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Two people were arrested Thursday in Berlin as they possibly were planning to carry out attacks. It reported several German media.

German condom manufacturer Einhorn from Berlin to stop using the slogan in their advertisement that a condom would be good for 21 orgasms. The court in Düsseldorf ruled Thursday that the text is misleading young people. They might think they could use a condom more than once. " Ambiguous statements bear the risk of deception," said the judge.

Germany sends Tornado fighter planes to Syria. The units will be used only for gathering information in the fight against terrorist organization Islamic State was a party member of Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday.

Two German condom manufacturers stand Thursday in court in Düsseldorf with the commitment to the slogan of the company Einhorn from Berlin that its product "is good for 21 orgasms " a condom. Concurrent Fair Squared disputes this.

The German government wants to send 650 German troops to northern Mali to be part of a peacekeeping force there. Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen made ​​on Wednesday during a meeting of the Defence Committee of the Bundestag.

The number of refugees arriving in Greece, suddenly dropped sharply. Sunday 155 people came to the Greek islands and 478 migrants arrived in the ports of Athens and Kavala. That is much less than in recent months was the case, the International Organization for Migration reports (IOM) Tuesday.

Turkish F- 16 pilot who this morning a Russian fighter shot down in the border between his country and Syria, has been appointed in the highest military authorities in Ankara.

A bomb exploded Tuesday for the building of a business complex in the center of Athens. The police are therefore panes killed. No one was injured.

In the first three weeks of November, 180,000 refugees in Germany traveled. It has notified the German Federal Police.

Since early this year registered more than 900,000 refugees in Germany. That the Interior Minister of Bavaria declared Friday.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls and the Minister of Internal Affairs Bernard Cazeneuve his Wednesday morning in the Elyséepaleis with President Francois Hollande. They discuss the fight against terrorism for which the state of emergency has been declared. Since Wednesday morning early there in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis a police action going against terrorism suspects who may have to do with the bloody attacks on Friday in Paris.

Thousands of people have stood Saturday at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin at the deadly attacks in Paris. There is a sea of ​​flowers and candles laid down by people for the French Embassy on Pariser Platz.

The Government of Germany has been more than an hour Saturday gathered for emergency talks on the events of Paris in the Federal Chancellery, the office of German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin. Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière give later Saturday in his department a press conference to inform the German people about the results of the extraordinary cabinet meeting.

Germany is " shocked and dismayed " by the attacks in Paris Friday. "We are on the side of France," let the State Department know in Berlin. Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier was Friday with French President Francois Hollande at the football match France- Germany, when the terrorist attacks, partly outside the stadium.

The United Nations next year at least 7 billion euros for humanitarian aid to Syria. That is the assessment of the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator, Stephen O'Brien. According to him, the amount for emergency aid to Syria this year to 7 billion and will require the same amount in 2016. O'Brien said during a visit to Berlin.

The German police has been able to fix 28 years later, the perpetrator of a robbery in Berlin. The killer appears to be a 54-year-old Serb. He was arrested in September in the Czech capital Prague when it appeared that his DNA matched that of the perpetrator of the murder in Berlin in 1987. That the police published in the German capital Thursday.

The German decision to send Syrian refugees back to countries where they entered the EU, was taken without that Chancellor Angela Merkel knew. The refugee coordinator Peter Altmeier was unaware. A spokeswoman Merkel declared Wednesday in Berlin.

Hungary is not even a Syrian withdrawal of Germany. Berlin showed Tuesday know Syrian refugees to return to countries where they entered the EU and have registered for asylum.

Germany sends Syrian asylum seekers back to countries where the EU within traveled, as it should be according to the agreement of Dublin. Since August was because of the large influx of Syrians temporary exception to that rule, but it appears late last month to be withdrawn.

The president of the European Union, Donald Tusk demanding that Germany do more to protect the EU's external borders. "I understand if Germany find it difficult to follow a strict regime on the borders, given the history," said Tusk in Welt am Sonntag. " But Germany has the responsibility to monitor the EU 's external borders in case of an emergency pan-European. "

Refugees from Syria in the future get a worse asylum status in Germany. The residence is a temporary status and family reunification is excluded, was Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said Friday.

The official forecast of 800,000 refugees who come to Germany this year, is probably underestimated. Our neighboring country registered so far already 758 000 asylum seekers, the Interior Ministry announced in Berlin Thursday.

The redistribution of refugees from Greece to Western Europe has begun. A first group of thirty people flew Wednesday with a commercial flight from Athens to Brussels. From Brussels they travel on to Luxembourg, where they are recorded, the government reported in Athens.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that require a bundle of national and European measures to resolve the refugee crisis.

After Italy are now refugees from Greece redistributed across Europe. Wednesday flies a group of thirty from Athens to Luxembourg, where they can continue their asylum procedure.

The German police daily influx of some ten thousand refugees can not take it anymore and sounding the alarm. "This is our biggest challenge since World War II," says union boss Rainer Wendt

Air traffic in Europe for the second day in a row which were hampered by fog. UK airports were the most affected by the foggy weather conditions, which may also persist Tuesday.

A German Christian Democrat politician, Hans-Peter Uhl, has uttered threatening words in the Sunday edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine opposite Chancellor Angela Merkel of the CDU (Christian Democratic Union). Uhl, a Christian Democrat from the South and Member of Parliament on behalf of the Bavarian CSU (Christian Social Union) said that " the borders with Merkel shut or closed without Merkel (for refugees)." Merkel is considered far too welcoming to migrants.

Günter Schabowski, the spokesman of the East German Communist Party (SED) to November 9, 1989 the Berlin Wall heralded his wrong answer during a press conference, Sunday is deceased. This is his widow, Irina Schabowski, the German news agency DPA announced. Schabowski has become 86 years old.

The number of refugees traveling through Austria to Germany remains high. Early Saturday morning were a thousand people at the border crossing with the German town of Passau. Friday more than 5,500 refugees have crossed the border at three locations in the region.