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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called on the international community to increase its efforts in the fight against the worsening hunger crisis in many parts of the world. Speaking at a conference on food security in Berlin on Friday, she said…

EU leaders decided on Thursday to make Ukraine and Moldova official candidates for membership of the European Union, European Council President Charles Michel announced on Twitter. “A historic moment. Today marks a crucial step on your path towards the…

EU leaders took to Twitter to congratulate Ukraine and Moldova for their formal designation as candidates for European Union membership. “27 times yes!” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wrote in a tweet referring to the unanimous support of all EU countri…

Ukraine and Moldova won backing from European Union leaders on Thursday to become official candidates to join the bloc, a seminal move that comes after months of lobbying from the war-torn country and its close neighbour to start the long road to membe…

China and Russia on Thursday criticized Western countries and sanctions as the leaders of the BRICS group started their summit. The group, which includes Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, should “take responsibility” and work for “equality…

Defending champion Angelique Kerber said goodbye to the Bad Homburg Open grass court tournament after a defeat to France’s Alizé Cornet on Thursday. The German player was beaten 4-6, 6-2, 1-6 in the quarter-final match against Cornet, in one of the las…

German airline Lufthansa is cancelling more than 2,000 additional flights at its Frankfurt and Munich hubs due to staff shortages. The company announced two weeks ago that it would cancel 900 connections in July. Now it will “take out of the system a f…

Sabine Schormann, the general director of Germany’s documenta contemporary art exhibition, said she intends to hold on to her post despite a chorus calling for her resignation in the wake of anti-Semitism scandal. “I take my job as it was given to me w…

A court in Milan has suspended trial proceedings in the case against Italy’s former interior minister Matteo Salvini for offensive remarks made about German activist and rescue boat captain Carola Rackete. The judge ruled that the Italian Senate must f…

German pharmaceutical company BioNTech on Thursday started the construction of the first production site in Africa for vaccines based on messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA). The plant in the Rwandan capital of Kigali will receive its first containers for…