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Germany arrests two German-Russian nationals for an alleged military sabotage plot on behalf of Russia to undermine military support for Ukraine.
2024-04-18

Five people are killed and 60 others are injured after a train derails in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.
2022-06-3

Ghana receives 1.5 million doses of the Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine donated by Germany.
2021-09-26

Germany agrees to take 1,500 migrants from Greece following a devastating fire at the Moria Refugee Camp on the island of Lesbos.
2020-09-15

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

German marketplace organizer Deutsche Börse agrees to purchase trading platform 360T for €725 million.
2015-07-26

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

One German and one Italian man are killed and at least 6 are injured near Marseille in a collision between a 26-foot wave and the Greek-Cypriot cruise ship "Louise Majesty" which was travelling with 2,000 passengers from Barcelona to Genoa.
2010-03-3