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NATO's Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine command center in Wiesbaden, Germany, takes over coordination of Western military support to Ukraine from the United States.
2024-12-17

Russia and several Western nations, including Germany and the United States, conduct a major prisoner exchange mediated by Turkey, with ten prisoners being transferred to Russia, thirteen to Germany, and three to the United States. Journalist Evan Gershkovich, former marine Paul Whelan, and Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza are among those freed.
2024-08-1

German government ministers agree on legislation to expedite deportation for individuals who post or "like" social media content that celebrates or promotes terrorist acts.
2024-06-26

Thirty-four people are injured after two rollercoaster trains collided at the Legoland Deutschland amusement park in Günzburg, Bavaria, Germany.
2022-08-11

A British man working at the British embassy in Berlin is arrested by German police on suspicion of spying for Russia.
2021-08-11

German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer announces that Germany has completed the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan, thereby ending its involvement in the war.
2021-06-29

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

Germany's Bayer AG makes an unsolicited bid valued at $62 billion cash to takeover American company Monsanto to create the world's largest agricultural chemical company.
2016-05-23

During a rally in support of German comedian Jan Böhmermann, outside the Turkish embassy in Berlin, Bruno Kramm, head of the Berlin branch of Germany's Pirate Party, is arrested for “insulting a representative of a foreign state” by quoting a line from the comic’s satirical poem about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
2016-04-23

A fire kills dozens of animals at a zoo in Karlsruhe, Germany.
2010-11-13