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Five months after the landmark ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union ordering Google to remove links to webpages in a “right to be forgotten”, Google has released data on the more than 142,000 requests received from

After an 800-man brawl outside a mosque in Hamburg on Tuesday German police deployed 1,300 officers on Wednesday night, but were still unable to separate warring Islamic fundamentalists and Yazidi Kurds in violence which again led to a hospitalisation for

(AFP) Worries over the worldwide spread of Ebola grew Thursday after three more health workers were quarantined in Spain and North America threw up border controls at main ports of arrival from the plagued African states. The United States and

(AFP) Street clashes pitting Kurds against radical Muslims left 23 people wounded in Germany, police said Wednesday amid fears that fighting in Syria and Iraq could further inflame passions. Riot police used batons, pepper spray and water cannon to keep

A new theory has emerged to explain why the German bishops have been pushing so hard for Communion for divorced and remarried Catholics. They are afraid of losing tax revenue. The head of the German Bishops’ Conference came out publicly

Fifty police officers had to be deployed to break up an enormous brawl between Kurds and Muslims in North-West Germany last night, as angry migrants took to the streets to vent frustrations as the violence being visited upon the Yazidi

(AFP) A Ugandan doctor who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone was hospitalised on Friday in Frankfurt, becoming the second victim of the deadly virus to be treated in Germany. The man’s health is “very serious but stable”, said Timo Wolf,

(Reuters) – Al-Qaeda linked Islamist militants in the Philippines said on Thursday they will kill one of two German captives on Oct. 17 unless their demands are met. Rebels from the Abu Sayyaf group captured the two Germans sailing on

Britain’s Royal Air Force has detected a defect within the Eurofighter Typhoon jets, causing production in Germany to be put on hold whilst the fault is investigated. Both Germany and Britain have halved the recommended annual flight time for the

German police are investigating reports that guards at three asylum centres in North Rhine-Westphalia have been abusing the refugees  interned in the centres. Photos released showing the abuse have been compared to Abu-Ghraib, whilst a colleague has told German media

ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) — A radical Muslim organization in Belgium was a terror group that brainwashed youngsters and sent them to fight in Syria, prosecutors said Monday as a trial started for dozens of its alleged leaders and members. Only

You don’t have to be rich (or even own your own horse) to be a top show jumper, or come from a rich family, but it doesn’t hurt…financially, that is. Taking a fall from a horse hurts just as much, no

He is a man who rarely reads a book of less than 600 pages and who has easily written books of that length. Engage him in conversation and he will talk about the footnotes in a particular book–and the footnotes which should

BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s army has started training 32 Kurdish peshmerga fighters at an army school in Bavaria to support them in their fight against Islamic State extremists. A spokesman for the German defense ministry said Sunday that the 32

The Los Angeles and San Francisco district attorney offices have threatened ride-sharing companies Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar with legal action after claiming the companies are operating illegally and present “a continuing threat to consumers and the public.” According to the

One man has been killed and another severely injured in a fight at a shelter for asylum seekers in Wolfsburg, Germany. Sixty police officers were called to the scene, as witnesses reported hearing the sound of gun-fire. According to a

Islamist militants in the Philippines are understood to be threatening to behead one of two German hostages being held, unless Germany agrees to pay a large ransom and withdraw all support for the US-led attacks on ISIS in Iraq and

Germany’s attempts to support the Kurdish fighters opposing ISIS in Iraq with €70 million of second hand military equipment including 16,000 rifles, 2,500 Panzerfaust-3 antitank rockets and over 100 vehicles has yet again hit a major setback as a borrowed

German researchers studying the effects of people taking their work home with them at night or on weekends found that the workers were plagued by a host of issues, including cardiovascular problems, insomnia, headaches, muscular issues, fatigue, anxiety, and stomach

(Reuters) – Al-Qaeda linked militants in the southern Philippines have threatened to kill two Germans hostages they have been holding since April unless Germany stops supporting U.S. action against Islamic State militants, the SITE monitoring service said. Philippine security officials said on

The rise of the German Eurosceptic Alternative for Germany (AfD) party threatens to “paralyse” efforts to hold the Eurozone together, financial services company Standard & Poor’s has said. The party has seen its electoral support shoot up in recent months,

As the chief of the European Union’s counter-terrorism task force has announced the number of European citizens fighting with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has reached a new high of 3,000, security services and police forces across

A senior member of Britain’s hard-left Stop the War Coalition nearly gave the ‘pacifist’ (read: roll over and die) game away live on Sky News earlier. Jim Brann, who is one of the leading lights of London’s Campaign for Nuclear

Germany’s Eurosceptic Party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), has come third in a nationwide poll for the first time, making it the leading opposition party in Germany, the Telegraph has reported. The party is continuing to build on success after taking

(AFP) — The contemporary art market experienced a record-breaking year in 2013/14, smashing through the $2 billion mark for the first time, according to new figures released on Tuesday. US artists Jean-Michel Basquiat, who died in 1988, Jeff Koons and

A member of soccer’s international governing committee predicts that the desert country of Qatar will not be getting the 2022 World Cup, after all. Several years ago, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) awarded the 2022 games to the

A number of children, one aged just thirteen, have left Germany for Syria and Iraq to join Islamic jihadists. Some have already returned with battle experience. They join around 400 other Germans who have left for the Islamic State to

Top Islamic State leaders may have been released as part of a deal executed over the weekend that saw forty-nine Turks freed from the hands of jihadis, according to reports documenting the exchange. The Turkish nationals were freed this weekend

Children as young as thirteen have left Germany for the Middle East to wage jihad on behalf of the Islamic State, according to Hans-Georg Maaben, the head of Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV). “The youngest

According to a new poll from Reuters/Ipsos, nearly a quarter of Americans support their state breaking away from the United States. That included a full 29.7 percent of Republicans, as well as 21 percent of Democrats. The poll follows hard

This week, some seventy years after the Holocaust, a death camp was uncovered in Sobibor, Poland, where about 250,000 Jews were exterminated at the hands of the Nazis. Nazi Germany committed a great deal of resources attempting to cover up the atrocities they committed

“To be victorious, you must know the enemy,” Warned Breitbart National Security Editor Dr. Sebastian Gorka in a debate yesterday on BBC World Update. While many are questioning the value of allowing Islamic State propaganda– particularly the gruesome beheadings of UK

For the moment, efforts to halt the reconstruction of the Garrison Church in Potsdam, scene of a pivotal moment in Hitler’s rise to power, have failed. On Wednesday afternoon, the Potsdam city parliament rejected a referendum which would have transferred

“One of the good things that’s happening here,” HBO’s Larry Merchant quipped upon John Ruiz’s manager charging the referee after the final bell in his 2003 defeat to Roy Jones, Jr., “we’ll probably never have to see Norman Stone again.”