German airline Lufthansa has cancelled 800 flights both passenger and cargo flights on Friday after pilots union ‘Vereinigung Cockpit’ announced they are going on a planned all-day strike. Due to the strike, the airline said it would cancel all flights to and from Frankfurt and Munich airports today, affecting 130,000 passengers, […]
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Indian, German Navy Chiefs discuss ways to boost cooperation
Chief of German Navy Vice Admiral Kay-Achim Schonbach called on Chief of Indian Navy Admiral R Hari Kumar at New Delhi on Thursday and discussed avenues to strengthen Navy to Navy cooperation and enhance interoperability. Upon arrival, Vice Admiral Kay-Achim Schonbach was welcomed with an impressive Guard of Honour at South Block Lawns. Taking to Twitter, Spokesperson of the Indian […]
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German acting Foreign Minister calls for cessation of hostilities in Ethiopia
German acting Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has called on the parties to the conflict in Ethiopia to immediately cease hostilities. “The conflict in northern Ethiopia has dangerously escalated a year after its eruption. All the warring sides must immediately cease the hostilities. As earlier, Germany and its partners are calling for negotiations and the […]
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German court sentences ISIS bride to 10 years in prison over war crime
A German woman who had joined the Islamic State group in 2013, was sentenced to ten years in prison over a war crime by a Munich court on Monday. A Munich court presided by judge Reinhold Baier handed down the verdict to Jennifer Wenisch, 30, over the war crime of letting a five-year-old Yazidi “slave” girl die of thirst in the sun, […]
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German scientists make paralyzed mice walk again
German researchers have enabled mice paralyzed after spinal cord injuries to walk again, re-establishing a neural link hitherto considered irreparable in mammals by using a designer protein injected into the brain. Spinal cord injuries in humans, often caused by sports or traffic accidents, leave them paralyzed because not all of […]
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German minister says Covid curbs should be eased for vaccinated people
People who have been vaccinated against Covid-19 should be allowed to go to restaurants and cinemas earlier than others, a German minister said, contradicting other cabinet members who have so far opposed special freedoms for those inoculated. Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said the state had massively restricted people’s basic rights […]
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German police take down ‘world’s largest darknet marketplace’
German police have taken down the “world’s largest” darknet marketplace, whose Australian alleged operator used it to sell drugs, stolen credit card data and malware, prosecutors said today. Police in the northern city of Oldenburg “were able to arrest the alleged operator of the suspected world’s largest illegal marketplace on […]
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Why German stuck at Delhi’s IGI airport turned down offer to go home
A 40-year-old German who has been living in the transit area of the Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport for the last 55 days turned down an offer go to his home country, and was recently served a “Leave India Notice” by authorities, according to officials familiar with the matter. […]
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Delhi’s Dwarka metro station, being visited by Angela Merkel today, has a German link
When German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits the Dwarka Sector 21 metro station on Saturday morning, there would be a deep German connection to the station — it has photo voltaic panels on the roof built with the cooperation of a German enterprise. Merkel’s visit to the metro station will be […]