Source: The Economist: From the football pitch to politics to the economy, Germany has become Europe’s most powerful country. Described by this newspaper as the sick man of Europe in 1999, Germany now appears to have the continent’s strongest as well as its biggest economy. It accounts for a fifth […]
Source: The Local After three years of studies, the commission in charge of tunnel security has given Deutsche Bahn permission to operate its trains in the Channel tunnel, a statement from the operator of the tunnel rail link said. Contacted by AFP, Eurotunnel could not say when the first German […]
Source: The Local Insurance companies have long known that women are safer drivers than men – but now it seems attitudes have caught up with reality, and Germans are more likely to trust a woman in a car than a man. More:
Source: The Local He is said to have flung the insults at officials while serving time in a Bavarian prison. After serving his sentence he returned to the USA but failed to keep in touch with the authorities despite knowing the investigation into the insults was active. A decision to […]
Source: Faizan Ijaz, Head of Human Resources and Counsel AMJ Germany. Note by the Editor. Readers of Muslim Times were keen to know what Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Germany will get […]
Source: The Local: “Salafism is a particularly rapidly growing and extremely worrying group within the extremist Islamist movement,” Hans-Georg Maassen, head of domestic intelligence, told a news conference as he presented his agency’s 2012 annual report on Tuesday. Radical Islamists in Germany numbered 42,550 in 2012, according to surveillance services, […]
Source: The Local The labour court in the state of Hesse heard that the man was supposed to transfer just €62.40 from a bank account belonging to a retiree, but instead “fell asleep for an instant, while pushing onto the number 2 key on the keyboard” — making it a […]
Source: The Local Rabbi Mendel Gurewitz said he was verbally abused, followed, and physically attacked last Sunday in the KOMM-Center shopping arcade in Offenbach by a group of around ten boys, aged around 15 or 16. According to a report in Die Welt, security personnel demanded that the rabbi delete photos he […]
Source: The Local The official said Sven Lau was turned back at the airport after arriving onboard a KLM flight from Amsterdam.The German news agency DPA also identified him as Sven Lau, a fiery Islamist preacher whose group’s offices were raided by German police in 2010. More:
Source: The Local German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich has said that he believes at least 50 German citizens are taking part in the Syrian civil war, and that they represent “ticking time bombs” if they return. More:
Source: http://www.ahmadiyya.de By the grace of Almighty Allah, after putting efforts for more than a decade, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Germany (AMJ) has been granted the status of a religious […]
Source: The Local Large sections of Germany remained underwater on Wednesday morning, forcing thousands of people from their homes. But as the waters receded in Passau, the eastern part of country was bracing for a flood wave. More:
Source: The Local Almost a quarter of German children are sometimes or regularly smacked by their parents, a study has found. Corporal punishment is more common and severe in working class families but the discrepancy between what children and their parents report is greater among privileged families. More:
Source: The Local: Twenty years ago, two women of Turkish descent and three young girls were killed in their home during a far-right arson attack in Solingen, North-Rhine Westphalia. Three days earlier, on May 26th 1993, Germany’s asylum laws were drastically tightened. It appeared at the time as a bleak […]
Source: Ahmadiyya.de. About Islam and Ahmadiyyat, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Germany has taken another step. A toll free telephone has been announced for the German Speaking truth seekers to ask any question about Islam and Ahmadiyyat. Number can be dialed in Germany from landlines as well from mobile phones. It is 0800 […]
Source: Spiegel Germany has been making false assumptions for decades — at least when it comes to the number of the country’s residents, foreigners and dwellings. More:
Source: Spiegel After barely surviving the darkest winter in decades, Germans are now suffering through one of the soggiest springs in memory. Flooding has led to major damage and one death, and only one corner of Germany can expect any relief soon. More:
Source: The Local More than 1,000 people took part in multiple anti-capitalist demonstrations in Frankfurt on Friday, targeting among others the European Central Bank and banking giant Deutsche Bank, organisers and police said. More:
Source: The Local A leading German Catholic cardinal says the government should encourage women to stay at home and breed – rather than bring immigrants into the country to solve its demographic problems. More: