The gunman in a deadly anti-Semitic shooting in the German city of Halle was planning a "massacre" in a synagogue, Germany's chief federal prosecutor said Thursday, calling the violence an act of terror.
Jewish groups pushed back against government insistence that anti-Semitism is not growing in Germany at a gathering on Tuesday, saying that newly-arrived Muslim migrants and the traditional far-right both posed a threat to their safety.
A German city official who was stabbed in the neck in an attack apparently over her work with refugees was Sunday elected the first female mayor of the western city of Cologne.
Federal police said on Thursday that they had arrested a man in Berlin after he climbed over the fence around the Chancellery during the night and threw a Molotov cocktail.
Best-selling German author and Holocaust survivor Ralph Giordano, whose writing offered a moral compass for the nation in the post-war period, died Wednesday aged 91, his publisher said.
Wolfgang Böhmer, Christian Democratic premier of the state of Saxony Anhalt, on Saturday warned of the possibility of the rise of a populist far-right party in Germany, "even if it is not clear who could lead it."
The five wild wolves in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania can gorge themselves on up to €150,000 worth of sheep and other livestock, Agricultural Minister Till Backhaus said on Wednesday.
