Sources: BBC
An arson attack on two power poles in Berlin, Germany, causes a widespread blackout affecting the Berlin S-Bahn, emergency services, and more in the southeastern part of the city. 2025-09-9
Two people are killed and eleven others are injured when a bus flips on its side on a highway near Prenzlau, Brandenburg, Germany. 2025-01-11
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
Germany reports 261 new fatalities, according to the Robert Koch Institute. This is the highest number of deaths in a single day since April, raising the nationwide death toll to 11,767. 2020-11-11
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan calls on all Turks and the Muslim world to boycott France over French President Emmanuel Macron's crackdown on radical Islam in French society. Erdoğan says Muslims in France are now "subjected to a lynch campaign similar to that against Jews in Europe before World War II". The leaders of Germany, Italy and the Netherlands condemn Erdoğan's comments and declare their support for France. 2020-10-26
Diplomats from Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg meet in Berlin to discuss the consequences of the United Kingdom voting to leave the European Union. 2016-06-25
Two German intelligence officers are suspected of having given money to Al Qaeda in 2010. 2016-02-15
The European Court of Human Rights rules that Khalid El-Masri, a German citizen, was an innocent victim of extraordinary rendition by the Central Intelligence Agency and orders Macedonia to pay him €60,000 after it arrested him and sent him to the CIA. CIA agents then transferred him to a detention facility in Afghanistan. 2012-12-13
Voters in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt go to the polls for an election with the results indicating that the Christian Democratic Union is likely to remain in power. 2011-03-20
A museum in Berlin opens an exhibition on Adolf Hitler and his relationship with the German people, the first museum in Germany to do so. 2010-10-15