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Hertha Berlin plan to offer a testicular examination to its potential new signings in the coming transfer period, after several cases of cancer among football players recently. “Hertha will definitely actively offer these examinations from the next tra…

The planned Chinese acquisition of a stake in a container terminal in the port of Hamburg has caused a rift in the German government, sources confirmed to dpa on Thursday. The chancellery of Olaf Scholz – who was formerly the mayor of Hamburg – is push…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has reiterated his invitation for his German counterpart, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, to visit Kiev. “We are preparing the visit of the German president to Ukraine,” Zelensky said on Twitter on Thursday after the con…

A German association has rated visual artist Gerhard Richter as the world’s most significant artist, marking the 19th consecutive year that he has been placed at the top of its ranking. The association, called Kunstkompass which translates as “art comp…

Russian President Vladimir Putin imposed martial law in four recently annexed Ukrainian territories as Moscow’s hold over one of them, the southern region of Kherson, became more precarious. Putin’s martial law decree, which he announced on Wednesday d…

French President Emmanuel Macron is planning to override the National Assembly in a budget debate that has escalated into a standoff with the opposition. Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne told parliament that she would use a special article in the constit…

Ten-man Borussia Dortmund laboured their way into the third round of the German Cup on Wednesday, 2-0 at second division Hanover. Dortmund won from an 11th-minute own goal by Bright Arrey Mbi, who deflected a cross from Youssoufa Moukoko into his own n…

Certain “slander campaigns” on social media are equal to a “terrorist attack,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Wednesday, days after a law came into force that imposes jail time for spreading what the authorities consider false news. “Li…

The German government said on Wednesday it plans to speed up the expansion of its charging network for electric cars. Berlin has a goal of setting up 1 million publicly accessible charging points in Germany in 2030. So far, there are around 70,000 of t…

The corruption investigations into Austria’s ex-chancellor Sebastian Kurz and other politicians from the conservative Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) are causing problems the the current government. The Greens – who are in coalition with the ÖVP – have w…