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Kabul (dpa) – A group of 36 rejected Afghan asylum seekers who were deported from Germany arrived in Kabul on Thursday, Afghan airport officials said. The flight landed around 8 am [0330GMT] in Kabul, the officials said. It […]

Berlin (dpa) – German engineering giant Siemens warned Thursday of slowing global economic growth despite the group posting better-than-forecast quarterly results and growing order books. The Munich-based company said its industrial operating profit – a […]

Erfurt, Germany (dpa) – The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party offered to prop up a minority government in the eastern state of Thuringen on Wednesday, but the two potential beneficiaries maintained they would have no dealings with the […]

Berlin (dpa) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Christian Democratic Union) and Deputy Chancellor Olaf Scholz (Social Democratic Party) have drawn up a positive assessment of the governing coalition’s work as of the halfway point. Of the 300 planned […]

Berlin (dpa) – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Thursday at the former border between East and West Germany ahead of the 30th anniversary commemorations for the fall of the Berlin Wall. […]

Munich (dpa) – German Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, a leading candidate to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel, said on Thursday that the country should have a national security council to enable it to “do even more” when it comes […]

Frankfurt (dpa) – A strike by cabin crew crippled German airline Lufthansa on Thursday, with around 1,300 flights and 180,000 passengers expected to be hit in total over two days. On Thursday, some 700 flights from the main […]

Berlin (dpa) – German industrial production fell by more than forecast in September dashing hopes of an early rebound in the nation’s recession-hit manufacturing sector. Output in Europe’s biggest economy contracted by 0.6 per cent […]

By Ruppert Mayr and Andreas Hoenig, dpa Berlin (dpa) – The German government and the car industry have agreed to continue joint subsidies for the purchase of electric cars, government sources at a meeting of officials from both […]

Copenhagen/Flensburg, Germany (dpa) – Germany and its northern neighbour Denmark are kicking off a Cultural Year of Friendship, with numerous events planned to bring the two European countries even closer together. The year-long celebration will officially be launched […]