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Contents: ISIS takes credit for terror attack in Ansbach, southern Germany; Germans in a state of shock after four violent attacks in one week; Knife-wielding massacre near Tokyo Japan kills 19; Germany’s Der Spiegel asks: Is this the Apocalypse Now?

British Prime Minister Theresa May and France’s President Francois Hollande have reached a “very clear” agreement to keep border controls between the two countries in Calais, on the French side of the Channel. During the run-up to the referendum on

Germany and Britain agreed Wednesday that Prime Minister Theresa May needed time to prepare for talks to leave the EU, after London took the first step towards Brexit by giving up its presidency of the European Council. On her first

The German Federal government and Chancellor Angela Merkel have slammed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for suggesting the death penalty could be brought in for plotters of last weekend’s unsuccessful coup. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition government has spoken out against a

A couple appeared before a court to answer to charges of incitement because the man had established a Facebook group that was “hostile to refugees”. Peter M. founded a secret group called AFB (Anti Refugee Movement) about a year ago on

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that she is looking forward to meeting Britain’s new prime minister, Theresa May, and does not plan to put Mrs. May under any pressure when it comes to Brexit. But she has warned

A massive makeshift refugee camp has been established in Lake Como, the popular and secluded celebrity hideaway in Italy where Hollywood A-lister George Clooney keeps a home.

TEL AVIV – A Belgian Jewish newspaper is demanding that European leaders condemn Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for spreading the libel that rabbis in Israel urged Jews to poison Palestinian water, JTA reported.

Germany will ban the usage of advert blocking software, to protect establishment media, as requested by senior politicians including Chancellor Angela Merkel. Golem, an IT news website, reported that the advertising agencies’ and media’s legal fight against advert blocking was

Contents: Mutual UK-EU loathing at the European Parliament in Brussels; Bombing of Turkey’s airport affects a swirl of diplomatic actions

German Chancellor Angela Merkel told reporters on Tuesday that the “Brexit” is irreversible, pouring cold water on efforts to keep the United Kingdom inside the European Union.

As the dust continues to settle following last Thursday’s seismic referendum result, European Leaders are split on how to handle Britain’s exit from the European Union (EU). The victory for Brexit has also led to further calls for EU integration,

Soon after Britain voted to leave the European Union (EU), its foreign affairs chief, Elmar Brok, urged the economic and political bloc to go ahead with plans to create an army. The German politician told Die Welt that EU countries

President Barack Obama indicated that globalization of the world economy would continue despite the decision of the United Kingdom to exit the European Union.

Berlin (AFP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday urged British political parties to moderate their speech in their campaigns over the Brexit vote, after a popular pro-Europe MP was murdered at the height of the divisive debate. “The exaggerations and

Disgraced former Member of Parliament (MP) Denis MacShane attempted to make political capital out of the death of Jo Cox MP hours after the attack, baselessly linking the gunman to the Brexit campaign and telling French TV: “There is a climate

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel stressed Friday she hopes Britain will vote to remain in the European Union in a June 23 referendum that her finance minister labeled a “wake-up call.” Britain and Germany have traditionally been allies

The Deputy leader of the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) party has blasted Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel as a “dictator” in comments made this weekend. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) newspaper reports that Alexander Gauland, the deputy leader of the anti-mass migration party,

Multiple Turkish news agencies on Saturday compared German Chancellor Angela Merkel with Adolf Hitler after the Bundestag earlier this week declared the Armenian massacre of 1915 a genocide.

Contents: Turkey recalls German ambassador after vote recognizes Armenian genocide; Germany’s genocide vote seems timed to coincide with EU-Turkey refugee deal

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants the terrorist hatcheries to be operating at full capacity.

Contents: Decoration Day; Germany and France commemorate the centenary of the Battle of Verdun; The Germany – France reconciliation – 1984; Red poppies in Flanders Field; Pacifism and the futility of war

France’s president and Germany’s chancellor want their countries’ improbable friendship to be a source of hope for today’s fractured Europe as they commemorate the centenary of the longest battle of World War I.

German police said on Saturday they found a pig’s head bearing an “insulting inscription” outside Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office. A police patrol discovered the animal’s head outside the office in the Baltic sea town of Stralsund in the early hours

Leading German economists and professors have declared that UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s EU renegotiation is “worthless”, adding “There is nothing in the EU-UK agreement that can offer the UK any permanent legal safeguards against being dragged along the path

(Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s junior coalition partner accused her of doing an about-turn on her refugee policy since she opened Germany’s borders to thousands of migrants in September. German Vice Chancellor and Social Democrats (SPD) leader Sigmar Gabriel

(Reuters) – Germany’s government expects to spend around 93.6 billion euros (74 billion pounds) by the end of 2020 on costs related to the refugee crisis, a magazine said on Saturday, citing a draft from the federal finance ministry for

A leading German economist stated that the government’s economic policies are as much to blame for the rise of Alternative for Germany as its migration policies. Marcel Fratzscher, head of the German Institute for Economic Research, said that the economic policies of the

“The Germans are in very, very deep trouble,” Michael Walsh says. “Angela Merkel is probably the worst German chancellor since Hitler, and I don’t mean that lightly at all. She’s done more to destroy that country, culturally speaking, than anybody.”

Contents: Tens of thousands in pro-EU anti-government protest in Warsaw Poland; Thousands of Berlin protesters chant ‘No Islam on German soil’; Hooded anarchists in Italy turn violent on Austrian border

A significant protest march against the German government’s pro mass migration policies passed off “largely trouble free” on Saturday afternoon, as police kept thousands of pro Germany on one side, and leftist counter demonstrators on the other apart. Marching under

Faced with the ongoing migrant crisis, Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned European Union (EU) leaders to protect the politico-trading bloc’s external borders or risk a return to nationalism. Chancellor Merkel was addressing a joint press conference in Rome, alongside the Italian

Marine Le Pen, France’s right wing populist leader, has slammed her country’s “submission to Germany” after Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, vowed to “ensure” Ms. Le Pen’s party is kept out of power. The Chancellor’s intervention, “shows interference in our internal

(Reuters) – German politicians from across the spectrum criticised the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Monday after the party declared Islam incompatible with the constitution. The AfD, which has surged onto the political scene since its launch three years ago,

TEL AVIV – A senior official in Jerusalem denied a report on Saturday that claimed Germany is growing increasingly frustrated with Israel’s settlement policies and Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she understands why Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is seeking the support of the UN Security Council.

A senior member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party says the German government should record and spy on the content of speeches in German mosques. Christian Democratic Union MP Volker Kauder (pictured above, talking to Chancellor Merkel) has said that he wants the