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Ali Bashar confesses in court in Germany to killing teenager Susanna Feldmann. Bashar is a failed asylum seeker from Iraq. The case prompted national debate and a pledge by Angela Merkel to call for improvements to the deportation system in Germany. Counterterror police traveled to Iraq in order to return him to Germany, as he had already been deported when he was identified in connection to the murder; Iraq has no extradition treaty with Germany.
2019-03-13

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer succeeds Angela Merkel as the new chairperson of the Christian Democratic Union, one of the major political parties in Germany.
2018-12-7

The world's first commercial hydrogen-powered passenger train enters service in Lower Saxony, Germany. The Alstom developed train uses a hydrogen fuel cell which emits no carbon dioxide.
2018-09-17

Leaders from the Group of Twenty come together at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, including United States President Donald Trump who is set to meet with President of Russia Vladimir Putin.
2017-07-7

Greece requests its partners in the eurozone for a six month loan program extension in an apparent compromise attempt; Germany has rejected the request.
2015-02-19

In a joint ceremony at the Hartmannswillerkopf cemetery, French President François Hollande and his German counterpart, Joachim Gauck, commemorate the 100th anniversary of Germany's declaration of war on France in the beginning of World War I.
2014-08-3

A fire at a Caritas International workshop for the disabled in Titisee-Neustadt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, kills at least 14 and injures several others.
2012-11-26

Germany's unemployment rate reportedly reaches its lowest level since 1991.
2012-01-3

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

From Oscar-winning blockbusters to low-budget art-house and documentary films, the 13th Shanghai International Film Festival screens films for everyone. It will feature a retrospective of films by Woody Allen and John Woo, classic movies from Japan, Canada, Germany, Italy and Ireland, as well as new Chinese cinema.
2010-06-11