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One person is killed and four others are missing after two cargo ships, the British-flagged "Verity" and the Bahamas-flagged "Polesie", collide in the North Sea near Heligoland, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, with the "Verity" sinking. Rescue efforts are ongoing.
2023-10-24

The United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan urge their citizens to seek shelter, hide, or evacuate due to ongoing fighting.
2023-04-19

Intel pledges €33 billion in investments in the European Union factories and research facilities, including €17 billion for building a chip-making plant in Magdeburg, Germany and €12 billion for upgrading the Irish plant; the company promises €80 billion over the next decade for the EU.
2022-03-15

Germany reports 568 new deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, the most since the start of the pandemic and bringing the nationwide death toll to 20,002.
2020-12-9

Mustapha Adib, the current Lebanese ambassador to Germany, is designated by President Michel Aoun as the country's prime minister following the resignation of Hassan Diab and his cabinet in the wake of the Beirut explosion earlier this month.
2020-08-31

German prosecutors charge an unidentified 94-year-old ex-Auschwitz guard with aiding and abetting 13,335 murders when he was nineteen.
2018-04-16

The German city of Augsburg is evacuated after a World War II-era explosive is discovered in the town. Explosive experts later defused the bomb.
2016-12-25

After authorities in Chemnitz, Germany, uncover a suspected terrorist bombing plot, police seek the suspect.
2016-10-8

The president of the Czech Republic, Miloš Zeman, marks the 26th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution by attending an anti-Islam rally in Prague with the "Bloc against Islam" group which supports the president. The rally is also attended by observers from the German protest movement, PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident) and Tommy Robinson, a prominent British anti-Islam activist. Zeman tells the crowd of several thousand that they aren't extremists for advocating closing the Republic’s borders to Muslim migrants.
2015-11-17

A group of German Jews prepare to send a ship with humanitarian aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip.
2010-06-10