https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Since the beginning of the civil war in Syria, Germany has provided €4.5 billion in aid. Now Berlin is upping this amount, pledging to give an extra €1 billion. https://www.thelocal.de/20180425/germany-to-give-an-additional-1-billion-in-aid-to-syria Wed, 25 Apr 2018 13:28:29 +0200 germany-to-give-an-additional-1-billion-in-aid-to-syria Germany is declassifying its files on Colonia Dignidad, a sect in Chile run by a Nazi paedophile, Germany's foreign minister said Tuesday, admitting the diplomatic service's failure to stop the abuses. https://www.thelocal.de/20160427/germany-opens-files-on-nazi-paedophile-sect-in-chile Wed, 27 Apr 2016 10:22:35 +0200 germany-opens-files-on-nazi-paedophile-sect-in-chile Germany's Foreign Ministry told its citizens to leave Yemen on Friday after a suicide bomb attack and gun battle killed at least 52 people, including two German doctors. https://www.thelocal.de/20131206/germany-tells-citizens-to-get-out-of-yemen Fri, 06 Dec 2013 13:40:00 +0100 germany-tells-citizens-to-get-out-of-yemen Germany's foreign ministry said Thursday it had summoned Syria's ambassador to Berlin to demand an immediate halt to the "brutal" repression of anti-regime demonstrators by government forces. https://www.thelocal.de/20111223/39693 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:21:00 +0100 39693 A businessman is camping out in front of the German Foreign Ministry on a self-styled hunger strike, in fury at the government’s refusal to help him after a deal went sour in the United Arab Emirates. https://www.thelocal.de/20111014/38215 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:50:00 +0200 38215 The German Foreign Ministry on Friday denied accusations that its embassy in Egypt had offered inadequate assistance to Germans trying to leave as the country descended into violence during the historic uprising of the last 11 days. https://www.thelocal.de/20110204/32893 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 17:21:00 +0100 32893 Germany's Foreign Ministry has instructed all its overseas embassies to take down portraits of pre-1951 ambassadors to remove any association with the Nazi era. https://www.thelocal.de/20101124/31373 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:22:00 +0100 31373 Nazi Germany's Foreign Ministry was a "criminal organization" that was much more involved in the killing of millions of Jews during World War II than previously thought, a German historian said. https://www.thelocal.de/20101024/30715 Sun, 24 Oct 2010 13:53:00 +0200 30715