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German police, French security services, and Interpol conduct coordinated mass raids on an Iraqi-Kurdish human trafficking network in North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany.
2024-12-4

North Rhine-Westphalia Police arrest two Iranian brothers in Castrop-Rauxel, Ruhr, Germany, on suspicion of planning an Islamic terrorist attack using chemical weapons.
2023-01-8

One person is killed and 30 others, including 14 students, are injured, after a car drives into a crowd in Berlin, Germany. A 29-year-old German-Armenian man is arrested at the scene.
2022-06-8

U.S. President Joe Biden orders Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to send 7,000 troops to Germany in order to assist NATO allies.
2022-02-24

New Zealand reports its first case of the Omicron variant in a fully vaccinated person who travelled from Germany and is currently isolated at a managed isolation quarantine facility in Christchurch.
2021-12-16

The number of daily cases in Germany hits a new record of 21,506 over the last 24 hours, the highest single-day increase since the beginning of the pandemic, according to data released by the Robert Koch Institute.
2020-11-6

German police find guns and ammunition in a raid on suspected Islamist militants.
2017-10-24

Germany's vice-chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, accuses Saudi Arabia of financing Islamic extremism in the West and warns that it must stop. He tells German media, “We have to make clear to the Saudis that the time of looking away is over, Wahhabi mosques all over the world are financed by Saudi Arabia. Many Islamists who are a threat to public safety come from these communities in Germany". His comments come days after Germany's Federal Intelligence Service released a report saying Saudi Arabia was "destabilizing" the Arab world.
2015-12-6

Queen Silvia of Sweden orders an investigation into her father Walther Sommerlath's alleged ties with the German Nazi Party.
2011-05-16

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