Tag: Germany

Monday, December 21st 2020 - 08:10 UTC
Merkel suggests Christmas greetings with loved ones on video

Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans to avoid visiting family members over Christmas and to use video calls instead for greetings, the way service members stationed abroad do, as the country battles COVID-19.
Friday, December 18th 2020 - 08:20 UTC
Cemetery in Germany temporarily stores the bodies of Covid-19 victims in metal containers

A cemetery in the German city of Hanau has started to temporarily store the bodies of people who have died from COVID-19 in a metal shipping container because hospital mortuaries are already full.
Thursday, December 17th 2020 - 09:03 UTC
Merkel implores Germans to reduce social contacts during Xmas; lockdown until January 10

Chancellor Angela Merkel banged the podium in frustration as she implored Germans this month to reduce social contacts to curb the spread of COVID-19. At one point in her unusually passionate address to parliament, during which she was heckled, she brought her hands together as if in prayer. At others, she shook her fist.
Thursday, December 10th 2020 - 09:00 UTC
Date for Angela Merkel's exit, after next year's September 26 elections

Germany will go to the polls to elect a new parliament and chancellor on September 26 next year as Angela Merkel's looming retirement leaves the country's political future wide open.
Monday, November 23rd 2020 - 09:00 UTC
Germany ready to begin Covid-19 vaccination in mid-December

Germany could start administering shots of COVID-19 vaccines as soon as next month, Health Minister Jens Spahn was quoted as saying.
Monday, November 16th 2020 - 08:22 UTC
Macron favors Europe's own independent and sovereign strategy, no matter how governs in US

Europe still needs its own independent and sovereign defence strategy, even if it is dealing with a new U.S. government which may result in friendlier ties, French President Emmanuel Macron told the “Revue Grand Continent” publication.
Monday, November 2nd 2020 - 09:40 UTC
Johnson announces lockdown as of Thursday, coordinated with France, Germany and Belgium

Britain on Sunday became the ninth country with more than 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases. According to data compiled by the John Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center, as of early Sunday, Britain had 1,014,794 infections and 46,645 deaths.
Saturday, October 31st 2020 - 18:14 UTC
Madame Tussauds in Berlin removes the effigy of president Trump

The waxwork museum Madame Tussauds in Berlin loaded its effigy of TV star-turned Republican president Donald Trump into a dumpster on Friday, a move apparently intended to reflect its expectations of next Tuesday's presidential election.
Friday, October 23rd 2020 - 08:58 UTC
China and Germany heading for superpower status, forecast Vladimir Putin

The era when the United States and Russia decided the world's most important questions is in the past, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, saying China and Germany were now heading for superpower status.
Friday, October 16th 2020 - 09:10 UTC
Covid-19: Overloaded hospitals in Netherlands to transfer patients to Germany

Hospitals in the Netherlands on Thursday said they would ask their German counterparts to take patients after the number of those hospitalized with the coronavirus doubled in the past week, to 1,526.