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Germans Increasingly Oppose Mass Immigration

Germans are becoming increasingly sceptical of mass immigration, with large numbers refusing to approve of their country accepting refugees and a record number putting national identity before being “global citizens”. According to a survey by GlobeScan for BBC World Service,

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TV Series Maker Says Neo-Nazi Killers Are ‘Germany’s IS’

(AFP) – The maker of a hard-hitting television drama about a notorious wave of racist murders across Germany has compared the neo-Nazi group behind them to a homegrown Islamic State who are far from defeated. Historian Gabriela Sperl told AFP

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Obama Flies To Germany To Try To Shore Up TTIP Deal

Barack Obama makes a valedictory visit to Germany Sunday to see his “friend” Angela Merkel, but their show of unity looked unlikely to curb opposition to their plans for a transatlantic trade pact. Obama will jet into the northern city

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Chancellor Merkel Admits ‘Error’ In Erdogan Satire Row

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday admitted she had made an “error” in the bitter freedom of speech row sparked by a comedian’s poem about Turkey’s president. But she defended her decision to authorise criminal proceedings against popular comedian Jan

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Hackers Flood University Printers With Anti-Semitic Messages

Hackers have forced printers in several German Universities to print anti-Semitic posters and messages. Multiple German universities including the University of Hamburg had their printers hacked on Wednesday. The individuals who apparently perpetrated the attack found gaps in the security of the

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Hamburg Residents Protest Proposed Asylum Home

Residents of a wealthy Hamburg suburb are protesting that the local government wants to put 2,400 migrants in their neighbourhood. Eppendorf is an idyllic looking suburb in the German city of Hamburg. The residents are predominantly middle class and were outraged when

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Merkel Voices Concern At Reporter’s Detention In Turkey

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that her government is concerned about the detention of a German television reporter at Istanbul airport, adding that diplomats are trying to resolve the situation. Volker Schwenck, a correspondent for German public

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IQ Tests Proposed For Migrants to Help Facilitate Integration

The regional government of Saarland in Germany has proposed to test migrants’ IQ to aid in their integration. The Saar-Interior Minister Klaus Bouillon of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party (CDU), has put forth a controversial idea to help integrate

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Obama Administration: Golan Heights Are Not Part of Israel

TEL AVIV – The Obama administration does not consider the Golan Heights part of Israel, U.S. State Department spokesperson John Kirby stressed Monday night, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that the Golan “will forever remain under Israeli sovereignty.”

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Three Injured in Explosion at a Sikh Temple in Germany

BERLIN (AP) — German police say three people have been injured in an apparently deliberate explosion at a Sikh temple in the western city of Essen. A spokesman for Essen police told the Associated Press that a masked person is

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13-Year-Old Boy Caught Trying to Join Islamic State

A 13-year-old boy from Germany was caught on the Turkish-Syrian border on his way to joining the Islamic State (ISIS). Authorities have returned the boy, now 14, to Bavaria after he started his long journey nine months ago to join the Islamic

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