Crime

Man gets six years for selling missile material to Iran

A Koblenz court sentenced a 63-year-old businessman to six years in prison on Monday after confessing to selling materials that could be used in missiles to Iran.

Military

Top German protestant slams weapons exports

Bishop Wolfgang Huber, head of the German Evangelical Church used his Good Friday sermon to criticise the country’s thriving weapons export industry.

weapons

Pensioner injures child with homemade explosive booby trap

A 14-year-old boy injured by a pensioner’s homemade booby trap returned home from the hospital on Wednesday, police in Dillenburg-Manderbach in the state of Hesse told The Local on Wednesday.

Military

Berlin backs cluster bomb ban

In a policy turnaround, Germany on Thursday agreed to join a ban on cluster bombs following international agreement outlawing the controversial ordnance.