ISTANBUL (DPA, CONVERSEER) – Fenerbahce defeated VfB Stuttgart 1893 1-0 on Thursday to hand the German Cup winners a second straight defeat in the Europa League. Kerem Aktürkoglu converted a 34th-minute penalty in Istanbul after Angelo Stiller had pulled down Milan Skriniar. Both sides had their chances, but former Manchester City goalkeeper Ederson and his…
FREIBURG (CONVERSEER) – Freiburg stretched their unbeaten run across all competitions to eight matches with a 2-0 Europa League victory over Dutch side Utrecht on Thursday. Unmarked Yuiko Suzuki gave Freiburg a 20th-minute lead when Christian Günter laid the ball back to him from the left. Freiburg remained dominant, with goalkeeper Vasilios Barkas tipping Suzuki’s…
MAINZ (DPA, CONVERSEER) – FSV Mainz 05 made it two victories out of two in the Conference League on Thursday, 1-0 over 10-man Zrjinski Mostar. Sota Kawasaki and Andreas Hanche-Olsen aimed inches wide as Mainz dominated the Bosnian champions from the kick-off. A goal was just a matter of time, and it came in the 24th…
By Monika Wendel, dpa BERLIN (DPA, CONVERSEER) – More than 1,000 cranes are thought to have died in a large outbreak of bird flu near Berlin, conservationists recovering the animals’ bodies said on Thursday. A total of 839 dead cranes have been counted since Sunday in the pond area in Linum, around 30 kilometres north-west…
By Doris Pundy and Marek Majewsky, dpa BERLIN (DPA. CONVERSEER) – German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Thursday a decision by the European Parliament to not move forward with the reform of the European Union’s supply chain law for the time being “is unacceptable.” The European Parliament’s legal committee had worked out a compromise on…
BERLIN (DPA, CONVERSEER) – The consumption of cannabis should be controlled more strictly in Germany, while remaining legal, the government representative on the issue said in media remarks published on Tuesday. “We are currently seeing evidently undesirable trends,” Narcotic Drugs Commissioner Hendrick Streeck told the Berlin daily Tagesspiegel. The permitted 25 grams of medical cannabis…
BERLIN (DPA, CONVERSEER) – Most Germans are in favour of the nation’s Olympic bid, according to a survey conducted by the YouGov market research company on behalf of dpa. A total of 48% of the participants said they were either “somewhat” in favour (27%) or “strongly” in favour of Germany bidding to host the Summer…
MUNICH (DPA, CONVERSEER) – Bayern Munich have extended their contract with coach Vincent Kompany until June 2029, the Bundesliga champions said in a statement on Tuesday. His previous deal was due to expire in the summer of 2027. “I’m grateful, honoured and would like to thank FC Bayern for the trust and the working environment…
BERLIN (DPA, CONVERSEER) – Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s doubling down on his comments linking migration to problems in German cities provoked a call for a spontaneous anti-racism protest in front of his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) headquarters in Berlin on Tuesday. On Monday Merz told a journalist that he has “nothing to take back” and added…
BERLIN (DPA, CONVERSEER) – The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has proposed that US President Donald Trump be made an honorary citizen of the Bad Dürkheim district in south-western Germany. Trump’s family traces its roots to Kallstadt, a small wine-growing village on the Wine Route in Rhineland-Palatinate, which is part of the Bad Dürkheim…
