Ethiopian rebels have released two German hostages who were part of a tour group attacked during a bloody gunbattle in Ethiopia's restive Danakil Desert in mid-January, according to the German Foreign Ministry.
A German worker was kidnapped Thursday in Kano, a northern Nigerian city wracked by violence, police said.
Two tourists from Germany and one from Austria were among five people killed in an attack in Ethiopia, near the border with Eritrea, officials said Wednesday.
Italian rescuers and divers continuing their perilous work Tuesday located a second "black box" and the remains of five people in the wreckage of the Costa Concordia cruise ship.
More than 300 wounded Libyans will arrive in Germany to be treated in hospitals within the next 10 days in an operation approved by Libya's interim government, the German Foreign Ministry said Friday.
Two Germans are missing in Afghanistan, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said Tuesday, adding that it's possible "they have become victims of a kidnapping."
British Prime Minister David Cameron says a military-led rescue mission into the Libyan desert was "the right thing to do," despite the fact that U.K. planes didn't have permission to enter Libyan airspace.
Two German journalists have been released from prison after being charged with espionage in Iran for interviewing the son and lawyer of a woman condemned to die by stoning, a spokesman for Germany's Foreign Ministry confirmed Saturday.
Spanish authorities have arrested 25 people suspected in a 10 million euro ($13 million) fraud scheme targeting German owners of timeshare vacation property in the Canary Islands, police said Friday.
Explosions took place Tuesday outside two embassies in Greece, and police carried out controlled explosions of three more suspicious parcels addressed to embassies, officials said.
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Two Germans who were kidnapped in Sudan have been released, the German Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
Rebels in the Sudanese territory of Darfur have seized a helicopter with four Russian crew members and five Sudanese passengers, Russia's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
A German national wearing a burqa was taken into custody by Pakistani security forces while trying to escape from a security check post in northwestern Pakistan, a government official told CNN Tuesday.
Somali pirates released a German cargo ship Saturday that they have held since May, the German Foreign Ministry said.
A suicide explosion kills three, including one U.S. soldier in the capital of Kabul. CNN's Atia Abawi reports.
A suicide bomber driving a van packed with explosives detonated in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least one civilian and wounding several others, including three Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers, government spokesman Ahmadzia Abdulzai told CNN.
A German cruise liner said Tuesday it plans to fly its passengers over the Gulf of Aden, instead of sailing them through, out of fear of pirate attacks in the region.
Afghan police said a suicide bomber on foot blew himself up near a German Embassy vehicle in Kabul, killing two Afghans.
A suicide bomber on a bicycle detonated explosives Sunday near a car from the German Embassy in Kabul, a local police official said.
A top aide to the Rwandan president is in German custody for her alleged role in a 1994 assassination that sparked the Rwandan genocide, the German Foreign Ministry said Monday.
A German aid worker has been kidnapped in northwestern Somalia, the man's employer said Tuesday.
Afghan police freed a female German hostage from a Kabul neighborhood and arrested a group of kidnappers early Monday, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.
Taliban threatens hostages
Iraqi militants holding a German woman and her son hostage demanded Saturday that Germany withdraw its troops from Afghanistan to ensure their safety.
Talks between Iran's top nuclear negotiator and key European foreign ministers ended Friday without a breakthrough on Tehran's nuclear ambitions, the German Foreign Ministry office said.
A former German deputy foreign minister and his family are missing in Yemen, German officials said Wednesday, and there are reports that they were kidnapped.
Negotiators for Britain, Germany and France came out of talks with Iran Wednesday over Iran's nuclear program using highly diplomatic language to say some progress had been made.
The United States has said it will not let key al Qaeda suspects in its custody testify at the retrial of the only September 11 suspect ever to be convicted.
A spate of civilian hostage taking in Iraq is continuing despite an anti-kidnapping decree issued by Muslim clerics.
The German Foreign Ministry has confirmed that two of its security staff assigned to the German Embassy in Baghdad are missing.
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