Berlin’s insistence on involving private creditors in a new Greek bailout has made Germany unpopular with some of its European partners, including the ECB. Hopes are high that Friday’s summit between Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy will lead to a breakthrough. But if she backs down, Merkel […]
Saudi Arabia’s rulers are doing their utmost to resist the tide of history. The wealthy Arab country wants peace and stability within its society and in the region. But even the ultraconservative kingdom has not remained untouched by the unrest in the Arab world. Read the whole article…
Berlin believes unilateral moves – such as declaring Palestinian independence – would be “very counterproductive” to the Middle East peace process, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle warned on Tuesday. Westerwelle, who spoke after talks with Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad in Ramallah, did not specifically refer to Palestinian plans […]
A new phase has begun in the Libyan war, with NATO apparently directly targeting dictator Moammar Gadhafi by bombing his Tripoli compound. For the foreign journalists staying in the luxury Rixos hotel, unable to go out without government chaperones, the conflict can seem surreal at times. No one was paying much […]
The pilot of a zeppelin was killed and three passengers had to leap to safety when the aircraft caught fire and crashed in central Germany Sunday evening, a police spokesman said. The accident happened at the Reichelsheim aerodrome, near Friedberg in central Germany as the aircraft was coming in to […]
Dirk Nowitzki led the Dallas Mavericks to the NBA basketball championship on Sunday night, contributing 21 points to their 105–95 victory over Miami Heat. The German forward was named the most valuable player of the Finals. Nowitzki battled injury and illness during the best-of-seven series, but still managed to average […]
More details are emerging about what is thought to be Germany’s biggest postwar art forgery scandal. The affair casts an unflattering light on a leading German art historian who authenticated a fake artwork supposedly painted by German surrealist Max Ernst. The piece was sold for $7 million to Daniel Filipacchi, a […]
A new study says that Germans are becoming less and less interested in traditional, party-based democracy, and want more referendums and more direct influence in political issues. Read More…
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle made a surprise trip to the rebel stronghold of Benghazi in eastern Libya on Monday. The symbolic trip was kept secret for security reasons. Read More…
As Denmark prepares for a final vote Friday on introducing border controls on its border with Germany as well as Sweden, a diplomatic war of words has heated up between the German and Danish government. Read More…
The Egyptian military was celebrated for helping to facilitate a peaceful revolution there three months ago. But now accusations have surfaced that they subjected young women to degrading “virginity tests” in what appears to have been an attempt to control the population. One woman told SPIEGEL her story. Before she describes how […]
Still no trace of a german father, who kidnapped his four childeren and probably went to Sudan. Living seperate from his wife and children, he took the childeren for a bicycle ride and stoled their passport from the appartment. Christians fundamentalist view The police assume that he has settled […]
Germany has so far refused pressure from its NATO allies to join the militarily mission against Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, but Berlin said Thursday it might send troops to the North African country after he’s been deposed. Read More…
A German family of three has been arrested on charges of keeping a 20-year-old woman as a slave for nearly a year in their home until her escape last weekend, prosecutors said Thursday. Read More…
China has denied claims by the UN that some 300 monks from a Tibetan monastery may have been illegally detained over the past three months. Read More
Three Chinese oil workers and another foreigner have been kidnapped in southern Colombia, officials say. Read More
Last month Malta voted in a referendum to legalize divorce, and will become the last EU country to do so when parliament passes the new law this summer. The young lawyer behind the campaign says it’s high time the heavily Catholic nation joins the modern world. ….. Joining the Modern […]
US President Barack Obama will ask Angela Merkel for a stronger German contribution to the military intervention in war-torn Libya when the chancellor visits Washington on Monday, according to a media report. Read More…
German gay and lesbian groups are outraged at an item posted on the website of an association of Catholic doctors that offers psychotherapy and homeopathic treatment for homosexuality. The Lesbian and Gay Federation in Germany (LSVD) has called the offer of advice an “insult” and an “imposition,” and accused the […]
Germany on Monday announced plans to become the first major industrialised power to shut down all its nuclear plants in the wake of the disaster in Japan, with a phaseout due to be wrapped up by 2022. Chancellor Angela Merkel said the decision, hammered out by her centre-right coalition overnight, […]