The Latest Breaking News from Germany

Concerns about new Omicron offshoot in England; France to bring in strict restrictions for unvaccinated people

Berlin is ruling out arms deliveries to Ukraine in the standoff with Russia for now, German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht said in an interview published on Saturday, a few days after Britain started supplying Kyiv with anti-tank weapons. A bipartisan group of US senators also promised weapons to Ukraine, which…

Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his Social Democrats are pushing ahead with one of their key election promises by increasing the national minimum wage to 12 euros ($13.62) per hour from October onwards, a draft law seen by Reuters showed on Friday.

On January 13, in the first European trial against a high-ranking Syrian regime official, a former senior intelligence officer was sentenced to life in prison in Germany for crimes against humanity. Former head of interrogation at a detention centre in Damascus, Anwar Raslan was found guilty on 4,000 counts of…

Two men suspected by Germany of assisting an Islamist gunman, who killed four people in Vienna in 2020, used the major cryptocurrency exchange Binance, German federal police said in a confidential letter seeking information from the company.

In September 1938, Britain, Germany, Italy and France met in Munich as a new European war loomed. Hitler was demanding to annex the Sudetenland in western Czechoslovakia so in a bid to avoid war the Four Powers Agreement was signed and Czechoslovakia would surrender its border regions and defences. British…

By Michael Sassano, CEO of Somai Pharmaceuticals Germany Recreational Cannabis is Close.

Intel Corp (NASDAQ:INTC) looks to spend $20 billion on a chipmaking hub on the outskirts of Columbus, Ohio, Time reports. Intel will build at least two semiconductor fabrication plants. The hub will likely grow to be the world's biggest silicon-manufacturing site. Intel will begin constructing two fabrication plants on a 1,000-acre site…

Germany reported a record 140,160 new coronavirus cases on Friday as the country's health minister warned the country could see at least 400,000 per day by mid-February.