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1756 Düren earthquake. On 18 February 1756, at about 8 am, one of the strongest earthquakes in Central Europe, the strongest reported in Germany to date, struck Düren. [2] [6] The hypocentre is judged to have been at 14–16 km. [7] It followed the 1755 Lisbon earthquake by several months and was the culmination of a series of quakes in ...
2024 Kiteezi landslide. The death toll for the landslide in the Kiteezi Rubbish Dump in Kampala, Uganda, increases to 24. (DW) 2024 Sudan floods. At least 68 people are killed in Sudan 's worst flooding since 2019, impacting several internally displaced person camps amid the ongoing Sudanese civil war.
Hoegl said the German military is facing an "enormous personnel problem", with its goal of increasing troop numbers to 203,000 by 2031 from the current 181,000 difficult to achieve.
June 23, 1942. Leipzig, Nazi Germany. Steam explosion and reactor fire. Leipzig L-IV experiment accident: Shortly after the Leipzig L-IV atomic pile – worked on by Werner Heisenberg and Robert Doepel – demonstrated Germany's first signs of neutron propagation, the device was checked for a possible heavy water leak.
October 12, 2023 at 4:25 AM. BERLIN (AP) — Germany is offering military help to Israel and promising to crack down on support for the militant Hamas group at home following the group's attack on ...
As a first step to bring the military back up to scratch after decades of attrition following the Cold War, Germany last year set up a 100 billion-euro special fund to purchase modern weapons and ...
According to Article 65a of the German Constitution ( Grundgesetz), the Federal Minister of Defence is Commander-in-chief of the Bundeswehr, the German armed forces, with around 265,019 active soldiers and civilians. [5] Article 115b decrees that in the state of defence, declared by the Bundestag with consent of the Bundesrat, the command in ...
The outlook for defense spending picks up in the wake of Germany's decision to spend more on its military. (Jefferies) Lockheed Martin popped 5%, while Raytheon gained 3%.