Sources: CBC
Three people are killed and one person is injured when a train collides with a car near Neustadt am Rübenberge, Lower Saxony, Germany. 2023-04-23
The Swiss Federal Department of Economic Affairs vetoes Germany's request to re-export Swiss ammunition to Ukraine on the basis of Switzerland's neutrality. 2022-04-24
A court in Munich, Germany, sentences an Islamic State-affiliated 30-year-old woman to 10 years in prison for allowing a 5-year-old Yazidi girl to die from thirst in Iraq. The woman was found guilty on multiple charges, including some related to terrorism. 2021-10-25
German airline Condor, a subsidiary of the now insolvent Thomas Cook Group, files for bankruptcy. 2019-09-25
The European Parliament elects Ursula von der Leyen of Germany as the new President of the European Commission. Succeeding Jean-Claude Juncker, she will be sworn in on 1 November 2019. She is the first woman to be elected to this office in EU history. 2019-07-16
Germany lifts a blanket ban on Nazi symbolism in video games, including the swastika. 2018-08-9
ACTA loses further support in Europe as Bulgaria and the Netherlands join Poland and Germany in declining to ratify it due to privacy and human rights concerns. 2012-02-15
The son of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the woman sentenced to death by stoning, and two German journalists posing as tourists seeking to interview him, may have been arrested in Iran. 2010-10-11
Roman Catholic child sexual abuse investigation: The Dutch Catholic Church apologises and the country's religious leaders request an independent inquiry. A monastery head in Salzburg admits abuse of a boy more than four decades ago. The brother of Pope Benedict XVI admits physically disciplining students at a school in Germany before corporal punishment was banned in 1980. 2010-03-9
A Nuremberg court issues an arrest warrant for former Argentine leader Jorge Rafael Videla, on suspicion of killing a German man. 2010-01-22