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Fact Check: Daily Express Publishes Fake Cologne Assault Video

The Daily Express posted a video Thursday which purports to show a woman screaming as she is attacked in Cologne, Germany, on New Year’s Eve. In fact, the video in question was shot in Cairo in 2013, and the audio comes from a completely different clip of an assault that also took place in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in 2013.

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German Anger Over Cologne Assaults Targets North Africans

Even 73-year-old retiree Edris says he has not been spared suspicious questions from Germans after a rash of sex assaults in Cologne blamed on North Africans. “If there is a criminal Moroccan, it boomerangs back to all of us,” said

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Police Crackdown on North African Gangs Sees Arrest of 40 Migrants

A massive raid of a Düsseldorf neighborhood believed to be a hub for North African gangs has netted 40 arrests for crimes such as pickpocketing, robbery and drug dealing.  Three-hundred police, backed by federal officers and state administration officials, conducted the Saturday evening raids in the capital of the

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ID Cards For Migrants Approved By German Parliament

The German federal parliament (Bundestag) yesterday approved a new law giving migrant arrivals to the country ID cards. They are part of a newly-centralised system designed to allow government agencies to access information with ease. It is hoped the compulsory

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Migrant Terror Prompts Huge Demand For Handguns

Austria has seen huge growth in the issue of handgun permits and weapon sales in recent months, following the Paris terror attacks and ongoing European migrant crisis. In Vienna, Austria’s largest city and national capital, the number of weapon permits issued

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