It is also the starkest sign of the extraordinary turn taken by a country that took full receipt of the peace dividend after ...

The oil tanker, which flies the flag of Panama, drifted for several hours in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Ruegen, unable to maneuver - German emergency services secured the ship in the afternoon.

BERLIN-Ikea pledged on Oct 29 to pay €6 million (S$8.6 million) into a hardship fund for victims of the East German dictatorship after admitting some of its suppliers used political prisoners as ...

IKEA has promised to pay $6 million euros ($9.9 million) to political prisoners of the East German dictatorship who were forced to make its products. The company previously admitted some of its ...

A former East German secret police officer was sentenced to 10 years in jail in a landmark ruling on Monday for shooting dead a Polish man trying to flee to the West 50 years ago. The sentence ...

In East Africa and the Great Lakes region, German colonial conquest spurred courageous resistance from many local East African groups against well-armed and violent colonial forces. https://p.dw ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—An oil tanker once at the center of a crisis between Iran and the United States was boarded in the Gulf of Oman by “unauthorized” people in military uniforms ...

In its 40-year existence, East Germany dominated the Olympic Games. Despite its small size—the country’s population never rose past 19 million—the German Democratic Republic won 519 medals ...

In the late 1980s, the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) was fully committed to the tremendous task of 'domesticizing semiconductors'. This obsession with semiconductors ends in failure ...

ARNSTADT, Germany -- In the fields just outside the small east German town of Arnstadt, China's top automotive battery maker has joined forces with Germany's foremost applied research organization ...

Two German aristocrats – of all people – run the place. This is the first surprise that can be experienced at the GDR museum. Both men seem to have a “soft spot” for the fallen East German ...

BERLIN, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Hans Modrow, who as the last Communist prime minister of East Germany oversaw democratic reforms that opened the way to German reunification, has died at age 95 ...