A car struck a group of pedestrians in Berlin on Thursday, leaving several people injured in what authorities have described as an accident. According to a spokesperson for the Berlin fire brigade, some of the injured were children who sustained minor injuries, while an accompanying adult was seriously hurt, news agency Reuters reported. Emergency services…
After an intensive search, the police in Germany detained a suspect in a Friday stabbing attack at Berlin’s iconic Holocaust memorial that left one person seriously injured. The attack, two days before a pivotal national election, occurred in the labyrinth of concrete stelae that make up the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, located…
Horst Koehler, former German President from 2004 to 2010 and a respected global policymaker with a particular interest in Africa, died on Saturday after a short illness at the age of 81, the federal presidential office said in a statement. Born in 1943 in German-occupied Poland, Koehler spent most of his early years living in…
US billionaire Elon Musk is trying to exert influence over the German election taking place in February, a government spokesperson said on Monday. “It is indeed the case that Elon Musk is trying to influence the federal election,” with X posts and an opinion piece he wrote backing the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) over…