Germany

Europe 11/29/21, 15:41

Left-leaning politicians want to create a new superstate called the United States of Europe. Three German political parties formed a coalition at the request of incoming Social Democratic Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Scholz, who replaces predecessor Angela Merkel, is already trying to rewrite European Union treaties to turn the bloc into a federal ...

United Kingdom 11/28/21, 16:35

A new coronavirus strain reached British, German, and Italian shores on Nov. 27. Authorities in all three countries have discovered their first Omicron variant cases. British health minister Sajid Javid confirmed two Britons tested positive after being exposed to infected passengers who traveled to southern Africa. United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris ...

Europe 11/18/21, 15:44

One of the world's largest Roman silver coin collections has been unearthed. More than 15 kilograms (33 pounds) of 1st and 2nd Century currency was discovered in Augsburg, Germany. The University of Tübingen's Institute for Classical Archaeology is examining five containers filled with Roman treasure. A preliminary count found more than 5500 ...

Europe 11/18/21, 15:04

German Chancellor Angela Merkel in an interview Wednesday, Nov. 17, said although intellectual property could be an issue, it is not time for Europe and Germany to stop cooperating with China yet. "Total decoupling wouldn’t be right in my view, it would be damaging for us," she told Reuters, while also ...

News 09/23/21, 06:36

Germany will discontinue financing unvaccinated workers placed into isolation after coronavirus exposure, Health Minister Jens Spahn announced on Wednesday, Sept. 22. According to Reuters, Spahn said it’s unjust to compel taxpayers to subsidize people who refuse to get inoculated. “It’s about fairness,” Spahn said. “Those who protect themselves and others via a ...

Europe 09/15/21, 17:32

On Wednesday, Sept. 15, the Vatican's highest authority rejected the resignation of the archbishop of Hamburg, who has serious allegations of sexual abuse. The German Catholic Church is facing a world-scale scandal over allegations that during 2018 alone, 3677 people were reported to have been sexually abused under the complicity ...

Europe 09/03/21, 22:07

Many countries have made vaccination mandatory for healthcare and public-sector workers, and some businesses, particularly in the United States, have begun requiring that their employees be vaccinated.However, due of Germany's history of Nazi and Communist state surveillance of citizens, the country's data privacy rules are strict, and businesses have no ...

Europe 08/31/21, 15:25

It is likely that 80% of the COVID-19 deaths reported in Germany by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) are attributable to other causes, says the director of the independent health research institute IGES in Berlin, Dr. Bertram Häussler. "We have determined that in a good 80% of the official COVID-19 deaths ...

Europe 08/22/21, 18:57

A major Air Force command confirmed a passenger gave birth to a baby girl aboard a U.S. military evacuation flight on Aug. 21. U.S. Air Mobility Command confirmed the C-17 transport aircraft safely arrived at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, carrying a tiny extra passenger. An Afghan woman went into labor while ...

Europe 08/20/21, 18:19

Research in Germany reveals the controversial cultivation of hundreds of "mini-brains" from stem cells, which in their development even form "functionally integrated bilateral optic vesicles " (OVB).  These OVB organoids then progressively developed bilaterally symmetric optic vesicles, with their respective neuronal and non-neuronal cell types, according to the study published on ...

Trending 08/06/21, 17:55

The director of the Pathological Institute of the University of Heidelberg, Peter Schirmacher, was alarmed after performing an autopsy on 40 people who died within two weeks of vaccination against the COVID-19 or CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus.  Schirmacher warns that 30 percent to 40 percent of those people would have ...

News 08/05/21, 17:42

Germany's most prominent newspaper "Bilde" apologizes for hurting people with its "scary" coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic over the past 18 months and especially apologized to children for making them feel they were "like poison" and "a mortal danger to society," according to Great Game India. During a video posted on ...

Europe 07/25/21, 19:13

Crushing and gassing male chicks will be considered illegal in France from 2020 onwards, the country's agriculture minister announced on July 19.  "France is the first country in the world, along with Germany, to end the crushing and gassing of male chicks," said France Agriculture Minister Julien Denormandie in an interview ...

Europe 07/18/21, 21:51

Flash floods and overflowing rivers destroyed houses and ripped up highways and electricity lines in western Germany and Belgium. Reuters confirmed at least 170 people have died as of July 17. The figure includes 143 deaths that local police counted in Germany, making it the country's worst natural disaster in more ...

Europe 07/17/21, 19:26

More than 160 people died and 1,300 more went missing in Germany and Belgium when catastrophic floods blasted streams and streets into roaring torrents that swept cars away and drove buildings to collapse on Thursday, July 15. Just days before the floods hit, an"extreme flood warning' was issued by a European ...

Europe 07/17/21, 18:01

After fractures appeared in the dam holding back the neighboring Steinbach reservoir, the communities of Euskirchen, Germany, were relocated, with 4,500 people being told to vacate their residences. A massive amount of water was discharged into the lake after heavy rains that wreaked havoc on the area. Experts have cautioned that ...

Europe 07/12/21, 16:17

The municipality of Anhalt-Bitterfeld, in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, declared a catastrophe, following the worst cyberattack on the country perpetrated by hackers. The federal cybersecurity watchdog confirmed the incursion that crippled the municipality's systems, and experts believe it could take at least a week to repair the damage, according to ...

News 07/03/21, 17:21

According to German authorities, people who have received a first dose of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccination should switch to a different type of vaccine for their second shot.On Friday, July 2, the German authorities encouraged people to get their second shot from either Pfizer or Moderna. The goal is to ...

Europe 06/24/21, 05:46

Everyone knows how adorable puppy dog eyes are, but have you ever swooned over a puppy dog's eyebrows? With her lovely features and expressive "eyebrows," this English bulldog is beyond cute. Madam Eyebrows is an English Bulldog who lives in Germany. She was born with two spots above her eyes that ...

Politics 06/23/21, 02:35

Munich's mayor vows to celebrate the LGBT community by putting up rainbow-colored flags and having multiple places in its area lit up in rainbow lights in response to the Union of European Football Association (UEFA)’s decision to keep the Allianz Arena out from being a stage for a political demonstration. Before ...