Tag: Berlin

Berlin: Microsoft has announced a refreshed “Windows 10 October 2018 Update” that will have new features and enhancements for over 700 million devices running Windows 10. The announcement came at the ongoing IFA 2018 technology event in Berlin, Germany. “With this update, we’ll be bringing new features and enhancements to the nearly 700 million devices […]

Berlin: Thousands of people flocked to the streets and canals of Germany’s capital on Sunday to rally against a mass demonstration held by a far-right and anti-immigrant party. Berliners of all ages and backgrounds crowded Berlin’s main avenues — and in many cases, took to the Spree River in makeshift rafts — in a show […]

Berlin: The Berlin police on Thursday launched a search operation for four convicts who escaped from a local prison through a hole in the wall. According to the city authorities, the four prisoners had been behaving normally in the morning at a Plotzensee prison workshop but escaped shortly after through a 30 by 120 centimetre […]

Berlin: Neo-Nazis marched in the streets of the German capital to mark the 30th anniversary of the death of Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler’s deputy, US, the media reported. Helmeted police in riot gear stood guard on Saturday as right-wing demonstrators converged here, a week after a white supremacist rally turned deadly in Charlottesville, reports CNN. […]

Berlin: Around 50,000 people in Germany’s Hannover city will be evacuated from their homes on Sunday while experts defuse five Second World War bombs, officials said on Saturday. The operation is the second largest of its kind carried out in the country, and will affect around a tenth of the city’s population, the BBC reported. […]

Berlin: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Christian Democratic Union party are drafting a concrete plan to combat fake news in the country and the potential effect it could have for the upcoming general elections in September. Simon Hegelich, professor of political science at the Technical University of Munich and who was asked by Merkel […]

Berlin: Law enforcement officials in Germany registered 3,533 attacks on refugees and asylum-seekers in 2016, which resulted in 560 people, including 43 children, being injured, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday. In addition, the ministry reported that last year there had been 217 attacks against non-profit groups that support refugees and on volunteers from those […]