Roderich Kiesewetter

August Hanning, head of the BND foreign intelligence agency for seven years until 2005, faces charges of treasonous espionage after the 80-year-old was arrested during a dawn raid on his home on Tuesday

German spy agency under pressure from allies over ‘treason’ scandal

Nearly half of Germans view former Chancellor Angela Merkel as better suited to handle Germany's challenges than current Chancellor Friedrich Merz

Demonstrators called on the government to reverse its decision, end its “russophobia” and stop what they called its constant “aggression” toward Russia

Andy Burnham compares Ukraine's battle with Russia to Britain’s fight with Nazi Germany

A Taiwanese Patriot missile system deployed in a local park in Taipei in August

German authorities have begun a counterterrorism ⁠investigation into a drone laden with explosives found near a Ukrainian transport plane at Leipzig Airport

As first reported by POLITICO, the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Environment granted French company Framatome permission on Wednesday to manufacture Russian-designed nuclear fuel rods and assemblies in the town of Lingen, northwest Germany

And in an unusual twist, non-NATO member Ukraine was there to advise on drone warfare

The ​Chechen Republic of Ichkeria won de facto independence from ​Moscow after the first Chechen War in the mid‑1990s, but its leadership later went into exile

On Monday, Merz welcomed Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa to Berlin for his first visit to Germany since ousting his country's longtime strongman Bashar al-Assad in late 2024

Politicians from several parties ​accused Merz of appearing to set an unrealistic goal and of damaging integration efforts

German petrol prices have jumped by more than 15% since the U.S. ‌and Israel began their war on Iran a month ago, and the AfD's argument won a ready hearing this month among voters in Baden-Wuerttemberg, a centre of the German car industry

Two suspects have been arrested over the attempted sabotage of German naval vessels docked at the Port of Hamburg last year

That is why there is a growing belief that Europe’s governing bodies, whether led by individual federations or by Uefa itself, must cohere behind a common position — or at least prepare one