Politics

In Germany, Health Minister Jens Spahn and his colleagues from the country's federal states decided to put in place new sick pay rules. In some cases, employees who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 will not be paid while they are in quarantine.

Now that the big elections for the Berlin Bundestag are only days away, Germany's major parties are trying everything to get the attention of undecided voters.…

The U.S. government is getting ready to let Europeans and other foreign nationals enter the country again soon. They need to be fully vaccinated against…

In Germany, Super Sunday is just around the corner. While the three candidates for Chancellor faced each other on TV again, the big question is: How reliable are the polls?

The Coronavirus has killed tens of thousands of people in Germany since it hit the country last year. More than three million Germans got infected. Now, the…

In Berlin, certain kinds of venues and other establishments will soon be allowed to choose whether they will accept vaccinated and cured persons only, or if…

In Germany, Annalena Baerbock, Armin Laschet and Olaf Scholz, the candidates for Chancellor of the left-wing Greens, the the center-right CDU/CSU and the center-left SPD, respectively, encountered each other for a TV truel on Sunday evening. The two candidates who are trailing behind in the polls tried to make some headway.

Super Sunday is coming closer and closer. Berliners will have the opportunity to vote until they have cramps in their fingers. Has there been more voting in one…

In Berlin, hundreds of nurses are supposed to be on strike again on Monday. Their union Verdi says the latest offer that had been put on the table by the…

On September 11th, 2001, I did some sunrise photography in Washington D.C.. Then, the day unfolded its horror rather quickly, when the attacks commenced. Thousands of miles away, in Germany, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder knew exactly what he had to do.