BERLIN – European security, to the surprise of many, is under threat once again. So, once again, Europe’s security must top our political agenda. Even before the Ukraine conflict began in 2014, there were growing signs of a brewing confrontation between rival blocs. This new confrontation, however, is not defined […]
Source: Times of Israel By Simone Klugman This summer the burkini (a bathing costume which covers all of a woman’s body except for the face) made a brief appearance on […]
Source: The Local In further evidence that Germany is seeking to follow a path of rapprochement with Moscow, Merkel made clear she was prepared to push through a relaxation of […]
Source: The Local Oettinger told Germany’s daily Bild that he assumed June’s referendum outcome in favour of Britain exiting the EU was “binding”.”But it is possible that public opinion will tip if the economic situation in the wake of the Brexit vote worsens,” said Oettinger, who is Digital Economy Commissioner.”In any case, I […]
Source: The Local Merkel has a little over a year left before she can really start worrying about 2017’s autumn election, but already there is speculation about whether she will run – and if she does, whether she would win. In public broadcaster ARD’s ‘summer interview’ with the Chancellor on […]
Kosovo: Where NATO Bombing Only Made the Killing Worse by JEFFREY ST. CLAIR – ALEXANDER COCKBURN So, was there serious evidence of a Serbian campaign of Genocide in Kosovo? It’s an important issue, since the NATO powers, fortified by a chorus from the liberal intelligentsia, flourished the charge of genocide […]
Source: The Local Germany has drafted a law requiring mothers to inform their partners if their children were fathered by another man, Justice Minister Heiko Maas said on Monday. More:
Source: The Local Unknown people have bricked up the entrance to a mosque in northeastern Germany and stuck racist flyers to their masonry work. More:
Source: The Local The refusal of some EU countries to accept Muslim refugees is “unacceptable”, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday as Germany called for quotas to divide the influx throughout […]
Source: BBC Germany’s vice-chancellor has warned the future of the EU could be in doubt if the UK’s exit is handled badly.Sigmar Gabriel said the EU would go “down the drain” if other states followed Britain’s lead and that the UK could not keep the “nice things” about Europe while […]
By Adam Taylor August 17 Mecca Laa Laa, center, is wearing a full-body “burkini” as she sits with other Muslim lifeguards at Sydney’s Cronulla Beach in February 2007. (Anoek de Groot/AFP via Getty Images) Along France’s beaches and swimming pools, there’s a war about how women dress. A number of French […]
A model of the Baitul Futuh redesign, showing the colonnaded front with its porous screens. (John McAslan and Partners) August 08, 2016 In June a British architecture firm released its […]
Sources intimated supreme head of International Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat arrived Germany on 27.08.2016. He will be participating in annual gathering (Jalsa Salana) of AMJ Germany scheduled from 02-09 to04.09.2016. […]
Source: TOI NEW DELHI: Even as Pakistan has begun to internationalize its Kashmir campaign+ , the country was hugely embarrassed after dozens of exiled Baloch activists in Germany came out on Saturday to chant anti-Pakistan protests and to laud Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his stirring call to end atrocities […]
Source: The Local. The Polish foreign minister has said that Germany all too often follows its own interests at the expense of its partners, as Chancellor Angela Merkel prepares to visit Warsaw. More:
Source: The Local A survey found that the vast majority of respondents were in favour of Germany passing a ban on the full-body veil sometimes worn by Muslim women. Teachers’ […]
Source: The Local At first the man thought he had just become tangled in some weeds, but when he looked down he noticed in horror that a fishing hook was tugging at the most sensitive part of his body. More:
Source: ET An 11-year-boy is believed to have become Britain’s youngest rapist after admitting to abusing his nine-year-old sister at their home in Plymouth. District Judge Diane Baker told the court that if the boy had been older, he would have received a prison sentence. “I’ve read all about you. […]
Businessman Rachid Nekkaz. Photo: AFP Published: 22 Aug 2016 16:24 GMT+02:00 A businessman has been picking up the tabs for the women caught wearing burqinis on French beaches, and tells The Local he’ll keep “fighting to the death” for freedom. Even though the burqini has been banned in over a […]
Photo: Jean Christophe Magnenet /AFP Published: 27 Aug 2016 10:58 GMT+02:00 French resorts were defiant after a ban on the burqini in a Riviera town was overturned, vowing to keep the restrictions in place and continue imposing fines on women who wear the full-body swimsuit. France’s top court suspends burqini […]