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Police in Berlin have a arrested a person on suspicion of arson after a fire broke out at the German capital's central Alexanderplatz square, a spokeswoman said. The person was detained near the scene of the fire, she said. A fire broke out in the early hours of Monday in a storage room right underneath the overhead train tracks leading to Alexanderplatz train station. According to the fire brigade, high flames and heavy smoke were billowing out of the 50-square-metre room. Thirty-two firefighters were deployed and brought the fire under control. Nobody was injured. According to police, one or...
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On the 75th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift on Sunday, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius hailed the Allies' robust stance against Soviet intimidation, and called for international solidarity in the present day too. "The airlift showed how important it is to do the right thing," Pistorius told a ceremony at the Berlin Airlift Memorial in the German capital. "If our partners had just shrugged their shoulders or argued that the costs were too high and the risks too great, Berlin would very probably have been finished," he said of the resistance to Moscow's blockade of the city in 1948-49....
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On the 75th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift on Sunday, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius hailed the Allies' robust stance against Soviet intimidation, and called for international solidarity in the present day too. "The airlift showed how important it is to do the right thing," Pistorius told a ceremony at the Berlin Airlift Memorial in the German capital. "If our partners had just shrugged their shoulders or argued that the costs were too high and the risks too great, Berlin would very probably have been finished," he said of the resistance to Moscow's blockade of the city in 1948-49....
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Berlin's Senator for Economy, Energy and Enterprise, Franziska Giffey, has been slightly injured in an assault in a library in the Rudow district of the German capital and was subsequently treated in hospital. A man suddenly "attacked the former mayor from behind with a bag filled with hard contents and hit her on the head and neck" in a library on Tuesday afternoon, police and the Berlin public prosecutor's office said on Tuesday night. The state police have taken over the investigation of the assault on the politician, who belongs to the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), the dominan...
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Berlin's Senator for Economy, Energy and Enterprise, Franziska Giffey, has been slightly injured in an assault in a library in the Rudow district of the German capital and was subsequently treated in hospital. A man suddenly "attacked the former mayor from behind with a bag filled with hard contents and hit her on the head and neck" in a library on Tuesday afternoon, police and the Berlin public prosecutor's office said on Tuesday night. The state police have taken over the investigation of the assault on the politician, who belongs to the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), the dominan...
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The Berlin fire brigade has warned the public of hazardous fumes following a fire at a metal technology company located in the south-west of the city. A fire broke out in a factory on Friday. A technical room on the first floor of a factory building was "fully engulfed in flames," according to a fire brigade spokesman. Chemicals were stored in the metal technology company. As a precautionary measure, the fire brigade had issued a hazard warning. Residents were asked to keep windows and doors closed as the volume of smoke was increasing. The results of air pollution tests were not yet available...
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Demonstrators marched through the Berlin district of Friedrichshain on the eve of the May 1 Labour Day some throwing eggs, stones and fire crackers. According to the police, around 2,800 people took part in the LGBTQ and feminist demonstration "Take back the night" on Tuesday. A police spokeswoman was initially unable to say whether any arrests were made. On Tuesday afternoon, hundreds of people had marched peacefully for peace and social justice through the Berlin district of Wedding. In the eastern Berlin district of Friedrichshain, officers had expected aggressive behaviour in the run-up to...
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More than 5,500 police officers from Berlin and other German states are to be deployed in the German capital on May 1 as left-wing groups hold rallies and demonstrations. The demonstrations on May Day, which traditionally focus on workers' rights, have often got out of hand in the past. In recent years, however, the violence has decreased significantly. Nevertheless, the Berlin police intend to accompany the demonstrations in the capital with thousands of officers and a great deal of technical equipment, including water cannons and evacuation vehicles. The left-wing extremist scene remains a f...
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Criticism and protests followed the decision to cancel a controversial "Palestine Congress" in Berlin on Saturday, which was originally set to run for three days but was halted hours after it opened. The organizers of the conference said that the police had undermined democratic rights by cancelling the event. Police on Friday broke up the pro-Palestinian conference in the Tempelhof area of Berlin and asked some 250 participants to leave the hall just two hours after the event began. Organizers of the conference had decried Israel's ongoing military offensive in the Gaza Strip, and attacked th...
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Criticism and protests followed the decision to cancel a controversial "Palestine Congress" in Berlin on Saturday, which was originally set to run for three days but was halted hours after it opened. The organizers of the conference said that the police had undermined democratic rights by cancelling the event. There were also several street protests in Berlin and the city's police were out in force. Police on Friday broke up the pro-Palestinian conference in the Tempelhof area of Berlin and asked some 250 participants to leave the hall just two hours after the event began. Organizers of the co...
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