Speaking to the The Local ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Germany next month, Amnesty International warned that his poor record on human rights must factor into the talks.
Romania was scrambling to apologize for a blunder late on Monday evening after a mix-up saw German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier handed a brochure bearing a map of France filled with the colours of the German flag.
Chancellor Angela Merkel hosted Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven in Berlin on Wednesday for talks on the two countries' shared migration and integration concerns. Between them, Germany and Sweden take in more asylum seekers from Syria than the rest of the EU combined.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will visit Japan early next month for the first time in seven years for a summit with
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, an official said on Friday.
German Ambassador to the United Nations Joachim Rücker will take over the presidency of the Human Rights Council (HRC) in 2015 in a first for the country.
Angela Merkel display of anger at a US diplomat who insulted the EU was unwise, argues the Tagesspiegel's Malte Lehming. Russia's role in the case remains unclear, and the chancellor is uninterested in who she is helping.
Berlin's foreign diplomats are giving police a headache with their bad driving. In four months they racked up nearly 5,000 traffic violations, getting off scot-free thanks to diplomatic immunity.
Germany sought on Monday to overcome a division with most of its European Union partners over reopening Turkey's stalled bid to join the bloc, a diplomatic source said.
Germany is in talks with Ukraine on an offer to treat jailed former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko for her health problems in Berlin, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle confirmed on Friday.
Britain on Friday unveiled the first of the EU reforms it wants before holding a referendum on membership, calling for Germany to support a "red card" scheme so individual nations can block laws they dislike.
Germany is the most popular country in the world, according to a poll released on Tuesday asking people to rate the positive and negative influence of 16 major nations.
A German diplomat's small dog has sparked a minor diplomatic kerfuffle after his dachshund bit the elderly wife of the head of one South Korea's biggest companies.
Germany on Monday played down criticism by France's ruling Socialists of Chancellor Angela Merkel's insistence on austerity, and said it saw cooperation with Paris as "essential".
Germany summoned North Korea's ambassador Friday to convey Berlin's "serious concern" over the sharp spike in tensions on the Korean peninsula, a spokesman said.
John Kerry on Tuesday makes his first trip as US Secretary of State to Berlin, a city where his boyhood bike rides during the Cold War helped shape his world view.
At the US ambassador's post-election breakfast in Berlin on Wednesday it was agreed that the major - if not only - expectation for Germany from Barack Obama's new presidency would be that it sort out the euro crisis.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday voiced her "great concern" about the violence spreading in Arab countries over an anti-Islamic film as she condemned an attack on the German embassy in Khartoum.
Germany condemned what the foreign minister called a hate video on Friday after thousands of protesters in the Sudanese capital Khartoum stormed the German embassy and set it on fire in fury.
Germany’s foreign ministry said on Friday it had stepped up security at its diplomatic missions in the Muslim world, in the wake of violent protests sparked by a film mocking Islam that was released on the internet.
Israeli defence experts have appealed against German plans to sell two modern submarines to Egypt, saying it would upset the balance of power in the Middle East.
German prosecutors have charged a man employed at Syria’s embassy in Berlin with spying. He allegedly passed information about dissidents living in Germany to the Assad regime.
Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday that Germany and the United States would benefit from having a closer relationship - if they can first manage to overcome their differences.
