Economy of Germany

Germanwings has issued a statement saying there were 144, and not 142, passengers on board its plane that went down in the French Alps.

The company, which is a subsidiary of German national carrier Lufthansa, is due to comment on the developments at 14:00 GMT.

French President Francois Hollande said that he believed none of the 148 people on board the Germanwings' airbus that crashed on Tuesday in the French Alps has survived.

Noting that the crash happened in a zone that is particularly hard to access, the French President characterized the accident as a "tragedy in our soil"

French President Francois Hollande has said in a televised address that probably there are no survivors of the crash of a Germanwings plane in the French Alps.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who is now traveling to the site of the crash, has also announced that all 148 people on board have most likely died during the incident

One German citizen of Turkish descent was on the plane operated by Lufthansa's Germanwings budget airline that crashed in southern France on March 24 en route from Barcelona to Düsseldorf, killing 150 people, Turkish Foreign Ministry has announced.

German, Spanish, and probably Turkish passengers were on the plane operated by Lufthansa's Germanwings budget airline that crashed in southern France on March 24 en route from Barcelona to Düsseldorf, French President François Hollande has said.

 He said that he could not say with "total certainty" that no French nationals were aboard the Germanwings flight.

An Airbus A320 crashed at the Digne Region, south of France that is an hour north of Marseille.

In an official announcement, French President Francois Hollande said that no survivors are likely and that most passengers aboard the place were German.

A key witness in the Siemens bribery scandal trial, the ex-secretary of former Siemens executive Michalis Christoforakos, has claimed to have fallen victim to a violent assault by an unidentified man, sources indicated late on Friday.

German airline company Lufthansa announced that it cancels its Friday small and medium distance flights, in the framework of the new strike announced by the pilots’ syndicate. The amount of flights cancelled reaches 700.

84,000 passengers will be affected by the strike, according to the company.

German airline Lufthansa cancelled around 750 short- and medium-haul flights Wednesday, hitting tens of thousands of passengers, as pilots staged fresh strike action in a bitter dispute over early retirement.
      

Deutsche Telekom's spokesperson, Elpida Trizi, has told Deutsche Welle that the company's subsidiary, the majority owner of Makedonski Telekom AD, is planning to investigate Macedonian opposition claims of mass surveillance in which mobile operators were presumably involved.