(AFP) – The BASF chemical giant on Saturday said a firefighter injured in an explosion at its plant in western Germany earlier this month had died, pushing the death toll up to four. “This morning, one of the BASF firefighters
Police in Berlin have launched a series of crackdowns on the notorious ‘Riga 94’ left-wing extremists who have been responsible for attacks on police and multiple riots this year. The free reign of left-wing extremism in Berlin may be coming
(REUTERS – COLOGNE, GERMANY) Hani Salam escaped civil war in Syria and survived the journey from Egypt to Europe. But when he saw men with bushy long beards at a mosque near his current home in Cologne last November, he was worried.
A third of Germans fear that tensions between the Kremlin and the West could rapidly escalate into a full-blown conflict, a new survey reveals.
Angela Merkel has recommended that Germans who are concerned about Islamisation should play Christmas carols on the recorder to contain any possible threat.
A German psychologist has published testimonies from police reports of the New Year’s Eve Cologne sex attacks showing the victims’ fear and the total lack of police presence.
A Syrian refugee who was granted asylum in Germany, along with his four wives and 23 children, is now reportedly receiving 360 thousand euro ($390,000) a year in benefits, sparking outrage among German citizens.
Primary school pupils in the German ski resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen were made to recite “there is no God but Allah” and memorise an Islamic profession of faith, an outraged father has revealed.
The world’s tallest church is slowly disintegrating at its base due to human urine.
German police on Tuesday stormed an accommodation facility for refugees and 12 homes around the country that were believed to house people suspected of financing terrorism.
New statistics from mass-migration magnet Germany shows average citizens are increasingly fearful of public spaces, the news coming after a year of intense reports of crime committed by migrants in public spaces across Europe. The new statistics collected in Germany
BERLIN (AP) — Onlookers apparently shouted “Jump!” before a teenage migrant leapt from an apartment block in an eastern German town, killing himself, the town’s mayor said Saturday. Regional broadcaster MDR reports that police and fire officers in Schmoelln had
A left wing expert on Salafism has suggested that Germany has no real culture and that Syrians should be allowed their own city rather than be forced to integrate into German society. Expert on Salafism and Green party member Kurt
Events in Cologne on New Year’s Eve gained international attention as mobs of migrants stole and launched group sex attacks on a scale previously unseen in Europe, but they failed to make any impact on police statistics.
TEL AVIV – The European Union’s commissioner for human rights called on the organization to stop ignoring the rise in anti-Semitism on the continent and to use the Holocaust as a reminder of the dangers posed by complacency.
The German town of Dueren is on lockdown Tuesday afternoon after a gunman opened fire in a hairdressing salon killing one and injuring several others. The town of Dueren in the German region of North Rhine-Westphalia is currently under total
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s interior minister says efforts to combat the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria won’t increase the risk of attacks at home. Thomas de Maiziere says authorities expect IS fighters from Europe to try to return
A prominent Green party politician has said Germans worried about mass immigration should learn Arabic to communicate with new arrivals from the Middle East, like Americans should learn Spanish to talk to Mexicans.
Journalists at Berlin’s public service broadcaster were surprised to discover hardline attitudes to newcomers among established migrants in Germany, with some of those interviewed admitting they would like to see many newcomers deported.
BERLIN (AP) — Ninety lawmakers from left-leaning German parties are meeting to explore possibilities of working together in the future, something that could increase chances of a government without Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives.
According to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the economy is in great shape and safe from another financial crisis. They believe more liberal policies to better distribute the benefits would deliver Americans into another golden age, but the facts belie
(REUTERS) – The birthrate in Germany reached the highest level in 33 years last year, boosted mainly by babies born to migrant women, the Federal Statistics Office said on Monday.
A far left club and youth centre in Leipzig has issued a statement admitting its outreach efforts with migrants resulted in a huge increase in sex attacks, brawling, and theft.
BERLIN (AP) — Several thousand people have turned out for a demonstration in the eastern German city of Dresden marking the second anniversary of the anti-Islam and anti-immigration group PEGIDA.
German public school teacher and leading BDS activist praised a Facebook photo of a Palestinian using a slingshot to apparently hurl stones at Israelis, prompting calls on Friday and Saturday for his immediate removal from the classroom in the city of Oldenburg, in the state of Lower Saxony.
German consumers are set to see the cost of their electricity hiked once again as the government attempts to cover the cost of a drive towards green energy sources. Germans will be paying a 8.3 percent more next year to
A respected economist has said that it is in Austria’s best interest to leave the European Union after Brexit due to the growing influence of poorer nations as a result of the loss of UK membership. Economics professor Hans-Werner Sinn is
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Ministry of Defence wants to fast-track the purchase of 800 armoured vehicles from Germany because it fears that the fall in the value of sterling could lead to unconfirmed projects being cancelled, the Times newspaper reported
The Syrian refugee suspected of planning to bomb a Berlin airport was radicalised only after arriving in Germany, Der Spiegel magazine reported on Friday, citing the suspect’s brother who still lives in Syria. Jaber Albakr committed suicide in prison in
Two Afghan adult migrants have been acquitted in a sexual assault case at a German swimming pool that involved a 14-year-old boy in the German town of Delbrück . The two men in the case, 20-year-old Mozamel M and 25-year-old Rajab H, are
AFP — A Syrian bomb plot suspect found hanged in his cell had not been deemed an “acute” suicide risk, German officials said Thursday as outrage grew over the judicial “fiasco”. The death in custody follows an initially botched attempt
New draft legislation would make it harder for some migrants who have been denied asylum in Germany to obtain waivers to stay in the country, the German newspaper Die Welt said on Wednesday.
BERLIN (Reuters) – Support for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives has dipped below the 30 percent mark for the first time, a poll showed on Tuesday, with her Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners gaining slightly a year before a federal
(Reuters) – The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency (BfV) said a Syrian suspect arrested on Monday was building a bomb and probably planned to attack one of the airports in Berlin. Hans-Georg Maassen told public broadcaster ARD that intelligence
Germany’s post-World War II justice ministry was infested with ex-Nazis hell-bent on protecting their former comrades, according to a new official study released Monday.
Following complaints from parents over Christmas festivities being dropped by a public daycare centre, Catholics have spoken out to criticise what they say has been a trend in municipal kindergartens for some time.
Two men have been convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to several years in prison for throwing a hand grenade onto the grounds of a home for asylum seekers in southwestern Germany. The grenade was thrown over the fence of
Reuters — Hundreds of police including specialist commandos combed a residential area of the eastern German city of Chemnitz on Saturday for a man suspected of planning a bomb attack, after failing to find him in a raid on an
The EU project is failing. Brexit is the symptom rather than the cause, and the UK is the first domino which could topple the entire political project of a United States of Europe. Euroscepticism is on the rise in rest
Researchers of “extremism” have identified friendly, environmentally-conscious families living in the German countryside as likely dangerous radicals, and warn that rural living itself “is linked with racism”.
