Nov 18 Watch 8:23 How right-wing extremists have infiltrated German security forces By Malcolm Brabant In Germany, prosecutors on Wednesday asked for life imprisonment for a right-wing extremist charged with killing two people outside a synagogue last year. The move comes amid growing calls to investigate neo-Nazi infiltration of the country’s security services -- which… Continue watching
Nov 18 Berlin police forcefully disperse protest over virus rules By David Rising, Associated Press German police fired water cannons Wednesday at demonstrators protesting coronavirus restrictions in Berlin's government district, after crowds ignored calls to wear masks and keep their distance from one another. Continue reading
Nov 07 The Latest: Italy hits record 39,800 daily coronavirus cases By Associated Press Here's what you need to know about the COVID-1p pandemic. Continue reading
Nov 03 Europe tightens restrictions as COVID-19 hospitalizations rise By Elena Becatoros, Associated Press Coronavirus have hit new daily highs this week in Russia, and Germany and the U.K. have announced plans to expand virus testing as European countries battle rapidly increasing infection and hospitalizations. Continue reading
Nov 02 Germany launches 4-week partial shutdown to curb coronavirus By Associated Press The restrictions that took effect Monday are milder than the ones Germany imposed in the first phase of the pandemic in March and April. Continue reading
Oct 28 France, Germany impose new lockdowns to curb virus spread By Frank Jordans, Angela Charlton, Associated Press The World Health Organization says the European region — which includes Russia, Turkey, Israel and Central Asia, according to its definition — accounted for almost half of the 2.8 million new coronavirus cases reported globally last week. Continue reading
Oct 14 Germany to give $662 million in aid to Holocaust survivors By David Rising, Associated Press Germany has agreed to provide more than a half billion euros to aid Holocaust survivors struggling under the burdens of the coronavirus pandemic. Continue reading
Sep 23 Russia’s Navalny released from German hospital after 32 days By David Rising, Daria Litvinova, Associated Press German chemical weapons experts have determined that he was poisoned with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok — findings corroborated by labs in France and Sweden. Continue reading
Sep 14 Poisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny able to leave his bed By Geir Moulson, Associated Press Germany announced that French and Swedish labs have confirmed its findings that Navalny was poisoned with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok. Continue reading
Sep 02 Germany says Russia’s Navalny poisoned with nerve agent By Associated Press Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the same type of Soviet-era nerve agent that British authorities identified in a 2018 attack on a former Russian spy. Continue reading