GERMANY

Europeans are again seeing some relief as inflation dropped to 2.4% in November, the lowest in more than two years.

A group tracking antisemitism in Germany says that it has documented a drastic increase of antisemitic incidents in the country in the month after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has promised quick action to fix a budget crisis after a court decision blew a large hole in the almost-finished plan for next year.

Germany’s national railway operator is running a drastically reduced schedule after a union called a 20-hour strike aimed at increasing the pressure in a bitter dispute over pay and working hours.

The European Union’s executive commission has lowered growth its expectations for this year and next, saying the economy “has lost momentum” as inflation discourages consumers and higher interest rates deter borrowing for purchases and investment.

European Union nations have acknowledged they may fail to fulfill a promise for ammunition Ukraine needs to stave off Russia's invasion and win back occupied territory.

Carlos Alcaraz was beaten in his debut at the ATP Finals by two-time champion Alexander Zverev 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-4.

Jonathan Taylor ran for a first-quarter touchdown and Mac Jones threw a crucial interception in the fourth quarter and the Indianapolis Colts held on for a 10-6 win over New England Patriots in Germany.

U.S. officials say five U.S. service members were killed when a military helicopter crashed during training over the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

Tom Brady and Bill Belichick’s names certainly resonate with the growing number of NFL fans in Germany.

Bill Belichick was in an unusually upbeat mood as he hoped his New England Patriots team could enjoy the experience of playing against the Indianapolis Colts in Germany.

The International Monetary Fund says the European Central Bank and other policymakers across Europe need to keep interest rates at current elevated levels until they’re sure inflation is under control despite sluggish growth.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Germany’s 16 state governors have agreed on new, stricter measures in an effort to curb the large number of migrants coming to the country.

Patrick Mahomes threw two touchdown passes, safety Bryan Cook scored on a 59-yard fumble return, and the Kansas City Chiefs held on to beat the Miami Dolphins 21-14 at Deutsche Bank Park in Germany.

The Kansas City Chiefs say Sunday's game in Frankfurt against the Miami Dolphins is a big step in the organization's plan to become the “world’s team.”.

Patrick Mahomes feels “perfectly fine” after an illness and says he’s ready to move on from last week’s subpar performance when the Chiefs face the Miami Dolphins.

Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel is trying to downplay the significance of Sunday’s heavily anticipated matchup against the Kansas City Chiefs in Germany.

The AI Safety Summit is bringing politicians, computer scientists and tech executives to Bletchley Park in the United Kingdom, a site that's synonymous with codebreaking and the birth of computing during World War II.

The inflation that has been wearing on European consumers fell sharply to 2.9% in October, its lowest in more than two years as fuel prices fell and rapid interest rate hikes from the European Central Bank took hold.

McDonald’s said Monday it’s pumping the brakes on higher prices and focusing more on value meals after seeing a drop-off in visits by some customers.

Apple Inc. is raising the prices for its AppleTV+ streaming and Arcade gaming plans as well as its bundled Apple One service that includes streaming, music and other subscriptions.

Author Salman Rushdie called for the unconditional defense of freedom of expression as he received a prestigious German prize.

A court in Iran has sentenced two female journalists to up to seven years in prison for collaborating with the U.S. government and other charges.

A storm battered Britain, northern Germany and southern Scandinavia for a third day with powerful winds, heavy rain and storm surges that caused floods, power outages, evacuations, and traffic disruptions.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Germany needs to start deporting “on a large scale” migrants who don’t have the right to stay in the country, adding to increasingly tough talk on migration since his coalition performed badly in two state elections earlier this month.

Gale-force winds and floods have struck several countries in northern Europe as the region endures more heavy rain that forecasters say will continue into the weekend.

The MTV Europe Music Awards canceled its ceremony next month, citing the Israel-Hamas War.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has strongly condemned a firebomb assault on a synagogue in Berlin.

European Union leaders are struggling to paper over their differences as a cacophony of opinions and reactions mar the bloc’s response to the Israel-Hamas war.

More than 10 months after the Reyna family pressured U.S. Soccer Federation staff to give more playing time to Gio Reyna at the World Cup, the team has not yet adopted rules to prevent similar lobbying.

Niclas Füllkrug and Jamal Musiala scored three minutes apart early in the second half, and Germany rallied to beat the United States 3-1 in an exhibition as Gio Reyna played under American coach Gregg Berhalter for the first time since their family feud erupted.

Germany's government says it expects the country’s economy to shrink by 0.4% this year.

Birkenstock has set a price for its initial public offering of stock that values the 249-year-old German maker of upmarket sandals at $8.64 billion.

A Lebanese security official said six rockets were fired from southern Lebanon into northern Israel Tuesday evening.

Projections show Germany’s center-right opposition winning two state elections at the halfway mark of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s unpopular national government, and a far-right party that has been riding high in national polls making gains.

Gio Reyna is on Gregg Berhalter’s U.S. roster for the first time since a family feud caused the men's national team coach to lose his job for the first five months of this year.

Plans for the first “open category” swimming races to accommodate transgender competitors at a World Cup this weekend have been scrapped because of a lack of entries.

Germany’s government has rebuked X owner Elon Musk after he criticized the recent work of migrant rescue ships that German humanitarian groups operate in the Mediterranean Sea.

Inflation has sharply dropped in Europe.

European Union governments are struggling to overcome obstacles to put a new asylum system in place three years after unveiling a plan to reform the bloc's outdated asylum rules.

Officials across Germany are sounding the alarm that they are no longer able to accommodate migrants who are applying for asylum.

The head of the European Central Bank says interest rates will stay high long enough to restrict business activity for “as long as necessary” to beat back inflation because upward pressure on prices “remains strong.”.

Catholic church officials in Germany say a statue of late Cardinal Franz Hengsbach will be removed from outside a cathedral after allegations of sexual abuse against him surfaced.

Tenor Stephen Gould, who announced earlier this month that he had been diagnosed with incurable bile duct cancer, has died.

Several Catholic priests have held a ceremony blessing same-sex couples outside Cologne cathedral in a protest against the city’s conservative archbishop Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki.

German government officials have held talks with their Polish counterparts asking them to clarify how many visas were issued in an illegal program in which some Polish consulates issued visas in Africa and Asia in exchange for bribes.

Germany racked up one economic success after another for most of this century.

Germany’s city of Munich is getting ready to tap the kegs for Oktoberfest.

A flotilla of flimsy boats, crowded with migrants and launched from Tunisia, is overwhelming a tiny Italian island south of Sicily.

Oil prices are creeping higher and raising concerns about the impact on inflation’s cooling trajectory, consumers’ wallets and the Federal Reserve’s interest rate policy.

Europe's economic outlook just took a turn for the worse.

German basketball is having a great summer.

Germany has removed Hansi Flick as coach of the men’s national soccer team.

Germany pulled off the biggest upset of its basketball existence and hardly anyone back home seemed to notice.

There will be no gold medal for the U.S. at this World Cup.

Tenor Stephen Gould says he has been diagnosed with incurable bile duct cancer.

Germany will play the United States in the semifinals of the Basketball World Cup in a rematch of an exhibition matchup from earlier this summer where the Americans needed a big rally to win.

On Monday, the Rolling Stones announced they will release their first album of original material in 18 years.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has tweeted a pirate-style picture of himself with a black eye patch and dark-red bruises on the right side of his face — the result of a jogging accident on the weekend.

For the first time in 25 years, Italy is going to the quarterfinals of the Basketball World Cup.

Berlin International Film Festival artistic director Carlo Chatrian says he will step down next year after Germany’s culture minister announced a new management structure for the event.

Luka Doncic and Slovenia are headed to the World Cup quarterfinals.

German prosecutors say a 98-year-old man has been charged with being an accessory to murder as a guard at the Nazis’ Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1943 and 1945.

New numbers show annual inflation held steady in Europe in August.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s cabinet has classified Moldova and Georgia as so-called “safe countries of origin,” meaning asylum-seekers from there can be rejected and deported faster than in the past.

One airline is betting that passengers will pay extra to sit away from babies and young children.

The Dominican Republic, Australia and Italy have advanced to the knockout stage of the World Cup.

King Charles III and Queen Camilla will visit France in September, after their planned state visit in March was postponed amid widespread demonstrations against President Emmanuel Macron’s retirement age reforms.

Germany plans to ease rules for obtaining its citizenship under legislation approved by the Cabinet.

Germany’s Cabinet has approved a plan to ease legal changes of name and gender for transgender, intersex and nonbinary people.

The U.S.-Canada rivalry in men’s basketball has been one-sided.

Germany’s Cabinet has approved a plan to liberalize rules on cannabis, setting the scene for the European Union’s most populous nation to decriminalize possession of limited amounts and allow members of “cannabis clubs” to buy the substance for recreational purposes.

Germany’s foreign minister had to wait for hours in Abu Dhabi after a technical problem on her government plane forced it to return to the airport rather than continue to Australia.

England captain Harry Kane has completed his move to Bayern Munich from Tottenham as the striker goes in search of the first major trophies in his career.

Poland’s ruling party leader says voters will be asked in a referendum whether they support the sell-off of state-owned enterprises in a referendum.

The head of this year’s U.N. global climate summit is urging more availability of funds to help the Caribbean and other regions fight climate change.

The traditional elite being cut down to size has been the standout theme at the Women's World Cup ahead of the quarterfinals.

Tiny bark beetles have been causing havoc in Germany's Harz mountains, eating away at trees and killing off swaths of the spruce population by hampering their ability to take in nutrients.

Change is happening fast in women’s soccer and a leveling of the playing field is being showcased across the globe in the biggest Women's World Cup to date.

Two-time champion Germany was eliminated in a wild finale to the group stage of the Women’s World Cup, while low-ranked Morocco advanced to the knockout stage.

Morocco has beaten Colombia 1-0 to reach the Women’s World Cup knockout round, creating yet more history in a dramatic conclusion to the group stage.

The Dutch government says a freight ship carrying thousands of cars that burned for a week on the North Sea will be towed to a Dutch port for salvage.

Official figures show that German beer sales resumed a long-term downward trend in the first six months of this year after rallying in 2022 thanks to the end of most COVID-19 restrictions.

Europe's economy is growing again — but not by much.

The Women’s World Cup is taking shape with shocks and highlights as it nears the end of the group stage.

The European Central Bank says the banking sector could withstand a severe economic downturn without depleting their financial buffers against losses.

The German economy is still failing to grow.

The European Central Bank has raised interest rates for the ninth straight time in its yearlong campaign to stamp out painfully high inflation.

Mediators have presented their proposal to end a long-running pay dispute between Germany’s main national railway operator and a major union, a two-year settlement that would head off damaging all-out strikes.

The same day owner Elon Musk abruptly dropped Twitter's name and bird logo as part of its supposed transition to an “anything app,” TikTok impishly announced it will begin letting its users post — you guessed it — text-based messages.

Germany’s opposition leader is insisting that there will be no “cooperation” at the local level between his party and the far-right Alternative for Germany after his apparent suggestion that they might work together caused unease within his own conservative bloc.

Nouhaila Benzina will make history when she steps onto the field for Morocco’s first match of the Women’s World Cup against Germany — and not just as a player for the first Arab or North African nation ever in the tournament.

A farm in Bavaria is covering its hops with solar panels, providing electricity to 250 households and shading the plants from the increasingly scorching summer heat in the process.

The deadline for Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of video game company Activision Blizzard has been extended to as the companies seek to close a deal that has been opposed by regulators in the U.S. and the U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority.

Amazon and Apple have been fined a total of $218 million after Spanish regulators say they colluded to box out competitors by favoring sales of Apple products directly from the online retail giant.

European Union and Latin American leaders have concluded a summit that was supposed to be a love-in after eight years of separation with a second full day of aggravation over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Microsoft has signed an agreement with Sony to keep the Call of Duty video game series on PlayStation after the tech giant buys video game maker Activision Blizzard.

Falling crude oil prices and lingering worries about the global economy have been sapping power from energy stocks throughout 2023.

China has criticized a German government call for reducing dependency on Chinese products as a form of protectionism.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz expressed optimism that support for a far-right party that’s been surging in the polls lately will shrink to previous levels again by the time of the next national election in 2025.