Russia, Germany divided over Ukraine crisis
Russia and Germany have major differences over the origin and causes of the crisis in Ukraine, the Kremlin says.
View ArticleGermany will seize passports of ISIL supporters
Germany will confiscate passports of citizens who sought to join up with terrorists in Syria and Iraq, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere announced on Friday.
View ArticleGermany blames pro-Russian rebels for MH17 crash
Rocket that downed plane was fired from Buk missile defence system, says BND intelligence agency
View ArticleUS Army withheld promise from Germany that Ebola virus wouldn’t be weaponized
The United States has withheld assurances from Germany that the Ebola virus - among other related diseases - would not be weaponized in the event of Germany exporting it to the US Army Medical Research...
View ArticleGermany’s intel agency is (apparently) a branch of the CIA
The German BND is not an independent intelligent service but more like a CIA branch according to Manuel Ochsenreiter, Editor-in-Chief of Zuerst magazine.
View ArticleGermans Clear Russia in MH-17 Case
The West’s case blaming Russia for the shoot-down of a Malaysia Airlines plane over Ukraine last July appears to be crumbling as the German foreign intelligence agency has concluded that the...
View ArticleGermany gets €780m EU rebate for poor growth
Germany will get an early Christmas present of around €779 million from the EU, thanks to weaker than expected GDP growth.
View ArticleGerman government discontented with attempts to ease sanctions on Russia
There is growing discontent in the German Chancellery that leaders of key German concerns are making attempts to influence the government’s policy towards Russia, Der Spiegel weekly said on Sunday.
View ArticleGerman intel warns ISIS can shoot down passenger planes
Islamic State militants in northern Iraq have modern portable air defense systems that are capable of shooting down a passenger plane, Germany’s Bild am Sonntag newspaper reported citing the country’s...
View ArticleGerman pensioner avoids jail for killing teen burglar
An 81-year-old man avoided a jail sentence on Monday for shooting and killing a teenage intruder who broke into his house in western Germany.
View ArticleGerman minister’s plane disappears from radar ‘for hours’, causes stir
Frank-Walter Steinmeier’s plane, the German foreign affairs minister, reportedly disappeared for several hours from radar screens on Saturday as he was travelling in Asia, sending diplomats and...
View ArticleGermany, Italy say they do not recognize elections in east Ukraine
German and Italian officials said on Monday their governments did not recognize elections of presidents and deputies of republican legislatures that were held on Sunday in the self-proclaimed Donetsk...
View ArticleMerkel urges action over ‘appalling’ Dachau theft
Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Tuesday for thieves of a gate to the former Nazi concentration camp at Dachau to be swiftly brought to justice, as she received an award from Holocaust survivors.
View ArticleMerkel Says EU Should Look at Expanding Russia Sanctions
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the European Union should consider expanding the list of Russian-linked individuals under sanctions to punish those responsible for “illegitimate” elections in...
View ArticleGerman FM plays down intel claiming Ukraine militia downed MH17
The German Foreign Ministry maintains the media interpretation of an October statement by the president of national intelligence agency alleging self-defense militia downed MH17 flight in Ukraine was...
View ArticleUkraine rebels ready for violent fight: German FM
Foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Wednesday warned there are signs that pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine are readying for major military clashes with troops of the Western-leaning...
View ArticleGerman embassy worker expelled from Moscow
News agencies cited an unnamed government source in Berlin on Saturday, who confirmed a report first published in the online edition of the "Spiegel" news magazine.
View ArticleMerkel Concerned about Russian Influence in the Balkans
It is a fundamental principle of German foreign policy that talks are the best way to solve diplomatic problems. Such was the rationale behind Gernot Erler's recent trip to Moscow to speak with Russian...
View ArticleThe Dutch do what the Germans couldn’t: Get their gold back
The Dutch central bank has secretly brought a large chunk of the European nation's gold reserves held in New York back to Amsterdam.
View ArticleNew bird flu case in Germany
A worrying new strain of bird flu has been observed for the first time in a wild bird in northern Germany, the agriculture ministry said Saturday.
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