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Elections
German voters weigh options ahead of election hinging on immigration, sluggish economy
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Ukraine
Is the Russian flag a symbol of war?
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Ukraine
Russian opposition leaders and thousands of supporters rally in Berlin against Putin
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two white wind turbines outside
The Big Fix
War in Ukraine speeding up Germany’s transition to renewables
Denmark's military officers stand next to a Leopard 2A7 tank at the Tapa Military Camp, in Estonia, Jan. 19, 2023.
Ukraine
Tanks for Ukraine are ‘ready to go’ when Germany and US strike a deal, retired Navy Adm. says
Parliament buildings over looks the city of Belfast, Northern Ireland, Oct. 28, 2022. 
Critical State
State reformation: Part I
Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo / Alamy Stock Photo
Revealed: Untold story of the CIA/Stasi double agent abandoned after 22 years of service
travelers tagging bags
Business, Economics and Jobs
‘The summer of stress’: Amid airline staffing shortages, lost luggage rates have soared
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, left, shakes hands with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as French President Emmanuel Macron, looks on before a meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine
Ukraine
Many Germans fear ‘active participation in war’ as country increases military aid to Ukraine
Volunteers waiting for refugees from Ukraine stand at information desks at the main train station in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, March 15, 2022. 
Ukraine
Ukraine’s LGBTQ community finds refuge in Berlin
Armin Laschet, chairman of the German Christian Democratic Union, CDU, addresses the media during a press conference at the party's headquarters in Berlin, Germany, Monday, May 17, 2021.
Hacking
A massive security flaw exposed in Germany — then a criminal investigation
Black, red and yellow German flag waves on top of a building
Extremism
A new documentary tracks the latest rise in far-right, neo-Nazism in Germany
A waiter wearing a mask and an apron with her hair pulled back tends to a dining table.
Jobs
England indoor dining resumes, but where are all the staff?
Large protest
The AfroZensus is an effort to quantify Blackness in Germany
Apartment buildings in the Mitte borough of Berlin were photographed from the capital's television tower, April 4, 2019.
Business, Economics and Jobs
Berlin tenants undaunted by recent court ruling that undoes a rent cap
A man wearing glasses looks at a globe.
The Big Fix
Climate change scientist trades in the halls of Oxford for YouTube
A cartoon depicts a person in a blue suit pointing to a sign to a person in a gray suit
Global Cartoons
In today’s Germany, a new book makes fun of anti-Semitism through cartoons
People crowd Via del Corso shopping street ahead of a Christmas Eve national lockdown due to start on Dec. 24, in Rome.
COVID-19
For many across Europe, Christmas is ‘canceled’ this year
In this Jan. 16, 2020, file photo an uniper coal-fired power plant and BP refinery steam beside a wind generator in Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
The Big Fix
What Germany can teach the US about quitting coal
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Hungary's President Janos Ader, Poland's President Andrzej Duda, Slovakia's President Zuzana Caputova and Czech Republic's President Milos Zeman place roses into a gap at the Wall memorial during a ceremony markin
How a mistake at a press conference helped topple the Berlin Wall
A woman leader holds up a COVID-19 chart card.
Leaders
It’s official: Women are better leaders in a pandemic
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Music
Travel takes on new meaning in this jazz pianist’s latest album
Alexei Navalny's wife Yulia, center, is shown walking and being followed by members of the media.
Health & Medicine
Russia to let opposition leader in coma fly to Berlin for treatment
A three lane highway is shown packed with cars and taken with a blurry effect.
Environment
Love is blind: How Germany’s long romance with cars led to the nation’s biggest clean energy failure
A crowd of protesters
What Germany’s energy revolution can teach the US
Dawn lights the sky behind nightclub Crack Bellmer in the RAW area of Berlin, Germany, on Sept. 6, 2016.
Berlin night clubs might get same zoning designation as opera houses
Christine Sun Kim is shown signing and standing in front of her art featuring a pie chart titled "Shit Hearing People Say To Me."
Arts, Culture & Media
Artist Christine Sun Kim on ‘deaf rage,’ the Super Bowl and the power of sound
A group of people sit around a table with laptops.
Media
Exiled journalists in Germany find ‘hope’ with a magazine that speaks their language
Jenny Stupka
Berlin politicians and property investors tussle over rent freeze
A woman stands by stocked shelfs in a shop
Brexit
With Brexit looming, Berlin’s ‘Broken English’ shop looks to Ireland
A mural of a white bird, chain and rose painted on the Berlin wall and a person walking by it
Arts
Artists in Germany fear backlash after far-right party wins big
A woman holds a video camera in her hand in a black and white photo
Vintage home movies show another side of life in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall
A group of four people stare up at a wooden marker
No regrets: East Germans recall attempts to escape Communist state
sara mardini and sean binder
Syrian refugee ‘hero swimmer’ Sara Mardini is out of prison. She plans to keep helping refugees.
Birgit Bessin poses with a trailer bearing the logo of her party, the AfD
Germany’s anti-immigrant AfD party looks to make inroads in the country’s villages
Firefighters blast water in Berlin in mid-August, providing relief from the heat. This is among the few ways to cool off in a city with little air conditioning.
It’s so hot in Berlin that people are cooling down in an old WWII bunker
Namibian citizens protest in New York
Justice
Africans take Germany to court in New York over ‘forgotten genocide’
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Donald Trump hold a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, March 17, 2017.
Global Politics
Germany’s relations with Russia and the US are a delicate balancing act in the Trump-Putin era
Muhanned Qaiconie, a co-founder of Berlin's first Arabic-language public library, looks at books in the collection. “All kinds of people come here,” he said. “We have older generations of Arabic speakers, new readers, seasoned bookworms, aspiring writers
Conflict & Justice
Berlin’s first Arabic-language public library aims to redefine refugee integration
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is seen in a blue dress next to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in a blue suit with several flags behind them.
Before summit, Merkel calls migration ‘make or break’ for Europe
City Hostel Berlin
Economics
North Korean diplomats are beating sanctions to raise cash with this Berlin hostel
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Immigration
On Berlin’s ‘Arab street,’ tension between newcomers and established migrants
People from different faiths wear kippas as they attend a demonstration on April 25th in front of a Jewish synagogue, to denounce an anti-Semitic attack on a young man wearing a kippa in Berlin earlier in the month.
Conflict
In Germany, there are growing fears of a rise in anti-Semitism
People protest after former president Carles Puigdemont was detained in Germany, during a demonstration held by pro-independence associations in Barcelona, Spain March 25, 2018.
Conflict
Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont to appear in German court after protests flare
Arts, Culture & Media
Hot Berlin Nights
Vitali Shkliarov
Global Politics
Meet the man who volunteered for Obama, worked for Bernie and is now consulting Putin’s opponent
Boars
Environment
In Berlin, learning to live uneasily with wild boars
Women hold bags and signs that read: "Same pay for same work" at a rally for equal pay in Berlin, Germany, 2015.
Jobs
Women in Germany’s east earn close to what men do. Can we thank socialism for that?
Students in a welcome class for migrants attend a German language lesson at the Sankt Franziskus school in Berlin, Germany, Jan. 22, 2016.
Justice
There are about 400,000 refugee kids in Germany. Educating them is a ‘national task.’
The work of Rainer Weiss and colleagues fundamentally alters our understanding of the universe.
Science
Meet the Nobel Laureate who detected ripples in the fabric of space and time
A man who identifies himself as a migrant takes a selfie with German Chancellor Angela Merkel outside a refugee camp near the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees in Berlin, Germany, Sept. 10, 2015.
Conflict
For many Germans, this election is about refugees
One of the two Chinese panda bears is munching while German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese President Xi Jinping visit their compound during a welcome ceremony at the zoo in Berlin, Germany on July 5.
Environment
Two giant pandas have a new home in Berlin, the latest stop for China’s ‘panda diplomacy’
Ukrainian musician Zhenya Topov
Arts
In a Berlin handpan class, a close encounter of the musical kind
Teju Cole was born in the United States and raised in Nigeria.
Books
Nigerian-American author Teju Cole wants us to rethink what it means to travel
Tow trucks move the beer truck that crashed into the department store Ahlens after plowing down the Drottninggatan Street in central Stockholm, Sweden, April 7, 2017.
Conflict
ISIS has detailed instructions for carrying out truck attacks. They’re pretty horrifying.
A congregation at the Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church and Community in Berlin.
Conflict
This evangelical church in Berlin is helping Iranians looking for asylum
Autonama
Arts
Germany has a soccer team made up entirely of writers
Irina Bedavi is an activist who works with migrant women escaping abusive and violent relationships in Germany. She is standing at a bus stop where she has met girls who left their abusive husbands. She asked that her identity be hidden for her own safet
Justice
Germany is taking a harder look at child marriage