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Towns in southern Germany have declared states of emergency as rivers rise following heavy rain, with hundreds of...

The flooding in southern Germany has caused dams to burst, thousands of evacuations and left communities inundated. Oliver Pieper reports from Augsburg.

Towns in southern Germany have declared states of emergency as rivers rise following heavy rain, with hundreds of...

The largest search operation to date for a 6-year-old boy with autism who went missing in northern Germany nearly a week ago was carried out on Sunday. Police, soldiers, firefighters, members of the THW civil protection agency and hundreds of volunteers banded together to scour an area centred near Bremervörde, a town to the west of Hamburg. In all, about 1,200 people took part in the hunt for the boy named Arian. But by evening there was still no sign of him. Arian left his parents' h...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was visiting the flood-hit areas in the country's northern state of Lower Saxony on Sunday after storms caused disaster in several states. Scholz travelled to the town of Verden, some 90 kilometres north-west of the state capital Hanover, in the morning, accompanied by Lower Saxon Premier Stephan Weil and state Interior Minister Daniela Behrens. Scholz took a flyover of the particularly affected areas in northern Lower Saxony. His group was then to be briefed o...

Following massive rains and floods in many parts of Germany, officials warned residents not to engage in disaster tourism, while experts are concerned about the condition of the country's dykes, needed to prevent further flooding. In Celle near Hanover, officials appealed to people to take closures seriously and only travel to the city if absolutely necessary. "Growing 'flood tourism' and traffic are preventing emergency services from getting through in many places," the...

The Bundeswehr is facing a dramatic shortage in personnel. Now Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has rekindled the debate over reintroducing conscription.

Foreign Minister of Germany Annalena Baerbock has announced a new package of humanitarian assistance to Ukraine worth EUR 6.1 million, including generators and battery storage units, according to the press service of the German Foreign Ministry.

Dr Christos Stylianides will give a public lecture in St Andrews entitled: Adapting to Climate Change: Effective Crisis Management Strategies

Germany has provided Ukraine with an excavator, road rollers and other equipment to demolish destroyed buildings and restore roads in the front-line areas. — Ukrinform.