By Jana Glose, dpa DORTMUND (DPA, CONVERSEER) – Borussia Dortmund coach Niko Kovac is considering giving Serhou Guirassy a break for Tuesday’s German Cup match at Eintracht Frankfurt and beyond because the forward has not scored in weeks. Guirassy scored his four Bundesliga goals in the first three matches until mid-September and has since only…
JERUSALEM (DPA, CONVERSEER) – German Education Minister Karin Prien on Monday visited the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem, paying her respects to the victims of the Holocaust. Prien, the first openly Jewish minister in Germany’s post-war history, said it is a “matter of respect” for every German minister to visit the memorial. The experience was…
BERLIN (DPA, CONVERSEER) – Business sentiment in Germany improved in October, a leading economic institute said on Monday. The ifo Institute’s business climate index rose by 0.7 points to 88.4 points, beating expectations. While the 9,000 companies surveyed reported a downturn in their current economic situation, their assessment of future expectations rose significantly. “Companies remain…
BEIJING (DPA, CONVERSEER) – The German government does not expect the postponement of Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul’s trip to Beijing to have any major impact on cooperation with China. Deputy government spokesman Steffen Meyer said on Monday that he did not see “the postponement as having any major impact on the German government’s future policy.”…
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…
