Source: The Local In his video messages to followers, Abou-Nagie doesn’t come across as a dangerous man.In a recent clip, shot in Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur, Abou-Nagie appears with a manicured, greying beard and short-cropped hair, and greets his followers with the soothing words: “My dear siblings in Islam.”But, if […]
Source: The Local “She will run for the post of chancellor,” Norbert Röttgen, a senior member of Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, told US television channel CNN.”She is absolutely […]
Source: The Local While the last decade has been defined by Britain, France, Germany and the US showing a largely united front on issues ranging from NATO affairs to defence of basic freedoms, the coming four years may present a more fragmented picture.During his campaign Trump signalled a protectionist and […]
Source: Time By Kate Samuelson “The organization brings Islamic jihadists together under the pretext of the harmless distribution of the Quran” An Islamist organization that distributes German-language copies of the Quran to passers-by has been banned by the German government who accused it of recruiting would-be jihadists to fight in Syria […]
Source: The Local Party leaders have been wrangling for months over whom to nominate as a potential successor to President Joachim Gauck, a 76-year-old former pastor from the ex-communist East Germany who is stepping down due to his advanced age. On Monday, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) agreed on […]
Source: The Local The group, called The True Religion (Die wahre Religion), is now also banned, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said. German officials consider the group to be unconstitutional and against the principle of having understanding among different nations, according to DPA information.”Across the country, jihadist Islamists came together […]
Russia Today: German police have launched a large-scale operation targeting Islamists across ten German federal states, the country’s Interior Ministry (Bundesministeriums des Innern) reported on Tuesday.According to the German media, […]
Source: CNN A suicide car bomb targeted the German consulate in Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province on Thursday, according to local police and officials. Monir Ahmad Farhad, a provincial spokesman, said Friday four people were killed and more 100 people were injured when the attack happened at 10:45 p.m. in Mazar-e-Sharif, the […]
Source: RNS By Tom Heneghan (RNS) While Americans watch Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump fighting to the finish in a noisy and polarized campaign, Germans are quietly debating their own […]
Nov 05,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Ashoka Mody Next year, Germany will hold a federal election, and the new Bundestag will choose the country’s next chancellor. Whether or not Angela Merkel retains the role — at the moment, things are not looking good for her or her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) […]
Source: RT The mayor of the popular Bavarian resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen has penned a letter to the regional government begging them to tackle the “massive problems” posed by crime rates among refugees, while police say “blacks are in charge of the town.” The letter, part warning to regional authorities, part cry […]
Source: RT The German military has uncovered dozens of soldiers with Islamist leanings that joined the army to receive rigorous training in weapons systems and tactics in hopes of using it for future terror attacks, both at home and abroad, local media report. Germany’s Military Counterintelligence Service, MAD, has identified […]
Source: The Local The young man’s lawyer described his arrest as a “scandal” in an interview with Spiegel. Prosecutors had only presented judges with minimal evidence which had clearly not convinced them, the lawyer said. Federal prosecutors also confirmed that the judge did not consider the evidence presented as sufficient “for an […]
Source: The Local Germany’s mass refugee influx may have abated, but the fears and tensions it stoked loom large as a weakened Chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to lead her party into a tough election year. More:
Source: The Local A US-made video, showing German cathedrals turned into mosques and Oktoberfest without alcohol or pork, is being deployed to convince US voters to cast their ballots for Donald Trump. More:
Source: The Local The incident took place on October 3rd – the holiday of German Unity Day when the country celebrates German reunification at the end of the Cold War in 1990, meaning Germans could once again live as brothers and sisters in one society. But footage caught on a […]
Source: The Local A report released on Thursday by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reveals that Germans perhaps overestimate their healthy lifestyles.More Germans in 2014 considered themselves to be physically fit than ten years ago – 65 percent of Germans said they were healthy, compared to 60 percent in 2004. […]
Source: The Local Author of the book, To Hell and Back, Ian Kershaw Europe is not slipping into the same dark tunnel of hate and nationalism that it did in […]
Source: The Local “We do not employ women who wear headscarves and do not understand why applicants would expect us to,” the rejection letter said, according to the woman’s lawyer.The woman, who is an experienced dental nurse, now intends to seek damages from the dentist in a labour court, Spiegel […]
Source: The Local Carlos Cesar’s jibe came after Schäuble said Portugal had been “very successful” until the Socialists, on coming to power last year, declared they would “not respect what the former government had agreed.””As everyone knows, the German finance minister is a pyromaniac who tries to present himself as […]