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Contents: Greece’s parliament raises taxes, cuts pensions to satisfy lenders; Germany’s government blocks debt relief for Greece, despite new austerity measures

(AP) – A Berlin court says that Syrians who have fled their homelands to avoid compulsory military service should be granted full refugee status.

BERLIN (AP) — The chief of NATO says he’s in touch with both Germany and Turkey regarding their latest dispute over visiting rights to a Turkish air base where German soldiers are stationed. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told German daily

Jarosław Kaczyński, chairman of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS), says it was Germany’s decision to open Europe’s borders, not Poland’s, and his countrymen should not have to pay for their neighbour’s mistakes.

A planned protest by Muslims in Munich, who were going to conduct their Friday prayers in the central Marienplatz square, has been cancelled as authorities fear a backlash from right-wing demonstrators. The protest organised by Muslim Massi Popal was originally meant to

Poland has seen much worse days. I can remember such days, when Pope John Paul I was assassinated, giving way to John Paul II, the first non-Italian to represent Christ on this earth for centuries. I can remember the days

A man in Munich has died after dousing himself in petrol and lighting himself on fire in what may have been done as a political protest. The unidentified 54-year-old man committed the act of self-immolation at around 3 am Friday morning

Several officers in Berlin are now under investigation as a new report claims that police knew more about the Berlin Christmas Market terrorist Anis Amri than they had told the government in Berlin. New information from authorities in Berlin shows

Facebook’s CEO boasts about his commitment to free speech. But the company regularly caves in to the demands of authoritarian regimes.

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors have filed terrorism charges against two alleged co-founders of a far-right group that planned to bomb a refugee home.

German culture does not exist and the nation’s history has been shaped by “immigration and diversity”, according to Federal Integration Commissioner Aydan Özoğuz, who has argued migrants shouldn’t be expected to assimilate.

BERLIN (AP) – German politicians are reaching out to migrants from Russia in an effort to tap what’s seen as a long-neglected group of voters as Germany gears up for its general election. Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to host

ATHENS, Greece (AP) – A nationwide general strike disrupted services across Greece Wednesday, as lawmakers were set to approve another batch of reforms that will impose years more hardship on austerity-weary Greeks. Unions called the strike to protest new belt-tightening

Emmanuel Macron, the new president of France, travelled to Berlin on his first day of office to continue the long-standing tradition of French leaders meeting the German chancellor their first priority in office, and used the occasion to kick into

BERLIN (AP) — A German court has convicted a 32-year-old Iraqi man of raping two Chinese college students in the western city of Bochum.

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors have charged a 28-year-old Pakistani man with membership in a terrorist organization on allegations he joined the Lashkar-e-Taiba group to fight against Indian forces in the Kashmir region. The federal prosecutor’s office said Tuesday that

ISTANBUL (AP) — Germany must decide whether it wants to stand with its ally Turkey or with alleged coup plotters, Turkey’s prime minister said Tuesday, as relations took a dip.

An asylum seeker in Germany brutally tortured a fellow migrant by cutting off his eyelids and blinding him by shoving a pen into his eyes over a 50 euro debt.

BERLIN (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Monday, being greeted on a red carpet outside the chancellery with military honors on a busy first full day in office that started with his naming 46-year-old lawmaker Edouard Philippe as his new prime minister.

BERLIN (AP) — Turkey has blocked a request for German lawmakers to visit their country’s soldiers at the Incirlik air base, the German government said Monday, increasing the possibility that it might relocate planes supporting the campaign against the Islamic State group.

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives won a state election Sunday in their center-left rivals’ traditional heartland, a stinging blow to the challenger in September’s national vote.

BERLIN (AFP) – It’s an unusual dilemma that tourists in Berlin have to grapple with –  will getting into a hostel bunk bed help finance North Korea’s nuclear ambitions? Backpackers staying at the Cityhostel found themselves struggling with precisely this

BERLIN (AP) — German police raided homes in four states on Wednesday in connection with three people suspected of links to the Islamic State group, authorities said. Apartments and other locations were searched in Berlin, Bavaria, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt on

BERLIN (AP) — The German government is planning on clamping down on North Korea, which has been using parts of its Berlin embassy as a youth hostel and conference center, amid growing concerns about its nuclear program. The Foreign Ministry

BERLIN (AFP) – Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday ruled out any participation on German soil in a potential Turkish referendum about bringing back the death penalty.

With the election of Emmanuel Macron to the presidency of France over the weekend, the leaders of Europe’s top four economies — Germany, the United Kingdom, France, and Italy — have zero children between them, a feat perhaps never before matched in European history.

BERLIN (AFP) – Outgoing French President Francois Hollande made an emotional final foreign trip on Monday to Berlin, ahead of the transfer of power to his successor Emmanuel Macron next week. Chancellor Angela Merkel greeted him warmly at the entrance of the

BERLIN (AFP) – Germany has granted political asylum to numerous Turkish military personnel and their families holding diplomatic passports, German media reported Monday, amid strained relations between the two NATO allies. The German interior ministry was not immediately available for comment, but

The 72nd anniversary of the end of the European War — well known as ‘VE Day’ in Britain and the United States – passed mostly unnoticed today, but saw solemn commemorations in France where President-Elect Macron joined outgoing premier Hollande in a wreath laying ceremony.

Emmanuel Macron’s first call after winning the French presidency was to Germany’s Angela Merkel, who “praised him for championing a united Europe that is open to the world”, according to the Chancellor’s spokesman. Merkel’s government has been heavily criticised after

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives came in first Sunday in a local election seen as a warm-up for her bid for a fourth term in a national election in the fall.

BERLIN (AFP) – German police on Sunday evacuated some 50,000 people from the northern city of Hanover in one of the largest post-war operations to defuse World War II era bombs. Residents in a densely populated part of the city were ordered

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Polls are open in northern Germany for a local election that will test the strength of the country’s Social Democrats as they try to deny Chancellor Angela Merkel a fourth term. The Social Democrats are trying

Modern anti-Semitism in Germany is increasingly being found to include criticism of the modern state of Israel in general and Jews in particular, according to a new report.

BERLIN (AP) — Feeling nervous before your flight? Travelers at one German airport can now receive spiritual solace by entering a booth and listening to a prayer of their choice before boarding the plane. The prayer booth at Stuttgart Airport’s

German police have arrested a suspected Islamic State militant commander, who is believed to have pledged allegiance to Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi, near the city of Leipzig.