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
Vladimir Putin is reportedly reaching out to Greek leaders to try to affect the outcome of the recent crisis. On Sunday, Greek voters once again defied European leaders and voted against approving new austerity measures.
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BERLIN, July 5 (Reuters) – Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann has warned Angela Merkel’s cabinet that a Greek exit from the euro zone would rip billions of euros out of the German budget, German business daily Handelsblatt reported on Sunday, citing
Frauke Petry was yesterday elected undisputed leader of Germany’s eurosceptic party, Alternative for Germany (AfD). Winning 68 per cent of the vote of 3,500 members present at the AfD extraordinary congress in Essen she replaces the AfD co-founder and frontman, economics professor Bernd Lucke, signalling
The mother of deceased British student Jeremiah Duggan, Erica Duggan, held a press conference insisting that German authorities engaged in a “cover-up” over her son’s death, and Berlin gave a free pass to an anti-Semitic hate group.
A new poll commissioned by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) shows anti-Semitism in France is in dramatic decline, also dropping in Germany and Belgium, but the news is not universally good. The same poll showed that more than half of all Muslims in Western Europe
After forming a government with the support of ‘Denmark’s UKIP’, the new centre-right bloc’s foreign minister Kristian Jensen has travelled to Germany to meet his counterpart and discuss the new border arrangements. Although the Eurosceptic, anti-mass-immigration Danish People’s Party (Dansk
Researchers at the University of Thessaly discovered that Greece experienced a 35% spike in suicide rates during 2010 and 2012, with unemployment and the expanding debt crisis in large part responsible for the rise.
The Queen stands firmly behind remarks she made yesterday in Berlin, calling for unity in Europe and warning against “dangerous” division, Buckingham Palace has confirmed. Speaking at a state banquet in Berlin, Her Majesty called on Europe’s leaders to “maintain the
Germany is expected to train a Yazidi force in northern Iraq to seize back their homeland from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), German television channel N24 reports.
One of Al Jazeera’s senior reporters, Ahmed Mansour, was released by German authorities on Monday after he was initially arrested Saturday at the request of Egyptian officials.
According to Kurdish officials, eight of the 22 ISIS fighters killed by recent coalition airstrikes in northern Iraq were German nationals. The airstrikes were conducted in the Aski Mosul region, west of the ISIS stronghold in Iraq, the city of Mosul. Kurdish forces were said to be involved in providing intelligence for the air campaign.
Thailand has confirmed its first case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) following travel warnings issued against South Korea by Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau, as that nation struggles to limit the number of cases of the deadly disease, which takes an estimated 40% of the lives it touches.
(Reuters) Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office has proposed that a special investigator be appointed to inspect a list of targets that German intelligence tracked on behalf of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).
The leaders of Germany’s anti-Islamisation movement PEGIDA have spoken out and praised India’s prime minister Narendra Modi, the Hindu nationalist with a track record of robust policy towards Islam. Speaking to Indian politics and culture blog Scroll.in, Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA)
Germany’s upper chamber has voted in favour of extending marriage to include homosexuals, and for the legalisation of ‘gay adoption’. The motion, which does not create law but will place pressure on the German parliament’s lower chamber to follow suite
On Thursday, after meeting in Paris with relatives of the victims from the Germanwings plane crash in the Alps last March, prosecutor Brice Robin divulged some more details about the investigation to the public.
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The Group of Seven (G7) kicked off its annual summit this week with the situations in Ukraine and Greece on top of the agenda. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel met privately on Sunday to hammer out details about the two countries.
Anti-Islamisation movement Pegida has performed better than expected in the first election it has ever contested. The group contested the mayoral election in its eastern stronghold of Dresden, finishing fourth with 9.6 per cent of the vote. PEGIDA roses to fame late last year
In Germany for the G-7 meetings, President Obama drank a glass of (non-alcoholic) beer while eating pretzels and schnitzel surrounded by local costume clad citizens.
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German officials confirmed that hackers have managed to obtain access to the internal server of the German Bundestag, the national legislature. The breach occurred two weeks ago. Details remain unclear about what data the hackers took and how sensitive the data is.
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In a scene that is all too familiar to senior UKIP officials, German politician Frauke Petry, one of the joint-leading spokespeople for the eurosceptic Alternative for Germany (AfD), was attacked by masked opponents while dining in a restaurant in Göttingen, Lower Saxony,
A court in Catania, Italy, has sentenced 23-year-old Haj Hammouda Radouan to life in prison for manning an illegal migrant ship that capsized in the Mediterranean, killing an estimated 200 people. It is the first such sentence in Italy’s history, a precedent arriving just as the nation prepares for the summer rise in African migrants attempting to reach European shores.
Unseeded German Annika Beck, ranked #83, defeated 14th seed Agnieszka Radwanska in the first round at the French Open, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1.
The Ukrainian government is under fire after President Petro Poroshenko signed a bill that bans all Communism and Nazi symbols. He also signed a law that honors and recognizes militias that worked with the Germans in World War II. The United States Holocaust Museum lashed out at the decision.
Since rising to popularity in the 1990s, reality TV shows have evolved and adapted to meet the changing tastes of culture. For every Bachelor there is a Boy Meets Boy or a Dating Naked to up the ante.
A German court has ruled that a comedian and satirist who jokes about Islam can be called a “preacher of hate.” Dieter Nuhr has made a name for himself in Germany with his satirical take on Islam. Jokes such as “In Islam,
Germany’s equivalent to the CIA, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), helped U.S. intelligence services pinpoint the location of Al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden at his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, according to a new report published Sunday by Germany’s most circulated newspaper.
In the Bavarian city of Ingolstadt, the owner of the Amadeus nightclub — identified in Deutsche Welle’s story only as “Martin T.,” as if that would somehow preserve his anonymity — decided to ban “refugees” from his establishment after a series of altercations between the refugees and customers.
There was a significant absence in Moscow on May 9. Even though it was the 70th anniversary of the official end of the European front of World War II, the leaders of the victorious allied powers decided not to attend the Victory Day parade due to increasing tensions with Russia over Ukraine.
German President Joachim Gauck has stirred his government by remarking in an interview that Germany should at least “consider” demands by leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras that the nation pay billions of euros in reparations for the Nazi occupation of Greece.
It looks as if a jihad bombing attack has been thwarted in Germany, where CNN reports the authorities arrested a “radicalized” couple who were evidently planning to set off home-made explosives at a bicycle race near Frankfurt.
Iran seizes cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz; Greece’s PM Tsipras desperately seeks financial crisis solution
Polish officials refused to allow Russian President Vladimir Putin’s biker gang the Night Wolves to enter the country. The gang is currently on their “victory ride” to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
Russian authorities arrested three women for dancing suggestively in front of a World War II memorial and posting the video on YouTube.
