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The bodies of 13 Kurdish People’s Protection Unit (YPG) soldiers will finally be allowed to return to their families after 10 days held up at the Syrian/Turkish border, Turkish media reports. Despite having died fighting the Islamic State, their alliance with the YPG stains them with ties to the terrorist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)– Turkey’s number one enemy.

The German government has enlisted the help of its army to deal with the tens of thousands of asylum seekers arriving in the country every month. Nearly 80,000 migrants arrived last month alone, putting the country on track to receive

BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) – The number of immigrants living in Germany rose by 3.7 percent last year to a record high of 11 million and a fifth of the population is of a migrant background, the Federal Statistics Office said

A man named Ebrahim B., a German Tunisian, released details about life with the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) after abandoning his duties as a jihadi for the group. He hopes his journey will change minds of young people who still want to join ISIS.

Germany’s domestic intelligence chief has been defending the halted treason charges which were controversially brought against Netzpolitik reporters. In what was seen as an attack on press freedom in the post-Snowden world Netzpolitik was to be investigated to ensure “the fight

Eight people were injured yesterday and riot police intervened to quell the crowd after an argument between residents of a refugee camp in the eastern German city of Dresden threatened to become a full blown battle. EuropeOnline reports 14 police patrol cars

The divisive side effects of mass migration are being felt across the continent, from violence in Scandinavia to community tension in central Europe, but now some migrants are beginning to feel the heat themselves. As many native Europeans continue to voice

Actor and sometimes performance artist Shia LaBeouf got into a very public fight with girlfriend Mia Goth in Germany Friday night, according to a video of the incident obtained by Entertainment Tonight.

One of Somalia’s only five-star hotels was all-but destroyed at the weekend by a suicide bomber, who has been revealed by Somali security sources as one of an increasing number of European-born Jihadists waging war around the world. The Jazeera

BERLIN (AP) — German police said Monday they were investigating an early-morning explosion that damaged the car of a left-wing politician who had been working in support of refugees in a Dresden suburb that has seen anti-immigrant demonstrations. The incident

BERLIN (AP) — The head of the German Police Union is calling for a ban on demonstrations within a kilometer of centers housing refugees amid a string of violent incidents. Rainer Wendt told the Saarbruecker Zeitung newspaper Monday that “people

Reports surfaced in the German media yesterday that Chancellor Angela Merkel had collapsed while attending the 104th Wagner Opera Festival in Germany. Several mainstream news outlets, such as Der Speigel and Bild, reported the incident only to have it contradicted later by Chancellor Merkel’s

When the Nazis built the iconic stadium for the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, they likely never thought that decades later, it would be the site of the largest Jewish sporting event in Europe. The European Maccabi Games, sometimes called “the Jewish Olympics,” will bring 2,000 Jewish athletes together for sporting events, from fencing to tennis.

A long-buried 3.5-ton head of Russian communist icon Vladimir Lenin has been unearthed from its burial place in a Berlin forest to be featured in a new exhibit on German sculptures, decades after Berlin’s residents toppled the statue following the fall of the Cold War.

Contents: Burundi’s president Nkurunziza continues to provoke Hutu-Tutsi tensions; Greece’s Tsipras lashes out at his own party as new vote approaches; Where will Greece’s 86 billion euro bailout come from?

In 2014, the Catholic Church in Germany lost a greater number of faithful than in any previous year in its history for which there are records: 218,000 people– 39,000 more than the previous year.

Contents: Car bombs target Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza; Possible rapprochement in the works between Hamas and Saudi Arabia; Greece’s banks to reopen at start of another stormy week

Contents: China reacts harshly to Japan’s plans for ‘collective self-defense’; European officials prepare to negotiate Greece’s next bailout

BERLIN, July 17 (Reuters) – German lawmakers gave their go ahead on Friday for the euro zone to negotiate a third bailout for Greece, heeding a warning from Chancellor Angela Merkel that the alternative to a deal with Athens was

Local residents in Germany and Italy have taken to burning migrant resettlement centres in their communities to stall the arrival of hundreds of newcomers. A converted country inn, its beer serving days now over, was burnt down in Reichertshofen, Germany last

Contents: ISIS-linked terrorists sink Egyptian navy ship; Attack on Egypt’s navy boat comes amid plans for Suez Canal expansion; Both Greece and Germany in political disarray after IMF bailout statement

Contents: Greece approves harsh reforms as IMF throws Europe under the bus; Japan’s Shinzo Abe pushes ‘collective defense’ bill for vote; Mexico’s first ‘historic’ attempt to re-privatize oil industry flops

German police have seized 63,000 illegals so far this year and believe at least a further 45,000 have slipped the net completely, as mass migration and people smuggling gangs take their toll. Most of the refugees and illegals now arriving

Global printing firm Spreadshirt.com has refused to create a design for a supporter of the anti-Islamism ‘PEGIDA’ group, but still sells t-shirts of Osama Bin Laden’s face. Spreadshirt, which is based in Germany, has refused to create the design for

The German police union has spoken out about the volume of refugees flooding into the country, saying tens of thousands of arrivals are going undocumented because they lack the resources to adequately deal the problem. German law required police to

Freital, Saxony has become the centre of a new wave of German anti-immigration protests after the opening of a new asylum ‘central camp’ took locals by surprise. Up to 1,200 Germans are meeting and marching every week-day evening in just one

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has flown home after an epic 17-hour crisis meeting with Eurozone leaders to sell the austerity package he has agreed to his own party – who may attempt to block it. Tsipras must push several unpalatable measures

Mayor of London Boris Johnson has described the German proposals for a deal with Greece as “tyrannical”, and has advised the Greek people to “rediscover the spirit of Marathon” and exit the euro. Eurozone leaders argued long into the night

Contents: France-Germany split over 3-day ultimatum to Greece leads to flared tempers; Eurogroup imposes harsh demands on Greece to remain in eurozone; China police crack down ahead of another volatile week in stocks

Contents: Pope Francis in Paraguay alludes to 1860s War of the Triple Alliance; Distrust of Greece dominates indecisive Eurogroup meeting on Saturday; France and Italy welcome Greece’s proposals

The seemingly final deadline for serious Greek proposals in the debt showdown was Friday morning, and some paperwork was indeed delivered on schedule, inducing some optimism that a Greek exit from the Euro would be averted. Depending on who you ask, the deal is either a stunning triumph or disastrous capitulation for either Greece or its creditors.

Germany and France have volunteered to between them take in more than one third of the 60,000 asylum seekers that the European Commission wanted placed across Europe after many states objected strongly to mandatory quotas. Around 40,000 mostly Syrians and

Contents: Both Greece and European leaders seem poised to compromise; UK advises all Britons to leave Tunisia

A man shot and killed two people near the town of Ansbach in northern Bavaria and the suspect was under arrest, German police said on Friday. The gunman shot a woman from his silver Mercedes convertible in Leutershausen-Tiefenthal and later

Tourists planning a luxury getaway to the Greek isles are being increasingly hesitant to keep their bookings, thanks to both an economic crisis plaguing the nation’s banks and the Greek government’s inability to process thousands of illegal migrants sailing into island ports from Turkey. In order to keep revenue up, companies are offering steep discounts and encouraging tourists not to cancel trips.

German-owned Patriot missiles stationed on Turkey’s Syrian border have been briefly hacked, according to reports in the German media. The nature of the technology hack, and the culprits, are unknown. The American-made anti-aircraft missiles were stationed in Turkey by Germany to protect their