2 week agoUkrainian soldiers assigned to the 1st Tank Company, 14th Mechanized Brigade complete the Defensive Operations Lane during the Strong Europe Tank Challenge
German Chancellor Angela Merkel expects a "contentious" G7 summit given differences with US President Donald Trump on trade, climate and security
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2 week agoI expect we will agree that our new Joint Force Command for the Atlantic will be based at Norfolk in the US and that our new Enabling Command will be based in Ulm, Germany - NATO SG @jensstoltenberg
German police give all clear after Berlin school alarm
2 week agoGesundbrunnen: Police speaker says situation is likely "not dangerous" but cannot be declared "completely safe" yet, the school is being thoroughly searched. Children are still being evacuated, area still cordoned
2 week agoAccording to police speaker: At 10 in the morning they got a phone call saying that two "suspicious" looking people were going into this Berlin school. 100 police officers have been deployed, evacuation still under way, but it does not look like a "dangerous situation."
Gesundbrunnen: Berlin police say "suspicious people" who were reportedly seen entering the primary school have not yet been detained. German special police unit, SEK, also aiding operation.
2 week agoGesundbrunnen: At an evacuated primary school in Berlin, a mother was held back after attempting to run through a police cordon. @PolizeiBerlin said the operation was in response to a potentially "dangerous situation."
Gesundbrunnen: Police say the ongoing operation at a Berlin primary school was prompted by a call from someone outside the school. The caller reportedly saw two "suspicious people" enter the building.
2 week agoStudents and teachers are being evacuated from a school in Berlin Gesundbrunnen - We still don't know what exactly happened. Family members around us ask the police to let them through. According to @polizeiberlin some parents are already allowed to see their children.
2 week agoPolice in Berlin have cordoned off primary school in Wedding district due to potentially 'dangerous situation'
Germany: no question of Russia rejoining G7
Germany says don't know if will get a communique at G7 summit
Merkel, Netanyahu agree Iran is a concern for Israel's security
Netanyahu says at a press conference with Merkel he will meet with U.S. ambassador to Germany Rick Grenell at the airport in Berlin later todat at the latter's request
U.S. envoy's remarks to right-wing website provoke German backlash
German government spokesperson strongly criticizes @AfD leader Gauland, who at the weekend played down the Nazi era as a 'bird shit' in German history. @RegSprecher Seibert said "it is disgraceful that we have to address such statements by a member of the German parliament"
German Chancellor Angela Merkel dismissed the Italian government's calls to the European Central Bank for debt forgiveness
Five big cats escaped from a zoo in western Germany have been found and recaptured after a search involving a drone, officials told German media
Animals that escaped their enclosures in a zoo in western Germany - including two lions, two tigers and a jaguar - have been caught, sources tell dpa.
Two lions, two tigers and a jaguar escape from German zoo: media
Spanish news agencies reporting German court to extradite Puigdemont to Spain, but court spokeswoman working directly with case denies report to us, says judges have not yet decided
U.S. military looking at deploying anti-missile system in Germany - sources
German prosecutors say they have applied to the German regional court in Schleswig for the extradition of former Catalan leader Carlos Puigdemont
Police in the western German town of Lüenebach order residents to stay inside their homes after 2 Lions, 2 Tigers, 1 Jagua broke out of a local zoo. One bear was shot after the escape.
German Economy Minister @PeterAltmaier says, the EU will give a strong and united answer to US tariffs - "possibly working more closely with Mexico and Canada."
3 week agoForeign Ministers of Ukraine and Germany have arrived at Mariupol
Ross was asked about a media report President Trump said he wants dramatic cutbacks in German cars in the US. Ross said: "I was not a party to any such conversation so I am not in a position to confirm it."
3 week agoGerman Air Force A-319 GAF879 - German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas landing at Kyiv
