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U.S. President Joe Biden orders U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to send 7,000 American troops to Germany to assist NATO allies.
2022-02-24

Germany deploys 130 troops and 60 armoured personnel carriers to Lithuania. Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda says that the German forces are authorized to defend the country from threats. More troops are expected to arrive later this week.
2022-02-17

In a joint statement, UK Foreign Minister Dominic Raab and his German counterpart Heiko Maas call for Germany to permanently join the United Nations Security Council, after outgoing German UN ambassador Christoph Heusgen said earlier in the day that this needs to happen in order to reflect the shifting global power balance.
2021-06-30

The number of new confirmed cases in Germany surges to a record 23,542 cases over the past 24 hours, according to data from the Robert Koch Institute.
2020-11-13

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

A German couple is jailed for twelve years each for selling the woman's son to a Spanish pedophile on the dark web, who repeatedly abused him. The couple themselves previously abused the boy and a three-year-old girl, whom they are ordered to pay €42,500 in compensation. The Spaniard is sentenced to ten years.
2018-08-7

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

German police shoot a man, who was trying to escape after apparently driving into a group of pedestrians in a central square in Heidelberg. A 73-year-old man was killed and two other people injured. Police do not believe terrorism is involved.
2017-02-25

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

German minister Ilse Aigner expresses annoyance at Facebook's privacy policy, saying the website is breaking the law by collecting information such as phone numbers.
2010-07-17