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News Articles: Germany

Germany's new Intercity Express train is seen in Berlin prior to its official presentation by railway operator Deutsche Bahn, on Oct. 17.

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  • Europe

Germany's train service is one of Europe's worst. How did it get so bad?

You won't arrive on time and may not even get a seat. Your booking might get lost. Things have gotten so dire that a foreigner has been brought in to shake things up.

December 12, 2025
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By:
  • Esme Nicholson
President Trump speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, Tuesday, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio (left) and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth look on.

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  • World

Trump's security strategy slams European allies and asserts U.S. power in the Americas

The Trump administration has set forth a national security strategy that paints European allies as weak and aims to reassert America's dominance in the Western Hemisphere.

December 05, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Zohran Mamdani celebrates during an election night event at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater in Brooklyn, New York, on Nov. 4, as New Yorkers elected him their next mayor.

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  • Europe

Europe's left is energized after Mamdani's successful campaign for New York mayor

The New York mayor-elect's victory has motivated the European left, with politicians casting themselves as their country's version of Mamdani, and strategists eager to study how he won.

December 04, 2025
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By:
  • Fatima Al-Kassab
Mohammed Abu Daqqa, a 31-year-old Palestinian who left Gaza, scrolls through images on his phone at a refugee welcome center in Germany. He describes how he rode a jet ski across the Mediterranean to take refuge in Europe, and is determined to get his family out of Gaza.

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  • World

He left Gaza and fled to Europe on a jet ski. Now he hopes to bring his family

In an extraordinary journey, a Palestinian man used a jet ski to cross the Mediterranean Sea and reach Europe after he fled the war in Gaza.

November 24, 2025
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By:
  • Ruth Sherlock and
  • Tony Colapinto
A man in a wetsuit surfs on the Eisbach wave in Munich's English Garden on Oct. 7, 2025, about a month before the wave vanished.

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  • World

Surf's down! Munich, until now an inland surfing hotspot, has lost its biggest wave

Munich's famous river wave, the Eisbachwelle, vanished after a dredging in early November. Authorities are working to resurrect the beloved wave but impatient surfers have also tried their own methods.

November 20, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Schmitz
The Rhône Glacier in Switzerland is the source of the Rhône River, which flows through Switzerland and France. Swiss glaciers like this one are melting quickly, reduced by nearly two-thirds of their ice over the past century.

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  • Europe

Melting glaciers mean an uncertain future for Europe's rivers

Europe is warming faster than any continent. That's speeding up glacial melt, which is already threatening Europe's largest rivers.

September 15, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Schmitz
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz attends a news conference after a meeting with Jordan's King Abdullah II at the chancellery in Berlin, July 29.

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  • World

Germany halts its military exports that Israel could use in Gaza

Germany will stop exporting military equipment to Israel that could be used in the Gaza Strip, in a swift response to Israel's decision to expand its operations in the Palestinian enclave's main city.

August 08, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Schmitz
Demonstrators participate in an event called "Show the flag: For queer visibility in the Bundestag!" in front of the Reichstag building that houses Germany's lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, in Berlin, on July 8. The conservative president of the Bundestag said the rainbow flag would no longer be raised on top of the parliament building during Pride month, which in Germany runs from June 28 until July 27.

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  • Europe

Germany sees anti-Pride events and restricts rainbow flags ahead of LGBTQ+ parties

The head of parliament banned the rainbow flag from the legislative building. Far-right groups have rallied against the LGBTQ+ community and attacks are on the rise. It all casts a shadow over Pride.

July 25, 2025
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By:
  • Esme Nicholson
Iran's deputy foreign minister, Kazem Gharibabadi, then the country's envoy in Vienna, awaiting the start of the International Atomic Energy Agency board of governors meeting in Vienna, Austria, Nov. 21, 2019.

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  • World

European countries are set for Iran talks, but expectations for a breakthrough are low

Germany, France and the United Kingdom will hold talks with Iran in Istanbul Friday, just days after the three European nations warned they would reimpose stiff sanctions on Tehran.

July 24, 2025
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By:
  • Jackie Northam
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz attends a news conference at the chancellery in Berlin, May 28.

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  • Europe

Trump will meet German Chancellor Merz at the White House. Here's what to know

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is set to meet President Trump at the White House, where they are expected to discuss issues including the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, as well as tariffs and trade.

June 05, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Schmitz
A still from a documentary film shows a U.S. soldier reaching out to outstretched hands of prisoners of the liberated Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, in then West Germany, in April 1945, during World War II.

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  • World

Dachau's memorial marks 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp

The Dachau memorial is hosting commemorative events and dedicating a plaque in honor of the U.S. Army's 45th Infantry Division that first encountered prisoners alive at the camp 80 years ago.

April 29, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Schmitz
Demonstrators protest in Berlin against the possible deportation of four foreign pro-Palestinian activists from Germany on April 7. The four, including two from Ireland, one from Poland and one from the United States, face order to leave relating to their participation in a protest at Berlin's Free University last year over Israel's invasion of Gaza. City authorities have ordered the four to leave Germany or face deportation.

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  • World

Germany seeks to deport an American and 3 EU citizens after pro-Palestinian protest

The four individuals — from Ireland, Poland and the U.S. — face possible deportation but say German authorities haven't made clear what crimes they've committed. They're appealing the orders.

April 20, 2025
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By:
  • Fatima Al-Kassab
German opposition leader and Christian Democratic Union party chairman Friedrich Merz, right, speaks during a debate about loosening the country's debt rules in the Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday.

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  • World

German lawmakers approve huge defense and infrastructure spending

Germany's would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers' approval to loosen strict debt rules for higher defense spending as doubts mount about the strength of the trans-Atlantic alliance.

March 18, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
People queue in long lines in departure hall C at Rhine-Main Airport, Frankfurt, Germany on Sunday, a day ahead of a planned strike across Germany amid new contract negotiations.

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  • Europe

Surprise strike at Germany's Hamburg Airport affects more than 40,000 passengers

The walkout, which reportedly took place with only about a half-hour advance notice, came before a broader series of preannounced strikes across 13 airports in Germany on Monday.

March 10, 2025
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By:
  • The Associated Press
People walk past a truck with an election campaign poster featuring Friedrich Merz, leader of conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), in Oberhausen, Germany, on Feb. 21.

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  • World

Here's what to know about Germany's election this Sunday

An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on the minds of German voters. The far-right AfD is polling in second place.

February 22, 2025
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By:
  • Rob Schmitz
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