Germany has seen a rise in the number of people seeking German citizenship since it made it possible in mid-2024 for people to have passports from multiple countries and reduced the required time of residence to five years from eight. The statistics come from 14 of Germany’s 16 federal states, with data still lacking from the eastern states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Saxony-Anhalt, according to Welt am Sonntag. Several municipalities reported that naturalization numbers we

Germany, an early defender of Israel against allegations of genocide in Gaza at the International Court of Justice, has pulled support as it faces its own charges for aiding Israel. Germany will no longer intervene on Israel’s behalf, a spokesperson for the German Foreign Ministry told reporters. The U-turn comes after the German government rejected South Africa’s claims as “baseless” in January 2024, saying they amounted to “political instrumentalization” of the 1948 Genocid

As Germany’s Christian following declines and churches stand empty, new Muslim, Jewish and Hindu places of worship are emerging, reshaping the country’s religious landscape. In Erlangen, a city of 119,000 residents in northern Bavaria, a great deal is happening at once. Preparations are underway for a new synagogue for which the state of Bavaria has provided a plot of land near the university. The city’s two major mosques are planning expansions. And in one of the city’s subu

The humpback whale stuck for more than a week in two different spots in the Baltic Sea was showing several signs of deteriorating health, according to rescuers and the state environment minister in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Pro­fessor Burkhard Baschek of the Ger­man Ocean­o­graphic Museum said [this] could prove a “decis­ive day” in the strand­ing. He warned that it was almost entirely up to the whale to free itself from the shal­lows and there was lim­ited scope to offe

An increasing number of Jewish Americans with family histories shaped by the Holocaust are applying to restore German citizenship—to have the option to move to Germany should conditions in the US deteriorate further. Once unthinkable: At 103, Holocaust survivor Ruth Gruenthal has reclaimed the German citizenship the Nazi regime stripped from her because she was Jewish. After surviving Nazi persecution and rebuilding her life in the US, Ruth became a psychotherapist and raised

Journalism professor Thomas Hestermann’s team at the Macromedia University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg compiled their 2025 findings for the Berlin-based Mediendienst Integration, a research service for journalists that focuses on migration, integration and asylum. The results are alarming: “Foreign suspects are mentioned about three times more often than their share in police statistics.” A year later, about 1 million migrants arrived in Germany, around one-third of whom h

Germany’s Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said the recognition of a Palestinian state comes more at the end of the negotiations for a...

The German Navy recently concluded a two-week evaluation of the BlueWhale autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), a cutting-edge system...

The faint “afterglow” that fills the universe has long been one of the most important clues supporting the Big Bang theory. Known as...