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German metalworkers union IG Metall begins a labor strike over the working conditions and wages of 3.9 million workers in the country.
2024-10-29

One person is killed and four others are missing after two cargo ships, the British-flagged "Verity" and the Bahamas-flagged "Polesie", collide in the North Sea near Heligoland, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, with the "Verity" sinking. Rescue efforts are ongoing.
2023-10-24

Germany's central bank announces the country's economy will be stagnant in the third quarter, due to high energy prices and rising borrowing costs.
2023-08-21

Germany expels two employees of the Iranian embassy in response to Iran sentencing pro-monarchist dual German-Iranian Jamshid Sharmahd to death over a 2008 bombing in Iran.
2023-02-22

One person is killed and nine others are injured when a test car crashes into traffic in Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
2022-08-16

Three people are charged in Germany for killing and causing an explosion by recklessness at a chemical park in Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, in July. Seven people were killed and 31 others were injured.
2021-10-19

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

Nineteen victims have so far been identified with fifteen from the United Kingdom and one each from Belgium, Germany, Ireland and Portugal.
2015-06-27

A major winter storm called Bodil hits the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany, disrupting traffic and causing four people to be dead or missing and widespread damage amid fears of flooding along the North Sea coast.
2013-12-5

BP discovers a German naval mine from World War II near pipelines in the North Sea near Peterhead, Scotland with removal of the bomb likely to lead to the temporary closure of 16 oil fields and a consequent rise in the price of oil.
2011-04-27