States of Germany

Victims of the 1993 Solingen arson attack, in which five Turks lost their lives in Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia State, have been commemorated with an event attended by German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

One person died, five are hospitalized, among them a 10-month-old baby and two boys aged 12 and 15, after an accident on the Pazardzhik-Belovo road, announced the spokesman of the Regional Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Miroslav Stoyanov.

The wife of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the Minister of Education of the Brandenburg province, Britta Ernst (SPD), has resigned from that position.
So far, she has not given a reason for such a decision.

The COVID-19 pandemic is over in Germany, Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said, as quoted by Politico.

Lauterbach, who is an epidemiologist, said at a news conference that he made that estimate based on looking at virus variants, vaccination rates and hospital cases.

"We successfully overcame the pandemic in Germany," added the Social Democrat.

BERLIN - Intel, the Silicon Valley chipmaking giant, paved the way last year when it picked the eastern German city of Magdeburg as the site for its first semiconductor factory in Europe, pledging to invest 17 billion euros (about $18.3 billion) - provided that Berlin throw in nearly 7 billion euros in subsidies.

Due to the strikes at the German airports, 19 flights to and from the airports in Sofia and Varna have been canceled for today and in the early hours of tomorrow.

According to the information reported, the canceled flights are as follows:

Canceled flights landing at Sofia Airport:

12.10 p.m. - from Munich;

12.10 p.m. - from Hamburg;

Eighty-four-year-old Rina Revah was nearly four when she was sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany with her parents in 1943. She would spend the next two years of her childhood there and witness events that would stay with her forever.

Spiros Simitis, a distinguished scholar and expert in the field of data protection, and brother of Greece's former socialist prime minister Costas Simitis, passed away on Saturday, March 18, at the age of 88.

Eighty years after the first trains departed Greece on their way to the Nazi death camps in Germany and Poland, the last Holocaust survivor of Trikala's Jewish community recounts the horrors of World War II.

Total passenger traffic at Türkiye's airports increased by 42 percent last year from 2021 to 182 million, data from the General Directorate of State Airports Authority (DHMİ).