For the third time in a short time an asylum seeker is suspected of murdering a German girl. Yesterday it became known that the body of 14-year-old Susanna F. was finally found. The suspected perpetrator, the criminal offender Ali Bashar, has taken his legs back to Iraq with his family.
Motorists on the Berlin ring road received an unusual warning on Thursday morning: 'Beware, there is a wolf on the road,' said the traffic service. The animal was on the eastern A10 and forced the police to drop off the road, causing considerable traffic jams.
In a wild chase by the police in Berlin, a dead person fell and seven people were injured. Three thieves raged late on Wednesday evening with the police on their heels through the center of the German capital. The pursuit began when the police wanted to arrest men who were trying to steal building materials. The three suspects fled in a car where they wounded an agent. He is badly injured.
The affair surrounding the manipulated German residence permits for foreigners is becoming dangerous for Chancellor Merkel. Statements by the former boss of the German IND, Frank-Jürgen Weise, show that Merkel has been informed at least twice about the rubble at the immigration service.
The new US ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, has stated to the astonishment of many that he wants to actively engage with European politics in favor of what he calls 'conservative forces'. The German government has angrily asked for clarification about Grenell's unconventional intentions. She may get that Wednesday when Grenell visits the German Foreign Office for the first time.
One of the leaders of the German party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has defended itself against criticism that followed a comment about the sewing time. Alexander Gauland compared the period in which the National Socialists were in power with 'bird droppings.' He said after the commotion that his remark can not be explained as a positive comment about Nazism.
The German police shot a man in the Dom of Berlin, a well-known church in the center of the German capital. Employees of the prayer house had called the police because someone had gone through the ribbon in the building, reports the Berliner Morgenpost.
The German Chancellor Merkel feels nothing for an Italian debt relief. She says in an interview that the euro countries are zolidair, but that this 'should never lead to a debt union.'
Heavy rainfall, hailstones as bouncing balls. Our country is plagued by huge rainfall on Tuesday, but for everyone who has weathered the showers today, there is also uplifting news.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is going to Europe next week to talk with leaders about the threat Iran would pose. On Monday he will speak with Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin and in the evening he will go to Paris for consultation with the French president Emmanuel Macron.
Italian President Sergio Mattarella has commissioned former IMF official Carlo Cottarelli to form a government.
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Germany is struggling to get rejected asylum seekers out of the country. In the first three months of this year nearly half of the expulsions failed. In most cases, the persons were untraceable. There is also a growing number of pilots who refuse to take expelled migrants on board.
On Sunday in Berlin, the police deployed 1,800 people to keep participants of a demonstration of the populist party AfD and a series of counter-demonstrations apart. This was reported by German media Thursday.
The office of the German migration service in Bremen (Bamf) is not allowed to take any decisions about asylum applications for the time being. The German Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer has determined that. He personally intervened in response to a scandal surrounding granting residence permits that recently came to light.
Berlin prepares for a turbulent Sunday. The populist party AfD holds a large demonstration in the center and has provoked thirteen counter-demonstrations. The police will be massively present to prevent the activists from encountering each other in the streets of the German capital.
It has been confirmed several times, but thanks to French medical scientists it is now one hundred percent certain: Adolf Hitler committed suicide in 1945. The French investigated the jaw of the Fuehrer who has been in possession of Russia since the end of the Second World War, and established that it is authentic.
Asylum applications are poorly investigated in Germany. For example, the identity of the applicant is barely checked and poorly maintained or asylum seekers can return to their own country. This appears from an internal document of the German immigration service that the newspaper Die Welt has.
At the only possible moment, two footballers from the German national team have expressed their political support for the Turkish president Erdogan. The open flatter falls badly in Germany.
The Open Society Foundations (OSF) of philanthropist and billionaire George Soros closes its office in the Hungarian capital Budapest. The foundation says that it has decided to do so because of the 'increasingly repressive political and legal climate' in the Central European country.
A conventional war against the West is too expensive and too dangerous for Russia. That is why Moscow is conducting a hybrid war with disinformation and propaganda, smoldering conflicts and sabotage, settlements and cyber attacks. For this dangerous aggression, Western espionage services warned in Berlin yesterday.
The recently appointed US ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, quickly came into action by President Trump via Twitter after terminating the Iran deal. 'German companies that do business with Iran should immediately reduce their trade transactions,' said Grenell.
The Germans dub about the separation between church and state. Although the government is neutral, there are Christian crosses in Bavarian government buildings as of June. Not everyone is happy with the plan of the conservative government party CSU. Two thirds of the Germans are disappointing.
Three babies who were found abandoned in the Berlin region have the same mother. That has shown research. The police have now set out to find a woman who was pregnant three years in a row in the summer and gave birth in August or September, but was never seen behind the pram. A spokeswoman said on Monday that a valuable tip has already arrived.
Germany and France do not intend to withdraw from the nuclear deal with Iran. The French minister Jean-Yves Le Drian (Foreign Affairs) said at a joint press conference with his German colleague Heiko Maas that Paris, Berlin and London would like to keep to the agreement, regardless of what the United States decides.
Researchers have found no evidence of hidden spaces at the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Some experts had speculated that the remains of Queen Nefertiti might be in an undiscovered room.
Human rights activists want to demonstrate with artificial intelligence whether war crimes and crimes against humanity have been or are being committed in Syria. The smart software, called VFrame, can detect suspicious things in videos, for example, and analyze metadata that help to verify the images. That says Hadi Katib, the founder of the 'Syrian archive'.
Tunisia promises Germany that it will not torture a former bodyguard of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden if it is deported to his native country by Berlin. German media quote a Tunisian minister who promises it.
The German air force is facing major problems with the Eurofighters fleet. According to German media, only a handful of the 128 high-quality technical devices can be used.
European countries have responded cautiously to accusations of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Iran. He claimed Monday that Tehran lied for years about the development of nuclear weapons. The British minister Boris Johnson (Foreign Affairs) said in a reaction that the nuclear agreement 'is not based on trust in the good intentions of Iran.'
