Shorouk Express Germany is sending soldiers to strengthen Poland’s eastern border with Belarus and Russia, multiple media reported on Saturday. Several dozen German soldiers will join Poland’s East Shield from April 2026, with the mission initially running until the end of 2027, Deutsche Welle reported, citing Berlin’s defense ministry. German troops will focus on engineering…
Shorouk Express The British government said the European leaders plan to meet in Berlin on Monday, not over the weekend. POLITICO reported earlier that the U.K.’s national security adviser, Jonathan Powell, was expected to hold talks this weekend with German and French counterparts, the U.S.’s Witkoff and Ukrainian representatives. Merz on Thursday said Germany is…
Shorouk Express Spanish police said Saturday they had arrested a 64-year-old long-haul truck driver wanted by German authorities for drug trafficking. The man allegedly used his job to transport more than 250 kilograms of marijuana and hashish worth over 500,000 euros ($540,000) from Spain to Germany, Catalan regional police said in a statement. Police arrested…
Shorouk Express Berlin is recalling for consultations its ambassador to Georgia, Peter Fischer, after he became the target of attacks from the pro-Russia government of the South Caucasus country, the German foreign ministry announced on Sunday. “For many months, the Georgian leadership has been agitating against the EU, Germany and also German Ambassador Fischer personally,” the…
Shorouk Express BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 3. Germany ranks among the top investors in Azerbaijan’s non-oil sector, Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry’s Head of Economic Cooperation Elmar Mammadov said at a reception in Baku, Trend reports. “Last year, trade turnover between our countries reached around $1.6 billion. In the first eight months of this year, it has already…
Shorouk Express UK may already be at war with Russia, says former MI5 chief Britain and Russia may already be at war, said a former head of MI5. But it is a “different sort of war”, said Baroness Manningham-Buller while appearing on the Lord Speaker’s Corner podcast. “Fiona Hill may be right in saying we’re…
Shorouk Express The legislative move comes amid a flurry of drone intrusions across Denmark and northern Germany that have intensified concerns over security and espionage. In Denmark, multiple airports and military installations have reported drone sightings in recent days. Copenhagen’s main airport was shut for several hours earlier this week after large drones were observed…
Shorouk Express The AfD won nearly 15 percent of votes in the state, coming in third place, according to the initial results. In the last municipal elections in North Rhine-Westphalia five years ago, the party won 5.1 percent of votes. In the city of Gelsenkirchen, a former center of heavy industry, the AfD candidate appeared…
Shorouk Express “80 percent of the dual-use goods that Russia uses come from China,” the German top diplomat added. “And at the same time, China is the largest buyer of Russian oil and gas. And this is a development that of course not only runs massively counter to our European security interests, but also those…
Shorouk Express That statement was echoed by Germany’s foreign ministry in a post on X on Friday morning: “We strongly reject the Israeli government’s announcements regarding the approval of thousands of new housing units in Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Settlement construction violates international law.” The so-called E1 project had been frozen for decades…
