Sources: CBC
Europol announces an end to an operation against synthetic drug production and trafficking in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, and Spain, resulting in the arrests of 85 people and the seizure of 1,000 metric tons of chemicals in 24 labs. 2026-01-21
German police announce that they found 95 kg of cocaine worth €7 million ($7.8 million) hidden inside banana crates in supermarkets across North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. 2024-09-23
Climate researchers report that since 1985, deforestation in the Amazon has caused the loss of an area of rainforest equal to the combined area of France and Germany. 2024-09-23
German Foreign Affairs Minister Annalena Baerbock says that Germany will not prevent Poland from sending Leopard 2 main battle tanks to Ukraine which Ukrainian officials say are pivotal to defeating Russian forces. 2023-01-22
In Lower Saxony, Germany, a Bundeswehr helicopter crashes, killing one of the pilots. 2019-07-1
Beate Uhse AG, supplier of the "Pabo" erotica catalog, files for bankruptcy in Germany. Only the holding company restructures in order to secure refinancing with the creditors. Beate Uhse-Rotermund opened the first sex shop in 1962, in Flensburg, under the name "Institut für Ehehygiene" ("Institute for marriage hygiene"). 2017-12-15
Paul Watson, the founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, is arrested in Germany for allegedly violating Guatemalan territorial waters in 2002. 2012-05-13
Test results will confirm whether the German "E. Coli" outbreak came from vegetable sprouts grown in the Uelzen area. 2011-06-6
Iran accuses Germany, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom of refusing to provide fuel to its passenger planes. 2010-07-5
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