Three Iranian-Americans arrived in Germany after leaving Tehran on Sunday in a prisoner swap that followed the lifting of most international sanctions on Iran under a deal U.S. President Barack Obama said cut off Tehran's path to a nuclear bomb. In a sign of sustained readiness to track Iranian compliance with remaining...
Austria is set to use its army to stop refugees intending to transit through Germany and not apply for asylum there, as hundreds are being rejected at the German border. More than 1,000 migrants with forged IDs are being turned around at the Austrian border each week. The new regulations issued by the Austrian Defense Ministry...
Police in the German city of Leipzig made 211 arrests after far-right supporters vandalised buildings and burned vehicles on the fringes of an "anti-Islamisation" rally. The unrest came as thousands of activists protested peacefully. They blame Germany's record influx of refugees for sexual violence against women...
Police in Germany are investigating an alarming series of sexual assaults on women trying to celebrate the New Year by large groups of single men “of Arab or North African appearance”. Authorities in the city of Cologne are to hold a crisis meeting on Tuesday after police described a group of some 1,000 men who took...
The leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France on Wednesday had a telephone call in the so-called "Normandy format" to discuss the Donbas crisis and the implementation of the Minsk peace agreements in 2016, according to a statement by French President Francois Hollande's office, reports World.Corruption The...
Germany is withdrawing its Patriot missile systems from Turkey, about three years after bringing them in, according to Turkey's state-run Anadolu Agency. Sources from the Turkish port of Iskenderun said the Danish ship with the patriot missile systems left Turkey on Tuesday, Anadolu Agency reported. The ship is heading for...
Gas turbines of Germany-based Siemens Corporation, primarily SGT5-2000E, can become the solution for the problem of power generation in the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula, ZN.UA reported. Gas may become a major resource for power generation in Crimea, according to the report. In addition, two gas pipelines are planned to be...
The PI smart pillow beat back stiff competition from an exoskeleton, a virtual Chernobyl tour, an electronic wallet, a magic diet pill and many other inventions to win the right to represent Ukraine at the Falling Walls Lab in Berlin this November. Some 30 young scientists presented their inventions to the jury at the first...
Germany is to reintroduce some form of controls on its border with Austria to cope with the influx of migrants, BBC has reported. More than 13,000 migrants arrived into Munich alone on Saturday. Germany's authorities said the country was "at the limit of its capabilities," according to the report. Passport...
Germany will contribute to the financing of safety studies of mines in Donetsk and Luhansk regions in the anti-terrorist operation zone, said Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office in Ukraine Martin Sajdik after a meeting of the Tripartite Liaison Group in Minsk. Following the results of the meeting of...