The Latest Breaking News from Berlin

Putin’s close ally sparks WW3 fears, says the only acceptable outcome is the ‘Russian flag over Berlin’

He claims it is about security, but it's bigger than that.

We Got This Covered · Feb 3

'Hard to understand': Indian CEO says his US visa for an investor meeting got rejected for no reason

Dhananjay Yadav, an Indian CEO, shared his experience of being at the receiving end of random visa refusals and said his US visa was rejected in Delhi, though he had an invite for an investor meeting from a close friend who is also an investor. Yadav said he had studied…

The Times of India · Feb 3

Record harvest sparks mass giveaway of free potatoes across Berlin

From zoos to soup kitchens, people are hauling away tonnes of surplus spuds after the biggest crop in 25 years

The Guardian - UK · Jan 31

Germany offers €1 million reward to help catch far-left extremists behind Berlin’s biggest post-war blackout

The German government unveiled a raft of measures to tackle left-wing militancy on Tuesday, including data collection and storage

The Independent UK · Jan 27

Pierre Huyghe: Liminals review – terrifying quantum visions in a notorious Berlin club take seeing beyond believing

This towering display projected inside a former East German power plant-turned-techno stronghold is a gut-wobbling mythological journey – it will leave you unhinged

The Guardian - UK · Jan 27

Berlin honours Levi family with memorial 'stumbling stone' plaques

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, the victims of the Nazi regime are commemorated throughout Germany. At the same time, anti-semitism in the western European country and across the continent is rising at an alarming rate.

Euronews · Jan 27

Analysis: Promises unkept, lives lost — Iran's protests and global responsibility

Analysts agree Iran's regime decided on mass killings to survive protests driven by economic collapse, with clear orders for lethal force against unarmed demonstrators.

Euronews · Jan 27

Germany offers €1 million reward for information on Berlin power grid attack

Police are searching for members of the far-left "Vulkangruppe" or Volcano Group, which claimed responsibility for the blackout in early January.

Euronews · Jan 27

‘I saw the horrors’: how Australian journalists bore witness to the Holocaust

In the dying days of World War II, startling news about “horror camps” in Germany began to emerge, as Western war correspondents accompanied British and American forces advancing towards Berlin. During the liberation of the camps, soldiers and journalists, including 15 Australian journalists and two artists, encountered thousands of dead.…

The Conversation · Jan 26

‘Island of peace’: Israeli-Palestinian restaurant in Berlin to close – but live on as TV series

Kanaan, a symbol of dining across religious and political divides, will shut its doors ‘probably in March’, say owners

The Guardian - UK · Jan 23