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The New People party placed Vitaly Kovalev, a 38-year-old wanted by Interpol for organizing a criminal enterprise, on its federal candidate list for the State Duma elections.

On Friday, 5th Avenue Products Trading GmbH, the distributor of Cuban cigars in Austria, Germany and Poland, informed its clients that it was unable to take and deliver new orders due to what the company said were temporary banking restrictions.

A new report claims a swarm of AI agents, developed by OpenAI, hijacked a German website – months before the firm revealed its AI had hacked tech platform Hugging Face.

Aug 26 (Reuters) – German companies are increasingly being targeted by cyberattacks that they suspect are linked to foreign intelligence services, a study by digital industry ‌association Bitkom showed on Wednesday.

German aquaculture technology company Oceanloop Management GmbH has raised €38.5 million in equity financing in a round led by Hatch Blue’s Blue Revolution Fund and Stolt Ventures, the venture capital arm of Stolt-Nielsen. The transaction is complemented by a €32 million venture debt facility from the European Investment Bank (EIB).

Aug. 18, 2026 — Together with leading German research institutions, the German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ) will develop strategies and technical solutions to safeguard at-risk Earth System Science (ESS) datasets and strengthen the resilience of scientific data infrastructures. The project is coordinated by NFDI4Earth and will run for 18 months.

German drone maker Helsing has enlisted Japanese e-commerce and finance firm Rakuten to help finalize a deal to sell its unmanned systems to Japan’s army, a spokesperson for Rakuten said on Monday.

German American Bancorp Inc. purchased a new stake in shares of Salesforce Inc. (NYSE:CRM – Free Report) during the 2nd quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The institutional investor purchased 23,623 shares of the CRM provider’s stock, valued at approximately $3,701,000.

Rakuten Group is working with defense AI startup Helsing to bring the German company’s military drones to Japan.

BERLIN, Aug 16 (Reuters) – German companies slashed investments in the United States to a three-year low in the first half of ‌2026, as Trump administration policies fed uncertainty between the transatlantic trading ‌partners.