BERLIN

Figures release Thursday by German police show a sharp increase in the number of violent attacks on climate protesters in Berlin recorded this year compared with 2022.

German inflation eased to 6.1% in May following several months of declines, even as Europe’s biggest economy registered another painful increase in food prices of nearly 15%.

Germany says it has told Russia to close four out of five consulates in Germany in a tit-for-tat move after Moscow set a limit for the number of German embassy staff and related bodies that can operate in Russia.

German truck maker Daimler, Toyota and two other automakers plan to work together on new technologies, including the use of hydrogen fuel, to help fight climate change.

The German economy has shrunk unexpectedly in the first three months of this year, marking the second quarter of contraction that is one definition of recession.

Switzerland’s executive branch has thrown its weight behind a proposal to decommission 25 out-of-service Leopard 2 battle tanks that Germany’s government wants returned to the German manufacturer to help Berlin plug gaps in its arsenal after it shipped weapons to Ukraine.

Prosecutors in Germany say authorities have raided 15 properties across the country and seized assets in an investigation into the financing of protests by the Last Generation climate activist group.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has sharply criticized climate activists as “nutty” for drastic protests such as blocking streets or gluing themselves to famous paintings in museums.

The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency is warning of a rise in anti-government extremism fueled by authoritarian states such as Russia that seek to divide society and topple the government.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Berlin early Sunday for talks with German leaders about further arms deliveries to help his country fend off the Russian invasion and rebuild what’s been destroyed by more than a year of devastating conflict.

A labor union representing more than 200,000 railway workers in Germany says it is cancelling plans for a two-day strike after employers met one of its key demands.

Germany says it's providing Ukraine with additional military aid worth more than 2.7 billion euros ($3 billion) including tanks, anti-aircraft systems and ammunition.

Senior officials from dozens of nations meeting in Berlin remain divided on how to meet international climate goals.

Climate activists are staging a 10th straight day of protests in Berlin.

The German government has doubled its growth forecast this year for the Europe’s largest economy after the country made it through the winter without major energy problems.

Sweden has informed Russia that five employees of the Russian Embassy in Stockholm were asked to leave the country because they were suspected of spying.

German climate activists were temporarily bringing traffic to a standstill in Berlin by gluing themselves to roads all over the capital.

Members of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party have narrowly approved a local coalition deal in Berlin with Germany’s main center-right opposition party.

German climate activists best known for bringing traffic to a standstill by gluing themselves to the road instead staged a rare protest on the move Friday, marching through Berlin and causing gridlock in parts of the capital.

Daniel Barenboim has been made a citizen of honor of Berlin, months after he ended his three-decade tenure as the general musical director of the Berlin State Opera for health reasons.

A German court has convicted a 30-year-old man who drove into groups of pedestrians in Berlin last year of one count of murder and 16 of attempted murder, ordering him to be permanently held in a psychiatric hospital.

More than 100 Holocaust survivors and their descendants are participating in a new social media campaign that illustrates the importance of passing on the Holocaust survivors’ testimonies as their numbers dwindle.

Police say the former home of a man serving a life sentence for killing and eating an acquaintance in a case that appalled Germany two decades ago has burned down.

The CEO and co-owner of media company Axel Springer apologized Sunday for making crude remarks about “East Germans” in text messages leaked to a rival newspaper.

British antitrust regulators have started investigating Amazon’s purchase of robot vacuum maker iRobot, adding further scrutiny to the $1.7 billion deal.

A new show of works by one of Germany’s most famous living artists, Gerhard Richter, has opened at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie museum.

King Charles III is preparing to visit an organic farm in the German countryside.

Trains, planes and public transit systems are standing still across much of Germany as labor unions called a major one-day strike over salaries in an effort to win inflation-busting raises for their members.

Berlin voters are asked to decide on a proposal that would force the city government to drastically ramp up the German capital’s climate goals.

Berlin voters on a proposal Sunday that would force the German capital to drastically ramp up its climate goals.

Thousands of bone fragments, which may include the remains of victims of Nazi crimes, have been buried after they were found on a Berlin university campus where an institute for anthropology and eugenics was once located.

German officials say the country’s education and research minister is making an official trip to Taiwan next week.

Women in Berlin will soon be allowed to go topless, like men, at the city’s public pools.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says his country faces considerable challenges, but also opportunities, in the coming years as it seeks to transform toward a green economy with a shrinking workforce.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says there would be “consequences” if China sends weapons to Russia for Moscow’s war in Ukraine, but he’s fairly optimistic that Beijing will refrain from doing so.

The Swiss government says Germany wants to buy mothballed Leopard 2 battle tanks from Switzerland to replace tanks that Berlin and its Western allies are sending to Ukraine.

The U.N. nuclear watchdog says that its director-general will travel to Tehran for high-level meetings at the invitation of Iran’s government.

Hungary is further delaying a vote on ratifying Sweden and Finland’s NATO accession bids.

Iran says it has expelled two German diplomats over Berlin’s alleged interference in its internal affairs.

Germany wants to set up a new power line network to connect its own offshore wind parks with those of its North Sea neighbors in order to eliminate bottlenecks in the European energy market.

The French documentary “On the Adamant” (Sur l’Adamant) directed by Nicolas Philibert was named best film at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival.

Thousands of people have protested in Berlin to condemn Germany’s supply of arms to Ukraine and call for peace talks to end the war.

A closely watched survey shows that German business confidence has strengthened for a fourth consecutive month as managers look past current problems to take a more optimistic view of the months ahead.

Russian pranksters posing as Ukraine’s ex-President Petro Poroshenko managed to contact Angela Merkel by phone to discuss developments in Ukraine and Belarus, although the former German chancellor was wary about the entire call.

Just hours before Russia began its invasion of Ukraine nearly a year ago, actor Sean Penn had his first on-camera meeting with the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has asked artists and filmmakers to unequivocally declare their support for his country during a live video address at the opening of the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival.

Germany’s main opposition party is celebrating its victory in a Berlin state election re-run made necessary by serious voting glitches in 2021.

Germany’s main opposition party has launched an effort to expel from its ranks a former head of the country’s intelligence agency, weeks after he complained of what he said was a move toward “eliminatory racism against whites.”.

The city of Berlin has held a court-ordered rerun of a chaotic 2021 state election that was marred by severe glitches at many polling stations.

A Spanish court says Amazon broke labor laws by forcing more than 2,000 delivery drivers to use an app that the company controlled for scheduling work and payments as well as requiring them to use their own cars and cellphones on the job.

Europe’s economy has scraped out meager gains at the end of last year as galloping inflation fed by high energy prices and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine deterred people from spending in shops and restaurants.

Germany has commemorated the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp by focusing on people who were incarcerated and killed during the Nazi era because of their sexual orientations and gender identifies.

Germany-based software company SAP says it's cutting up to 3,000 jobs worldwide, or about 2.5% of its workforce.

The economic outlook has brightened in Europe's largest economy.

A prominent environmental group says it is suing the German government over failure to meet its own climate targets.

An exhibition marking the 70th anniversary of Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial brings back to Germany a diverse set of everyday objects that Jews took with them when they fled the Nazis.

Sean Penn’s film about the war in Ukraine, “Superpower,” will have its world premier at this year’s Berlin film festival.

Poland's prime minister says his government will ask Germany for permission to send some of the Polish army’s Leopard tanks to Ukraine.

Germany’s top diplomat says her country won't object if Poland decides to send Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine.

Poland’s prime minister says he wants the German government to supply a wide range of weapons to Ukraine.

Prince Harry has said he had enough material for two memoirs.

Germany's health minister says the country will soon drop a mask mandate on long-distance trains and buses.

Polish President Andrzej Duda says that the European Union nation has decided to send a company of Leopard tanks to help neighboring Ukraine in the war with invading Russia.

More than 244,000 people have applied for asylum in Germany last year and more than 1 million Ukrainian refugees who have come to the country looking for shelter from Russia’s war.

Europe ended a bad year for inflation with some relief as price gains eased again.

Mercedes-Benz will build its own worldwide electric vehicle charging network starting in North America in a bid to compete with EV sales leader Tesla.

Germany’s biggest police union has called for concerted action to prevent a repeat of the violence toward officers, firefighters and medical personnel seen in Berlin and other cities during the New Year’s celebrations.

A German doctor was sentenced late Monday to two years and nine months in prison for illegally issuing more than 4,000 people with exemptions from wearing masks during the coronavirus pandemic.

Germany’s governing coalition is arguing over whether remaining COVID-19 restrictions should be dropped after one of the country’s top virologists was quoted as saying that the pandemic is over.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has inaugurated Germany’s first liquefied natural gas terminal, declaring that the speed with which it was put into service is a signal that Europe’s biggest economy will remain strong.

German police say a huge aquarium in the center of Berlin burst and caused a wave of devastation in and around the popular tourist attraction.

German lawmakers are digging deeper into an alleged coup plot uncovered last week.

German police have rounded up dozens of people including a self-styled prince, a retired paratrooper and a former judge, accusing the suspects of discussing the overthrow of the government, but leaving unclear how concrete the plans were.

An expert panel has unveiled a proposal for a major overhaul of Germany’s system for funding hospitals that it says will promote quality over quantity.

A self-portrait painted during World War II by German expressionist artist Max Beckmann has been sold in Berlin for 20 million euros ($20.7 million).

Qatar is to supply liquefied natural gas to Germany under a 15-year deal as the European economic powerhouse scrambles to replace Russian gas supplies that were cut during the ongoing war in Ukraine.

Popularly known as his rockstar persona Machine Gun Kelly and for his high-profile relationship with Megan Fox, Colson Baker stars as “Taurus” in a new film that he says draws inspiration from his own life.

The German capital is expanding a temporary refugee shelter at a former airport to accommodate 3,600 Ukrainians, as it struggles to put up more civilians fleeing Russian attacks on Ukraine’s vital infrastructure ahead of the upcoming cold winter months.

The German government has blocked the sale of a chip factory to a Swedish subsidiary of a Chinese company.

Holocaust survivors from around the world are warning of the reemergence of antisemitism as they mark the 84th anniversary of Kristallnacht — the “Night of Broken Glass.”.

About 1,000 miles away from Ukraine, Luetzerath is an indirect victim of the war as the town will soon make way for the expansion of a nearby coal mine.

The German government says that it plans to make plastic manufacturers contribute to the cost of cleaning up litter in streets and parks.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is urging climate activists to show “creativity” and avoid endangering others after attacking art works and setting up blockades that allegedly delayed the arrival of a specialist rescue crew at an accident scene.

The German economy grew in the third quarter, an unexpectedly positive performance powered largely by private spending.

Germany’s health minister has unveiled plans to decriminalize the possession of up to 30 grams (about 1 ounce) of cannabis and allow the sale of the substance to adults for recreational purposes in a controlled market.

Chanting crowds have rallied in Berlin, Washington DC and Los Angeles in solidarity with protesters facing a violent government crackdown in Iran.

Tens of thousands of people have gathered in Germany’s capital Saturday to show solidarity with antigovernment protesters in Iran.

The German parliament has cleared the way for the government to provide up to 200 billion euros in subsidies to households and businesses to ease the strain of high energy prices.

The International Energy Agency said Wednesday that it expects carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels to rise again this year, but by much less than in 2021 due to the growth in renewable power and electric cars.

The silver medal captured by Luz Long, the German long jumper who befriended Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, sold at auction for $488,000.

Germany has announced that it is issuing fines of 5.125 million euros ($5 million) against the operators of the messagging app Telegram for failing to comply with German law.

The German government is launching a new program to help to bring about 1,000 people who are at risk of persecution in Afghanistan to Germany each month.

King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain have started a state visit to Germany that was delayed for a year because of the coronavirus pandemic and will see the monarch and Germany’s president open the annual Frankfurt Book Fair.

Billionaire Elon Musk suggested in a Saturday tweet that his rocket company SpaceX may continue to fund its satellite-based Starlink internet service in Ukraine.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for reforms of the European Union to make it fit for the admission of new countries as well as more military autonomy of the 27-country pact.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says his country wants to strengthen ties to Mongolia, citing the country’s wealth of key commodities such as copper and rare earth metals.

A Ukrainian nuclear power plant that has been surrounded by Russian forces lost power when a Russian missile damaged a distant electrical substation — increasing the risk of a radiation disaster.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg says it would be “a mistake” for Germany to switch off its nuclear power plants if that means burning more planet-heating coal.

Projections show Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s center-left party winning a German state election in which the environmentalist Greens and the far-right made gains as the country faces high inflation and worries about energy supplies this winter.

The U.N. nuclear watchdog says that Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the biggest in Europe, has lost its last remaining external power source as a result of renewed shelling and is now relying on emergency diesel generators.