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At least fifteen schools are closed in Duisburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, due to violent threats from unknown far-right extremist individuals, totaling at least 17,000 children affected.
2025-04-7

Seven men from the "Saxonian Separatists" group are arrested in Germany and another is arrested in Poland for plotting ethnic cleansing terrorist attacks and for plotting to take control of several areas of Saxony.
2024-11-5

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

Russia's Gazprom says that it has completed the construction of the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline to Germany. Gazprom says that gas flows to Europe through the pipeline cannot begin until they have received approval from German regulators.
2021-09-10

The death toll from the severe floods in western Germany increases to 133. Ninety people died in Rhineland-Palatinate and 43 died in North Rhine-Westphalia. The death toll in Belgium also increases to 27.
2021-07-16

Denmark's public service broadcaster DR reveals that the Danish Defence Intelligence Service helped the American National Security Agency spy on European leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2012 to 2014. Intelligence was also collected on other officials from Germany, France, Sweden and Norway.
2021-05-31

The European X-ray free-electron laser is inaugurated in Hamburg, Germany.
2017-09-3

The sovereign bonds of Germany experience second straight day of historic sell-off, dragging other securities in much of the continent with them.
2015-04-30

Austria, Germany, Switzerland and the Czech Republic are hit by floods after days of heavy rain.
2013-06-2

Zimbabwe requests apologies from American, German and European Union envoys who walked out of the burial ceremony for President Robert Mugabe's sister; they refuse to apologise.
2010-08-3