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Hanau, Germany (dpa) – German leaders vowed to fight the “poison” of right-wing extremism after a shooting spree in the western city of Hanau in which a German man shot dead nine people. Authorities say they believe he […]

Istanbul (dpa) – Turkish and Kurdish communities were mourning the deaths of nine people killed in shootings in Germany, and called for the authorities to do more to tackle xenophobia. While law enforcement hasn’t yet revealed the identities […]

Washington (dpa) – US President Donald Trump named Richard Grenell, the current ambassador to Germany and a fierce Trump loyalist, as his acting director of national intelligence on Wednesday. Grenell, who has no previous intelligence experience, will oversee 17 […]

Berlin (dpa) – Three men were handed jail sentences on Thursday for the spectacular March 2017 theft of a 100-kilogram gold coin from the Bode Museum in the centre of Berlin. A fourth person was found not guilty […]

Berlin (dpa) – Oscar-winning British actor Jeremy Irons launched on Thursday his tenure as Berlin Film Festival president by seeking to end a media controversy centring on past comments he has made about women, abortion and gay marriage. […]

Hanau, Germany (dpa) – A shooting spree in the German town of Hanau late on Wednesday that left 11, including the shooter, dead is being investigated as terrorism. “Based on what we know now, there was definitely a xenophobic […]

Berlin (dpa) – The current winter flu wave hitting Germany has resulted in a total of 79,263 cases confirmed in laboratory testing since the autumn, around a half of them in the past two weeks, Germany’s federal disease […]

Berlin (dpa) – Disseminators of hate speech online in Germany, whether by putting out Nazi propaganda, praising criminal acts or threatening rape, are in future to be reported to the Federal Criminal Police Office, the cabinet decided on […]