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The German Bundestag votes to legalise recreational usage of cannabis for adults, making Germany the third European country to do so after Malta and Luxembourg.
2024-02-23

At least four people are severely injured in a stabbing attack at a gym in Duisburg, Germany.
2023-04-18

Six people and an unborn baby are killed, and eight others are injured, in a mass shooting at a Jehovah's Witnesses centre in Hamburg, Germany. The perpetrator kills himself after the shooting.
2023-03-9

German intelligence agency Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution formally places far-right oppositional party Alternative for Germany under surveillance, accusing it of aiming to subvert the constitution. It is the first time that a major political party has been placed under surveillance since the end of World War II.
2021-03-3

The United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declares the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran as no longer in force. He also warns that the United States "is prepared to use our domestic authorities to impose consequences" for other countries that do not enforce the sanctions. Britain, France, Germany, China, and Russia oppose the snapback sanctions.
2020-09-19

In Lower Saxony, Germany, a Bundeswehr helicopter crashes, killing one of the pilots.
2019-07-1

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

Xenophobic mob blocks a refugee bus in Clausnitz, German state of Saxony.
2016-02-18