Defence Secretary Wes Streeting and German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius met on 2 November 2026 for the second Defence Ministerial Council under the Trinity House Agreement and pledged continued support for Ukraine.
The defence ministers of France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the United Kingdom issued a joint statement on 26 October 2026 describing Russia as the most acute and long-term threat to Euro-Atlantic security and pledging continued support for Ukraine.
Canada, Denmark, the EU, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sierra Leone, Sweden and the UK issued a statement on 26 October 2026 marking one year since the violence in El Fasher peaked, calling for accountability and unimpeded humanitarian access.
Foreign ministers from Türkiye, Egypt, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia met counterparts from France, Germany, Italy and the UK in Istanbul on 23 October 2026 to discuss regional conflicts and de-escalation.
ESA astronaut Pablo Álvarez Fernández, NASA's Jasmin Moghbeli and Kimiya Yui of JAXA completed PANGAEA's 10th edition, a three-week geology course spanning Italy, Germany and Spain.
As reported on 8 October 2026, the UK and Germany planned a counter-hybrid threat partnership covering cyber-attacks, sabotage and critical infrastructure, with Prime Minister Andy Burnham due in Berlin to meet Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
The fifth metal sample printed on the International Space Station has returned to Earth and contains the first thrusters made in orbit, ESA says. German space agency DLR will test them on a vacuum bench.
A hybrid event on 17 September 2026 marked 100 years of Newcastle disease research, bringing experts from the UK, Italy, Spain, Germany, Pakistan and the US together at APHA Weybridge.
In a statement published 1 September 2026, Prime Minister Andy Burnham expressed full UK solidarity with Germany following what he described as Russia's attack in Leipzig.
Satellite images captured at low tide on August 15, 2025, and high tide on May 11, 2025, show how tides reshape the Elbe estuary near Germany's North Sea coast, NASA's Earth Observatory reported on August 6, 2026.
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