Germany on Friday passed a 2021 budget that once again smashes its "debt brake" rule, promising to shield businesses and workers from the economic hit of the pandemic as cases continue to rise.
Small and medium-sized businesses as well as the self-employed in Germany can now apply for new 'bridging aid' to help them stay afloat through the coronavirus pandemic. Here's how it works and when the deadline is.
The German government has been supporting businesses and freelancers with financial aid during the coronavirus pandemic. But now investigators are probing several thousand fraud cases.
Germany will provide additional funding for the UN's Palestinian refugee agency and has appealed to other EU members to do the same following a cut in US aid, its foreign ministry said Friday.
Bickering broke out within Chancellor Angela Merkel's hard-fought coalition on Wednesday, as German budget plans left the defence and international development ministries out in the cold.
Since the beginning of the civil war in Syria, Germany has provided €4.5 billion in aid. Now Berlin is upping this amount, pledging to give an extra €1 billion.
Libya said on Sunday it was to release two German members of a group that aids illegal migrants who were detained by coastguards after their boat entered its territorial waters.
Angela Merkel has pledged €2.3 billion in German aid to victims of the Syrian civil war at a donor conference in London, broadcaster N-tv reports - more than a quarter of the total UN target.
For the hundreds of refugees arriving on the shores of Kos every day, ordinary people volunteering to help can be the difference between life and death. The Local spoke to April Humble, one Berlin expat about to head out to the Greek island to help.
Gunmen abducted a German female aid worker in Kabul in broad daylight on Monday, officials said, highlighting the growing risk to humanitarian workers in war-battered Afghanistan.
Over 50 German rescue specialists are heading to one of the worst affected parts of Nepal to perform a search and rescue mission for people trapped by Saturday's earthquake.
Germany will contribute €107 million in aid to the enormous number of Syrian refugees currently in various parts of the Middle East, development minister Gerd Müller announced today.
Come take a tour of special medical evacuation jet the Robert Koch, which is designed to transport patients with Ebola and was unveiled on Thursday at Berlin's Tegel Airport.
Germany is playing an increasingly important role in global humanitarian crises, Unicef executive director Anthony Lake said on Monday, but there is always more to be done.
Germany, one of the countries that suspended aid to Malawi after a massive public sector graft scandal, has granted the impoverished southern African nation $25 million to conduct an audit into the fraud, a diplomat said on Saturday.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has promised that Germany will send help to Liberia to tackle the Ebola crisis in response to a personal appeal by the country's president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.
A German military flight to the conflict-addled region in northern Iraq has been delayed because Turkey denied landing permission for the layover at Incirlik airbase, according to a spokesman for the air force.
Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke out about Iraq, echoing the sentiments of her foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, that in the case of Iraq, Germany may reconsider its traditional ban on exporting weapons to active conflict zones.
