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German Federal Police carry out raids in six states targeting 17 people suspected to be members of Brigade N'Hamedu, a group advocating against the government of Eritrea by causing violence and disruptions at Eritrean cultural events in Germany.
2025-03-26

Germany reports a record 112,323 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours.
2022-01-19

Four people are killed and another is wounded during a mass stabbing at a hospital in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany. The perpetrator, identified as a female hospital's employee, is arrested. The victims are all patients.
2021-04-28

The Dutch Coast Guard says 270 containers fell off "MSC Zoe" in heavy seas near the German island of Borkum and floated towards the Netherlands. Treasure hunters revel on the West Frisian islands of Terschelling and Vlieland. Three containers containing hazardous materials are still missing and ships are warned for floating containers.
2019-01-3

German nurse and convicted serial killer Niels Högel is charged with 97 further counts of murder.
2018-01-22

German chemicals company Bayer AG will announce that it has acquired American seeds company Monsanto Co. for US$66 billion.
2016-09-14

On the eve of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party's convention in Karlsruhe, Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel says, "We want to noticeably reduce the number of people who come to us, but not through unilateral national measures alone." She acknowledges the crisis could overwhelm Germany if it went on much longer. Merkel warded off pressure from immigration skeptics within the CDU to include a quota in the refugee policy motion the convention will vote on.
2015-12-13

Slovenia's army begins erecting a razor wire fence along parts of its southern border with Croatia in order to stop a tide of illegal migrants entering the country. Around 180,000 people, mainly from Syria and Afghanistan have streamed into Slovenia since mid-October after trekking northwards along a Balkan corridor from Greece, most of them bound ultimately for Germany.
2015-11-11

The Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe rules that Germany's participation in the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) is, conditionally, within the German Constitution's limits, allowing President Gauck to approve the Bundestag's previous agreement with the mechanism.
2012-09-12

A gunman, who was facing eviction from his apartment, is believed to have seized and killed four hostages in the German city of Karlsruhe before turning the gun on himself.
2012-07-4