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Khedira wants to continue international career

Khedira wants to continue international career

August 16th, 2018 Germany veteran midfielder Sami Khedira said on Thursday he was eager to keep playing for the national team despite the former world champions' World Cup fiasco this year. Khedira, 31, part of Germany's 2014 World Cup winner, was among a number of players sharply criticised for their performances in Russia in June after Germany...

Turkey arrests another German citizen - source (Update)

Turkey arrests another German citizen - source (Update)

August 16th, 2018 Turkish police have arrested another German citizen, a German foreign ministry source said on Thursday, and public broadcaster ARD said the man had been accused of "terrorist propaganda" after criticising the Turkish government on social media. The arrest comes after German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas urged Ankara on Monday to do more...

Former cycling champ Ullrich arrested for attack on prostitute

Former cycling champ Ullrich arrested for attack on prostitute

August 10th, 2018 German police have detained former cyclist and Tour de France champion Jan Ullrich for attacking and injuring a prostitute in a Frankfurt luxury hotel, a police spokeswoman said. Ullrich was under the influence of alcohol and drugs when police detained him on suspicion of assault causing grievous bodily harm, the spokeswoman...

German businesses suffering as US sanctions and tariffs bite

German businesses suffering as US sanctions and tariffs bite

August 9th, 2018 German companies are increasingly suffering from US President Donald Trump's policy of sanctions - including those against Iran - and the tariffs he is pursuing in an escalating trade war with China, business associations said on Thursday. Washington said on Wednesday it would also impose fresh sanctions on Russia by the end of August...

Islamist suspect detained in Germany tested ricin on hamster

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Islamist suspect detained in Germany tested ricin on hamster

August 3rd, 2018 A Tunisian detained in Germany on suspicion of planning an Islamist-motivated attack produced ricin and tested the lethal toxin on a hamster, prosecutors said on Friday. The 29-year-old man, who was arrested in June, is suspected of building a "biological weapon" with ricin, a poison found in castor beans, the Federal Prosecutor's...

Ministry steps in to pay for treatment of Paphos teen traffic victim

Ministry steps in to pay for treatment of Paphos teen traffic victim

July 27th, 2018 By Bejay Browne The ministry of health has stepped in to cover the hefty costs of travel to Germany and rehabilitation and recovery of a Paphos teenager who was seriously injured in a road accident in March. President Nicos Anastasiades personally called the family of 18-year-old Charalambos Leantzis from Geroskipou to convey the...

Arrest warrant issued for man suspected of knife attack on German bus

Arrest warrant issued for man suspected of knife attack on German bus

July 21st, 2018 A German court has issued an arrest warrant for a German-Iranian man suspected of carrying out a knife attack on a bus in the northern city of Luebeck but there is no indication that it was a terrorist attack, police and prosecutors said on Saturday. Police said the 34-year-old German citizen wounded 10 people in the attack on Friday...

Injuries, some serious, after suspected knife attack in Germany

Injuries, some serious, after suspected knife attack in Germany

July 20th, 2018 At least 14 people were wounded, two of them seriously, in a suspected knife attack on a bus in the northern German city of Luebeck on Friday, the local Luebecker Nachrichten newspaper reported, adding that the suspect had been caught. A police spokesman told regional broadcaster NDR that nobody had been injured in the...

Merkel vows to stay in job, work at 'under pressure' US relationship

Merkel vows to stay in job, work at 'under pressure' US relationship

July 20th, 2018 Chancellor Angela Merkel, vowing to stay in office despite challenges at home and abroad, said she would work on Germany's "under pressure" relationship with the United States but that Washington could no longer be relied on to deliver world order. In a wide-ranging news conference, Merkel described Germany's relationship with the...

Germany part funded bi-communal glossary

Germany part funded bi-communal glossary

July 13th, 2018 Germany’s contribution to a bi-communal glossary prepared under the wing of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) was €25,000, the German ambassador to Cyprus said on Friday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, ambassador Franz Josef Kremp said he supported the idea of the glossary, saying “it will...

Abrasive Trump demands allies double Nato spending

Abrasive Trump demands allies double Nato spending

July 11th, 2018 By Jeff Mason, Sabine Siebold and Robin Emmott US President Donald Trump accused Germany on Wednesday of being a "captive" of Russia due to its energy reliance in a startling outburst before a Nato summit where he pressed allies to more than double spending on their own defence. Having lambasted Nato members for...

Seehofer hard line threatens Merkel's fragile immigration truce

Seehofer hard line threatens Merkel's fragile immigration truce

July 6th, 2018 Germany will have to go its own way on immigration if it cannot get other European Union states to sign up to migrant return deals, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said in remarks that could shatter the fragile peace in Angela Merkel's government. Merkel's government teetered on the brink of collapse for much of last week as...

Merkel, Macron agree euro zone budget in 'new chapter' for bloc

Merkel, Macron agree euro zone budget in 'new chapter' for bloc

June 19th, 2018 German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed on Tuesday to create a euro zone budget charged with boosting investment in the bloc and promoting economic convergence between its 19 states. The leaders met to prepare for a summit of European Union leaders on June 28-29, with Macron keen to push through...

EU tries to assuage German, Italian concerns on migration

EU tries to assuage German, Italian concerns on migration

June 19th, 2018 The European Union will agree next week to look into creating disembarkation platforms in north Africa and elsewhere to decide asylum requests before claimants get to Europe, a draft statement ahead of an EU summit showed. European capitals from Rome to Budapest have called for such centres as the bloc has struggled since 2015 to deal...

Trump blasts Germany while making case for US immigration policy

Trump blasts Germany while making case for US immigration policy

June 18th, 2018 US President Donald Trump blamed migrants in Europe for violently changing the culture and for what he inaccurately described as a rise in crime in Germany as he sought on Monday to defend his administration's widely criticised policy on illegal immigration. Immigration activists, medical professionals, religious leaders, Democrats...

Bavarians give Merkel two weeks to reach EU deal on migrants

Bavarians give Merkel two weeks to reach EU deal on migrants

June 18th, 2018 Bavaria's Christian Social Union (CSU) on Monday gave German Chancellor Angela Merkel two weeks to reach a European deal on migrants before they would demand immigration curbs that could fracture her governing coalition. The CSU leadership agreed on Monday to delay until after a June 28-29 European Union summit the introduction of an...

Merkel's government frays as migrant row festers

Merkel's government frays as migrant row festers

June 15th, 2018 The conservative alliance headed by Angela Merkel may splinter in a row over immigration, an ally of Germany's Chancellor said on Friday, as the third party in her fragile government suggested its patience was wearing thin. The disagreement between Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU)...

Merkel struggles to avert German coalition crisis on migrants

Merkel struggles to avert German coalition crisis on migrants

June 14th, 2018 German Chancellor Angela Merkel struggled on Thursday to find a compromise on migrant policy with her rebelling Bavarian allies, hoping to avert a crisis in her coalition just three months after it took power. Merkel's authority and the future of her alliance are at stake with Bavarian conservatives and Social Democrats (SPD) at a...

Merkel faces conservative rebellion over German migration policy

Merkel faces conservative rebellion over German migration policy

June 12th, 2018 German Chancellor Angela Merkel faced a rebellion over migrant policy on Tuesday that risks destabilising her coalition, just as she is pushing EU partners to agree a common solution. Merkel's handling of the migrant crisis - which saw more than 1.6 million people arrive in Germany from 2014 and helped propel the far-right Alternative...

German conservatives struggle to agree on stricter asylum rules

German conservatives struggle to agree on stricter asylum rules

June 11th, 2018 German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has cancelled the presentation on Tuesday of a policy package including stricter migration and asylum rules due to differences within Chancellor Angela Merkel's governing coalition. "The scheduled date for the presentation of the master plan has been postponed," the Interior Ministry said on...

Glen where? EU court questions German's whisky branding

Glen where? EU court questions German's whisky branding

June 7th, 2018 A German distiller selling a whisky called 'Glen Buchenbach' may be infringing Scotland's rights on its national drink even though he makes clear he produces it in Germany, the EU's top court ruled on Thursday. The European Court of Justice took no final view, referring a complaint from the Scotch Whisky Association back to German...

Europe seeks US sanction exemptions for its firms in Iran

Europe seeks US sanction exemptions for its firms in Iran

June 6th, 2018 Ministers from Germany, France and Britain have written to senior US officials urging them to protect European companies working in Iran from getting caught up in Washington's new sanctions on the Islamic Republic. In the June 4 letter, the foreign and finance ministers singled out key areas where they expected exemptions for EU...

AfD calls for parliamentary inquiry into Merkel's migrant policy

AfD calls for parliamentary inquiry into Merkel's migrant policy

May 31st, 2018 The right wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party called on Thursday for a parliamentary inquiry into Chancellor Angela Merkel's migrant policy amid a scandal over irregular asylum rulings during an influx of more than 1.6 million migrants. The wave of migrants since 2014, many of them Muslims fleeing Middle East conflict, raised...

Merkel says political hate speech is 'playing with fire'

Merkel says political hate speech is 'playing with fire'

May 30th, 2018 Far-right politicians in Germany who engage in xenophobic rhetoric are not just testing free-speech limits but are inciting violence, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday. Speaking at a memorial for the 25th anniversary of an arson attack that killed five Turkish girls and women and injured 14 in the western city of Solingen,...

Politics aside, work starts on Russia-Germany gas pipeline

Politics aside, work starts on Russia-Germany gas pipeline

May 25th, 2018 A political row over Europe's energy security is not hindering preparatory work for the subsea Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany, with dredging work starting off the Baltic coast last week. The new pipeline, an initiative of Russia's Gazprom and five European companies, will double Russia's export capacity of 55...

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