📰 Breaking News: News Archive for June 2016 | Latest Updates from Germany 2025

01 June
- 12 Zika virus cases registered in Germany in a month
- The German smithies forging cut-throat razors for the world
- Supermarket giant Rewe ditches plastic bags for good
- North Germany beefs up ambulances for the obese
- Armenia: don't let Erdogan bully you on genocide bill
- Germany expects 100,000 migrants to leave this year
- Merkel backs Armenia genocide bill, but won't vote
- Three children are killed every week in Germany
- Lower Bavaria district declares flood 'disaster'
- Germany to require ID for buying prepaid phones
02 June
- Fifth person confirmed dead in Bavarian flooding
- Turkey: vote on Armenia 'genocide' a 'test of friendship'
- Vigilante group beat mentally-ill refugee and tie him to tree
- 'Salafist' Sikh temple bombers were known to police
- Turkey recalls Berlin envoy after Armenia genocide vote
- Four arrested over alleged Isis plot to attack Düsseldorf
- Stay in EU and keep your influence, Merkel tells Brits
- 'Stalker' cop fired for stealing police cadet's bras repeatedly
03 June
- Bavaria on edge as hunt for flood victims continues
- Huge majority of Germans want Britain to stay in EU
- 6 things I've learned about Germany by editing The Local
- How Life of Brian is starting a revolution against the Church
- National team 'no longer German', says AfD leader
- Düsseldorf terror plot ‘bigger than previously realized’
04 June
- At least eleven now dead in 'worst floods for a century'
- Hitler's coding machine finally meets its British nemesis
- German president's partner warned him off new term: Bild
- German genocide vote 'has no value': Erdogan
05 June
- German populist party slams Muslim soccer player Ozil
- 3D-printed aircraft debuts at Berlin air show
- German right-wing leader blasts 'dictator' Merkel
06 June
- Erdogan's rage brings death threats to German MPs
- Adidas and Puma: a football strip feud that divides a town
- Cyclist gunned down in Hamburg in broad daylight
- Doubts hang over Frankfurt's prospects after Brexit
- President calls time despite 'touching' urges to stay
- Living in Berlin - Six things I won't miss when I'm gone
- Merkel hits back at Erdogan's threats against Turkish MPs
- Website helps 'train' users to get into Berghain
- Famed Berlin hacker linked to Wikileaks fends off rape claim
07 June
- Surprise, surprise: Angie still world’s most powerful Frau
- Teacher takes pupil to court for calling him 'retarded'
- Celeb violinist: porn star ex blackmailing me over fetish
- Asylum applications in May up 100 percent on last year
- German Post under fire for not accepting Brexit ballots
- Why can't Germany catch these washed-up terrorists?
- Who will be Germany’s next President?
- 130 refugees rescued as home goes up in flames
08 June
- Tornado hits Hamburg, more storms predicted for south
- Düsseldorf terror plotters 'linked to refugee sleeper cell'
- Last belongings of Auschwitz victims found after decades
- Germany seeks extradition of Nazi sect paedophile doctor
- Boateng won't take family to Euros over terrorism fears
- 6 refugees arrested after blaze at Düsseldorf asylum home
- Berlin court shoots down challenge against Airbnb ban
- Police raid premises of popular Berlin dating app
- Half a million more Syrians to join loved ones in Germany
- Crimes by migrants drop 20 percent in three months
- German TV says Russian athletics doping still ongoing
09 June
- Turkey plotting 'action plan' against Germany
- 'Ramadan row' behind fire at Düsseldorf refugee shelter
- How to sound like a football expert with your German pals
- Secret meet of world elite drums up dread in Dresden
- AfD backtracks after saying gay people should be jailed
- Second deadly shooting on Hamburg streets in a week
- Terrorists could use drones to attack football fans: police
- Nuremberg's past has chilling message for the modern USA
- German public pool bans the burqini
10 June
- Why Greece says Germany's economic policies are 'crazy'
- German Rail aims for driver-less trains in 5 years
- Just as many Germans sceptical of EU as Brits
- Anti-migrant party makes foreigners face of PR push
- Brexit would shut UK out of single market, Berlin warns
- Why refugees are commiting far less crime
- Will closing borders drive Germans to incest?
- German President voices Euro 2016 security fears
11 June
- 'Please don't go,' German weekly begs Britain
- Foreign-based German players draw criticism at home
12 June
- Police guards for German MPs over Armenian genocide row
- Germany records 3,200 complaints over asylum queue
- German vice-chancellor compares AfD to Nazis
13 June
- We’re not at our best yet, warn cocky Germany
- German national team make fools of far-right populists
- Two injured after man fires air gun at refugee home
- Germany mulls stricter child marriage laws
- Germans no longer champs of baring it all on the beach
- Turkish editor wins German freedom of speech award
- Ex-police chief asks Cologne attack victims for forgiveness
14 June
- Trump's German ancestral town sees few reasons to brag
- Whirlwinds, rain continue to batter Germany
- German EU envoy to Turkey resigns over refugee row
- Trial starts of Berlin man accused of 2 child murders
- Justice minister wants to end toleration of polygamy
- Plane hits oncoming truck in Autobahn emergency landing
- Shock as German soldiers let kids play with machine guns
- Risk of fan violence at next Germany match 'very high'
15 June
- Man pushes woman onto Berlin U-Bahn train tracks
- Verdict due in case of former SS Auschwitz guard
- Five men arrested for gang-raping woman in her home
- Refugees offered swimming help after spate of drownings
- One in 10 Germans wants country to be ruled by 'Führer'
- AfD leader 'the biggest liar' on television
- Munich man collared by cops after offering to clean station
- Gay couple's baby recognized as German in landmark ruling
16 June
- EU could fall to pieces after Brexit, Germany warns
- One dead, 15 injured in Autobahn bridge collapse
- How the German national team reach their Zen state
- Family charged for exorcism murder in Frankfurt hotel
- Naked corpse on Munich shop floor bewilders neighbours
- Germany must protect Bin Laden bodyguard, court rules
- Half of Turkish Germans hold Islam above state law
- Five things to know about guns in Germany
17 June
- Orlando killer 'had links with Frankfurt airport worker'
- Löw bemoans German team's weak attack against Poland
- Germany should 'lead new EU' after Brexit: Polish statesman
- Stabbed Cologne mayor mourns Jo Cox death
- Jewish group outraged by Munich auction of Nazi relics
- Russian hooligans arrested for beating tourists in Cologne
- Greens scupper plan to block migrants from North Africa
- Heavy rain brings flood risk to Berlin
- Auschwitz guard gets 5 years prison for Holocaust role
- Merkel urges Brits to watch their words after Jo Cox death
- German clinic offers last hope to cancer-struck Aussie child
18 June
- Germany sets conditions for EU banking union
- Germany slams NATO 'warmongering'
- Russian hooligans jailed in Cologne for beating Spaniard
20 June
- 10,000s across Germany hold hands against racism
- Bomb threat on Hamburg flight puts police on high alert
- ‘Argentine’ buyer splurges on Nazi relics at Munich auction
- ‘Spanking kids is why US is more violent than Germany’
- World Nose Championship brings big beaks to Bavaria
- Almost half of Brits in Germany won't vote on Brexit
- 7 outdoor night spots that make Berlin’s summer unique
- Ex-boss of VW being investigated for market fixing
- VIDEO: Brits in Europe say why UK should stay
21 June
- Has bureaucracy deprived Brits abroad of their vote?
- German court rules in favour of ECB crisis-fighting tool
- Germany wants to strengthen gun registry to fight terror
- Turkey 'denying educated Syrians' travel to Germany
- Cologne court blocks Erdogan attempt to silence media boss
- How a Holocaust row threatens to split the AfD apart
- British traders in Berlin worry about impact of Brexit
- Brexit would lead to new focus on EU common security
22 June
- Müller bemoans Germany's missed chances despite win
- Berlin neighbours shocked by huge 'bloody refugee' mural
- Baby's Day Out: 1-year-old travels alone up Autobahn
- 'World's biggest Knödel' helps Bavarian flood victims
- VW chief tells shareholders sorry for emissions scandal
- NATO couldn't stop Russian attack on Baltics: US general
- Jewish man beaten in Berlin for wearing kippah
- Child hospitalized after father feeds her magic mushrooms
- Turkey blocks German visit to own soldiers on air base
23 June
- Left-wing extremists attack banks, burn cars in Berlin
- Hot hot hot: Germany faces countrywide heatwave
- Brits in Germany left 'fuming' by Brexit polling card fiasco
- How two gay dads cut German red tape to start a family
- Germans offer to concede 1966 goal if UK stays in EU
- 'German ticket collectors saw I was a tourist and milked me'
- Mural for dead refugee boy vandalized in Frankfurt
- Phone scammers callously exploiting vulnerable elderly
- Is this prophetic penguin Paul the Octopus reborn?
- German classic Das Boot to be reborn in new TV show
- Police free hostages, kill gunman at cinema attack
24 June
- Germany: Brexit vote is a 'sad day for Europe'
- German stock market sees biggest drop since 2008 crash
- German far right 'cries for joy' after UK votes to leave EU
- Brits in Berlin pub watch Brexit results in horror
- Viernheim hostage-taker wasn't carrying lethal weapon
- Why we are part of the Brexit problem - and what to do
- Couple copulating on bridge shut down Autobahn
- Merkel: Brexit has cut into European unity
- How to get German citizenship (or just stay forever)
- Germany makes fracking verboten
- 'Germany needs to make UK come to its senses'
- Brexit will turn Berlin into 'Europe’s startup capital'
25 June
- Brexit, a sign of anti-elite revolt: analysts
- Germany says 'won't let anyone take Europe from us'
- Brexit divorce must be 'quick': EU founding states
- Europe's press mourns Brexit vote
26 June
- Brexit: French and German trade groups urge EU unity
- ‘No need to be nasty over Brexit talks’: Merkel
- Europe's leaders bicker as Brexit reality bites
- US urges EU and UK to 'divorce amicably'
27 June
- Man Utd target blasts Germany to win over Slovakia
- Gay German MP 'violently arrested' at Istanbul demo
- Sartorial slip-up leads police to pipe bomb
- How Brits can escape to Germany and still feel at home
- Merkel: no backroom deals with UK on Brexit
- Germany and France urge deeper EU 'political union'
- German MPs file war crimes suit against Erdogan
- Telekom warns all users to change passwords after scam
28 June
- Police investigate after 'Nazi knifeman' threatens President
- Merkel vows to create 'new impulse' for EU
- Cleaning spray sets off shock explosion in Frankfurt cafe
- Germans react with glee to England’s Iceland humiliation
- Teacher overpaid quarter of a million euros. No one notices
- Left leader calls for German referendum on EU deals
- VW agrees to $14.7 bn payout in US emissions probe
- This film makes Darmstadt look more romantic than Paris
- Merkel: Britain can’t cherry-pick Brexit terms
- Germany seeks seat on UN security council
- British business owner in Germany: why I support Brexit
29 June
- There's no way back for Britain, says 'sad' Merkel
- Berlin puts spies on tighter leash after NSA scandal
- German extremist groups 'getting bigger, more brutal'
- Flights from Berlin to Istanbul cancelled after terror attack
- 'Hero' refugee hands in €150,000 he found in wardrobe
- German kidnaps Swiss child, raising online gaming fears
- Germans rally on Twitter to show love for UK
- Six ways to make this Munich summer one to remember
- Munich 'to spend extra €2.2m' on Oktoberfest security
- Trabi totalled on Autobahn after skidding on snail slime
30 June
- Shock birthday party attack at campsite leaves one dead
- Monsanto still 'open' to deal with German chemical giant
- Germany experiences highest birth rate in 15 years
- Berlin colony says no to more 'non-Germans' in its gardens
- Brexit 'doesn't pose big risk' to German economy
- Red-faced pensioner declares war on pre-recorded sexline
- Merkel demands German vote on EU free trade deal
- Six burning questions for British expats about Brexit