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:
Source: The Local A doctor has died after being shot at a Berlin hospital, Berlin police said on Twitter on Tuesday. The incident took place at the Benjamin Franklin Hospital in the Steglitz district of Berlin at around midday. By shorty after 2.30 pm Berlin police announced via Twitter that the […]
Source. The Local Federal investigators have taken over the case looking into the bombing in Ansbach on Sunday that killed the attacker and left 15 other people injured, four of them seriously. It takes a particular type of crime to go to federal prosecutors. The knife attack in Reutlingen which […]
Source: RNS By Bhavya Dore HAMBURG, Germany (RNS) In late 1945, after the end of World War II, Kurt Neumann began digging in his garden. During the previous eight years, under the […]
Source. The Local It quoted an “insider source” as saying Sunday’s attacker in the southern city of Ansbach who wounded 15 people “was a soldier of the Islamic State” who had acted “in response to calls to target nations in the coalition fighting” Isis. German authorities have identified the assailant […]
Source: Time By Simon Shuster The motivation of the man who killed 9 people in Munich is still up for debate Hubertus Andrae, the Munich chief of police, shook his […]
Source. TOI BERLIN: A 21-year-old Syrian refugee killed a woman with a machete and injured two other people on Sunday before being arrested in the southern German city of Reutlingen, a police spokesman said. The asylum-seeking Syrian man had been involved in previous incidents causing injuries+ to other people, he […]
Source. The Local “All those who criticise Erdogan are immediately considered supporters of Gülen or the PKK [the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party],” said a leader of the opposition Greens party, […]
Source. The Local The 18-year-old gunman, a German-Iranian named David Ali Sonboly, also used the internet to plan and carry out his crime, in which he killed nine people and wounded 16 others. Nevertheless, the social networks provided a valuable source of information and solidarity for the city’s frightened population […]
Source. ET BERLIN: The head of the Protestant Church in Germany has called for Islam to be taught in state schools across the country as a way to make young Muslims impervious to the ‘temptation of fundamentalists’. Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm told the Heilbronner Stimmenewspaper that teaching Islam in schools nationwide would […]
Source: BBC The 18-year-old gunman who killed nine people in Munich was obsessed with mass shootings but had no known links to the Islamic State group, German police say. Written […]
Epigraph: Every human life is sacred and precious; killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Source. The Local Europe reacted in shock to the third attack on […]
A man suspected of carrying out a deadly shooting attack in the German city of Munich killed himself, and likely acted alone, police have said. At least 10 people, including the possible suspect, were killed in Friday’s attack on the Olympia shopping centre, a police spokesman said early on Saturday. […]
Source: Globe and Mail A 17-year-old Afghan refugee wielding an ax and a knife attacked passengers on a train in southern Germany on Monday evening, severely wounding four people, before he was shot dead by police, the interior minister for the state of Bavaria said. Speaking on German public television, […]
Rabwah Times: The Diplomatic Council has appointed a German-Pakistani entrepreneur Jamal Ahmad Qaiser as it’s Business Ambassador and UN Commissioner. In a statement the Diplomatic Council said the 44-year-old was nominated because of his outstanding achievements and tireless efforts for international understanding. Qaiser, who was born in 1972 is a […]