A 92-year-old former concentration camp guard was charged with being an accessory to murder, in what will likely be one of the last-ever cases against Nazi-era war crimes, Reuters reported Thursday. Hamburg prosecutors accused the man – identified only as Bruno D. – of aiding and abetting 5,230 cases of murder during the nearly nine months he spent at a concentration camp watchtower at the end of World War II, the report said. The Die Welt newspaper, which first reported the charges, said during an voluntary interrogation last year the man admitted to prosecutors he had seen people being taken to gas chambers to be murdered, Reuters reported. The man told prosecutors: “What good would it...

GREECE will today launch an official attempt to reclaim £270 billion in new war reparations from Germany.

German prosecutors have charged a 92-year-old former concentration camp guard with being an accessory to murder, in what will be one of the last ever cases against Nazi-era war crimes.

Madeira began three days of mourning on Thursday for 29 German tourists who died after their bus veered off a steep road, as Germany's foreign minister and a trauma team prepared to fly to the Portuguese island to meet survivors.

At least 29 people, most of them German tourists, were killed and 27 others injured on Wednesday when their bus veered off a steep narrow road on the Portuguese island of Madeira, authorities said.

The name of Kerem Demirbay of TSG Hoffenheim has once again appeared on the transfer wish-list at Arsenal, according to Bild. The Gunners are still searching for a worthy replacement for the soon-to-depart Aaron Ramsey, and the 25-year-old German seems to fit the bill. Demirbay was already linked once (over a year ago) with a ...]

SHOCKING new footage has emerged of the dramatic moment a coach full of German tourists careers off a road on the holiday island of Madeira and crashes down a hillside.

Germany, the current co-chair of the UN Security Council, has called an emergency meeting on Libya, amid shelling in greater Tripoli, home to 3m people, in fighting between the EU and UN backed government and Russia-backed warlord Khalifa Haftar. The EU recently urged Haftar to withdraw, but France has also been building links with him to protect its oil interests. The fighting has killed almost 200 people and displaced 25,000.

Greek MPs have voted to seek "every appropriate legal and diplomatic action to satisfy Greece's demands" on WW2-era war reparations from Germany. "This claim is our historic and moral duty," Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras also said. The parliament did not mention a figure, but a committee in 2016 said it was worth €300bn. German government spokesman Steffen Seibert rejected the claim Wednesday, saying it had already been "conclusively settled".