It was the biggest rise in yields since March 1990 – in the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 – when West and East Germany were in the process of reunification. ‘It’s clearly a big ...

supported by the Soviet Union and officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), and West Germany. Located in the east and some distance from the West German border, Berlin had also ...

Feeling fed up and ignored by mainstream parties, many in what was East Germany have flocked to the far right - with the AfD picking up more than 38% of the vote in one state.

Germany reopened its embassy in Damascus on Thursday, 13 years after it was shut in the early days of Syria’s civil war.

The border between East and West Germany shut in 1952, with the divide in Berlin closing in 1961 - separating families and communities overnight. The borders remained shut until the fall of the ...