As German police investigate an attempted suicide bombing last night that killed the Muslim migrant bomber but failed to kill others, it has emerged he was a devotee of the Islamic State. Bavaria’s top security official says a video has
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A Syrian failed asylum seeker has blown himself up with a rucksack bomb, injuring several bystanders, in the town of Ansbach, Germany, apparently after being thwarted in an attempt to attack an open-air music festival.
Bavaria’s top security official says a man who blew himself up after being turned away from an open-air music festival in the southern German city of Ansbach was a 27-year-old Syrian who had been denied asylum. One person, believed to
A bystander ran over a machete-wielding refugee this afternoon, ending a rampage that saw a pregnant woman killed and two other injured in Reutlingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
BERLIN (Reuters) – The German military is training more than 100 Syrian migrants for civilian roles suited to helping the eventual reconstruction of their country, Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen said in remarks released ahead of publication on Sunday.
BERLIN (Reuters) – Senior German officials on Sunday called for a review of Germany’s already strict gun laws after Friday’s deadly shooting in Munich that claimed the lives of nine people and the gunman, a deranged 18-year-old who was obsessed
The 18-year-old gunman who killed nine people in a shooting spree in Munich had been planning his crime for a year but chose his victims at random, officials said on Sunday. “He had been preparing (the shooting) for a year,”
(AFP) – Nine people died on Friday when an 18-year-old German-Iranian gunman went on a killing spree in the southern German city of Munich. The attack sparked fears of a new jihadist attack on the West, but police later described
(AFP) – A teen gunman who killed nine people in a rampage in Munich was “deranged”, police said Saturday, linking his actions to Norwegian far-right mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik rather than Islamic State jihadists. Europe reacted in shock to
(AFP) – Germany’s legendary Bayreuth opera festival dedicated to the works of Richard Wagner opens Monday, but security fears and off-stage drama threaten to cast a long shadow over the 140-year-old event. The curtain goes up just days after an
(AFP) – Iran on Saturday condemned a shooting spree at a busy shopping centre in Munich by a teenage German-Iranian gunman who killed nine people before committing suicide. Foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi denounced “the killing of innocent and defenceless
Live updates on the situation in Munich, Germany, where civilians were gunned down at a McDonald’s and a mall. At least 9 people have been killed.
A Red Cross employee has claimed that women in an asylum home run by the charity have been sexually abused and that management covered it up.
The European Central Bank is running out of well-performing German bonds to buy, which could usher in a new banking crisis for the European Union (EU).
While thousands of born Germans remain homeless, one city is building trendy downtown apartments for single male migrants on the corner of the Oberhausen Peace Square. The majority of the million migrants who arrived in Germany last year are now in
Germany’s Interior Minister has told Germans to expect more Islamic terror attacks in the country, after a 17-year-old unaccompanied Afghan migrant injured 18 people. Thomas de Maiziere insisted there is no link between “refugees” and terrorist attacks. On Monday in
Germany and Britain agreed Wednesday that Prime Minister Theresa May needed time to prepare for talks to leave the EU, after London took the first step towards Brexit by giving up its presidency of the European Council. On her first
A migrant rights NGO and Greek government officials warn that the crackdown on opposition by Turkey’s president could lead to a huge wave of Turks and others flooding into Europe.
(AFP) – German authorities have cast doubt on whether a teenager who went on an axe rampage on a Bavarian train was really an Afghan refugee, saying Wednesday he might have been from Pakistan. The Islamic State group released a
TEL AVIV – A new poll shows anti-Semitism is rife among leftwing Germans, with 34% of respondents saying Jews have “too much influence” in the country, the Jerusalem Post reported.
Deradicalisation programmes for Islamic State fighters who have returned from Syria and Iraq are largely unsuccessful. Some are continuing to make propaganda videos for the terrorist group while back in Germany, and most rejoin the country’s flourishing Salafist community.
A new report issued by the German bishops’ conference paints a dismal picture of a Church in steady decline according to every relevant indicator.
(AFP) – The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Tuesday for its first attack in Germany, an axe and knife assault on a train carried out by a 17-year-old Afghan refugee. German authorities said they had found a hand-painted IS flag
The blindness of German Chancellor Angela Merkel has brought a once-great nation to the brink of catastrophe. It may be unable to step back.
A junior politician in the Left party who claimed to have been the victim of a homophobic, neo-Nazi knife attack faces up to three years in jail for lying. 19-year-old Julian Kinzel alleged in January that right wing extremists slashed
TEL AVIV – London-based Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat published a column last week calling for the Arab and Muslim world to follow post-WWII Germany’s lead and purge itself of extremist elements in much the same way Germany uprooted Nazism – “with an iron fist.”
A couple appeared before a court to answer to charges of incitement because the man had established a Facebook group that was “hostile to refugees”. Peter M. founded a secret group called AFB (Anti Refugee Movement) about a year ago on
Young migrant men and boys in Cologne are being taught not to sexually assault German women and that touching themselves won’t make them blind. A programme in Cologne, the city of the infamous New Year’s Eve sex attacks, is attempting to
A German soldiers’ union has come out against proposed plans to allow non-German citizens into the Bundeswehr which could hamper plans for a European Union (EU) army. The Armed Forces Association, which is the largest pressure group for the interests of soldiers
German Police raided the homes of 60 people suspected of writing ‘hate’ speech on social media in Germany. Coordinated by the Federal Criminal Police (BKA), the operation saw officers from 25 departments search across 14 states. The police raids took place as part
In a documentary about the mass sex attacks on New Year’s Eve, tax-funded public broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) has portrayed the criminals as white Germans. The piece concluded by saying that the “losers” of the night’s attacks were wrongly-accused migrants,
More than 1,100 Islamists in Germany have been identified as belonging to the country’s terrorist “scene”, a report has revealed. The Federal Criminal Police (BKA), also noted that, by the end of last year, 780 German passport holders had gone to
Despite revealing that only 30,000 migrants are currently working, the head of the German migration agency claims Germany still needs more migrants. Frank-Jürgen Weise, the head of the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), in a stunning new interview has
A senior politician in Germany said the Brexit vote has turned Britain from being “the coolest country in the world” to “one big mess”. David McAllister expressed anger at Leave campaigners and said that after the referendum, Britain’s standing in
“Economic giant, political dwarf” — that is how the world long viewed post-World War II Germany, the European export power reluctant to use military muscle in global conflicts.
TEL AVIV – A Belgian Jewish newspaper is demanding that European leaders condemn Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for spreading the libel that rabbis in Israel urged Jews to poison Palestinian water, JTA reported.
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Iran is hoping to join an international project in southern France that hopes to build the first machine to generate significant amounts of energy using nuclear fusion, which is considered a clean, safe and virtually limitless form of nuclear power.
FoxNews.com reports: With the ink barely dry on the deal between the U.S. and Iran to prevent the Islamic Republic from securing nuclear weapons, a new German intelligence document charges that Iran continues to flout the agreement. Germany’s domestic intelligence
