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German airport security staff begin one-day strike

German airport security staff begin one-day strike

January 15th, 2019 FRANKFURT, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Security staff at eight German airports went on strike on Tuesday in an escalating pay dispute that means up to 220,000 passengers could be affected by delays or cancellations, airport association ADV said. Security workers at the smaller Hamburg, Hanover and Bremen airports downed tools from midnight...

German airport security staff strike hits more than 600 flights

German airport security staff strike hits more than 600 flights

January 10th, 2019 BERLIN, Jan 10 (Reuters) - More than 640 flights in Germany were cancelled on Thursday due to security staff strikes at Duesseldorf, Cologne and Stuttgart airports in a bid to put pressure on management in wage talks. Out of 1,054 scheduled flights in total, 643 were cancelled, the airports said, adding that many of its passengers...

Ten hurt as car ploughs into bus stop in western Germany - police

Ten hurt as car ploughs into bus stop in western Germany - police

December 20th, 2018 A car ploughed into a bus stop in the western German town of Recklinghausen on Thursday and the driver and nine other people had been injured, police said. It is not yet clear what caused the crash, police said. One person was seriously injured. Germany has been on high alert since December 2016, when a failed Tunisian asylum...

Long-distance rail traffic in Germany halted due to strike

Long-distance rail traffic in Germany halted due to strike

December 10th, 2018 Rail workers in Germany staged a four-hour strike over pay on Monday morning, bringing long-distance rail traffic to a standstill and disrupting commuter and freight trains, state-owned rail operator Deutsche Bahn said. The company said that regional train traffic, too, was significantly affected across Germany, with only a few...

Merkel protege seeks to unite German CDU after divisive leadership battle

Merkel protege seeks to unite German CDU after divisive leadership battle

December 8th, 2018 Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the new leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats, sought to bind the party together after a divisive leadership battle by promoting a rival's ally to a key post on Saturday. Delegates from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) elected Kramp-Karrenbauer, 56, on Friday to replace Merkel as...

Factbox: Candidates to succeed Merkel as CDU party leader

Factbox: Candidates to succeed Merkel as CDU party leader

October 30th, 2018 German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she will not seek re-election as leader of the centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) at a congress in December. Merkel, 64, also ruled out running for a fifth term as chancellor in 2021. Several CDU politicians have announced bids to succeed Merkel as party leader. Here are some facts about...

Nurse goes on trial in Germany over 100 patient deaths

Nurse goes on trial in Germany over 100 patient deaths

October 30th, 2018 A nurse serving a life sentence for two murders has gone on trial on charges that he killed a further 100 patients at two hospitals in Germany. The murder charges against Niels Hoegel, 41, stem from his time at a hospital in the north-western city of Oldenburg between 1999 and 2002 and at another hospital in nearby Delmenhorst from...

Merkel will not seek re-election as CDU party chair (Update 2)

Merkel will not seek re-election as CDU party chair (Update 2)

October 29th, 2018 German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday she would not seek re-election as party chairwoman and that her fourth term as chancellor would be her last, heralding the end of a 13-year era in which she has dominated European politics. Merkel, 64, has been chairwoman of her conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) since 2000 and...

German SPD leader gives Merkel an ultimatum after state vote losses

German SPD leader gives Merkel an ultimatum after state vote losses

October 29th, 2018 Chancellor Angela Merkel's junior coalition partners gave her conservatives until next year to deliver more policy results, threatening to end their alliance if there is no improvement after both parties suffered in a regional election on Sunday. Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) came home first in the election in the...

Turkey's Erdogan, in Berlin, pledges EU visa push

Turkey's Erdogan, in Berlin, pledges EU visa push

September 28th, 2018 Turkey aims to win easier access to the European Union for its citizens, President Tayyip Erdogan said in Berlin on Friday. On the second day of a state visit aimed at patching cracks in Turkey's relationship with Germany and the EU, Erdogan said his government would move to meet the EU's criteria for achieving visa...

Denmark shuts links to Sweden, Germany in police hunt (Update 2)

Denmark shuts links to Sweden, Germany in police hunt (Update 2)

September 28th, 2018 Danish police said they briefly shut bridges and ferry links to Sweden and Germany on Friday as they hunted for a black Volvo and three people linked to a serious crime, that one newspaper reported was a kidnapping. Denmark's armed forces said they also took part in the operation, without going into further detail. Police said they...

Germany's left eyes revival in new grassroots movement

Germany's left eyes revival in new grassroots movement

August 30th, 2018 Bidding to stem the rise of the far-right AfD, Germany's left next week launches a grassroots movement aimed at emulating the success of Britain's Momentum group which propelled hardliner Jeremy Corbyn to the leadership of the Labour Party. Commentators are sceptical about its prospects, dismissing it as a vanity project...

German far-right protesters clash with leftists after Chemnitz stabbing

German far-right protesters clash with leftists after Chemnitz stabbing

August 28th, 2018 Far-right demonstrators clashed with leftist protesters in the eastern German city of Chemnitz on Monday after an Iraqi and a Syrian were arrested over a fatal stabbing that had triggered violent demonstrations. Police said they brought in water cannons after fireworks were thrown from both sides, causing injuries. State and local...

Hundreds evacuated as forest fire sends smoke over Berlin

Hundreds evacuated as forest fire sends smoke over Berlin

August 24th, 2018 Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes as around 600 firefighters battled a blaze in a forest strewn with unexploded ammunition south of Berlin on Friday and a pall of acrid smoke hung over the city. Attempts to fight the fire were complicated by the presence of the ammunition thought to date from the Soviet Army's...

Khedira wants to continue international career

Khedira wants to continue international career

August 16th, 2018 Germany veteran midfielder Sami Khedira said on Thursday he was eager to keep playing for the national team despite the former world champions' World Cup fiasco this year. Khedira, 31, part of Germany's 2014 World Cup winner, was among a number of players sharply criticised for their performances in Russia in June after Germany...

Turkey arrests another German citizen - source (Update)

Turkey arrests another German citizen - source (Update)

August 16th, 2018 Turkish police have arrested another German citizen, a German foreign ministry source said on Thursday, and public broadcaster ARD said the man had been accused of "terrorist propaganda" after criticising the Turkish government on social media. The arrest comes after German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas urged Ankara on Monday to do more...

Former cycling champ Ullrich arrested for attack on prostitute

Former cycling champ Ullrich arrested for attack on prostitute

August 10th, 2018 German police have detained former cyclist and Tour de France champion Jan Ullrich for attacking and injuring a prostitute in a Frankfurt luxury hotel, a police spokeswoman said. Ullrich was under the influence of alcohol and drugs when police detained him on suspicion of assault causing grievous bodily harm, the spokeswoman...

German businesses suffering as US sanctions and tariffs bite

German businesses suffering as US sanctions and tariffs bite

August 9th, 2018 German companies are increasingly suffering from US President Donald Trump's policy of sanctions - including those against Iran - and the tariffs he is pursuing in an escalating trade war with China, business associations said on Thursday. Washington said on Wednesday it would also impose fresh sanctions on Russia by the end of August...

Islamist suspect detained in Germany tested ricin on hamster

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Islamist suspect detained in Germany tested ricin on hamster

August 3rd, 2018 A Tunisian detained in Germany on suspicion of planning an Islamist-motivated attack produced ricin and tested the lethal toxin on a hamster, prosecutors said on Friday. The 29-year-old man, who was arrested in June, is suspected of building a "biological weapon" with ricin, a poison found in castor beans, the Federal Prosecutor's...

Ministry steps in to pay for treatment of Paphos teen traffic victim

Ministry steps in to pay for treatment of Paphos teen traffic victim

July 27th, 2018 By Bejay Browne The ministry of health has stepped in to cover the hefty costs of travel to Germany and rehabilitation and recovery of a Paphos teenager who was seriously injured in a road accident in March. President Nicos Anastasiades personally called the family of 18-year-old Charalambos Leantzis from Geroskipou to convey the...

Arrest warrant issued for man suspected of knife attack on German bus

Arrest warrant issued for man suspected of knife attack on German bus

July 21st, 2018 A German court has issued an arrest warrant for a German-Iranian man suspected of carrying out a knife attack on a bus in the northern city of Luebeck but there is no indication that it was a terrorist attack, police and prosecutors said on Saturday. Police said the 34-year-old German citizen wounded 10 people in the attack on Friday...

Injuries, some serious, after suspected knife attack in Germany

Injuries, some serious, after suspected knife attack in Germany

July 20th, 2018 At least 14 people were wounded, two of them seriously, in a suspected knife attack on a bus in the northern German city of Luebeck on Friday, the local Luebecker Nachrichten newspaper reported, adding that the suspect had been caught. A police spokesman told regional broadcaster NDR that nobody had been injured in the...

Merkel vows to stay in job, work at 'under pressure' US relationship

Merkel vows to stay in job, work at 'under pressure' US relationship

July 20th, 2018 Chancellor Angela Merkel, vowing to stay in office despite challenges at home and abroad, said she would work on Germany's "under pressure" relationship with the United States but that Washington could no longer be relied on to deliver world order. In a wide-ranging news conference, Merkel described Germany's relationship with the...

Germany part funded bi-communal glossary

Germany part funded bi-communal glossary

July 13th, 2018 Germany’s contribution to a bi-communal glossary prepared under the wing of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) was €25,000, the German ambassador to Cyprus said on Friday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, ambassador Franz Josef Kremp said he supported the idea of the glossary, saying “it will...

Abrasive Trump demands allies double Nato spending

Abrasive Trump demands allies double Nato spending

July 11th, 2018 By Jeff Mason, Sabine Siebold and Robin Emmott US President Donald Trump accused Germany on Wednesday of being a "captive" of Russia due to its energy reliance in a startling outburst before a Nato summit where he pressed allies to more than double spending on their own defence. Having lambasted Nato members for...

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