While many countries have been considering a guaranteed minimum income for every citizen in recent years, and some are already experimenting with it, in Germany there are thoughts of a more advanced step towards reducing inequality. One of the country’s most important economic research institutes, DIW, is proposing that the German state allocate to every […]
An employee of the Russian embassy was found dead under the windows of the department in Berlin. According to Spiegel, citing a law enforcement source, the 35-year-old second secretary of the Russian Embassy in Berlin allegedly fell out of a window on the top floor of the consular department building on Berenstrasse, in the Mitte […]
The incidence of coronavirus continues to gain momentum in Germany, although the number of hospitalizations and deaths is not yet critical. According to the German news agency dpaLast week, the 7-day COVID-19 prevalence index, for the first time since May this year, exceeded 100 cases per 100 thousand population. To date, it has already reached […]
Next year, Germany plans to host the 8th World Congress against the Death Penalty, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on October 10 on the occasion of World Day against the Death Penalty. This is the largest international event, it is expected that the Congress will bring together representatives of the governments of several countries […]
A former guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp was brought to trial yesterday at the Landgericht Neuruppin in Brandenburg, Germany. The 100-year-old defendant Joseph S. was 21 years old when he became a concentration camp guard near Berlin in 1942. On his hands – the blood of 3,518 prisoners, in whose murder he is accused, […]
The BioNTech vaccine will be available in Germany from mid-October for the 5-11 age group, co-founder Ezlem Turezzi told Der Spiegel. The company warns that 2 more months remain to avoid a dire situation with coronavirus in winter. Ms Turetsi notes: “In the coming weeks, we will present the results of our study for children […]
Among the citizens who were evacuated from Kabul with such difficulty in Germany were the alleged criminals. The authorities described them as “carrying a potential security threat.” This was reported on Friday at the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The aircraft of the Bundeswehr, after the seizure of Afghanistan by the radical Islamist Taliban movement, […]
Far from the first so-called honor killings occurred in Berlin, a young Afghan woman was killed by her siblings. The crime caused a resonance in the country. A young woman, mother of two children, Mariam H. came to Germany several years ago. She was fleeing from the Islamist terror and patriarchal views reigning in Afghanistan. […]
According to prosecutors, a 100-year-old alleged former security guard who served in a Nazi concentration camp will face trial in Germany on charges of complicity in the murders of 3,518 prisoners. A former security guard is accused of killing prisoners in the Sachsenhausen camp near Berlin between 1942-1945, during World War II. He is charged […]