A leading politician for the Die Linke (Left Party) has called for Germany to freeze Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan's bank accounts, as anger builds over Ankara's response to a failed coup.
The southern state of Bavaria is bringing a legal case against Volkswagen over the impacts of the emissions cheating scandal that has rocked the car manufacturer.
Speaking for the first time after a Syrian refugee blew himself up in southern Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel reaffirmed her commitment to helping refugees on Thursday.
The Turkish government has been giving German ambassador Martin Erdmann the cold shoulder for weeks, after German parliamentarians passed a bill recognizing the Armenian genocide.
A Syrian migrant set off an explosion at a bar in southern Germany that killed himself and wounded a dozen others late Sunday, authorities said, the third attack to hit Bavaria in a week.
Germany warned Turkey on Monday against reinstating the death penalty, as it blasted "revolting scenes of caprice and revenge" in the wake of a failed coup attempt.
A teacher and two students from Berlin were among the victims of a terror attack that killed over 80 people in southern France on Thursday evening, Berlin media report.
Special forces have shot a man dead who stormed a cinema in western Germany, authorities have confirmed. Security officials say terror is an unlikely motive.
Six Russian hooligans returning from the European Championship in France have been arrested in Germany after beating and kicking Spanish tourists, injuring one of them seriously, police said on Friday.
Rescue teams have found a fifth body in Simbach in Bavaria after deadly floods swept through the town on Wednesday evening. Authorities warn the number could rise.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will "raise concerns" over democracy in Turkey when she meets President Recep Tayyip Erdogan next week, her spokesman said Friday, as Ankara began a final vote on a contentious bill lifting parliamentary immunity.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel expects Turkey to stick to a deal to limit refugee flows to the EU even after the announced resignation of its prime minister, her spokesman said Friday.
Relatives whose loved ones died last year when a Germanwings pilot deliberately crashed a plane in the French Alps filed a wrongful death suit on Wednesday against the US flight school that trained him.
The two German journalists of the Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily behind the Panama Papers revelations say they are surprised by the global shockwaves the leak caused and promised more sensational disclosures.
The first Syrians arrived in Germany from Istanbul on Monday under a controversial EU-Turkey migrant exchange pact, an official from the German federal refugee office told AFP.
The German government sharply dismissed Turkey's demand that a satire video mocking President Recep Tayyip Erdogan never be shown again, declaring freedom of the press "is not negotiable".
UPDATE: The German language institute confirmed on Monday that the German woman killed in the Ivory Coast terror attack was the director at the Goethe Institute in the area.
Germany's Interior Ministry announced Thursday that it would extend spot checks on the country's borders for three months into May as large numbers of refugees continue to arrive, while Nato announced sea patrols between Greece and Turkey.
A young girl at the centre of cover-up allegations by Moscow against Berlin spent the night of her alleged rape at a friend’s house, Berlin prosecutors have revealed.
