are linked to the British girl who went missing in 2007. Investigators spent three days last week searching around a dam some […]
FRANKFURT, Germany—A 15-year-old soccer player has died after suffering severe brain injuries during a post-match brawl with an opposing team at an international youth tournament in Germany over the weekend, officials said Wednesday. Frankfurt police said in a statement that a postmortem examination will be carried out on the teen in the coming days. A […]
BERLIN—The German economy was in recession in early 2023 after households spending in Europe’s economic engine finally succumbed to the pressure of high inflation. Gross domestic product fell by 0.3 in the first quarter of the year when adjusted for price and calendar effects, a second estimate from the statistics office showed on Thursday. This […]
Germany’s intelligence service will no longer offer remote positions in clandestine operations. “We cannot offer certain conditions that are taken for granted today,” Bruno Kahl, president of the Federal Intelligence Service—or BND—said Monday. Some potential hires have been spoiled by remote work they acquired as a result of the pandemic. Now they’re not interested in […]
Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay $75 million to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by alleged sexual abuse victims of disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, lawyers have confirmed. The settlement resolves a class-action suit filed by two women, referred to as “Jane Doe” against the banks in November last year. New York federal judge Jed Rakoff […]
German officials said on May 15 that they believe the two unauthorized Chinese police outposts remain in operation in the country, though Beijing had promised to shut them down in February. These police outposts were “not fixed-location offices, but mobile facilities,” a spokesperson of the Federal Ministry of the Interior said at a daily briefing […]
FRANKFURT, Germany—The former head of Volkswagen’s luxury division Audi pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges tied to the automaker’s diesel emissions scandal, becoming the highest-ranking executive convicted over cars that cheated on emissions tests with the help of illegal software. Rupert Stadler answered “yes” to a statement read in court by his attorney that said Stadler […]
KYIV/BERLIN—Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday Kyiv and its Western supporters could make a Russian defeat in the war in Ukraine “irreversible” as early as this year and thanked Germany for being a “true friend” during a visit to Berlin. Zelenskyy secured a large military boost on his visit, with the German government announcing […]
BERLIN—A man opened fire at a Mercedes-Benz factory in southwestern Germany on Thursday, leaving two people dead, authorities and the company said. The shooting occurred in Sindelfingen, a city near Stuttgart. The suspect, a 53-year-old Turkish citizen, was taken into custody, the Stuttgart prosecutor’s office said. Police received the first emergency calls around 7:45 a.m. […]
BERLIN—A van carrying 29 people from Syria pushed a patrol car off the road as officers tried to stop the vehicle near Germany’s border with Poland, police said Wednesday. No one was hurt. Off-duty officers noticed the van weaving through traffic and nearly causing an accident near Goerlitz on Tuesday evening, federal police said in […]
BERLIN—A suspect has been arrested over last week’s stabbing attack at a gym in the western German city of Duisburg in which four people were seriously wounded, authorities said Sunday. The man, a 26-year-old Syrian citizen, was arrested shortly after midnight, police and prosecutors said in a statement. He was to be brought before a […]
BERLIN—A German court said Thursday that it has decided not to hear a sex offenses case against a man who also is a suspect in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann, arguing that the region where it is located isn’t the last place he lived in Germany and so it isn’t responsible. Prosecutors in […]
Germany’s Foreign Minister, Annalena Baerbock, has said that China’s communist regime is continuing to act more aggressively internationally while increasing domestic oppression. Elements of her visit to China this week were “more than shocking,” Baerbock said during parliamentary questions in Berlin on April 19. Baerbock’s visit to China came just days before her meeting with […]
China’s foreign ministry is ramping up pressure on Germany. Beijing is calling on the country to, in its words, be “objective and rational.” That’s as Berlin reviews whether to allow Chinese stake in a major German seaport, Hamburg.
BERLIN—Firefighters say they have freed an “uncooperative” squirrel that was stuck in a manhole cover in western Germany—echoing a similar incident that happened in the same city four years ago. The Dortmund fire department said it was alerted to a distressed red squirrel by a pedestrian Monday afternoon, after she spotted its head peering out […]
FRANKFURT, Germany—Police warned people in Hamburg, Germany, to close their windows early Sunday after a large fire that engulfed several warehouses sent black, chemical-laden smoke drifting over the city. German news agency dpa said the fire broke out around 4:30 a.m. in the Rothenburgsort district, located in the eastern part of Germany’s second-largest city. The […]
Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials in Germany that brought Nazi war criminals to justice after World War II and a longtime apostle of international criminal law, died on Friday at age 103, NBC News reported, citing his son. Ferencz, a Harvard-educated lawyer, secured convictions of numerous German officers who led […]
Germany will send its federal minister to visit Taiwan next week for talks on research cooperation, an official said on Friday, marking the first high-level visit by a German minister to Taiwan in over two decades. Education and Research Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger will meet with Taiwanese officials during her two-day trip to Taiwan to discuss […]
German Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach, who once claimed that COVID-19 vaccination was free of side effects, admitted last week that he was wrong, saying adverse reactions occur at a rate of one in 10,000 doses and can cause “severe disabilities.” On Aug. 14, 2021, Lauterbach said on Twitter that the vaccines had “no side […]
KOBLENZ, Germany—Two girls are suspected of killing a 12-year-old schoolgirl who was found dead in a woodland area in western Germany at the weekend, prosecutors said on Tuesday. In a case that has shocked Germany, police found the body of a girl, named only as Luise, near a cycle path in woodland on Sunday. Her […]
HAMBURG, Germany—A gunman stormed a service at his former Jehovah’s Witnesses congregation in Hamburg, killing six people before taking his own life after police arrived, authorities in the German port city said Friday. Police gave no motive for Thursday night’s attack. But they acknowledged recently receiving an anonymous tip that claimed the man identified as […]
Berlin’s EU partners are upset after German Chancellor Olaf Scholz blocked an EU-wide ban on the new sale of fossil fuel cars by 2035 in order to keep his coalition government together. Meanwhile, the sale of electric and hybrid vehicles in Germany is dropping.
German authorities said Thursday that a 16-year-old boy has died after being shot in the head by an 81-year-old neighbor. Prosecutors said the teen died of his injuries in the hospital late Wednesday, a day after the shooting took place in the northern town of Bramsche. The gunman, an Italian citizen, also shot at the […]
BERLIN—A shooter critically injured one person near a German primary school in the north-western town of Bramsche on Tuesday before critically injuring himself with the weapon, a police spokesperson in the city of Osnabrueck said. Both the shooter and the victim were brought to hospital by helicopter and are receiving medical treatment, the spokesperson said, […]
Ukrainian soldiers in Germany will soon be getting help in their training. Several countries, including Norway and the Netherlands, have pledged to send trainers to Germany to help prepare Ukrainian troops for battle. They will be joined by several other European countries.
While the U.S. is working on decoupling from China, its biggest ally in Europe seems to be heading in the other direction, according to a study by the German Institute for Economic Research. The trend is evident in the doubling of its trade deficit with China in 2022 hitting an all-time high. Germany is home […]
BERLIN—Russian pranksters posing as Ukraine’s ex-President Petro Poroshenko managed to contact Angela Merkel by phone to discuss developments in Ukraine and Belarus, although the former German chancellor appeared wary during the call. Merkel’s office said Monday that the former German leader received a call Jan. 12 from someone claiming to be Poroshenko. The conversation was […]
BERLIN—A 24-hour strike at seven German airports, including Frankfurt and Munich, was set to affect nearly 300,000 passengers on Friday, as unionized workers pressed for higher wages and threatened a summer of “chaos” if their demands were not met. The strike coincided with the start of the Munich Security Conference, with more than 40 heads […]
BERLIN—Germany’s conservative CDU party was course for a clear victory in a repeat election in Berlin, in a blow to Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats who have governed the city state for 22 years. An exit poll by broadcaster ZDF on Sunday put the Christian Democrats (CDU) on 28 percent of the vote, 10 percentage […]
Adidas’ breakup with Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, is a pricey one. The company warned Thursday that it’s expected to lose $1.3 billion (1.2 billion euro) in revenue this year because it’s unable to sell the designer’s Yeezy clothing and shoes. Adidas ended its nine-year partnership with the rapper last October because of his […]
BERLIN—A child was killed and another was seriously injured on Thursday after they were hit by a train along a railway line in the western German town of Recklinghausen, local authorities said. Bild newspaper said the victims were dragged by a freight train for several hundred meters (yards). “It’s horrible. Children and trains and at […]
German police have arrested a woman on suspicion of murdering a doppelgänger she sought out online in order to fake her own death. The 23-year-old German-Iraqi woman is being held at a prison in Ingolstadt, southern Germany, in connection with the death of a 23-year-old Algerian woman, Ingolstadt police spokesperson Andreas Aichele told CNN on […]
Germany says it needs more lithium and wants to catch up with Beijing’s huge investment in the south American mining sector. At the same time Berlin is looking to reduce dependence on China. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced a new, expanded commodities partnership with Chile as he toured South America. Like much of the world, […]
Chinese battery maker CATL recently built a second plant in central Germany and aims to have six production lines running this year. The company is slated to become Europe’s largest battery maker. Once its facility in Hungary reaches full capacity in the coming years. The Germany-based plant can produce 30 million cells a year. Enough […]
In Dortmund, Germany, this year’s annual ‘stag-calling’ contest is underway. The aim is not to land a stag but the coveted title of “stag calling champion.” This year’s competition features eight competitors across three disciplines. The hunters use horns, shells, glass and diverse sound amplifiers to recreate the most realistic sounds of the deer.
The United States and Germany this week significantly increased their military support to Ukraine by promising to deliver modern battle tanks. The Kremlin said it sees this move as evidence of direct Western involvement in the conflict. NTD spoke to an analyst to find out how much this development affects the balance of power between […]
BROKSTEDT, Germany—Two people were killed and several others injured when a man attacked them with a knife on Wednesday on a regional train travelling between Kiel and Hamburg in northern Germany, authorities said. Police in the state of Schlewsig-Holstein on the Danish border said the man, who was himself lightly injured, was being treated in […]
BERLIN—Prosecutors brought high treason charges against five people who allegedly planned to kidnap the health minister and were prepared to kill in order to topple the German government, the attorney general said on Monday. The group, formed in mid-January 2022, had set itself the goal “of triggering civil war-like conditions in Germany by means of […]
KYIV/BERLIN—Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy said his government was expecting “strong decisions” from defense leaders of NATO and other countries meeting on Friday to discuss boosting Ukraine’s ability to confront Russian forces with modern battle tanks. The meeting at Ramstein Air Base in Germany is the latest in a series since Russia invaded Ukraine nearly 11 […]
BERLIN—Police on Wednesday said a fire that killed three people in a psychiatric nursing home in southern Germany late Tuesday could have been set intentionally by one of the home’s residents. The fire, which broke out on the second floor of the home in Reutlingen, killed a 53-year-old woman and two men aged 73 and […]
DNIPRO, Ukraine/KYIV—Ukraine came a step closer on Tuesday in its bid to win a fleet of modern battle tanks it hopes could turn the course of the war with Russia, after the West’s big holdout Germany said this would be the first item on its new defense minister’s agenda. In the central city of Dnipro, […]
The U.S. military started new, more sophisticated, combat training for Ukrainian forces in Germany on Jan. 15. The aim is to train a battalion of approximately 500 to be ready to confront Russian adversaries within the next eight weeks. According to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, who oversees the operation, Ukrainian […]
Taiwan’s president told German lawmakers on Tuesday that her nation seeks to boost ties with Germany to counter “authoritarian expansionism,” alluding to the security threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Tsai Ing-wen called on democratic countries to jointly uphold regional stability in the face of authoritarian expansion, citing the CCP’s large-scale military drills […]
BERLIN—A 17-year-old boy is suspected of killing a teacher at a vocational school in northwestern Germany on Tuesday, authorities said. The youth apparently sought out his teacher at the school building in Ibbenbueren, near the Dutch border, on Tuesday afternoon. She was alone in a classroom at the time. The student is suspected of fatally […]
CASTROP-RAUXEL, Germany—German police have taken into custody a 32-year-old Iranian citizen suspected of having procured deadly poisons cyanide and ricin to commit an “Islamist-motivated” attack, authorities in western Germany said on Sunday. The residence of the suspect in the city of Castrop-Rauxel was searched as part of the investigation, according to a joint press release […]
BERLIN—The first regular shipment of liquefied natural gas from the United States arrived in Germany on Tuesday, part of a wide-reaching effort to help the country replace energy supplies it previously received from Russia. The tanker vessel Maria Energy arrived at the North Sea port of Wilhelmshaven, where its shipment of LNG will be converted […]
BERLIN—A German doctor was sentenced late Monday to two years and nine months in prison for illegally issuing more than 4,000 people with exemptions from wearing masks during the coronavirus pandemic. A regional court in the southwestern town of Weinheim confirmed Tuesday that the doctor was convicted of “issuing incorrect health certificates” to people from […]
A 97-year-old woman is appealing her conviction in Germany of being an accessory to more than 10,000 murders when she was a secretary to the commander of the Nazis’ Stutthof concentration camp during World War II. In a Dec. 20 verdict, the Itzehoe state court gave Irmgard Furchner a two-year suspended sentence for being an […]
BERLIN—A German court convicted a man of attempted murder and bodily harm and sentenced him to 14 years in prison on Friday over a knife attack on a train last year that left four people wounded. Judges found that he had an Islamic extremist motive. The 28-year-old Palestinian man who grew up in Syria, identified […]
