German president warns against demonising Russia

Merkel looks at ways to tackle Germany's east-west disparities

NATO SNMG2 German Navy Type 123 Brandenburg class frigate FGS Bayern F217 southbound Chios Strait in Aegean Sea, yesterday 12/4 afternoon.

German government spokesman says Germany will do everything it can to maintain political pressure on Russia over Syria

Chris Dercon (formerly Tate Modern) resigns as director of Berlin's Volksbühne threatre. His appointment was greeted with widespread protests from those who viewed it as another sign of city selling out to commercial interests

German national kidnapped in western Niger: attorney general

Merkel says Germany "understands and supports" that "everything" done to demonstrate chemical weapons use in Syria not acceptable

Chancellor Angela Merkel says the German government will not participate in any military strike on Syria, according to @dpa

Merkel: It seems clear that Syria has not destroyed its stockpiles of chemical weapons

Merkel: All actions should be studied on Syria and Berlin will not participate in any strikes

Foreign Minister of Germany: According to my information, no decision has yet been taken to launch a military strike against Syria

German Transatlantic Coodinator Peter Beyer tells that significant US military action in Syria in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack would be a last resort. That said, the attack in Douma "needs an answer," he added.

"I made a mistake with my tweet about Münster and I'm sorry." A deputy leader of the far-right @AfD party, @Beatrix_vStorch, has distanced herself from tweets in which she suggested Merkel's open-door refugee policy was to blame after a man drove into a crowd Saturday

Jens Stoltenberg: Honoured to join Chancellor Merkel and Vice-Chancellor Scholz for the cabinet retreat at Meseberg. Germany is making great contributions to NATO and I count on continued German leadership

German warrant is for a British citizen wanted for smuggling and tax evasion, but the Spanish prosecutor's statement clearly, if indirectly, references Schleswig-Holstein decision on Puigdemont

President Poroshenko: We hope for the support of the joint proposal of Ukraine, Germany, France and USA on the introduction of peacekeepers in the occupied part of the Donbas

Volkswagen says considering board 'changes', may name new CEO

Merkel's wildcard appointment, new Family Minister Franziska Giffey, is only Cabinet member to talk to press outside cabinet retreat so far

Merkel says no Nord Stream 2 pipeline without transit role for Ukraine

Merkel: The truce does not hold, unfortunately. Germany will continue to help Ukraine

German Foreign Minister: Russia and Iran have not yet fulfilled their commitments in Syria

Ongoing talks between Poroshenko and Merkel

Lufthansa has cancelled more than half of its 1600 flights scheduled today, due to strikes at four German airports

Hundreds of flights canceled in Germany as airports hit by public sector strikes

Poroshenko started visit to Germany

Putin and Merkel stressed the importance of efforts to exchange "all for all" prisoners in the Donbass

Fake news circulated post-Münster: British tabloids (here @DailyMirror) name perp as Jens Handeln (Mirror also gets age wrong). Handeln prob comes from verb in German reports which said suspect 'soll es sich um Jens R. handeln' - translating as 'suspect is supposedly Jens R.'

German minister welcomes Orban victory in Hungarian election

German govt spokesman says Assad government would not be able to continue its military operations without Russia and Iran

Berlin police arrest six with links to the Tunisian Islamist who killed 12 people in the city in a December 2016 truck attack. The six were engaged in a 'city-endangering' terror plot - BBC News