Germany qualified for the 2022 World Cup after crushing North Macedonia 4-0 on Monday to secure the top spot in their qualifying Group J with two games to spare.

Germans went to the polls on Sunday in a national election too close to call, with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) mounting a strong challenge to retiring Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives.

A delegation of companies from Germany’s civil security technology sector is expected to arrive in Doha in October to explore investment opportunities available in Qatar, according to the German Industry & Commerce Office Qatar (AHK).

Germany will hold a national memorial service on Sunday for its nearly 80,000 victims of the coronavirus pandemic, sharing the pain of grieving families and those who died alone because of Covid curbs.

German prosecutors said Friday they have charged a former secretary at a Nazi concentration camp with complicity in the murders of 10,000 people, in the first such case in recent years against a female staff member.

The German government welcomed the opening of land and sea borders, as well as the airspace, between Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

The Federal Foreign Office of Germany welcomed His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani's announcement to hold elections for the Shura Council in October next year.

A 51-year-old man suspected of killing five people including a baby as his car tore through a busy shopping street in the German city of Trier has been remanded in police custody, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Germany, once a beacon of hope in Europe's coronavirus nightmare, logged its one millionth case on Friday, as Russia announced a partnership with India to mass produce its controversial Sputnik vaccine.

German federal prosecutors have charged 12 alleged far-right conspirators suspected of planning ‘terrorist attacks’ on politicians, asylum-seekers and Muslims, security service sources told AFP Thursday.

German Health Minister Jens Spahn expects the European Commision to sign a purchase agreement with BioNTech and its partner Pfizer for its potential vaccine against Covid-19 "in the coming days."

Europe risks being hit with further waves of coronavirus infections next year, France's scientific council has warned, as the continent scrambles to cope with a second deadly spike in Covid-19 cases.