GERMANY

Wipro wins five-year contract from Telefónica Germany

Wipro says the deal would ensure that Telefónica Germany (O2) is well positioned to modernise and launch a range of new offerings, includin...

Germany plans to extend lockdown until March 14: Draft document

The number of new daily infections in Germany has been falling, leading some regional leaders to push for a timetable to ease the lockdown,...

Heavy snowstorm pounds Germany, upends travel

National train operator Deutsche Bahn said main train routes between Hamburg and Hannover, Berlin and the west were canceled as snowdrifts ...

Germany limits AstraZeneca jabs to those under 65 years

The Standing Vaccine Commission, Germany’s main public health agency, recommended that the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine only be used for peop...

Germany joins EU call for controls on vaccine exports

Last Friday, British-Swedish company AstraZeneca said it would not meet its contractual delivery commitments to the European Union because ...

Germany to use Corona meds that helped Donald Trump

Germany will become the first European Union country to start using the same experimental antibodies treatment credited with helping Donald...

Germany cannot lift all coronavirus restrictions at end of January - minister

There would be a need to reduce contacts for another two or three months, Spahn told Deutschlandfunk radio on Wednesday.

Germany's Merkel: Trump's Twitter eviction 'problematic'

Twitter permanently suspended Trump from the microblogging platform on Friday, citing a "risk of further incitement of violence" in the wak...

European stocks set for strong week, Germany's DAX hits record high

The pan-European STOXX 600 index rose 0.7% by 0810 GMT and was on track for a more than 3% weekly gain, with hopes of more U.S. stimulus bo...

Germany minister says enough vaccines ordered for all

Germany will receive more than 130 million COVID-19 vaccine doses, enough for everybody, Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Wednesday, addi...

Germany set to extend hard lockdown as daily deaths mount

Germany's new infections remain at more than twice the level of 50 per 100,000 residents over seven days, which the government wants to rea...

Germany poised to extend coronavirus lockdown

Chancellor Angela Merkel and regional leaders are expected to agree to extend the restrictions when they convene on Tuesday. It is not yet ...

101-year-old woman first in Germany to be vaccinated against coronavirus

Edith Kwoizalla was one of around 40 residents and 10 staff in a care home in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt to receive a jab of the Pf...

Germany's stricter lockdown increases recession risks

Chancellor Angela Merkel and state leaders agreed on Sunday to shut most stores from Wednesday until at least January 10 to reverse a tide ...

Germany readies vaccine centers amid security concerns

Britain gave the green light Wednesday for emergency use of a vaccine made by German firm BioNTech and U.S. pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.

Germany's coronavirus infections pass one million

Germany had largely contained the spread of the virus in the spring but has been hit hard by a second wave of infections.

Germany braces for extension of lockdown month into December

Germany imposed a month-long "lockdown lite" from Nov. 2 to rein in a second wave of the virus that is sweeping much of Europe, but infecti...