Videos posted Thursday on social media showed Ohlen in the town of Bad Munstereifel, appearing to wipe mud on herself as her camera crew stood by. An online RTL report, which has since been deleted, said, “Numerous prominent helpers also lend a hand and actively support local people. One of …
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The houses in Insul, Rhineland-Palatinate can be seen partially submerged and damaged after the Ahr river overflowed its banks due to heavy rainfall. © Ruptly More than 100 died in Rhineland-Palatinate and neighboring North Rhine-Westphalia, German media reported on Friday, citing officials. Many more are unaccounted for as cell phone service …
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Storms and heavy rainfall between Tuesday and Wednesday prompted the German Weather Service to issue severe weather warnings for the states of Saxony, Thuringia, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and Bavaria. A fireman was killed while performing rescue work in Altena, North Rhine-Westphalia, with police on Wednesday calling his death a “tragic …
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The young Germany fan, who wore her team’s shirt and nation’s facepaints for the game at Wembley, was jeered and cheered as her tearful face loomed on TV screens across the UK while she was comforted as the shock of watching her side’s round of 16 defeat sunk in. After the …
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The media outlet is attempting to secure a license in the small central European country for a station under the provisional name RT auf Deutsch. The signal would come from a studio in Moscow, with existing sister company RT DE Productions GmbH, which is based in the German capital, providing talk shows, exclusive interviews, …
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The Russian hacker must have been hibernating for the past four years, but now he wakes up just before the federal elections to attack German computers. At least that’s what the ARD political magazine Kontraste would have us believe. Once again, Kontraste got this information from a current “situation report …
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The ban on the Hamas flag was first reported by the Welt am Sonntag newspaper. The outlet cited Thorsten Frei, the deputy parliamentary spokesperson for Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU). The two parties that spearheaded the move have reached a …
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Addressing the situation during a speech to young officers, Kramp-Karrenbauer condemned the actions of serving German officers after reports surfaced about serious misconduct of soldiers who had been deployed to Lithuania. The comments come two days after the Defense Ministry recalled numerous German soldiers from Lithuania to face disciplinary action, …
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The High Administrative Court of Baden-Wurttemberg ruled that brothels can once again open their doors on Monday following a request filed by a brothel operator from the Karlsruhe region. According to the description of the case on the court’s website, the plaintiff argued that the coronavirus-related ban on the operation …
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Speaking on Tuesday, Angela Pley, a spokeswoman for the BfV domestic security agency, said it was carefully watching members of the ‘Querdenker’, or ‘Lateral Thinkers’ movement, which has been involved in the organization of increasingly violent protests against Covid-19 lockdowns. The group’s members include conspiracy theorists as well as many …
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