Sources: BBC
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk orders Germany to explain a recorded incident where German police appear to desert a migrant family in Osinów Dolny, Poland, just east of the Germany–Poland border. 2024-06-17
Authorities in Hanover, Germany, turn off heating and switch to cold showers in all public buildings, and also shut off public water fountains amid an energy crisis after Gazprom reduced gas supplies to Germany through its Nord Stream pipeline. 2022-07-28
More than a dozen alleged ISIS-linked, terrorist members of Rawti Shax, a European offshoot of the Iraqi Kurdish jihadist network Ansar al-Islam, are arrested in a coordinated, multi-nation sweep by police across Europe. The operation dismantled an integrated cell in Italy, the United Kingdom, Norway, Finland, Switzerland, and Germany. The group is accused of radicalizing fighters, planning attacks targeting Norwegian and British diplomats in the Middle East, and planning to establish a caliphate in Iraq's Kurdistan region. 2015-11-12
A German court issues an injunction ordering a halt to a Lufthansa airline pilots' strike. Earlier, Germany's biggest airline announced it had canceled 1,000 flights while about 500 would still operate. 2015-09-9
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
The death toll from an "E. coli" outbreak in Germany rises to 14 as it spreads to other parts of northern Europe. 2011-05-30
More than 270 people are hospitalised after an E. coli outbreak in Germany, thought to have originated from Spanish cucumbers. 2011-05-27
The German Bundestag passes a cross-party motion demanding Israel to end its blockade of the Gaza Strip. 2010-07-2
Germany's TanDEM-X satellite, whose aim it is to create the most precise 3D map of Earth's surface, obtains its first images. 2010-06-25
Roman Catholic child sexual abuse investigation: The Dutch Catholic Church apologises and the country's religious leaders request an independent inquiry. A monastery head in Salzburg admits abuse of a boy more than four decades ago. The brother of Pope Benedict XVI admits physically disciplining students at a school in Germany before corporal punishment was banned in 1980. 2010-03-9