The Cathedral City of Cologne is ramping up security ahead of the far-right AfD's party conference at the weekend, including around 4,000 police officers and a four-day no-fly zone over the city centre.
Officials expect 50,000 people, including thousands of left-wing extremists, to partake in a protest in Cologne with the aim of shutting down the far-right AfD's party conference.
Fourteen animals including a llama and a pony escaped from a petting zoo on Tuesday, leading to a mad scramble by officers and zoo workers to round them all up.
Authorities at Germany's most iconic church brought in a ban on bags for security reasons on Wednesday. But visitors arriving from the adjacent train station are far from pleased.
Cologne will install concrete blocks at its famous Carnival celebrations to protect from possible truck attacks like the one on a Berlin Christmas market in December, police said on Wednesday.
A YouGov poll released on Thursday found that the majority of Germans said racial profiling was not problematic, amid criticism of police checks on New Year's Eve in Cologne.
Cologne police set off a storm of controversy when they tweeted that hundreds of "Nafris" - North Africans - were stopped during New Year's Eve celebrations. But a new report paints a different picture.
American journalist Sandhya Kambhampati was stopped by police 23 times within her first nine months of living in Berlin. Now she's investigating racial profiling in Germany - and is looking for others to share experiences.
Police in Cologne have had to defend themselves against stinging criticism for the second New Year in a row. This time for being too racially insensitive.
The leader of the Green Party has condemned Cologne police for coining the word "Nafri" to identify North African men at Silvester celebrations over the weekend.
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City officials plan to have more than ten times the number of officers that they did last year on patrol for the upcoming New Year's Eve celebration, hoping to prevent the spate of crimes committed last year.
As Cologne prepares for New Year's Eve a year after a spate of sexual assaults, officials are considering ramping up security with helicopters, video surveillance and restricted entry to certain places, according to a media report.
About 25,000 Kurds and Alevis rallied in the German city of Cologne on Saturday against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after the arrest of pro-Kurdish politicians earlier this month, the DPA news agency reported.
Several thousand Kurds marched in the western Germany city of Cologne on Saturday in support of pro-Kurdish
politicians jailed in Turkey the previous day.
Several thousands people were being evacuated from a district of Cologne just north of the old town on Thursday morning, after a Second World War bomb was found in a parking lot.
No European country is more important in relations with Turkey than Germany - home to the world's largest Turkish diaspora - but in Turkish media Germany is currently being demonized.
Turkey summoned a senior German diplomat on Monday, the embassy said, a day after a rally in Cologne in support of the Turkish president who was not permitted to address the crowd by video conference.
Tens of thousands of supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan rallied in the German city of Cologne on Sunday as tensions over Turkey's failed coup put authorities on edge.
Tens of thousands of supporters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan plan to rally in Cologne on Sunday, as tensions over Turkey's failed coup have put German authorities on edge.
