Germany hit by floods again

Germany has begun construction of a portion of an 18th-century Prussian palace destroyed in 1950 by East Germany and replaced with a government building. BERLIN — Germany launched construction of a partial replica of a Prussian palace in the ...

Berlin: Germany's president Friday said an uprising in the former communist east that was suppressed by Soviet tanks 60 years ago should become more anchored in Germans' consciousness. Joachim Gauck, the former East German rights activist who became president ...

BERLIN -- Willi Sitte, one of East Germany's most eminent artists and a key representative of Communism's preferred socialist realism painting style, has died at 92. The head of the Willi Sitte Foundation, Hans-Hubert Werner, told German news ...

Germany began reconstruction of Berlin's royal palace 63 years after the original was blown up by East Germany's communist authorities, as ministers and the mayor brushed aside criticism of the project. The baroque palace, once home to Prussia's ...

BERLIN, June 11 (UPI) -- Most of the substandard flats are in the former East Germany but the federal statistics office was surprised to learn that 1.5 percent of apartments in the Bavarian capital of Munich also lack standard sanitation, the ...

City authorities ordered the evacuation of around 23,000 people from the low-lying areas on the east side of the river as a precautionary measure. As the flood-swollen Elbe river continued to rise dramatically and wrecked havoc along its northward surge, ...

Rising waters have crested in the east German city of Dresden. While flood waters have begun subsiding in some areas of east Germany, northern lying regions are bracing themselves for a deluge. Residents of Germany awoke on Thursday to worsening ...

The backers of a liquefied natural gas project on Canada's East Coast unveiled a large export contract with a major European utility firm Monday, adding to momentum to make the massive Goldboro LNG export terminal a reality. Goldboro signed a ...

As the people of Prague started to clean up after three days of flooding, residents in the eastern German cities of Dresden, Halle and Meissen were bolstering their defenses against torrents of water still surging from the Vltava and Saale rivers ...