BERLIN, July 8 (UPI) -- Germany has employed two former high-ranking officials to lobby for rival pipeline options to secure natural gas for Europe.

BERLIN, April 10 (UPI) -- Good Friday marks the start of four days of traditional Easter peace marches throughout Germany.

ANTANANARIVO, Madagascar, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- Madagascar's defense minister says she is stepping down in protest against police shootings of at least 28 anti-government demonstrators.

MUNICH, Germany, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- The European Union and NATO are clashing over Russia's call for a new European security architecture, analysts say.

MOGADISHU, Somalia, Jan. 29 (UPI) -- Pirates off the Somali coast have kidnapped a German liquefied petroleum gas tanker and its crew of 13.

PARIS, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- The French Foreign Ministry said Friday it wants European Union members to reach a common policy regarding Guantanamo Bay prisoners.

HAMBURG, Germany, Dec. 23 (UPI) -- Two German doctors charged with manslaughter after helping a terminally ill British man die in 2004 have been acquitted, observers said.

BERLIN, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Germany's Central Office, an agency that tracks down suspected Nazi war criminals, is still functioning 50 years after its founding, officials say.

STUTTGART, Germany, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- One of the last imprisoned members of the Red Army Faction, a 1970s German militant group, will soon be released, officials said Monday.