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Berlin Mulls Uses For Goebbels’ Abandoned Love Nest

(AFP) – History weighs heavily on the German property market, no more so than at a sprawling lakeside villa that once served as a love nest for Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. Berlin has been trying to sell the —

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Rural Germany an ‘Integration Laboratory’ for Migrants

German villages and small towns could hold the key to socially integrating a mass influx of refugees who would in turn help revitalise dwindling rural populations, experts say. “The rural regions are a laboratory of integration,” said Karl-Friedrich Thoene from

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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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France Declares State of Economic Emergency

As investor sentiment plunges across the world, President François Hollande of France has unveiled an economic plan to deal with what he describes as his country’s “state of economic emergency”. Setting out a new €2 billion (£1.5 billion) job creation plan

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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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