Ukraine’s president has thanked Western leaders for sending tanks to support the fight against Russia, but said they needed to be delivered quickly. In his nightly address, Volodymyr Zelensky also urged the West to send long-range missiles and fighter jets.…
Tanks for Ukraine: Germany to send Leopard 2s and allow others to export
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has decided to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, and allow other countries to do the same, reports in Germany say. Leopard 2s are made in Germany and Berlin needs to approve their export. Germany has…
Ukraine war: Germany yet to make decision on sending tanks
Germany has not yet decided whether to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine, or allow other countries to donate theirs, despite pressure on Berlin to act. A meeting on Friday to co-ordinate military donations for Kyiv did agree to supply more…
German defence minister resigns after months of criticism
Germany’s embattled defence minister, who was criticised over the pace of a massive project to modernise the military and for Berlin’s stuttering response to the Ukraine war, has resigned. Christine Lambrecht said in a written statement on Monday that “months…
Ukraine war: Bakhmut defenders plea for Western tanks
As the UK and other European nations prepare to send tanks to Ukraine to help it liberate more territory from Russia, our correspondent Andrew Harding has been to visit members of a front-line Ukrainian tank unit already engaging Russian forces…
Former Volkswagen boss Carl Hahn dies aged 96
Carl Hahn, who headed the Volkswagen group during the German car giant’s heyday in the 1980s, has died, a spokeswoman for the Carl and Marisa Hahn Foundation told AFP on Sunday. Hahn died peacefully at his home in Wolfsburg on…
French, German foreign ministers arrive in Ethiopia to support Tigray peace agreement
The French and German foreign ministers arrived in Addis Ababa on Thursday on a mission to support a peace agreement signed last year to end two years of brutal war. The visit by France’s Catherine Colonna and Annalena Baerbock of…
Taiwan president thanks visiting German lawmakers
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Tuesday said that a visit by a delegation of German lawmakers showed Berlin’s support for Taiwan, which is facing growing tensions with China. The delegation, headed by Bundestag defence committee chairperson Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmerman, arrived in…
Germany returns 20 Benin bronzes to Nigeria, noting ‘‘dark past’’
Twenty historic bronze sculptures have been returned to Nigeria by Germany as part of efforts to address its “dark colonial past,” its foreign minister said on Tuesday. Annalena Baerbock, Germany’s foreign minister, returned the prized cultural artefacts to Nigerian officials…
Irmgard Furchner: Nazi typist guilty of complicity in 10,500 murders
A former secretary who worked for the commander of a Nazi concentration camp has been convicted of complicity in the murders of more than 10,505 people. Irmgard Furchner, 97, was taken on as a teenaged typist at Stutthof and worked…
