German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has criticised Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip, stating that Germany will not yield to political pressure or be forced into automatic solidarity. Speaking in Berlin, Wadephul condemned the denial of essential supplies such as food and medicine to Gaza’s civilian population, calling it “completely unacceptable.” His remarks followed those…
Sixty years after forging ties in the shadow of the Holocaust, Germany and Israel are marking a diplomatic milestone with mutual visits by their heads of state. Israeli President Isaac Herzog is set to arrive in Berlin on Monday, followed by a return visit by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to Israel on Tuesday and Wednesday….
The German cabinet has strongly rejected criticism from U.S. Senator Marco Rubio regarding the decision by Germany’s domestic intelligence agency to classify the opposition Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as a right-wing extremist group. Rubio, speaking on Friday, described the move as “tyranny in disguise,” claiming that granting the agency expanded powers to surveil a…
More than a dozen schools remained closed in the western German city of Duisburg on Monday after receiving far-right threats. A total of 15 secondary schools were shut, with some 17,980 pupils affected, a spokeswoman for the district administration told dpa. Signs saying “school closed’’ had been put up at several of the affected institutions…
Germany is rushing measures to finance a huge hike in spending on defence and military aid for Ukraine through its outgoing parliament. The country scrambled to form a government amid signs of a dramatic shift in U.S. foreign policy. Germany cannot wait for the next Bundestag, the country’s lower house of parliament to come together…
Germany’s political elite is set to bid farewell to former president Horst Köhler with a funeral service and state ceremony at Berlin Cathedral on Tuesday. Köhler passed away in early February at the age of 81. Köhler was elected as Germany’s ninth president in 2004, succeeding Johannes Rau, and was re-elected for a second term…
The trial of three men accused of the failed extortion of the family of ex-Formula One racing driver Michael Schumacher is set to end with a verdict on Wednesday. Two of the defendants, a father and his son have already confessed at the Wuppertal district court in western Germany. The third, a former security employee…
German conservative leader Friedrich Merz on Tuesday accused Chancellor Olaf Scholz of stoking “class warfare’’ as rivals faced off in the final parliamentary session before national elections on Feb. 23. Germany’s lower house of parliament, Scholz said Merz’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance would lower taxes on the rich. Merz, In a major speech in the Bundestag,…
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is scheduled to visit the United Kingdom, Ireland and Germany in February where he will take part in the Munich Security Conference. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun said “member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi will visit the U.K….
The Universitätsmedizin Greifswald (UMG) in Germany, has partnered the National Blood Service Agency (NBSA) and Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH) to establish a national training center for transfusion medicine at AKTH. Abdullahi Haruna, Head of Media and Publicity, NBSA, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja. According to him, the partnership was part of “Towards…
