Politics

In his Christmas Address, Germany's President Steinmeier thanked the Germans for their solidarity with the Ukrainian people during the Russian war of aggression. Peace was not yet tangible, he said.

When the vaccination rate finally reached 70 percent in December of 2021, a new danger appeared on the horizon. In other countries, the Omicron variant of the…

Berlin's hospitals and doctors are under pressure because of an extremely high number of patients with respiratory diseases, flu symptoms and COVID-19. During…

Six years ago, the Islamist Anis Amri murdered thirteen people, in a terror attack at one of Berlin's main Christmas markets. Before and after the crime, the German authorities kept on failing.

In his weekly podcast, Olaf Scholz stated this year had "challenged us a lot". This especially applied to the Ukrainians who would have to fear Russian bombs…

Germany is arming its Air Force. In Berlin, the Bundestag's appropriations committee OK'd the purchase of an entire fleet of Lockheed Martin F-35 jets. The…

Berlin is growing. Also, the city is confronted with an affordable housing crisis. But the number of apartments is increasing. The German capital now has more than 2 million of them.

The prosecution in Neuruppin is investigating members of the radical environmentalist group 'Last Generation'. Searches took place at eleven locations all over…

Since Mahsa Amini was killed in Tehran, Iranian protesters have used the slogan "Woman, Life, Freedom". Brandenburg Gate was illuminated with those three words…

Soon, one of Berlin's crime hotspots will receive what it should have had for a long time: a police station. The price tag attached to it is big. So are the challenges that need to be met at Kottbusser Tor.