PASSAU (DPA, CONVERSEER) – Three of the five people injured when a man drove his car into a crowd in the southern German city of Passau have been released from hospital, the police said on Sunday. Among them is the five-year-old daughter of the alleged perpetrator. The man’s 40-year-old wife and a 39-year-old woman are still…
HAMBURG (DPA, CONVERSEER) – An abandoned parcel in an intercity express train triggered a police operation at Hamburg’s Altona station on Friday morning. Police said on Saturday that a whole platform at the train hub in the northern city was cordoned off after the package was discovered by a train attendant. A bomb disposal team…
BERLIN (CONVERSEER) – The Olympiastadion in Berlin is set to host one of the most anticipated NFL games in Europe this autumn, as the Indianapolis Colts take on the Atlanta Falcons on 9th November. The upcoming clash, part of the league’s International Series, has ignited a frenzy among American football fans across Germany and beyond,…
BERLIN (DPA, CONVERSEER) – More than one in five women in Germany experienced sexual violence as children, a study reported on Monday. The extent of the offences is “alarmingly high,” said Harald Dressing, a psychiatrist who authored the study for the Central Institute of Mental Health. Around 20.6% of women aged 18 to 59 are…
MUNICH (DPA, CONVERSEER) – The German robotics and automation industry expects its turnover to slump by 10% to €14.5 billion (about $16.5 billion) in the current year. “The growth outlook for all sub-sectors is currently gloomy until the end of the year,” said Dietmar Ley from Germany’s Robotics and Automation Association (VDMA) on Monday. US tariffs…
BERLIN (DPA, CONVERSEER) – The president of the German-Israeli Society in Berlin has strongly criticized the far-right members of Israel’s government for comments he says amount to calls for “ethnic cleansing” in Gaza. “My job to defend Israel is becoming more and more difficult because there are voices in the Israeli government which are totally…
BERLIN (DPA, CONVERSEER) – Volkswagen (VW) is offering to make large-scale investments in the United States to ward off high tariffs on its imported vehicles, according to chief executive Oliver Blume. “The Volkswagen group aims to invest more in the US,” Blume told Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung daily in remarks published on Friday. VW already employs…
DÜSSELDORF (CONVERSEER) – The suspect in the recent attack in the western German city of Bielefeld is to be brought before a magistrate on Tuesday, authorities have said, as investigators continued to search for a motive. According to dpa, the 35-year-old, a Syrian national from nearby Harsewinkel, was detained late on Monday near Düsseldorf and…
MUNICH (DPA, CONVERSEER) – Far-right extremists from Germany’s Identitarian Movement have left flyers containing anti-immigrant messages at schools across the country. Authorities have reported incidents at schools in the southern states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, while others have occurred in northern Germany according to media reports. The Bavarian Culture Ministry said flyers were distributed at…
By Felix Schröder and Claas Hennig, dpa HAMBURG (CONVERSEER) – Dozens have been injured, 19 of them seriously, in connection with SV Hamburg’s Bundesliga promotion celebrations, the local fire brigade has said. Fans had invaded the pitch after the final whistle of Hamburg’s 6-1 victory over Ulm which secured the return to the top flight…
