German prosecutors said Thursday they have filed spying charges against a German man suspected of passing on data from parliament to Russian secret services.
“The heart of democracy beats here, or it does not beat at all”: Germany’s Reichstag is known today as one of the most iconic parts of the German capital’s cityscape. But why is the building so important, and how did it become the symbol of civil liberty it is today?
The German government on Sunday condemned the "unacceptable" behaviour of protesters during a mass rally against coronavirus restrictions after some attempted to storm the Reichstag parliament building.
Newly found German testimony from 60 years ago has cast fresh doubt on Nazi-era claims a Dutch communist was responsible for the 1933 fire that gutted the Reichstag building.
Berlin has preserved countless traces of its Second World War destruction as chilling reminders of its militaristic past - few are more striking than Red Army graffiti left at the iconic Reichstag.
A 48-year old man who admitted to a series of fire attacks on government and parliament buildings in Berlin has killed himself in police custody, a city spokeswoman said on Monday.
Twenty years ago, between the 17th and 24th June 1995 the renowned artist couple Christo and Jeanne-Claude unveiled their latest and most extravagant artwork - they had wrapped the Reichstag in plastic, at a cost of $4 million.
Unknown attackers have been targeting the Bundestag (German parliament) computer network for around six months, rather than since May, dpa reported on Monday.
A hacker attack on the Bundestag (German parliament) earlier in 2015 means that an entirely new network will have to be built after experts failed to fix the breach.
Authorities said on Thursday that far-right activists have organized a demonstration outside Berlin's Reichstag (parliament) building on May 9th, the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
Investigators believe a Molotov cocktail thrown at the Reichstag building in Berlin early on Monday morning was the work of a far-right group, a police spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
Visitors to Berlin's iconic Reichstag parliament building will continue to face long queues before they can enter through a temporary container, after politicians scrapped plans for an expensive underground visitor centre.
Determined to get kids into politics, the German government is turning the Reichstag's famous glass dome into a "kids zone" during the summer recess - complete with Bobby cars to zoom down the famous spiral walkway.
A woman has been hospitalized with severe burns after setting herself on fire in front of the Reichstag parliamentary building in Berlin over the weekend.
One of Berlin’s most popular tourist attractions, the dome at the Reichstag parliamentary building, will be reopened to tourists on April 21 after being closed due to security concerns for the last several months.
Security at the Reichstag in Berlin is set to be dramatically tightened after an inventory showed that nearly 23,000 people including tradespeople, interns and lobbyists have virtually unfettered access to the building.
A driver crashed his BMW at more than 100 kilometres an hour through a barrier near the Reichstag in Berlin, landing in the river on Friday night, swam to the side and walked away – without any security staff noticing, it emerged on Sunday.
One of three Red Army soldiers in a famed 1945 photograph that depicts the Soviet flag being lifted over Berlin's <i>Reichstag</i> has died at age 93, Russian officials said on Wednesday.
Babies may soon be allowed into parliamentary debates at Germany's lower house, the Bundestag, if female politicians get their way, Cologne daily <i>Express</i> reported on Thursday.
Seven German demonstrators who were arrested in Berlin on Sunday during the first-ever swearing in ceremony for new Bundeswehr recruits in front of the Reichstag parliament building have been released, police said on Monday.
New soldiers will be sworn into the army in front of the Reichstag for the first time this evening, in a controversial ceremony which had put the country’s top politicians in a whirl of indecision as to whether to attend.
Another piece of the story behind the iconic 1945 photograph of Red Army soldiers hoisting the hammer and sickle flag on the Reichstag in defeated Berlin, has been revealed.
