Activists tried to break into Tesla’s electric car factory in Germany just outside Berlin on Friday during a demonstration against a proposed plant expansion, according to police. So far, the demonstrators had not succeeded in accessing the Tesla plant grounds, a police spokesman told dpa on Friday afternoon, but had managed to overcome the first […]
German police broke up a protest by several hundred pro-Palestinian activists who had occupied a courtyard at Berlin’s Free University earlier in the day, the latest such action by authorities as protests that have stirred up campuses in the United States spread across Europe. The protesters had put up about 20 tents and formed a […]
An asteroid that tore through the atmosphere over Germany in January was spinning faster than any other near-Earth object ever recorded, new research suggests. The space rock, dubbed 2024 BX1, turned into a fireball and exploded over Berlin in the early hours of Jan. 21. Although small asteroids on collision courses with Earth are typically […]
Thousands of people took part in left-wing demonstrations to mark International Workers’ Day, or Labour Day, in Berlin, Hamburg and other German cities on Wednesday. The traditional rallies by workers and activists were held this year amid the backdrop of the tensions surrounding the war in Gaza. Germany has banned or restricted pro-Palestinian demonstrations over […]
A protest camp in Berlin’s government district voicing support for Palestinians and demanding an end to the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip has been banned by German police. About 150 police officers appeared at the 20 or so tents near the Chancellery in Berlin on Friday morning and demanded that the 20 or […]
Rishi Sunak praised Germany’s support for Ukraine during his first visit to Berlin as Britain’s prime minister. Britain stands alongside Germany “as the two biggest supporters of Ukraine” in Europe, the Conservative politician said on Wednesday. Sunak also applauded Scholz’s “historic decision” in 2022 to sharply increase defence spending, and Berlin’s recent announcement that it […]
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is to receive British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak for talks in Berlin on Wednesday. The topics of the meeting at the Chancellery will include mutual relations, the Russian war against Ukraine and the situation in the Middle East, deputy government spokeswoman Christiane Hoffmann said. This will be Sunak’s inaugural visit to […]
The German Foreign Office has summoned Iran’s ambassador following Tehran’s attack on Israel, a spokesman said on Monday afternoon. The conversation is currently taking place at the ministry, he said. Iran had summoned the German ambassador to Tehran on Sunday, the spokesman in Berlin noted. Iran had justified its summons with the “irresponsible positions” of […]
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and her French counterpart Stéphane Séjourné have called on the international community to provide urgent support for Sudan at the start of an aid conference on the northeast African country in Paris. One year after civil war erupted in the country, the Sudanese had become victims of being forgetten, in […]
Several hundred people gathered at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate on Sunday following a call from the German-Israeli Society to show solidarity with Israel following the Iranian attack overnight. Police in the German capital put the number at around 500 and said the event had passed off peacefully. Demonstrators held up placards reading “Hands off Israel” and […]
Following the cancellation of a controversial “Palestine Congress” planned for three days in Berlin, the city’s police were on Saturday prepared in force for spontaneous protests. Police on Friday broke up the pro-Palestinian conference in the Tempelhof area of Berlin and asked some 250 participants to leave the hall just two hours after the event […]
German police have broken up a pro-Palestinian conference in the capital Berlin and asked some 250 participants to leave the venue. Officers had already interrupted the event during a speech via video by an activist who is banned from political activity in Germany. When the man spoke police cut off the transmission and temporarily switched […]