Germany

Several Iranian daily newspapers, including the conservative paper Javan, on Tuesday covered the German elections as their most important topic and analyzed Angela Merkel’s victory.

Incumbent German Chancellor Angela Merkel has won a fourth term in office after her centre right CDU/CSU won a projected 33% of the vote in federal elections.

The Turkish government has prevented a number of German lawmakers from checking on the troops stationed at a NATO military base in Konya in Turkey’s southwest in spite of the permission it had earlier given them.

The German parliament supported a draft law banning women working in the civil service, judiciary and military from wearing full-face Islamic veils known as burqa.

As football fans were waiting to watch the UEFA Champions League quarter-final tie betweenBorussia Dortmund and Monaco,the game was postponed until Wednesday due to an explosion near the German side’s bus, with Dortmund defender Marc Bartra reported to have been taken to hospital.

Iranians are used to seeing their football players joining clubs in major European leagues, but a head coach at the helm of a well-known European side was what the country’s fans were craving for years.

Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes in Germany’s Augsburg after a 1.8-tonne bomb was discovered and is being defused.

A driver on Monday rammed a truck into a crowded Christmas market in the heart of the German capital, killing at least 12 people and injuring nearly 50. The Police says he did so intentionally. The ISIS terrorist group has also claimed responsibility for the attack.

Police in Berlin have arrested the man suspected of kicking a woman down a flight of stairs at a subway station.

Saudi Arabia and some other Arab states in Persian Gulf are suspected of backing German Salafists [radical Muslims] with their governments' approval, German Intelligence officials say.

A few days after the German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for a ban on the burqa, her minister of defence has refused to wear the hijab or the abaya on an official visit to Saudi Arabia.

Shocking footage has emerged of the moment a thug in Germany kicks a woman in the back as she walked down the stairs in a seemingly motiveless attack.

Germany’s highest court has ruled that Muslim girls must take part in swimming lessons alongside boys.