Police are treating a car-ramming at a Christmas market in Germany that killed at least five people as an attack.

Church bells rang out in the German city of Magdeburg exactly 24 hours after authorities say a man drove into a busy Christmas market, killing five people and injuring 200 others.

A prominent Russian opposition politician freed as part of the largest East-West civilian prisoner swap since the Cold War says that fears of his mother’s poisoning in Berlin have proven false.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has formally set Germany on course for an early election by requesting a confidence vote in parliament next week.

Nearly a decade after hundreds of thousands of Syrians arrived in Germany, many are now well-integrated and settled in jobs — and tens of thousands have gained German citizenship.

Germany and several other European countries said Monday they are suspending decisions on asylum claims by Syrian nationals because of the unclear situation in their homeland following the fall of Bashar Assad.

Germany’s new panda twins now have names — or rather, two names apiece.

Five sets of ancestral remains from Australia that had been in German museum collections since the 19th century have been handed back at a ceremony that a community representative described as a sad but “very joyful” moment.

In his sixth season as chief conductor, Kirill Petrenko is leading the Berlin Philharmonic on its 25th U.S. tour and second in three years.

Germany’s defense minister says officials have to assume that damage to two data cables under the Baltic Sea was caused by sabotage.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says the league is working “very hard” on bringing a game to Berlin in the future.

Germany has ordered the closure of all three Iranian consulates in the country in response to the execution of Iranian German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd, who lived in the United States and was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020 by Iranian security forces.

Volkswagen says significant cost cuts are urgently needed as it reports a steep decline in third-quarter earnings and faces employee representatives angry at the possibility of the automaker’s first plant closures in Germany.

Germany has protested to Iran over the execution of Iranian German prisoner Jamshid Sharmahd, who was kidnapped in Dubai in 2020 by Iranian security forces.

German authorities have arrested a Libyan national with suspected ties to the extremist Islamic State group who was allegedly planning an attack on the Israeli Embassy in Berlin.

President Joe Biden says the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar by Israeli troops is a “good day for Israel, for the United States, and for the world."

A nationwide recall of meat and poultry products potentially contaminated with listeria bacteria has expanded to nearly 12 million pounds.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says it’s important that allies’ aid to Ukraine doesn’t decrease next year.

A company is recalling nearly 10 million pounds of meat and poultry made at an Oklahoma plant because the products may be contaminated with listeria bacteria.

Former England coach Gareth Southgate says he's taking a year away from a club or national team job.

Germany's government says its economy is on track to shrink for a second consecutive year.

A top official with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party has announced his resignation, a year ahead of an election in which the center-left Social Democrats face an uphill struggle.

Four-time Grand Slam champion Carlos Alcaraz overcame Taylor Fritz in the deciding match as Team Europe rallied to beat Team World 13-11 and win the Laver Cup.

American pair Taylor Fritz and Ben Shelton have edged Carlos Alcaraz and Alexander Zverev in doubles to tie the Laver Cup after the first day in Berlin.

The döner kebab is beloved in Berlin.

German and Kenyan officials have signed an agreement to promote the recruitment of skilled Kenyan workers who can fill gaps in Germany’s labor market, and to facilitate the repatriation of Kenyans who don’t have the right to stay in Germany.

Salman Rushdie’s account of a stabbing attack that blinded him in one eye is among contenders announced Thursday for a prestigious nonfiction book prize.

Some Germans are worried about the future of their country after Alternative for Germany, or AfD, became the first far-right party to win a state election in post-World War II Germany.

The leaders of Germany and the United Kingdom plan to draw up a treaty meant to deepen the two nations’ trade, defense and other relations.

Germany’s newest panda twins are thriving at the Berlin Zoo.

Germany’s navy says there was "no deeper message” in the choice to blast the famed Imperial March — Darth Vader’s theme song in the “Star Wars” films — from one of its warships as it cruised down the River Thames through London.

The Berlin Zoo has much anticipated news: Meng Meng the panda is pregnant again, months after the first giant pandas born in Germany were sent to China.

After arriving in Germany as part of the massive East-West prisoner swap, Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin has hit the ground running.

A German federal court says it has rejected a former Syrian secret police officer’s appeal against his conviction for overseeing the abuse of detainees at a jail in his homeland.

When Washington and Moscow exchange prisoners, it usually comes after months of secret, back-channel negotiations.

Gareth Southgate is leaving his future as England manager open for now after his team’s 2-1 loss to Spain in the Euro 2024 final.

Spain and England will play the European Championship final on Sunday in an imposing stadium with a dark history.

Sports fans are getting ready for a Super Sunday.

Defending champion Italy has crashed out of the European Championship with a 2-0 defeat to Switzerland in Berlin.

Marcel Sabitzer scored late for Austria to advance to the knockout stage of the European Championship as group winner with a 3-2 victory over the Netherlands.

An ongoing fight between residents and animal rights activists over whether to cull pigeons in a small German town has led to an uproar.

The European Union’s top court says products such as disinfectants can’t be advertised as “skin friendly.”.

Veteran actor Ian McKellen says he is looking forward to returning to work after toppling off a London stage during a play and being hospitalized.

Spain has won a game by playing unlike Spain.

Elon Musk has dropped his lawsuit against OpenAI just ahead of a scheduled Wednesday hearing on the case.

When Germany hosted the 2006 World Cup, it unleashed an unexpected burst of national pride across the country.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appealed for short-term help in repairing his country’s electricity network and long-term investment in its energy system.

Projections show that Germany’s unpopular governing parties sank to feeble results and the far-right Alternative for Germany made gains in Sunday’s vote for the European Parliament, while the mainstream conservative opposition was the country’s strongest political force by a distance.

Germany has scrapped a requirement for its military servicepeople to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

President Emmanuel Macron has started the first state visit to Germany by a French head of state in 24 years.

When Makkabi Berlin became the first Jewish club to ever play in the German Cup last year, it was a moment of pure joy and pride for a team founded by Holocaust survivors.

The Bayreuth Festival in Germany has announced it is retaining Katharina Wagner as its director for another five years.

Russia wrapped itself in patriotic pageantry for Victory Day, as President Vladimir Putin celebrated the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II by hailing his forces in Ukraine and blasting the West for fueling conflicts around the world.

Campus protests by pro-Palestinian activists have spread across Europe as some call for a break in academic ties with Israel over the war in Gaza.

A major show of Caspar David Friedrich’s iconic landscapes that marks the 250th anniversary of his birth is opening in Berlin, where he made his breakthrough and where a 1906 exhibition kicked off an enduring revival of interest in the German Romantic master.

German lawmakers have approved legislation that will make it easier for transgender, intersex and nonbinary people to change their name and gender in official records.

China has announced rare sanctions against two U.S. defense companies over what it calls their support for arms sales to Taiwan.

Germany is strongly rejecting a case brought by Nicaragua at the United Nations’ top court accusing Berlin of facilitating breaches of the Geneva Convention and international humanitarian law by providing arms and other support to Israel in its deadly assault on Gaza.

Nicaragua is calling on the United Nations’ top court to halt German military aid to Israel, arguing that Berlin’s support enables acts of genocide and breaches of international humanitarian law in Gaza.

The United Nations’ top court is hearing a case on Monday that seeks an end of German military and other aid to Israel.

More than 250 Holocaust survivors have joined an international initiative to share their stories of loss and survival with students around the world during a time of rising antisemitism following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel that triggered the war in the Gaza Strip.

Germany has legalized the possession of small amounts of marijuana.

A union representing many of Germany's train drivers says it and the country's main railway operator have reached a deal in a long dispute over working hours and pay that was marked by a string of strikes.

A major European Union plan to fight climate change and better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc has been indefinitely postponed.

Millions of Germans have been protesting against the rise of the far-right in huge rallies all over the country for weeks in a row, attending events with slogans such as “Never Again is Now.”.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is basking in a victory that was never in doubt, as partial election results showed him easily securing a fifth term after facing only token challengers and harshly suppressing opposition voices.

A German court says former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn will go on trial in September on charges of fraud and market manipulation linked to the automaker’s diesel emissions scandal.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is visiting the electric car maker’s first European plant as production resumes at the factory just outside Berlin, about a week after a suspected arson attack cut its power supply.

A network operator says power has been restored to electric car manufacturer Tesla’s factory near Berlin after a nearly one-week outage believed to have been caused by arson.

Germany’s top prosecutor has taken over the investigation into an alleged arson attack on the power supply of the electric car company Tesla near Berlin.

German lawmakers have approved a government plan to liberalize rules on cannabis, paving the way for the country to decriminalize limited amounts of marijuana and allow members of “cannabis clubs” to buy it for recreational purposes.

Thousands of travelers across Germany have found themselves stranded after ground staff walked off the job at seven of the country’s biggest airports.

Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham play a convincing father and daughter in German director Julia von Heinz’ first English-language movie, “Treasure.”.

Amazon is arguing in a legal filing that the 88-year-old National Labor Relations Board is unconstitutional.

The jury at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival has pushed back on political questions as the festival kicked off, seeking instead to shift the focus to the tough selection of the best movie, with 20 titles from around the globe competing for the top prize, the Golden Bear.

The average American spends four hours and 25 minutes on their phone each day. Spending less screen time isn’t easy, but it can be done.

The French foreign ministry says it has summoned Russia’s ambassador over the deaths of two French nationals working for nongovernmental organizations in Ukraine.

At least 150,000 people gathered in front of the German national parliament in Berlin Saturday afternoon to protest against the far right, the latest in a string of large weekend demonstrations across Germany.

German lawmakers have approved cuts to fuel subsidies for farmers that prompted angry protests, along with a 2024 budget the government had to revamp after a court ruling blew a hole in its financial plans.

The foreign minister in Poland’s new pro-European Union government says he would like Germany’s leaders to think in a “creative” way about compensating Poland for the huge losses it suffered at German hands during World War II.

A group of climate activists who infuriated many in Germany by gluing themselves to streets to block traffic says it will abandon the tactic and move on to holding what it calls “disobedient assemblies.”.

President Joe Biden will host German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the White House on Feb. 9 as the West struggles to provide new aid for Ukraine in the war against Russia.

Swedish media say Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has agreed to meet with his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orbán, who invited Kristersson to Budapest to discuss Sweden’s accession into NATO.

France’s privacy watchdog has fined Amazon’s French warehouse business $35 million for using an “excessively intrusive system” to monitor worker performance and activity.

Germany’s highest court has ruled that a small far-right party will not get any state funding for the next six years because it’s values and goals are unconstitutional.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has sent a letter to his Swedish counterpart, Ulf Kristersson, inviting him to Budapest to discuss Sweden’s accession into the NATO military alliance.

Almost 80 years after the Holocaust, about 245,000 Jewish survivors are still living across more than 90 countries.

German police say safety concerns caused a protest against the far right in the city of Munich Sunday afternoon to end early, after approximately 100,000 people showed up.

Heavy snow and freezing rain have hit parts of northern and central Europe, bringing transport to a halt in some Scandinavian regions and causing major disruption at airports in Frankfurt and Oslo.

From Berlin to London and Limassol to Karachi, thousands of people took to the streets to mark the 100th day of Israel’s war with Hamas.

A union representing many of Germany’s train drivers has started a nearly three-day strike in a rancorous dispute with the country’s state-owned main railway operator over working hours and pay.

The Austrian government says that it is giving the country’s world-famous Vienna Boys Choir 800,000 euros ($884,000) to help it out of severe financial difficulties.

European Union negotiators have clinched a deal on the main parts of an overhaul of the bloc’s outdated asylum rules.

Germany’s main national railway operator Deutsche Bahn has launched an effort to sell logistics unit DB Schenker as the company seeks to concentrate on its core business at home.

Germany’s highest court has ordered the 2021 national election to be partially repeated in Berlin because of severe glitches at many polling stations in the capital.

Holocaust survivors from around the globe will mark the start of the fifth day of Hanukkah together with a virtual ceremony as worries grow among Jews worldwide about the Israel-Hamas war and a spike of antisemitism in Europe, the United States and elsewhere.

Travelers in Germany are facing delays and disruptions as a union representing Germany’s train drivers conducts a 24-hour strike.

A group tracking antisemitism in Germany says that it has documented a drastic increase of antisemitic incidents in the country in the month after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7.

Antisemitism is spiking across Europe after Hamas' Oct. 7 massacre and Israel's bombardment of Gaza, worrying Jews from London to Geneva and Berlin.

Germany’s economy shrank in recent months, and business confidence is still in the dumps.