Sources: CBC
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko pardons a German citizen on death row. 2024-07-30
The U.S. and Germany both issue advisories warning nationals not to travel to the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul almost a week after the Taliban took control. 2021-08-21
Germany declares the United Kingdom a "virus variant area" due to the spread of the Indian Lineage B.1.617 variant. It means that anyone from the UK will be required quarantine for two weeks on arrival, even if they have tested negative. 2021-05-21
In Lower Saxony, Germany, a Bundeswehr helicopter crashes, killing one of the pilots. 2019-07-1
Germany and the Netherlands suspend military training mission in Iraq citing escalating tensions in the region with Iran. 2019-05-15
Twelve are killed and more than 50 others are injured as a truck rams into a packed Christmas market in Breitscheidplatz, Berlin, Germany. A suspect has been arrested in connection with the attack. 2016-12-19
A massive explosion occurs at a chemical plant in the German town of Ritterhude near Bremen. 2014-09-9
More than 270 people are hospitalised after an E. coli outbreak in Germany, thought to have originated from Spanish cucumbers. 2011-05-27
Poland detains a wanted man it says is the Israeli Mossad spy who used a German passport in the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, while Germany seeks his extradition. 2010-06-12
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