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Boy, 8, found alive in rainwater sewer eight days after going missing

The boy had disappeared from his family garden on June 17.

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Nazi camp guard, 101, jailed for 'complicity' in 3,518 murders

Josef Schütz was given a five-year jail term on Tuesday for complicity in the murder of 3,518 prisoners at the Sachsenhausen camp, north of Berlin, between 1942 and 1945.

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Demonstrators gather outside G7 venue in Germany

Dozens of anti-G7 protesters demonstrate near Elmau Castle in the Bavarian Alps, where the G7 summit is being held.

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German police confiscate dozens of poisonous snakes after owner bitten

The 35-year-old had told doctors there that one of her rattlesnakes bit her finger.

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Knife attacker kills one and wounds five at German asylum shelter

Police officers have detained a 31-year-old man after the stabbing attack.

Europe News

Russian economy 'degrading slowly' due to sanctions, claims VDL

Von der Leyen told Euronews that Russia was using food "to blackmail all of us, and this is really atrocious."

Germany

German lawmakers vote to end Nazi-era ban on ‘advertising’ abortions

Doctors will be no longer be prosecuted if they give prospective patients information about abortions.

Travel News

Urgent warning to Lufthansa passengers with booked flights

Lufthansa’s own low-cost carrier, Eurowings, is also announcing "several hundred fewer flights" in July.

Earth News

European countries return to coal as Russia threatens to turn off gas

The EU has warned member states not to slide back into dirty fossil fuels as a way of coping with the energy crisis. But what other options are there?

Sport

Germany allows transgender footballers to choose men's or women's team

The new regulation will come into effect next season and apply to youth and amateur football and futsal.

Russia

Germany fuelling 'Russophobic hysteria' over Ukraine war, says Moscow

The claim comes as Russia marked the anniversary of Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941.

Art

Documenta head quits amid uproar over anti-Semitism

An exhibit featuring anti-Semitic elements prompted an outcry at the world-famous art show’s opening last month.

Art

Syrian refugee carves incredible model of Cologne Cathedral

Fadel Alkhudr arrived in Cologne in 2015, having fled the war in Syria. Four years later he began carving a model of the city's cathedral in his small basement.

Germany

Food bank demand rising in Germany amid record-high inflation

"Sometimes when I get home after going to the supermarket, I almost start crying, because I can't buy anything anymore."

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German contemporary art festival 'Documenta 15' opens its doors

Documenta, one of the world's biggest art fairs, opens this week under a cloud of controversy. The exhibition, which turns the sleepy German city of Kassel into the centre of the art world once every five year.

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Germany steps up calls to save energy as Russia reduces gas supplies

German is stepping up its appeal to residents to look for ways of saving energy, after Russia's Gazprom announced significant cuts in natural gas deliveries to the country through a key pipeline.

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Russian man on trial in Germany for allegedly planning to kill Chechen

The suspect is alleged to have accepted an order to kill a Chechen opposition member who was living in exile.

Germany

Report finds 196 German clerics abused children in Münster diocese

The research found that there were at least 610 victims of abuse in the diocese over 75 years, but the true number could be as high as 6,000.

Republic of North Macedonia

Bulgaria resists Scholz call for EU-North Macedonia accession talks

Visiting Skopje, the German chancellor called for the EU to start membership talks, but seemed to achieve little progress in Sofia which reiterated its objections.

Euronews Witness

Russia's brain drain: War with Ukraine prompts thousands to flee

Russia's best and brightest have left in their thousands following the country's invasion of Ukraine. Euronews' Monica Pinna investigates the reasons behind this brain drain.

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