Around 350 German police officers conducted a special operation against suspected supporters of the Islamic State terrorist group (IS, banned in Russia) in North Rhine-Westphalia's Duren district, there are two people holding Russian citizenship among the suspects, Dusseldorf's prosecutor's office and Cologne police said on Thursday in a joint statement

Countries in northwestern Europe are currently grappling with the fallout of a devastating series of floods that led to the deaths of more than 200 people, and experts told Sputnik that extreme weather events such as these could occur with far greater frequency over the coming decades due to the impact of climate change

Germany's largest electricity producer RWE said on Saturday that waters of the Inde River in North Rhine-Westphalia flooded a mine and cut supply to the Weisweiler coal-fired power plant, west of Cologne

About 700 people are being evacuated as a result of the failure of a dam on the Ruhr River in Germany's western state of North Rhine-Westphalia triggered by heavy rains and floods, regional authorities said on Saturday

The collapse of buildings triggered by heavy rains and floods in the German city of Erftstadt has resulted in multiple deaths, the Cologne authorities said Friday