Global stock markets diverged Friday as investors contemplated central bank signals that interest rates will remain high to combat stubborn inflation

European and Asian stock markets diverged Friday with traders contemplating further hikes to interest rates as inflation stays high despite a recent cooling of consumer-price rises

Berlin's decision to shut down the work of four Russian consulates general by the end of the year is an unfriendly step aimed at the destruction of the relations, the Russian Foreign ministry said on Wednesday

The Turkish Foreign Ministry summoned the German ambassador in Ankara on Wednesday over the detention of Turkish journalists in Germany's Frankfurt

Germany's largest rail operator Deutsche Bahn announced on Saturday that it had clinched an eleventh-hour deal with trade unionists to avert a 50-hour strike that was expected to paralyze traffic