Hamburg

Capital Link is organizing in Hamburg its 3rd Annual German Maritime Forum, at the city's Radisson Blue Hotel on Wednesday.

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Several people were killed in a shooting Thursday evening in the northern German city of Hamburg.
German police confirmed last evening that the shooting took place at the center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Hamburg.
Citizens received a warning via the application around 9 p.m. that there had been a shooting by one or more unidentified persons.

German police have searched the apartments of 22 people suspected of involvement in the rioting that accompanied the Group of 20 leaders’ summit in Hamburg in July.

An enormous swastika was discovered by construction workers at a sports field in Hamburg on Tuesday. Excavators were preparing the foundations for new changing rooms at Billstedt-Horn sports club when they unearthed a four-by-four meter concrete swastika. The sports club believes that this is all that remains of a Nazi-era monument which once stood next to the playing field.

The German insurers' association said the riots that accompanied the G20 summit in Hamburg earlier this month could cost insurance companies up to EUR 12 million (USD 13.8 million), according to Associated Press.

Ten times over-budget, several years overdue and many lawsuits later, the €789m Elbphilharmonie concert hall, or “Elphie” as it is affectionately known, is finally finished, down to its very €300 toilet brushes and its 1,000 handblown glass lamps, constituting both a landmark and a trademark for the city of Hamburg.

HAMBURG - Serbia will continue its European path and the process of building a rule-of-law state, and strengthen its economy further to attract more investors, PM Aleksandar Vucic said in Hamburg Monday.

The majority of Hamburg’s residents voted against hosting the 2024 Olympic Games, according to the results of the referendum which took place on Sunday 29th on whether Hamburg should bid for the Olympic Games in 2024.

According to the final results, 51.6% of those participated in the referendum were against hosting the Olympics, with voting participation reaching 50.1%.

HAMBURG - Serbia's water polo team outplayed Germany 19-10 (3-4, 5-2, 6-3, 5-1) in the second round of Group B of the World League in Hamburg on Tuesday evening.

The team coached by Dejan Savic notched another win on their way to defending the World League trophy, with the first win scored against Spain in Nis last month (9-1).