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

01 February
- Tunisian terror suspect 'had already committed attack in Tunis'
- Star-packed Berlin film fest promises laughs in dark times
- Problems 'resolved' for German dual citizens under Trump's travel ban
- Woman says police made her draw milk from breast at Frankfurt Airport
- Opinion: Germany shouldn't force social media firms to be arbiters of truth
- Bosch to pay out $300 million to US buyers over 'dieselgate' scandal
- 'Neo-Nazi' arrested for bomb attack on foreigners in Düsseldorf 17 years ago
- Merkel election rival accuses Trump of being 'un-American'
- German soldiers accused of 'sadistic sexual rituals' and humiliation
- WATCH: Police dog pushes woman onto train tracks in Nuremberg
- After Knut, meet Fritz, the polar bear melting German hearts
- Berlin to fit suspected jihadists with ankle bracelets
02 February
- Merkel heads to Turkey to salvage battered alliance
- Deutsche Bank hit by second year of huge losses
- Frankfurt to get 24-hour public transport on weekends
- 5 times Germany's new foreign minister has had a go at Trump
- Raped and forced to sleep with 17 men a day: kidnapping trial starts
- 'Migrant shock', a far-right website selling illegal guns, taken down
- Why thousands of German teachers are striking this week
- Propeller plane crashes into wind turbine, killing pilot
- Frankfurt takes early lead in race to woo over London's banks
- Suspect confesses to rape in Munich university toilet
- Six million visitors: a record month for The Local
- Being German isn't about where you're born, say most Germans
- Erdogan tells off Merkel for using phrase 'Islamist terrorism'
03 February
- Austrian pensioner terrorizes German motorists with fake police stunt
- Germany extradites Tunisian linked to Berlin attacker
- British expats join forces across Europe to tackle Brexit
- Was German FM's first Washington visit a success or failure? Still not clear
- Berlin clubs - the ten most famous and notorious
- Thousands of crimes against refugees recorded in 2016: report
- How a drunken prank on an ex-boyfriend spiralled way out of control
- Here's why Grumpy Cat is in Berlin - and absolutely hates it
- German public trust in USA plummets to record low: study
- Lufthansa starts flying people on Trump travel ban into Boston
- Two men in Berlin accused of hundreds of child sex abuse acts
- Did VW's CEO know of emissions scam all along? Yes, says his boss
- WATCH: This is how Germany 'introduced' Trump to the country
- Trump's top EU pick warns German media of 'seismic shift' in ties
04 February
- Merkel says Europe's future could be two-speed
- German liner rescues six from sinking Tongan boat
- No ban, no wall: 1,000 protest Trump in heart of Berlin
05 February
- Merkel hopes for 'fair' EU-Mercosur trade deal
- German 'Trump beheading Statue of Liberty' cover sparks criticism
06 February
- What you need to know about this year's Berlinale film festival
- Three men die after fire breaks out at Berlin sauna club
- Police under fire for telling refugees to stay away from Carnival
- Russian cold front heading for Berlin with temperatures down to -10C
- Majority of Germans think AfD are an extreme right party: survey
- German states delay Afghan deportations due to security fears: report
- Social Democrats leap ahead of Merkel’s party in new poll
- Dortmund fans 'shame football' with attacks on families before match
- German govt seeks 'drug dealers' to help distribute medical weed
- Hounded over Merkel selfie, Syrian refugee sues Facebook
07 February
- Merkel wins Bavarian backing for 'toughest election race yet'
- 50,000 women in Germany have suffered genital mutilation: report
- Secret services: no proof Russia meddling in German affairs
- Yes, Trump, these German attacks were covered - quite extensively
- Dramatic Syrian art installation in central Dresden enrages far right
- These German stories really didn't get enough attention, Mr Trump
- Police raid Reichsbürger extremists who set up 'own country'
- 1,000s to strike at Berlin airports, causing cancellations and delays
- Hundreds more German troops arrive in Lithuania amid Russia fears
- This map shows where in Germany professionals earn the most
- Police arrest Syrian Isis suspect accused of rape
- How Leipzig fans face abuse and violence at other football clubs
08 February
- Merkel calls for EU to maintain good relations with Washington
- More than 100 flights scrapped in Berlin, Hamburg, Stuttgart airport strikes
- Two asylum seekers charged with abusing girls in swimming pool
- WATCH: Germans tell us where relations with the US are headed
- Mother gets 4 years' prison for forcing daughter into prostitution
- German trust in Israel 'deeply shaken' by new settlement law
- Drunk driving teacher busted after pupil crashes car into house
- Train passengers enraged by German rail chaos
09 February
- Driverless cars planned for French-German border crossing
- Germany voices 'concern' over Russia's conviction of opposition leader
- VW still says it didn't know of emissions scam before, after ex-boss said it did
- Trudeau to meet Merkel, EU to discuss controversial trade deal
- Two arrested in Göttingen suspected of 'imminent terror plot'
- How Germany's record trade surplus could fuel US friction with Trump
- Germany moves 100 tonnes of its gold from New York to Frankfurt
- Refugee rights groups criticize plans for faster deportations
- Muslim teacher wins €9,000 in Berlin discrimination case
- Vegan’s protest leads town hall to ban kids' song about fox being shot
- Here's what connects Merkel with Hollywood's biggest stars
10 February
- Neo-Nazi given 8 years' jail for torching refugee shelter
- This is how Twitter reacted to Germany’s 'bleh' Eurovision pick
- Hamburg court bans large parts of poem insulting Erdogan
- This is where the flu has been hitting Germany hardest
- Why we’ve switched off comments under articles
- Police launch dawn terror raid based on fake Facebook profile
- How a shared crate of beer ended in a bitter legal battle over an Audi
- How German guns often end up in child soldiers' hands
11 February
- Deutsche Börse boss faces new insider trading questions
12 February
- EU struggling to punish VW over 'dieselgate' scandal
- Germany elects 'anti-Trump' Steinmeier as new president
- Tsipras hits back at Germany, IMF over debt impasse
13 February
- Pepper spray 'prank' leads to evacuation at Hamburg airport
- ‘Your grandparents burned for Dresden’: new football banner outrage
- Trial starts of Munich teacher who sawed lover to death during sex
- AfD mulls booting leader who said Germany should put WWII in past
- Dortmund to shut stand following hooligan attacks on families
- More tourists than ever before travelling to Bavaria, figures show
- Bavaria tells Trump: forget Germany, we’re most like you
14 February
- Germany delays Israel meet 'due to anger at settlement policies'
- Germany's new President - who he is and what he does
- Tunisian PM bluntly rejects blame for Berlin truck attack
- Two thirds of Germans want Merkel out at next election: poll
- Elderly German couple found dead in Australia's outback
- Mass sexual assaults by refugees in Frankfurt ‘completely made up’
- Tesla driver ‘saves lives’ with amazing Autobahn rescue maneuver
- 'Hitler please come back': new Nazi controversy rocks troubled AfD
15 February
- OPINION: Brexit and Brits in the EU - bargaining chip or afterthought?
- Ruling parties agree on child marriage ban proposal
- German Unity 'seesaw' monument to be resurrected in Berlin
- Four out of five British expats fear Brexit will strip them of rights to live abroad
- Scandal in German military: female soldier 'forced to pole dance'
- Police raid homes of imams suspected of spying for Turkey
- Why Germans are losing their taste for beer
- Is the German military capable of defending Europe?
- Lufthansa agrees on pay hike to settle years-long pilot dispute
- 'Million euro-heist' in Berlin bank: armed robbers still at large
- Crematorium investigated for including extra body parts in urns
16 February
- Berlin braces for more airport strikes and flight cancellations
- What to expect in the US Secretary of State's first visit to Germany
- 150 hit by respiratory problems as 'toxic cloud' looms over Ruhr valley city
- 'No spying among friends': How Merkel’s NSA criticism came to haunt her
- Officer convicted of assault after not taking emergency call seriously
- Why Bavarians are serving up beaver with their beer
17 February
- Merkel tells NSA committee she didn't know Germany spied on allies
- 7 surefire signs your kids are definitely German
- IN PICS: Empty high-speed train in Frankfurt derails in dramatic crash
- 'Democratic nations shouldn't solely focus on military budgets': German FM
- Pensioner arrested over threat to poison Haribo bears with cyanide
- 'The strength of the US has grown because of NATO': Merkel
- Turkey recalls imams from Germany for 'exceeding authority'
- German army battles 'fake news' of rape reports in Lithuania
- Germany bans doll for being 'hidden spying device'
18 February
- Refugee comedy, transgender love story tipped at Berlin festival
- 'US will always be your greatest ally,' Pence tells Europe
20 February
- Hungarian slaughterhouse love story wins Berlin fest Golden Bear
- Mike Pence pays somber visit to Nazi concentration camp
- Hitler's phone sells for more than $240,000
- Germany demands answers after Swiss nuclear reactor is restarted... and then shut down again
- Interior Ministry wants unidentified refugees to give up cell phone data
- Merkel's trip to Algeria called off due to president's illness
- German politics - 10 things you need to know
- Syrian teen on trial in Cologne over Isis bomb plot
- Amazon seeks 2,000 new techies in Germany - and they're advertising in English
- How German arms sales are shrinking, despite global weapons race
- Incoming storm: Hurricane-force winds on the way to Germany
21 February
- Saudi Arabia seeks death for man suspected of shooting at German diplomats
- Woman given 6-year's jail for killing cousin in Frankfurt exorcism trial
- Trump's free trade hostility is good news for EU, says commissioner
- The calls you'll hear at Carnival in Germany - and what they mean
- Man robbed in own home by teens who helped rescue him
- Here's why Germany is so 'tough' on Greece over its debts
- Meet Mr. Schulz, the 'left-wing Trump' who could steal Merkel's crown
- Two German-born Islamists to be deported despite not committing crime
- Bavaria agrees on draft law to ban burqa in public
- Desperately need a face lift? These German cities offer the best value
22 February
- Germany to boost troops to 200,000 as US urges more defence spending
- Far-right AfD sees worst poll results since 2015
- Berlin mayor sends condolences to terror victims - two months late
- Court deems state 'women’s advancement' law unconstitutional
- These are the German states with the most people waiting to be deported
- Stolen 'Work will set you free' gate returned to Dachau
- Cologne Carnival - The Local's essential guide
- The Hamburg 'coliving' and 'coworking' space you never have to leave
23 February
- Germany records record budget surplus thanks to healthy trade
- Turkey encouraging teachers to spy in German schools: report
- Hard and fast: the reality of life as a Berlin food courier
- Brit arrested for cyber attack on a million German homes last year
- Opinion: the Bavarian 'burqa ban' is utterly deplorable
- Germany deports third group of Afghan migrants to Kabul
- German Islamist arrested for planning attack on security forces
- Bild appoints ombudsman to deal with fake news complaints
- Batch of deadly, illegal vodka seized in North Rhine-Westphalia
- Germany ‘only country left’ which holds to free higher education
- Danish populists irk Germany with 'Denmark to the Eider' call
24 February
- Gunmen kidnap two Germans in northern Nigeria: police
- Road deaths fall to lowest level in 60 years, but thousands still dying
- 136 Turks with diplomatic status sought asylum in Germany since putsch
- China overtakes US as Germany’s main trade partner
- Status of Brits in Germany up in the air, as Berlin makes no guarantees
- Trump fires up German debate on military spending
- Eight ways Germany is still stuck in the 1980s
- Teen cleared of killing homeless German in southern Sweden
- German intelligence 'spied on foreign journalists'
- Storm Thomas subsides, but snow and ice pose road danger
- Carnival troop who 'black up' get police escort after racism row
- Donald Trump badmouths Sweden, Germany and Paris in one go
25 February
- Afghan deportation flight left from Germany half empty
- Shaking off dieselgate, VW races back into profit
- German lawmakers urge Turkey to free Die Welt journalist
26 February
- One dead, two injured in Germany car attack
- French presidential candidate Macron to meet Merkel
27 February
- Police probe driver's motives after deadly Heidelberg car attack
- Seven refugees attacked every day on average in Germany
- Two German archaeologists freed after Nigeria kidnapping
- Police earn praise for taking down trolls after Heidelberg car attack
- German sailor beheaded by Philippine Islamists
- IN PICS: German Carnival floats show Trump no mercy
- Berlin court sentences street racers to life for murder in national first
- VIDEO: German stag 'pretends' to be cow to avoid being hunted
28 February
- Turkey jails German journalist on terrorism charges
- Israel opens corruption probe on purchase of German submarines
- Berlin truck attacker's mosque banned amid major police raid
- UN experts: In Germany there are 'no-go' areas for black people
- Climate experts urge Germans to ‘give up cars’ for Lent
- Ryanair builds up Frankfurt flights in challenge to Lufthansa
- Granny murder suspect arrested after killing two police officers
- Germany moves closer to password-free WiFi for all
- How infighting has left far-right AfD sweating with elections on horizon
- Fifth woman attacked by acid-throwing cyclist in Berlin
- Spring likely delayed in Germany, despite warm February