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Dutch runner Sifan Hassan will aim for a long-distance double at the upcoming world championships, her management confirmed on Thursday. Hassan claimed a 5,000 and 10,000 metres double at last year’s Olympics in Tokyo, plus 1,500m bronze. At the last w…

Borussia Mönchengladbach coach Daniel Farke wants goalkeeper Yann Sommer to stay at the Bundesliga club amid reported interest from French side Nice. The Rheinische Post paper on Thursday quoted Farke as saying there was no indication in Sommer’s work …

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited the Ahr Valley on Thursday to mark the first anniversary of deadly flooding that caused widespread devastation in the western German region. Steinmeier came face to face with some of the people affected,…

Germany’s centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) on Thursday formally debated the possible expulsion of disgraced former chancellor Gerhard Schröder from the party over his ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The discussions took place in the norther…

As customers put the final touches on their Amazon Prime Day shopping list, some analysts and researchers are cautioning the e-commerce retailer’s biggest sale might not bring the same flood of customers and cash as it has in the past. It comes down to…

The German government approved the use of more coal-fired power plants on Wednesday in light of the drastic reduction of gas imports from Russia, as Kremlin-controlled energy giant Gazprom said it didn’t know when a critical pipeline would be turned ba…

Schalke have found a new main sponsor in the form of online car seller MeinAuto.de, the promoted Bundesliga club said on Wednesday. The contract with the portal for the digital sale of new cars will run for up to three years, a club statement said. No …

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is ready to talk about equal pay with the nation’s football federation (DFB) director Oliver Bierhoff. Government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said on Wednesday that “of course he would like to talk about it with Mr Bierho…

German carrier Lufthansa is cancelling another 2,000 flights between now and the end of August due to airport staffing problems, a company spokesman said on Wednesday. These targeted cancellations at Lufthansa’s Frankfurt and Munich hubs. It is the thi…

The United States and Israel plan to cooperate more closely to establish technological partnership on critical and emerging technologies and solutions to global challenges, they said as US President Joe Biden started a trip to the Middle East. That inc…