A series of brawls took place at asylum centres across Germany this weekend, resulting in a number of migrants arrested. One of the biggest disturbances was at the former airport of Tempelhof in Berlin, which now houses 2,000 migrants. The
Clashes broke out Sunday between hundreds of asylum seekers at a shelter in Berlin, in the second mass brawl to erupt over the weekend in Germany’s crowded migrant accommodations. Several people were arrested at the fight that started in the
FRANKFURT – Germany could send 1,200 soldiers to the Middle East by the end of the year to provide service support to planes and ships of an anti-Islamic State coalition, Germany’s top defence official told a newspaper on Sunday. Chancellor
After last year’s infamous dustup when German Cardinal Walter Kasper dissed the African bishops present in the Vatican synod, the Germans have once again gone after the Church in Africa as poor, ignorant, and socially backward.
Migrant Crisis: The pretty spa town beside a winding river is getting ready for Christmas. A Santa Claus statue stands near the main square, tinsel decorates shop windows and at medieval St Paul’s Church carols will soon be sung by
The German police have been left unable to protect the public from criminal migrants due to years of neglect by state governments which have left the force short of thousands of officers.
Four assault rifles used in the deadly Paris attacks were allegedly purchased from a trafficker in Germany, newspaper Bild reported Friday. Quoting documents from the Stuttgart prosecutor’s office, the newspaper said two AK47s and two Zastava M70s were sold on
After a small German town failed to clean illegal swastika graffiti, a local resident decided to take action, but found himself fined for vandalism after painting the symbols out. Part 86a of the German criminal code outlaws the use of “symbols
A German court Thursday barred a condom manufacturer from advertising its product with the promise that a pack of seven contraceptives “equals up to 21 orgasms”, calling the claim misleading. The slogan could give consumers the wrong impression that condoms
BERLIN – Germany will this week start deporting asylum seekers from the western Balkans whose applications have been unsuccessful, government sources told Reuters. Chancellor Angela Merkel is under growing pressure from her own conservatives for allowing hundreds of thousands of
The area around Nuremberg’s Palace of Justice was cleared this morning by German police after a suspicious package was found. Specialists were called to the palace, reports Focus.de, while residents and offices within a 300 meter (330 yard) radius were ordered by police loud-hailer
KaDeWe, which on Saturday removed from its store wine produced in the Golan Heights, apologized for the move on Sunday and returned the bottles to its shelves.
The number of fundamentalist Salafi Islamists in Germany — those who aim to practice their religion according to 7th century norms — is rising at an unprecedented rate. A survey commissioned by Germany security services estimated that there were around 7,900
Several major German language news websites are offline today, and ‘hacktivist’ collective ‘Anonymous Deutschland’ have claimed responsibility, stating the cyber attack was in revenge for German media being rude about them. News websites including Focus, Der Spiegel, and Blick Zeitung have been offline since the
Pulling no punches, Pope Francis laid out statistic after statistic before a group of German bishops, and wondered aloud why the Church in Germany is in freefall.
BERLIN, Nov 19 – A group of several attackers planned to set off multiple explosives in Hanover soccer stadium at Tuesday night’s friendly match between Germany and the Netherlands, which was called off, daily Bild reported on Thursday. Bild said
Finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble has said the German army could be deployed to the streets in a security role, should the nation come under attack. Reflecting on post-Paris terror attacks security reviews, veteran politician Mr. Schäuble admitted that German police resources were
Two Air France planes were diverted and grounded due to bomb threats on Tuesday night. USA Today reports that one plane, Air France Flight 65, was inbound to Los Angeles from Paris, and was diverted to Salt Lake City. The other was Flight 55 flying from Dulles Airport near Washington, D.C. to Paris, and was diverted to Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Contents: Hong Kong ‘boos’ China with paper signs at soccer match; Netherlands – Germany football match cancelled after ‘concrete threat’; Brussels, Belgium, has become the center for European terror
A soccer match between Germany and the Netherlands was canceled less than two hours before it was scheduled to begin, and the stadium in Hannover evacuated, due to unspecified “security concerns.” According to Conflict News, there are now reports that German police “discovered a truck bomb disguised as a rescue vehicle” near the stadium.
Right wing party Alternative for Germany (AfD) is again on the rise in German opinion polls, taking third place nationally for the first time. The party, which is often billed as ‘the German Ukip’, has seen a surge in support
“The attacks didn’t come out of nowhere” said a speaker at last night’s Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Continent (PEGIDA) rally in Dresden, Germany, as marchers called for an end to mass migration. The meeting kicked off with one
Posters branded with the emblem of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Kabul, have sprung up around Afghanistan trying to warn locals off choosing the nation as a target for migration. Debunking common myths about life in Germany
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is refusing to drop her open door migration policy, insisting that the first priority following the terrorist attacks on Paris is to protect “innocent” refugees and restore “hope” to them. Merkel has come under fire within her
German police are scrambling to discover whether they inadvertently prevented another Islamist from joining the Paris massacre, after they arrested a man driving with a significant cache of weapons heading to Paris. The arrest took place on Thursday the 5th,
