📰 Breaking News: News Archive for January 2017 | Latest Updates from Germany 2025

01 January
- Europe parties ring in New Year despite terror jitters
02 January
- Snow falls across Germany to ring in the New Year
- Cologne police accused of racial profiling at New Year celebrations
- Could Frankfurt become the new Berlin for startups?
- The word 'Nafri' and why it is causing such a stir in Germany
- Two from Germany killed in Turkish night club attack
- Police in Saarland arrest Syrian over alleged car bomb plot
- Sweden sends 'Laser Man' killer to Germany
- 5 events from across Germany to wipe away those January blues
- This is what has changed in Germany since January 1st
03 January
- Interior Minister plans major overhaul of German security powers
- Bavaria must remain part of Germany, says top court
- The small Bavarian village still holding out against recycling
- Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' becomes German bestseller year after reprint
- Why there's never been a better time to find a job in Berlin
- These are the safest airlines in Germany
- How Germans are opting for ready-made meals over Oma’s cooking
- Take a virtual tour of Stuttgart's futuristic new train station
- Hurricane force storm brings flood threat to north Germany
04 January
- Suspected Isis scout for Berlin attack sites goes on trial
- Police raid potential 'contacts' of Christmas market attacker
- Truck used in Berlin Christmas market attack could go to museum
- Violent storm brings floods to north, snow to south Germany
- Young, uprooted and unpredictable: Germany's 'Nafri scene'
- Biopic about jazz legend 'Django' to open Berlin film festival
- Reverse culture shock: the troubles of leaving Germany for home
- State leaders rip into Berlin's plan to centralize security powers
05 January
- Police hunt suspects who beat up firefighters at New Year
- Storm Axel brings worst Baltic Sea flooding in decade
- How police knew of Amri's terror plans, but still couldn't stop him
- BMW launches first augmented reality dealerships
- No Breitbart, a Muslim mob didn't set fire to Germany's oldest church
- North Sea islanders gifted late Christmas surprise by storm Axel
- Activists slam German EU man's new job after 'racist' remarks
06 January
- SPD politician under fire for 'outing' bank clerk as AfD voter
- Namibian groups sue Germany for alleged genocide
- Germany plans nationwide e-ticket for all city transport
- US tank brigade arrives in Germany for eastern deployment
- Poll shows majority of Germans feel safe despite Berlin attack
- Three seriously injured in bus crash at Frankfurt airport
- 10 unusual things you'll notice when you first arrive in Munich
- Germany shivers in coldest winter night so far
- Five arrests made after arson at refugee home
- Police seize 100kg of explosives from teen 'plotting right-wing attack'
- East German landlords 'stop renting to politicians, fearing attacks'
- 'I'm an American and I was racially profiled in Berlin 23 times'
07 January
- VW near $2bn 'dieselgate' settlement: NY Times
08 January
- Suspects arrested in Tunisia not linked to Berlin attack
09 January
- US arrests VW executive on fraud charges: report
- Germany threatens aid cuts to countries over asylum seeker return
- Germany's Islamist scene growing: security chief
- Berlin may not deport victims of far-right violence
- Justice Minister wants ankle monitors for dangerous suspects
- Probe into Germanwings crash finds suicidal pilot solely responsible
- Despite quotas, Germany's boardrooms still 'male-dominated'
- Green MP: German state should provide prostitutes for the disabled
- Weathermen predict rain and snow after weekend winter wonderland
10 January
- US charges VW executive with fraud in diesel scandal
- German EU leader goes on defence over 'racist, homophobic' remarks
- Could Merkel's Vice Chancellor challenge her in election?
- Former president Roman Herzog dies aged 82
- Poland honours Brit who raised money for slain driver in Berlin attack
- 'Traitor of the people' is Germany's worst word of 2016: Here's why
- Fare-dodger caught grooming 'intimate parts' inside train loo
- Facebook sued over spread of fake news about Syrian refugee
11 January
- How Germany plans to reform security after Berlin attack
- Police have no idea how stolen Dachau camp gate turned up in Norway
- How a Nazi war criminal 'spent his final days in a Syrian basement'
- VW directors knew of emissions scandal before they claimed: report
- Attacker likely to be deported to Serbia after deadly assault on student
- Will knowing what your co-workers are paid help women earn as much as men?
- Number of asylum seekers dropped by 70 percent in 2016
- Far-right politician under fire for tweet about Israeli terror victims
- How a family in Germany are raising an abandoned baby tiger
- Divers to search for missing Hamburg football manager
12 January
- Volkswagen to pay $4.3 billion over emissions cheating scandal
- IN PICTURES: See all the glitz and glam of Hamburg's dazzling new concert hall
- These photos show just how much snow Germany got so far this year
- Trump pledge sends German pharma firms' stocks down
- This is why hardly any North African people were deported in 2016
- Germany to return new asylum seekers to Greece from March
- Pensioner fined €200 for searching for food in bins
- German football star Boateng sued over €250,000 unpaid bill
- German army to take part in 'sex seminar'
- Tunisia vows to 'take responsibility' after Berlin attack
- German foreign minister 'perplexed' by Trump's Nazi claim
13 January
- Germany 'among worst in Europe' for vaccinating children
- How will Germany spend its €6 billion surplus?
- Before Trump takes office, Merkel warns 'eternal' US-EU ties not certain
- German hosts will bar critical journalists from European far-right summit
- 600 officers raid 'Germany's most dangerous street' in Leipzig
- Storm Egon leaves two dead, thousands without power
- Cologne police now say fewer North Africans ID'd on New Year's Eve
- Most Germans don't think racial profiling is a problem: poll
- Victims could sue over failures in Berlin attack
- These 11 photos show just how bad storm Egon hit Germany
- How this frozen fox became a grim winter warning
14 January
- Germany calls on ECB to unwind economic stimulus
15 January
- Berlin mayor fires housing chief for Stasi past
- German jet lands in Kuwait over hoax bomb threat
- Facebook launches battle against 'fake news' in Germany
- German paper accuses UK of offshore tax haven threat
16 January
- Trump: Merkel made 'catastrophic mistake' on refugee policy
- Man walking through town in 'Nazi uniform' with gun shocks Nuremberg
- German parliament mulls possible mistakes made before Berlin attack
- This is how Germany responded to Trump’s attacks on Merkel, car industry
- Eight-year-old girl puts herself for sale online for $45,000
- Suspect breaks silence in trial over rape and death of Chinese student
- The first fully vegan supermarket chain is now shutting down some German stores
- 7 reasons to be happy you live in Germany
17 January
- Top court rejects bid to ban far-right party
- Kerry: Trump's criticism of Merkel 'inappropriate'
- VIDEO: 'Fur police' activists busted for dressing like real cops
- Just how liberal is Germany anyway?
- Trump wants 'great relationship' with Merkel: advisor
- 'Finally a bit more clarity' on Brexit: Germany
- No surprise here: Berlin's new airport won't open this year after all
- VIDEO: Berlin orchestra turns currywurst into music
18 January
- This is how much Deutsche Bank will pay the US for the financial crisis
- Fury as AfD politician urges Germany to 'end culture of remembering Nazi crimes'
- German court can't bear to separate dogs after owners' divorce
- Merkel to face the voters on September 24th
- Court rejects Muslim teacher's discrimination case over headscarf
- Merkel welcomes May's Brexit 'clarity', vows European unity
- Germany’s democracy is in danger, says President
19 January
- This is how Brexit could impact the German car industry
- Auschwitz seeks death camp items from Germans, Austrians
- Goldman Sachs moving London staff to Frankfurt due to Brexit: report
- Why Germany just legalized medical marijuana
- Politicians call for surveillance of AfD after outcry over Nazi comments
- Former Volkswagen boss denies prior knowledge of pollution cheating
- Prosecutors seek six years for teen girl in police stabbing case
- This Israeli artist made a website to shame people who take 'Holocaust selfies'
- Here's what you should know about the meeting of Europe's right-wing populists
20 January
- Obama thanks 'courageous' Merkel in final call with a foreign leader
- What Germany is expecting from Donald Trump’s presidency
- 'My first reaction to Brexit was that I cried': German finance minister
- 'Dangerous and unpredictable': Here's how unpopular Trump is in German polls
- German safety inspectors told to pay millions to women who had faulty breast implants
- Could Germany host one of the next European football championships?
21 January
- German far-right party hosts 'European counter-summit'
- 'Europe will wake up in 2017', Le Pen says in Germany
22 January
- German FM warns of 'turbulent times' post Trump
23 January
- Germany arrests 'accomplice' of Austrian terror suspect
- Why are more German teens doing drugs at school?
- Man behind deadly assault on student is fighting deportation order
- Far-right populist can stay with party, despite controversial Nazi comments
- Germany's train service just trolled Trump super hard
- Dresden bans protest against anti-Islam movement over snowball fight fears
- Ever notice Berlin's subway stations are all different? Here's why
24 January
- Russia to target Merkel with 'more disinformation' ahead of vote
- Germany launches second wave of controversial Afghan deportations
- Merkel warns against 'fakes over facts' in indirect dig at Trump
- Brexit: Supreme Court rules Theresa May can't trigger EU divorce alone
- Could in-the-know police officers have stopped their colleague's extremist killer?
- Berlin ticket controllers under investigation for ripping off tourists
- Brothers arrested in west Germany suspected of joining Isis
- Could Germany at last win another foreign Oscar after a decade?
- This graph shows how much Berlin rent has skyrocketed in past decade
- Vice Chancellor decides not to challenge Merkel in election
- Berlin activists' cars burned in 'political crimes by far-right'
25 January
- Former EU leader to face off against Merkel in election
- German troops land in Lithuania amid Russia fears
- Young woman found frozen to death after going out for cigarette
- Two extremists detained, suspected of plotting attack on Jews, refugees
- What is Germany's extremist Reichsbürger movement?
- Germany to scrap law that forbids insulting foreign leaders
- Cologne to protect its famous Carnival from truck attacks
- This is how Berlin police responded to the 'world's cutest parking ticket'
- Bankers moving to Frankfurt due to Brexit 'could drive up housing prices'
- Could Brexit turn the UK into a tax haven? Germany's not worried
26 January
- Germany voices 'doubt' Israel still wants two-state solution
- Germany approves controversial 'foreigner' Autobahn toll
- Darmstadt sack Tunisian international player over Islamic group link
- From Homs with love: Syrian pastry chefs find new home in Berlin
- 16-year-old Isis sympathizer gets six years jail for stabbing officer
- How a 'very famous' German golfer got mixed up in Trump's voter fraud claim
- Why Germany is one of the best countries for LGBT workers
- Should Germans have to pay tax on pet cats?
- VIDEO: Police search for thief who robbed petrol station with 'samurai sword'
- Five things that prove Bielefeld actually exists
- AfD politician banned from Holocaust memorial after Nazi comments
27 January
- What you should know about Germany's next, outspoken foreign minister
- Top German presidential pick blasts Trump’s role in divided US
- Holocaust remembrance day: How Germany reflects on its Nazi past
- Former VW boss under investigation for fraud
- Man arrested for recording repeated sexual abuse of 8-year-old girl
- Berlin police trainee could lose job over starring in porn
- Germany’s winter is over, for now, says expert
- Germany's population just hit a record high - so what does this mean?
- Trump to hold first presidential phone call with Merkel
- Holocaust memorial day marred by spat with far-right MP
28 January
- 'Dear Mr President, don't build this wall!': Berlin mayor
- France and Germany 'concerned' at Trump refugee ban
- Turkish NATO soldiers seek asylum in Germany: report
29 January
- EU veteran Schulz to lay out plan to take on Merkel
- Trump and Merkel agree on NATO's 'fundamental importance'
- Volkswagen to recall 600,000 vehicles in US
- Merkel slams Trump's Muslim ban as 'not justified'
30 January
- Six teens found dead after garden party in Bavaria
- Turkey urges Berlin to reject soldiers' asylum bids
- Green party demands travel ban for Trump to Germany
- Nazi secretary who 'didn't know about Holocaust' dies, aged 106
- Three hospitalized after mystery smell grounds Germanwings flight
- Drone crashes into car on Autobahn outside Munich
- Germany warns of 'catastrophic' conditions for migrants in Libya
- This is how many Germans could be impacted by Trump’s travel bans
- 7 events across Germany you won't want to miss this February
- Merkel steps up criticism of 'anti-Muslim' US travel ban
- Germany overtakes China as world's richest exporter
- How your mini-job employer might be cutting you short on wages
31 January
- Deutsche Bank handed $630m fine over Russian money laundering
- Student mysteriously found dead after party at Tübingen frat house
- Trump on the agenda as Merkel meets Löfven in Stockholm
- Icy roads in eastern half of Germany cause traffic chaos
- How diesel emissions on German streets are threatening our health
- 'Antitheist' given life sentence for killing Christian flatmate over religion
- Berlin woman faces €250,000 fine if she smokes on balcony past 8pm
- Six teens found dead after party had carbon monoxide poisoning
- Germany top choice for businesses seeking to leave UK post-Brexit
- Sweden and Germany emphasize 'shared values' and criticize Trump ban
- Police finger 'uncontrollable' dildo as chief burglary suspect
- This map shows the most polluted streets in Germany
- Top Trump aide blasts Germany for 'exploiting' US on trade