Electric carmaker Tesla Motors Inc (TSLA.O) has agreed to buy Germany's Grohmann Engineering GmbH, which develops automated manufacturing systems for batteries and fuel cells, as the California-based company seeks to expand its production more than sixfold by 2018.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday (Nov 3) accused Germany of being one of the worst countries in the world for harbouring "terrorists", saying Berlin had not responded to requests to hand over suspects from the July 15 failed coup.
A 22-year-old Syrian refugee arrested in Germany on Monday had ties to Islamic State, Germany's spy chief said on Tuesday, but intelligence sources said there was no evidence he was receiving orders from the militant group.
After lengthy disputes, the leaders of the grand coalition in Germany on Thursday agreed on a regulation for more pay equity between women and men.
German police are stepping up protection of Muslim institutions in Dresden after two improvised bombs exploded in the eastern city on Monday evening, one at a mosque and one at an international conference centre.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party on Monday (Sept 19) digested another stinging poll loss, in Berlin state elections, and the relentless rise of the right-wing populist AfD which rails against her liberal refugee policy.
Germany and other European Union countries turned a blind eye to the refugee crisis building on its external borders for too long, Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a German newspaper interview to be published on Wednesday.
Dr. Ahmed Badawi, project director in Middle East Policy Center of Otto-Suhr Politics Institute in Free University of Berlin, believes "it is almost impossible to protect against an individual attacker intending to kill other people."
The decision to accept more than a million refugees was Angela Merkel's biggest political gamble.At first, she was widely applauded for her moral courage and leadership.
Germany has been shaken by four attacks in a week, three of them by asylum seekers while two of them claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group. Heightened social insecurity prompts criticism again over the German government's open-door refugee policies.
Hong Kong immigration officials to fly to Germany with relatives of injured
State minister says incident that seriously wounded three people was a "probable Islamist attack"
German lawmakers unanimously approved legislation on Thursday that would make it easier to prosecute suspects of sexual violence and that defines rape as the violation of a woman’s will under the principle of “no means no.”
China and Germany pledged stronger cooperation in the fourth round of intergovernmental consultation held during Chancellor Angela Merkel's China visit.
Chinese President Xi Jinping met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel here on Monday, hailing the China-Germany relations as "very matured."
One month after the introduction of an official reporting requirement for Zika virus, authorities have registered 12 cases of the disease in Germany, local media reported on Wednesday.
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