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Tesla Inc unveiled a $5 billion capital raise on Tuesday, its second such move in three months as the electric-car maker cashes in on a meteoric rally in its shares this year. The company’s shares touched a record high on Monday, pushing…

Fast-growing short video platform TikTok has opened an office in London, making the city its main hub in Europe, CNBC reported Friday, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter. London is the only city in Europe where TikTok is…

German labs are now able to carry out almost 900,000 tests a week for the novel coronavirus, officials said on Wednesday, as they plan to widen testing among health workers. “Today, we have a theoretically possible capacity of almost…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been praised at home and abroad for her reaction to the coronavirus crisis, but as voices of discontent grow louder, support for the government’s strategy could be on the wane. Though Germany began to…

Uganda and Rwanda have taken delivery of two mobile diagnostic labs to help fight the coronavirus pandemic, the first in a network of German-funded units for East Africa, public investment bank KfW said Thursday. While the project to…

German carmakers including Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) and Mercedes-Benz (DAIGn.DE) will restart production at some German factories next week after the country eased restrictions designed to contain the coronavirus outbreak. Chancellor…

Four of their co-workers have contracted the coronavirus after a colleague from China visited the firm and their factory has been temporarily closed, but staff at German auto parts supplier Webasto insist they are not worried, even as the…

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas was stranded in Mali on Friday due to technical problems with his plane, the latest in a series of incidents that have struck the government’s fleet. Maas, whose tour of West Africa included Sierra…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel officially opened the new headquarters of the country’s foreign intelligence service, BND, in Berlin on Friday, almost 11 years after the laying of the foundation. The move to the modern headquarters in…

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says the problem with Nigeria is not about resources or planning, but the poor management of resources in the past. This was contained in a statement by Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the…