A regional court in Germany's Braunschweig has accepted a lawsuit against former Volkswagen chief Martin Winterkorn on charges of market manipulation in a controversial diesel case, the court said on Thursday

German prosecutors in Braunschweig have charged six Volkswagen employees for playing an active role in cheating carbon emissions tests, the authority said in a press release on Tuesday

The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which came second in elections in the eastern German states of Saxony and Brandenburg past weekend, expects the so-called grand coalition between Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) to break apart by the end of 2019 and is preparing for snap federal elections which will be triggered in that case, the co-chairman of the AfD, Jorg Meuthen, told Sputnik on Monday

DMCC, the world’s flagship Free Zone and Government of Dubai Authority on commodities trade and enterprise, has announced the official opening of its representative office operated by the German Arabian Advisory GmbH in Dusseldorf, Germany.