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German news agency dpa reports that a man stabbed and wounded several people on a train in northern Germany before police detained him

Germany cleared the way on Wednesday for Europe to send scores of battle tanks to Ukraine and the United States prepared to make a similar announcement, moves hailed by Kyiv as a potential turning point in the war, and condemned by Moscow as escalation. Kyiv has been calling for months…

German news agency dpa is reporting that dozens of climate activists have glued themselves to a main street in the western Germany city of Cologne and to a state government building in Duesseldorf to protest the destruction of a village to make way for a coal mine expansion

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will appoint a regional official as the new defense minister following the resignation of the much-criticized Christine Lambrecht, the dpa news agency reported Tuesday. The defense minister-designate, Boris Pistorius, is a member of Scholz’ Social Democrats, and has been serving as interior minister of Lower Saxony…

German news agency dpa says Chancellor Olaf Scholz will appoint a regional official as the new defense minister following the resignation of the much-criticized Christine Lambrecht

German police have continued the clearance of a village that is to due be demolished to accommodate the expansion of a coal mine, with activists still holed up in one building, in tree houses and a tunnel

Police and prosecutors said the man and another person were detained overnight in the town of Castrop-Rauxel, northwest of Dortmund.

Mittermaier won West Germany’s only two gold medals at the 1976 Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Austria.

NATO countries will discuss their defence spending targets in the coming months as some of them call for turning a 2% target into a minimum figure, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told the German news agency DPA.