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West on High Alert as Bomb Threats Force Flight Landings, Evacuations

Two Air France planes were diverted and grounded due to bomb threats on Tuesday night. USA Today reports that one plane, Air France Flight 65, was inbound to Los Angeles from Paris, and was diverted to Salt Lake City. The other was Flight 55 flying from Dulles Airport near Washington, D.C. to Paris, and was diverted to Halifax in Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Germany-Netherlands Soccer Match Canceled, Stadium Evacuated

A soccer match between Germany and the Netherlands was canceled less than two hours before it was scheduled to begin, and the stadium in Hannover evacuated, due to unspecified “security concerns.” According to Conflict News, there are now reports that German police “discovered a truck bomb disguised as a rescue vehicle” near the stadium.

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Facebook Reports Surge in Government Demands for User Data

Facebook’s Global Government Requests Report was released on Wednesday, and it showed a tremendous surge in requests for user account data from governments around the world, topped by the government of the United States. The governments of Turkey and India were cited as the most aggressive in censoring Facebook pages.

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Berlin Police Raid 10 Sites In Online ‘Hate Speech’ Crackdown

Berlin police say they’ve raided 10 buildings in the German capital as part of a crackdown on hate speech on social media networks. Police said Thursday that the morning raids involved 60 officers, who confiscated smartphones and computers as evidence,

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11 Youths Injured In Brawl At Migrant Centre

Eleven youths were injured in a brawl at a migrant centre for unaccompanied minors on Monday evening. Afghan and Iranian asylum seekers, all aged under 18, used iron rods, broom handles and clothes hangers to beat a group of Syrians

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Christian And Muslim Iranians Brawl In German Migrant Centre

Three people needed hospital treatment after a fight between Christian and Muslim migrants at a German asylum centre on Friday. Around 15 migrants were involved in the brawl at the centre in Bad Fallingbostel, which started when “heavily intoxicated” residents

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‘Not Yet’ On Syrian Migrant Downgrade, German Officials Say

The German government assured Friday there had been no changes to its refugee policy for Syrians, after the interior minister said they would be given a lesser status that excluded family reunifications. Government spokesman Steffen Seibert said “a change” to

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Migrant Influx Sparks Run On IKEA Beds In Germany, Sweden

Several IKEA stores in Germany and Sweden have run out of beds and mattresses due to a surge in demand caused by the influx of migrants, the Swedish furniture chain said Friday. “There is some shortage in several stores in Germany

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German Industry Orders Plunge Unexpectedly In September

BERLIN (Reuters) – German industrial orders dropped unexpectedly in September due mainly to weaker foreign demand, in a sign that Europe’s biggest economy may lose steam at the end of this year. Contracts for ‘Made in Germany’ goods were down

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Burqa Ban Call From Senior Ally Of Chancellor Merkel

A senior member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party has called for a burqa ban and stricter immigration rules for Germany. Guido Wolf, a senior politician in the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg, made the call in an

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Afghanistan To Accept Its Citizens Deported From Germany

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan will take back all its citizens to be deported from Germany as the European country struggles to accommodate hundreds of thousands of refugees and other migrants who have arrived there this year, a Kabul official said. Afghans

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East German Official Who Opened Berlin Wall Dies Age 86

BERLIN (AP) — Guenter Schabowski, the senior East German official whose cryptic announcement that the communist country was opening its fortified border precipitated the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, died Sunday at 86. His widow, Irina Schabowski, told

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Facebook, Sky News Pay Jizya to Migrants for Every ‘Hate’ Post; Bild Publishes Lists of ‘Hate’ Posters

There is a new initiative in Germany that donates one euro for every “racist” (Islam is not a race) anti-migrant comment on the Internet. The “Hate Helps” propaganda campaign is organized by an NGO called Demokratische Kultur (ZDK), otherwise known as the Orwellian “Center for Democratic Action” in Germany. And it’s being funded by Facebook and Sky Germany. They will pay 1€ (euro) for each negative post about immigrants.

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