BERLIN – German society and the economy stand to benefit from the influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday, repeating her optimistic mantra “we can do this”. In her New Year address to the
Ben Carson’s presidential campaign is hammering rival candidate Sen. Marco Rubio for privately saying one thing about the federal government spying on foreign leaders and publicly saying something completely different.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s usual New Year speech will be available with Arabic subtitles this year, in the surest sign yet that Germany is bending to the hordes of migrants that have settled there, rather than requiring them to learn the
The development of so-called “problem neighbourhoods” or “lawless neighbourhoods” in Germany over the course of 2015 has made law enforcement impossible in some areas, according to police reports. The latest admission of the developing problem of no-go zones in Europe comes
BERLIN (AFP) – The copyright of Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” expires Friday, with plans by several publishers for annotated reprints sparking fierce debate over how one of the world’s most controversial books should be treated seven decades after the defeat of the Nazis.
BERLIN – Germany should limit the social benefits foreigners from within the European Union are entitled to receive, German Labour Minister Andrea Nahles told a newspaper on Tuesday. “There is clearly a need for legislative action. We need to spare
End of year statistics released by the Federal German state of Saxony has shown a steep increase in immigrant crime, with a growing number of multiple offenders responsible for the rise since 2014. The increase is significant in the east German Free State
A man died on Christmas Day in Germany after he was hit in the head by a flying piece of metal from a condom machine that he and two accomplices blew up in an apparent robbery attempt, police said on
Civilian casualties of bombing Syria represent at least as great a crime as the Paris attacks, a senior hard left German politician has claimed. The leader of the Left Party in Germany’s Bundestag (Parliament) was comparing the anti-Islamic State coalition bombing Syria
In the wake of the ongoing migration crisis, Germany’s federal states have hired up to 8,500 new teachers to give special ‘welcome classes’ for child migrants, with at least another 1,500 anticipated. The impact of the influx of migrants on Germany’s infrastructure has
BERLIN – Germany’s finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble (pictured above) and a senior Bavarian politician criticised Greece on Sunday over the way it is managing its role in Europe’s biggest migration crisis since World War Two. Schaeuble, who has clashed repeatedly
Around 15,000 people marched in Dusseldorf on Saturday to protest against Turkey’s military crackdown against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels, local police said. The marchers, demonstrating on behalf of Germany’s federation of Kurdish groups, Nav-Dem, also slammed the European Union
BERLIN (Reuters) – German business leaders fear that deep divisions over how to handle the refugee crisis and growing nationalism among member states could break up the European Union, according to five of the country’s biggest industry bodies. The arrival
Germans are increasingly sceptical of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s mass migration policy which has seen over one million people arrive in Europe this year. Mrs. Merkel’s motivations have always been rather clear. While she’s hardly a proponent of “multiculturalism”, her country’s
Four Christians have been beaten up in Berlin, Germany’s capital city, in the early hours of Saturday morning. German media reports that four men were leaving the Adagio venue in the bustling Potzdamer Platz area when they were challenged by a
With few exceptions Europe has seen a declining fertility rate across the continent in recent years, but the United Kingdom has found itself defying that trend and in fact witnessing a significant rise in the average number of births per woman.
A “grain of salt” warning must accompany reports from Seymour Hersh, who has made some fantastic claims during his career. With that in mind, his latest post in the London Review of Books alleges the U.S. military is sharing intelligence with the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad for the purpose of helping Assad’s military take down Islamic State and al-Qaeda rebels.
Germany encouraged illegal immigration to Europe with its humanitarian response to the refugee crisis, the Czech prime minister was cited as saying by a German newspaper on Wednesday. Around 1 million refugees and migrants, many fleeing war and poverty in
A manhunt is reportedly under way in Germany targeting 12 people who used fake Syrian passports to gain entry to the country before disappearing. German news outlets say the fake Syrian passports were most likely taken by Islamic State (IS) operatives when the
Contents: UK bitterly sends troops back Afghanistan’s Helmand province; Number of migrants entering Europe this year passes the one million mark
Refugees will be at the heart of the next Berlin film festival, with hundreds of free tickets for asylum seekers and new movies spotlighting Europe’s historic influx, its director said. Dieter Kosslick told AFP ahead of the 66th edition in
One year has passed since Germany introduced a national minimum wage, with no evidence so far of the catastrophic economic consequences predicted by its opponents. Nevertheless, a huge influx of refugees, most of whom will initially depend on menial and
CNN reports: Jerusalem (CNN) – There were few, if any, victorious moments to share from Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds’ combat time in World War II. So he kept quiet. He told his son little of how his platoon, part of
A German gun shop has been accused of xenophobia after putting a multi-lingual sign in the window telling would-be customers only German passport holders would be admitted. Written in five languages on an A4 sheet of paper tacked in the
A senior German police officer has written to Chancellor Merkel to complain his officers have been overwhelmed by the scale of the migrant crisis, and now just one in ten migrants are ‘controlled’ as they cross the border. Only a fraction
