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Alexei Navalny has boarded a plane bound for Moscow, despite Russian authorities’ stated desire to arrest him and potentially jail him for years. Navalny, one of President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critics, was flown to Berlin in August for emergency medical treatment after being poisoned with what German tests showed was a Novichok nerve agent. … Read more
Police ‘shoot gunman’ at Germany’s Frankfurt International Airport following ‘reports of a bomb threat’ By Emily Webber For Mailonline Published: 19:00 GMT, 16 January 2021 | Updated: 19:05 GMT, 16 January 2021 Police have ‘shot a gunman’ at Germany’s Frankfurt International Airport following ‘reports of a bomb threat’. Footage saw three officers surrounding a man … Read more
Police shoot gunman at Germany’s Frankfurt International Airport following ‘reports of a bomb threat’ By Emily Webber For Mailonline Published: 19:00 GMT, 16 January 2021 | Updated: 19:00 GMT, 16 January 2021 Police have shot a gunman at Germany’s Frankfurt International Airport following ‘reports of a bomb threat’. Footage saw three officers surrounding the gunman … Read more
BREAKING: Angela Merkel’s centre-right party elects Armin Laschet as new leader to replace her ahead of national elections in September Laschet, governor of North Rhine-Westphalia, is seen as continuity candidate He will lead the Christian Democratic Union party into September’s election Merkel announced two years ago she would step down at the end of her … Read more
BREAKING: Angela Merkel’s centre-right party elects Armin Laschet as new leader to replace her ahead of national elections in September By Ap Published: 10:51 GMT, 16 January 2021 | Updated: 11:08 GMT, 16 January 2021 German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s centre-right party has elected a new leader to take over ahead of the national elections in … Read more
Visitors at Nazi Buchenwald concentration camp are condemned for tobogganing over mass graves where 76,000 people died during WWII The German WWII memorial urged visitors to avoid spending leisure pastimes People were spotted enjoying sledging at the mass graves while touring the site Buchenwald and its sub camp were used to house thousands of slave … Read more
Spectacular fossil of an eight-foot SHARK that roamed the seas 150 million years ago and was one of the largest of its time is unearthed in Germany The well-preserved skeleton of the Asteracanthus shark were found in Bavaria The almost complete skeleton shows that Asteracanthus was up to 8ft long There were 150 teeth preserved within … Read more
NASA Insight’s ‘Mole’ bites the dust: Mars digger is declared dead after failing to burrow deep enough into the Red Planet to take its temperature after two years InSight arrived on Mars in November 2018 with a range of scientific instruments Instruments included a seismometer, temperature probe and weather station German scientist have been trying … Read more
Human hunter-gatherers find food, reproduce, share parenting responsibilities and organise social groups in ways that mirror local birds and mammals, a study found. Researchers from the UK and Germany analysed data on the behaviours of foraging human and local animal populations from 339 locations across the globe. They found that for nearly all behaviours analysed, humans … Read more
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is considering a ‘mega-lockdown’ and suspending public transport as Germany recorded a 24-hour record of 1,244 coronavirus deaths. The new record came on Thursday as experts warned the lockdown will have to get tougher to combat the mutant UK strain, that is yet to take hold in Germany. Merkel wants a ‘mega-lockdown’, mass-selling … Read more