German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed on Wednesday to try to resolve differences over the FCAS Franco-German-Spanish fighter jet project by the end of August, a German government spokesperson said.

A Yezidi family of six, including four minors, was deported from Germany to Iraq despite a court upholding their urgent appeal against their removal from the country just hours later, local authorities said on Wednesday.

Spending on Germany's armed forces is expected to reach over $190 billion in 2029, more than triple Germany's defense budget before the war in Ukraine.

Talks between Berlin and Paris about expanding the scope of France’s deterrent against Russian aggression are shaping up as an evolution, not a revolution.

The flight took off with some 43 Iraqis, days after a similar flight carried Afghan citizens home. Meanwhile, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt is discussing tougher migration methods in Denmark. Follow DW for more.

The judge said in her ruling Wednesday that Hotz’s post was satire that should go unpunished, even if the comments may have been tasteless.

Germany has seen changeable weather in recent days. Hot weather at the weekend was followed by heavy rain in parts of the country on Monday, though there was no serious damage from downpours in Berlin and other areas.

German colonial officers executed 19 Tanzanian leaders, including Akida Kiwelu, and shipped their skulls to Berlin for scientific study. Thousands of such skulls and ancestral remains stolen from Germany’s past colonies are still kept in Berlin museums to this day.

MUNICH/BERLIN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) -For Gundbert Scherf - the co-founder of Germany's Helsing, Europe's most valuable defence start-up - Russia's invasion of Ukraine changed everything. "Europe this year,