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At the end of 2021, there seem to be lots of similarities with last year's situation. A new, more contagious variant of the Coronavirus is hitting Germany, the number of new infections is more or less the same and the outlook is sort of grim. But not all events of 2021 were about Corona. What happened from January to June?

For New Year's Eve, Berlin put in place firecracker bans in dozens of areas, on top of the firecracker sales ban which applies in all of Germany. The main goal…

President Frank-Walter Steinmeier's Christmas speech was just aired on German television. Like last year, getting through the Corona pandemic was its main…

Berlin's new Governing Mayor Franziska Giffey appeared at a City Mission location at Zoo Station on Friday and distributed food to homeless persons who were lining up. In the meantime, the city was expecting freezing cold Christmas Days.

Berlin is supposed to have more bridges than Venice. The Italian marvel with its countless canals has 400 of them. Berlin counts 960. Great. The problem is that…

The Berlin House of Representatives just elected Germany's former Family Minister Franziska Giffey Governing Mayor. Only few believed she would win the…

The year started with a strong Corona wave and thousands of new infections per day. Many Germans thought the pandemic was under control, until the Infection numbers literally exploded again in late 2021.

Five years ago, the Islamist Anis Amri murdered twelve people, in a terror attack at one of Berlin's main Christmas markets. Before and after the crime, the…

Germany's General German Automobile Association (ADAC) says there will be more Christmas traffic on the country's roads than there was last year. But the…

Former Chancellor Angela Merkel's party CDU has a new designated chairman. Her former foe Friedrich Merz ran for this position twice before. Now, a majority of members voted for him. As the predecessor of two failed chairpersons he will have to deliver.