Mein Kampf, the Nazi bible written by Adolf Hitler, is to be printed in Germany for the first time since the country’s defeat in 1945. The book had previously been effectively banned because the rights to it are held by
Berlin (AFP) – A toddler suffering from measles has died in the German capital, health authorities said, amid the country’s worst outbreak in years and a debate about vaccinations.
Although Germany has been the strongest Western European country economically for years, its army is suffering from a paucity of funding and arms.
Greece and Germany are eyeball to eyeball on bailout crisis; Libya chaos threatens to reopen bitter rift between Qatar and Egypt; Ethnic Chinese Kokang burst into violence in northern Burma (Myanmar)
Russian soldiers and pro-Russian separatists continue to shell in strategically important Debaltseve, Ukraine, despite an official ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia set to begin at midnight on February 15. In response, the European Union (EU) passed new sanctions and admitted Russia sent forces to east Ukraine.
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Berlin (AFP) – Seventy years ago Allied bombing laid waste to the historic German city of Dresden, whose post-war image as a symbol of peace has been dented recently by anti-Islamic protests.
Notorious German-born “gangster rapper” Denis Cuspert, 39, went from a tumultuous youth to converting to Islam and pledging allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) this past spring, before being placed on America’s global terrorism watch list. He was published in the U.S. government’s Federal Register on January 27.
Europe faces ‘enormous tragedy’ over Europe’s Mediterranean rescue program; Confusion reigns over Ukraine ceasefire deal
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and French President Francois Hollande met in Minsk, Belarus, in an attempt to end the war in east Ukraine. The four emerged after 16 hours, all agreeing to a ceasefire in the east starting on February 15.
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Russian soldiers and Russian-backed rebels in Ukraine assaulted Kramatorsk and surrounded Debaltseve on the eve of peace talks in Minsk, Belarus. The attack left twelve people dead and wounded thirty-one. Children are included among the wounded.
Over the weekend, former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan predicted that Greece will end up leaving the eurozone and that the euro will not long survive its departure.
30 dead in Cairo Egypt as soccer fans clash with police; Greece’s Alexis Tsipras approaches Wednesday confrontation with Europe
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A 19 year old German girl has been brutally stabbed and burned to death by her ex boyfriend because she was carrying his child, and he didn’t want to become a father. The girl, known as Maria P., was found
European finance ministers worried that Greece’s new far-left government would renege on the terms of previous bailout packages, while demanding even more debt to finance wild new spending programs, were given fresh reason for concern when the new Greek finance minister announced his government would not negotiate bailout terms with the European Union or International Monetary Fund.
Perhaps Greece’s new far-left government will rethink its plans to shake Europe down for cash to fund its wild spending binges, now that the German economy has officially entered a deflationary cycle, as reported by Business Insider
This week, Palestine’s Islamist Hamas movement congratulated the head of Greece’s newly-elected, far-left Syriza coalition on his party’s victory and hailed him for his staunch opposition to “Israeli crimes, aggression, and siege on Gaza.”
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A recent article by the Pew Research Center delves into the question of how different European states view themselves and their neighbors and the results are almost comical. Among the eight EU nations surveyed, the Greeks have an overwhelmingly higher opinion of themselves than other countries do, while the Italians are the most self-effacing.
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The European Central Bank (ECB) gave the Left and their allies meeting in Davos, Switzerland, everything they could have hoped for with the announcement that they have agreed to print $1.13 trillion of new cash to buy the national debt of their insolvent members. But “hidden within the announcement is evidence of Germany’s weakening commitment to the European project,” according to Stratfor.
Leader of Germany’s anti-Muslim Pegida movement resigns over Hitler photo; Yemen’s president accepts Houthi demands, possibly resolving crisis
Breitbart News has found that in several areas throughout Europe places officially or unofficially deemed “no-go” zones often have largely unassimilated Islamic populations where the host country’s laws are difficult, if not impossible, to enforce.
