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Germany halted sales of poultry, pork and eggs from more than 4,700 farms Friday after animal feed was found to be contaminated with cancer-causing chemicals. As German authorities sought the source of the tainted feed, other nations rushed to figure out if any other food was contaminated.

German police found a suspicious package in the post at Chancellor Angela Merkel's office in Berlin on Tuesday, a government spokesman said.

Four people died and a policeman was seriously wounded in a town in southwestern Germany on Sunday, after an explosion in an apartment building and a shooting in the neighboring hospital that authorities believe are linked, a prosecutor said.

Germany, France and the UK said Tuesday that they will introduce bank levies to offset the cost of future financial crisis and will urge their counterparts from the Group of 20 industrial and developing nations to do the ...

German President Horst Koehler said on Monday he was resigning with immediate effect due to widespread criticism of comments he made about the country's military action and commercial interests.

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Germany's market regulator is poised to ban some forms of short-selling at 10 important financial institutions.

Both houses of Parliament approve unpopular financial plan to save Greece from bankruptcy.

German authorities have shut down Berlin's main international airport after construction workers discovered a World War II bomb there.

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany said that Greece should solve its own problems, ahead of a summit meeting scheduled for Thursday.

With concerts and memorials, Germans will celebrate the day the Berlin Wall came crashing down 20 years ago.