The German government has reached an agreement with the Taliban regime to accelerate the deportation of convicted Afghan criminals, according to German newspaper Bild. The arrangement, reached through “technical-level” negotiations because Berlin
A festive evening at a Christmas market in the eastern German city of Magdeburg turned into a nightmare on December 20, 2024, when a vehicle rammed into a crowd of shoppers, killing
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Germany’s ruling coalition has disintegrated, leaving Chancellor Olaf Scholz to govern with a fragile minority composed of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Greens. The collapse follows Chancellor Scholz’s decision to
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Political pressure on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is growing after the three parties of the current coalition government suffered heavy losses in the European Union (EU) elections on Sunday. As in other
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Since the big leak of the German officer’s Taurus conversation, the German authorities have been trying to explain how it happened. The official position is that the intercept of the conversation happened
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In October 2023, 10 members of the German parliament (Bundestag) left Die Linke (the Left) and declared their intention to form their own party. With their departure, Die Linke’s parliamentary group fell
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On November 4, thousands of people marched in Berlin in solidarity with Palestine to demand an end to the ongoing genocide in Gaza by Israel. The march was called by various groups
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Xinhua: Germany’s economy, the largest in the European Union (EU), stagnated in the second quarter of 2023 with zero growth, according to Eurostat, the statistical office of the EU. The International Monetary
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On July 5, a Berlin housing rights coalition, Deutsche Wohnen and Co. Enteignen (Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen and Co. Initiative), urged the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD) government to
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The visit of German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock to New Delhi had an anti-climatic ending. Baerbock waxed eloquently about Germany as a paragon of democratic values and claimed affinity with India. She
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