Activists hurled cake at Volkswagen bosses on Wednesday, as the German carmaker's annual shareholders' meeting was disrupted by protests over human rights and climate change.
Demonstrators at a left-wing women's demonstration in Berlin threw bottles and firecrackers at the police on Sunday evening, a German news agency photographer and the police reported.
Some 80,000 people joined a Berlin rally Saturday in solidarity with women-led protests in Iran sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a police spokesman told AFP.
Thousands of protesters gathered on Saturday in a northwest German village slated to disappear because of a coal mine expansion, as the country looks to decrease its reliance on Russian gas.
In late August, six young climate activists set up tents on a stretch of grass between the Reichstag and the chancellery in central Berlin, refusing to eat.
Over a thousand people, including some left-wing extremists, took to the streets of Weimar on Saturday to protest a planned march through the city by the far-right.
Politicians in Berlin have expressed anger after demonstrators at a far-left rally threw bottles at police and burned rubbish bins. Clashes between police and protesters were also reported in Frankfurt and Hamburg.
Tens of thousands of protesters angry at Covid-19 restrictions rallied in cities across Europe on Saturday as several nations reimposed partial lockdowns to fight new surges in infections.
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Sunday lashed out at anti-mask protesters comparing themselves to Nazi victims, accusing them of trivialising the Holocaust and "making a mockery" of the courage shown by resistance fighters.
On Wednesday, Germany’s federal government cleared the way for changes in the Infection Protection Act planned by the grand coalition of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) and Social Democrats (SPD).
As the German government reformed coronavirus protection laws, anti-measures protesters demonstrated in the capital. Here are photos and videos from the scene.
German ministers and other senior officials on Sunday condemned the violence that broke out in eastern city Leipzig at a demonstration against coronavirus infection control measures
Five years after a mass asylum seeker influx bitterly divided Germany, a fire laying waste to the biggest migrant camp in Greece has revived debate over how much of the bloc's refugee burden Europe's biggest economy could shoulder.
People took to the streets across Germany to call on governments in Europe to help refugees affected by the major fire at a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos.
A large majority of Germans don’t support protests against coronavirus measures, according to a new survey carried out by opinion research institute Civey for Spiegel Online.
Germany’s constitutional court (Bundesverfassungsgericht) on Sunday evening confirmed a ban on event dubbed as a coronavirus protest camp by organisers.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday
condemned the death in US police custody of George Floyd as "murder", saying
that "racism is something terrible".
Bayern Munich's Germany defender Jerome
Boateng has called on more famous white sportspeople to add their voices to
the chorus of outrage at the US police killing of George Floyd.
FIFA has called on leagues to use "common
sense" when deciding whether to discipline footballers for displaying
political messages after several players in the German Bundesliga called for
justice for George Floyd during matches.
German police said on Saturday they have launched an investigation after a mock tombstone was found in front of Chancellor Angela Merkel's electoral offices, apparently to decry measures aimed at halting transmission of the coronavirus.
Five people were injured in clashes between the Kurdish and Turkish communities in the western German city of Herne, police said, as Kurds demonstrated against Ankara's offensive in northeastern Syria.
