Sources: CBC
Germany drops out of defending Israel in South Africa's International Court of Justice genocide case against Israel, citing their need to defend themselves in a separate case launched against them by Nicaragua. 2026-03-19
An Italian appellate court approves the extradition to Germany of a Ukrainian national allegedly involved in the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline explosions. The suspect's lawyer says that he plans to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court of Cassation. 2025-09-16
Investigations into a far-right organization whose members were arrested in Germany three days earlier reveal a plot, inspired by the Christchurch mosque shootings in March 2019, to carry out simultaneous, large-scale attacks on mosques across the country during prayers. 2020-02-17
German chemicals company Bayer AG will announce that it has acquired American seeds company Monsanto Co. for US$66 billion. 2016-09-14
Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (BND) says Saudi Arabia is at risk of becoming a major destabilizing influence in the Arab world due to the diplomatic stance of some senior members of the House of Saud. 2015-12-3
Annette Schavan, the German Federal Minister of Education and Research, resigns after the University of Düsseldorf stripped Schavan of her doctorate for plagiarism. 2013-02-9
Tens of thousands of Germans protest in Berlin against the plans of the German government to extend the life of the country's nuclear power plants by another ten years. 2010-09-18
Pope Benedict XVI's former archdiocese of Munich-Freising (1977–1982) reveals he transferred a suspected paedophile priest to a job that allowed him to continue abusing children. 2010-03-13
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
Services from the UK, France, Germany and the Netherlands remain disrupted as investigations continue into the Halle train collision in Belgium.2010-02-17