Source: The Local Quite how the 31-year-old ended up spending over a week in a refugee home in Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia, is not totally clear,broadcaster WDR reported on Monday. But it appears that he has the German Red Cross (DRK) to thank for finally freeing him from his ordeal. Indeed, if […]
Source: The Local An 18-year-old Syrian refugee who was offered a traineeship with a logistics company in Nuremberg was later informed that the offer had been rescinded “due to serious attacks in Germany”, news siteNordbayern.de reported on Tuesday. The refugee, who arrived in Germany 11 months ago, wanted to secure an internship […]
Source: The Local Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière is set to publish a draft law on Thursday which would create major changes, including the abolition of dual citizenship and softening […]
Source. The Local At family gatherings back in Syria, Ninorta Bahno had always been a wine-drinker. After arriving in Germany three-and-a-half years ago, she took a crash course under wine experts, and now she’s the first ever refugee wine queen in Germany after she was crowned Trier’s wine queen on […]
Source. The Local The Rhineland-Palatinate city of Kaiserslautern was in turmoil on Wednesday over a 15-year-old girl who entered a bank wearing a bunny costume, Western Palatinate police reported. Upon spotting her, a concerned driver immediately called the police, thinking the disguised individual would rob the place. Little did he know that the […]
A former deputy of the far-right extreme party in Germany, Werner Klauner is now known as Ibrahim and spends his time and earnings helping refugees World Bulletin / News Desk Werner Klauner, a deputy for the far right-wing extremist extreme right-wing National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) has reverted to Islam. […]
Steve Sailer • May 1, 2016 Thilo Sarrazin, author of the 2010 megaselling book Germany Abolishes Itself, has a new #1 bestseller in Germany, Wishful Thinking. Like all of Sarrazin’s books, it probably will never be translated into English. This article from DW.com suggests that Establishment response to Sarrazin has shifted […]
Source. The Local The schoolboy had apparently stumbled upon the key to the bus lying on the street a few weeks ago, while the privately owned vehicle was parked and no longer in use, Bavarian police reported on Wednesday. So the young lad climbed into the bus and was seen […]
Angela Merkel. Photo: DPA Over 2 in 3 Germans don’t blame Merkel for terror attacks Published: 03 Aug 2016 15:10 GMT+02:00 Updated: 03 Aug 2016 15:10 GMT+02:00 Since two violent attacks in Bavaria by Islamist fanatics Chancellor Angela Merkel has come under pressure for her open-door refugee policy. But most […]
Recent wave accounts for about one-in-ten asylum applications since 1985 BY PHILLIP CONNOR A record 1.3 million migrants applied for asylum in the 28 member states of the European Union, Norway and Switzerland in 2015 – nearly double the previous high water mark of roughly 700,000 that was set in […]
Source: The Local For hundreds of years, Yiddish, a mix of medieval German and other languages, was the main language of the Ashkenazi Jews who lived on the Rhine River, before spreading across Europe.The Holocaust and the assimilation of Jews into wider Western cultures have had a devastating effect on the language. But […]
23.01.2015 DR. JUERGEN TODENHOEFER Dear friends, Today, heads of states and foreign ministers are discussing ISIS at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Have they really understood that phenomenon, called ISIS, and its root causes? 1. Terrorism has as little to do with Islam as rape has to do with […]
Source. Dawn Editorial RARELY has a politician adhered so unwaveringly to principles when his or her political survival itself is possibly at stake. But Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has […]
How come a Muslim can be a terrorist in Europe but a mere ‘attacker’ in south-west Asia? Robert Fisk @indyvoices Monday 25 July 2016 377 comments The frightful and bloody […]
Source: Daily Mail By JAMES DUNN FOR MAILONLINE Merkel’s premiership is hanging by a thread today as thousands gathered to call for her resignation while a key political ally dramatically […]
Source. The Local Fighting the causes of the refugee crisis has come to sound like “a hollow phrase”, Cem Özdemir, Green Party leader, told the Funk Media Group. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians are trapped in Aleppo in northern Syria, said Özdemir. “This is an unimaginable misery – and the […]
Source: The Indian Express Senior German officials on Sunday called for further controls on the sale of guns after Friday’s deadly shooting in Munich that claimed the lives of nine […]
Source: BBC Recent attacks in Germany involving asylum-seekers would not change its willingness to take in refugees, Chancellor Angela Merkel has said. She said the attackers “wanted to undermine our […]
Source: Reuters (Reporting by Caroline Copley; Editing by Tom Heneghan) German police have searched a mosque and eight apartments in Hildesheim that are believed to be a hotbed of a radical Salafist community, the interior minister of the northern state of Lower Saxony said on Thursday. Germany is on high […]
Source: The Local Yusra Mardini has been nominated for the team of Refugee Olympic Athletes at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. To her, though, this tournament may seem like one of her lighter challenges. More: