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Belarusian opposition activist Maria Kolesnikova receives the Charlemagne Prize in Aachen, Germany, which had been awarded to her in 2022 for her role in advocating for democracy, human rights, and free elections in Belarus while she was imprisoned for her role in the 2020 Belarusian protests against President Alexander Lukashenko.
2026-03-14

Germany reports a significant increase in far-right crime, primarily from increasing online expression offenses and hate speech, as well as an increase in Gaza war-related resentment.
2025-01-6

A previously unknown piece composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, "Ganz kleine Nachtmusik", is discovered at a library in Leipzig, Germany. The seven miniature movements for a string trio were probably composed in the 1760s, when Mozart was in his early teens.
2024-09-19

CNN reports that American and German intelligence agents foiled a plan by Russia to assassinate Armin Papperger, the CEO of German defence company Rheinmetall.
2024-07-11

Hungary suddenly cancels a meeting between Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó and German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on 8 July in Budapest, after she planned to discuss Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán's uncoordinated meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
2024-07-6

Germany signs a 15-year deal with Qatar's state-owned petroleum company QatarEnergy to have its liquefied natural gas supplied by the company from 2026.
2022-11-29

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says that recordings related to the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi were issued to Saudi Arabia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and France.
2018-11-11

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

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

Nigerian gunmen take two German men, from Port Harcourt and Lagos, in Abia State.
2010-04-18