Russian authorities have summoned the German ambassador to Moscow, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, for consultations this Monday, in reaction to an equivalent decision adopted by Berlin as a gesture of protest over alleged cyberattacks perpetrated by Russian groups against several European Union member states.In a note disseminated on its Telegram channel,...
Fránkfurt airport has revised downwards its passenger estimate for 2026, aligning it with the volumes forecast for 2025, around 63.2 million users. This revision implies lowering the previously set range, which placed the influx between 65 and 66 million travelers.This was explained by Fraport's CEO, Stefan Schulte, after the main...
Helsing, the German firm specializing in artificial intelligence-based defense technology, has obtained 1.8 billion dollars (1.58 billion euros) in a Series E funding round, which places the 'startup's' valuation at around 18 billion dollars (15.58 billion euros).As the company has explained, the capital injection will allow for the acceleration of...
A second US citizen infected with Ebola has been evacuated from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to Germany to be treated in a specialized center, almost two months after a first patient from the United States was transferred to the same European country following the outbreak declared in mid-May...
A German court has ruled against a married couple of Iraqi origin for the enslavement of two Yazidi minors and their integration into the jihadist group Islamic State, holding them responsible for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.The man has been sentenced to life imprisonment, while his wife faces...
The German Minister of Foreign Affairs, Johann Wadephul, has announced the launch of a "Franco-German initiative" aimed at contributing to the stabilization of the situation in Lebanon, a country he considers key to addressing the war in Iran.In an interview with the newspaper 'Tagesspiegel', Wadephul indicated that he is confident...
The Chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz, has conveyed to the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, his condolences for the deceased and the people affected by the fire declared in the Almerian municipality of Los Gallardos, which for now has caused 12 deaths and has burned more than 6,000 hectares.Merz...
The German Ministry of Defense has announced that the process of early withdrawal of the reduced contingent of soldiers deployed in Erbil, capital of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, has already begun, given the imminent departure of United States troops scheduled for next September.According to a spokesperson for the...
The German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, stated this Thursday that Washington has given its approval for the sale of 'Tomahawk' medium-range cruise missiles to Germany, thus clearing up existing doubts about a potential deployment of this weaponry."We are closing a significant strategic gap in our defense capabilities," Merz emphasized, detailing that,...
The Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine stated this Thursday that, for the moment, the involvement of the Ukrainian state in the explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea has not been proven, nor that it had issued orders or instructions for it, despite...
A German court ordered this Thursday the pre-trial detention of two Iraqi citizens, arrested for their alleged integration into the Islamic State for more than ten years."The Federal Public Prosecutor's Office arrested the Iraqi citizens yesterday, July 8, under arrest warrants issued by the investigating judge of the Federal Court...
At least two people have been seriously injured this Wednesday in a shooting that occurred at the Welfen high school, located in the town of Schongau, in the Upper Bavaria region, in southern Germany, according to German security forces.The two victims were immediately evacuated to a nearby hospital and, for...
A German court has imposed a life sentence this Wednesday on a doctor specializing in palliative care for the murder of 15 patients. The sentence also includes a lifetime ban from practicing medicine, after judges described him as a "serial killer".The ruling by the Berlin Regional Court imposes the maximum...
The Justice of the Czech Republic has authorized the extradition to Germany of the neo-Nazi Marla Svenja Liebich, 55, where she was sentenced in 2023 to one and a half years in prison for hate crimes, defamation, and slander.Liebich was arrested on April 9 in the Czech town of Luby,...
Germany's industrial production advanced in May by 0.9% compared to the previous month, when it had already registered an increase of 0.2%. Thus, it marks two consecutive months of growth, in a context marked by the conflict in the Middle East, and manages to beat market consensus forecasts.According to data...
The spokesman for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Esmaeil Baqaei, claimed this Monday that Germany must assume responsibility for its "complicity in the military aggression against Iran" and for the costs derived from its "active participation" in said offensive.In a message disseminated on social media about the war in...
Orders received by Germany's manufacturing industry rose by 1.9% in May compared to April, a month in which a decrease of 3.2% had been recorded, according to provisional data released by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis).If orders of very high value are excluded, new orders from German factories were 1%...
The German Foreign Minister, Johann Wadephul, has repudiated this Sunday as "totally inappropriate" the recent statements by his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan, in which he describes Israel as a "common problem" for all of humanity.In a conversation with the Turkish branch of the CNN network, Fidan stated that both "Israeli...
Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla were re-elected this Saturday without major upsets at the head of the co-presidency of the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD), currently leading in national voting intention polls and a few months away from regional elections in which they aspire to consolidate their lead in...
Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla were re-elected this Saturday without major upsets at the head of the co-presidency of the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD), currently leading in national voting intention polls and a few months away from regional elections in which they hope to consolidate the leadership reflected...
Two days after the massive Russian missile attack on Kyiv, in which 30 people died, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, held a telephone conversation with the German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, focused on Ukraine's urgent air defense needs."Missiles for Patriot systems are currently the top priority," Zelenskyy said on social media...
Around 20,000 people have gathered this Saturday in Erfurt to show their rejection of the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD), coinciding with the congress that the formation is holding in the capital of the state of Thuringia.The protests have been organized in a decentralized manner and attendees have blocked...
The Kremlin has interpreted the recent formal accusation in Germany against a Ukrainian citizen for his alleged involvement in the planning of the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline as a confirmation of "the involvement of the Kiev regime" and of what Moscow had been denouncing "from the beginning of...
German Justice has considered prolonged border controls contrary to the law after studying the demand of three individual cases, casting doubt on their compatibility with the Schengen area of free movement, although at the same time it has rejected a request to immediately suspend these measures.A court in Munich has...
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has once again lashed out this Thursday at the distribution of defense spending within NATO, emphasizing that Washington assumes a much greater effort than European partners such as the United Kingdom, France, Italy, or Germany.In a message disseminated on social networks, the...