The United Nations' top envoy in Iraq, German diplomat Martin Kobler, does not expect civil war to break out in the country, he was quoted as saying on Monday.
Germany's foreign ministry summoned the Russian deputy ambassador to Berlin on Thursday over a German political scientist who was refused entry to the country at a Moscow airport.
Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday that the likely return of Vladimir Putin to the presidency of Russia was a, “national Russian matter,” and that she would work well with him.
The German foreign ministry said Wednesday it had summoned Pyongyang's ambassador, following North Korea's bombardment of a South Korean border island which killed two marines and two civilians.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is heading to Germany and Britain next week for talks with their leaders as well as the US Middle East envoy amid increasing calls from those countries for a stop to settlement activity in the occupied West Bank.
Hundreds of Tamil activists protested the Sri Lankan government’s new choice for deputy ambassador to Germany in Frankfurt on Monday, alleging that Major General Jagath Dias is a war criminal.
The German government "invited" on Monday the Iranian ambassador to explain himself after Tehran accused Western countries of "meddling" in its affairs, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said in Berlin.
An intoxicated Ukrainian Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko and his son Oleksandr caused a scene at the Frankfurt airport this week when a German Lufthansa pilot refused to allow them onto a plane, daily <i>Bild</i> reported on Wednesday.
A further escalation of violence in the Middle East could prompt Arab nations to turn their backs on the peace process and delay a lasting solution for years, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Tuesday.
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German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on a visit to Vietnam on Friday that Berlin will greatly expand its economic and educational presence in the country.
