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A former secretary for the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp was being sought on an arrest warrant after skipping her trial.

The two parties that are expected to determine who will become Germany’s next chancellor have started talks.

A recent report by AP News outlines Facebook’s massive crackdown ahead of the German federal elections to prevent the spread of what the Masters of the Universe consider misinformation related to the coronavirus. One analysis found that many users banned for attempting to rebut posts labeled as “misinformation.”

“…we will be very fast in getting a result for this government, and it should be before Christmas if possible,” Scholz told reporters.

Exit polls released after polls closed in the German Federal election revealed a neck-and-neck race between the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) with their Bavarian allies and the left-wing Social Democrats (SPD).

German voters are heading to the polls in what could be a major political shift in Germany and Europe as the era of Angela Merkel’s reign as Chancellor ends after nearly 16 years in power.

BERLIN (AP) – German voters are choosing a new parliament in an election that will determine who succeeds Chancellor Angela Merkel after her 16 years at the helm of Europe’s biggest economy.

The Somali migrant who went on a stabbing rampage in Würzburg, Germany, in June, killing three women, is at least eight years older than he claimed and may have had links to the terrorist group al-Shabaab.

President Joe Biden boasted to the United Nations on Tuesday that thanks to his leadership, the United States had restored its relationships with European countries — even while infuriating France just a week ago.

The frontrunner in the race to replace Angela Merkel, the SPD’s Olaf Scholz refused to rule out forming a government with the radical left.

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Gab, one of the earliest free speech friendly alternatives to the established social media platforms, may be forced out of Germany due to the government’s insistence that it censors its users, according to CEO and founder Andrew Torba.

German police arrested a 16-year-old Syrian male, his father, and two brothers on suspicion of plotting an “Islamist-motivated threat” against a synagogue.

A survey pitting outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel against current French President Emmanuel Macron for the head of the European Commission has revealed that many EU countries would support a Merkel presidency.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday that she found it unacceptable that refugees were being used to apply pressure to Poland and other European Union members on the border with Belarus.

Defiant Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Wednesday warned the U.S. and Europe not to take a “counterproductive approach” at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), or Iran will halt even the tiny amount of grudging cooperation it has been providing to nuclear weapons monitors.

The Biden administration and European leaders reacted with “concern” to Tuesday’s announcement of a Taliban government filled with mullahs and terrorists, but none of them seemed to rule out working with – or perhaps even formally recognizing – a regime whose interior minister is wanted by the FBI.

Five German retailers have been accused of profiting off slave labour in the concentration camp region of Xinjiang by the ECCHR on Monday. 

United Nations officials said Sunday they have obtained pledges from the Taliban to protect humanitarian aid workers operating in Afghanistan and to give relief agencies full access to Afghans in need of food, shelter, and medical treatment.

Germany’s new ambassador to China, who was previously a senior adviser to Chancellor Angela Merkel, has died at age 54.

BERLIN (AP) – A 29-year-old Afghan man in Germany attacked and severely injured a 58-year-old landscape gardener who was working in a park in Berlin, allegedly because he didn’t like the fact that as a woman she was working, police said Sunday.

Pakistan Ambassador to Kabul Mansoor Ahmad Khan said in an interview published Wednesday that his nation hoped to see the Taliban “utilize this historic opportunity” following the collapse of the nation’s government “for regional peace, progress, and stability.”

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas has promised to take in at least 70,000 vulnerable people from Afghanistan, including human rights activists and journalists.

Consumer prices spiked higher than expected in Europe in August, boosted in large part by more expensive fuel.

BERLIN (AP) — A German woman was arrested Monday on suspicion of helping the Islamic State group by backing efforts to transfer money to militants, prosecutors said.

The southern German state of Baden-Württemberg has proposed severe restrictions for unvaccinated people even if they can produce a negative coronavirus test, Bild am Sonntag reported Sunday.

The Chairman of the German Board of the Federal Employment Agency has claimed that Germany needs at least 400,000 migrants to arrive per year to fill gaps in the labour market.

President Ashraf Ghani’s former Minister for Communications is now making an honest living as a food delivery driver in Germany. 

Angela Merkel’s political party has fallen behind the Social Democrats for the first time in 15 years, as her potential successor falters.

The Taliban terrorists will allow Afghans with proper legal papers to travel after the August 31 deadline for troops to evacuate the remaining Americans and Afghan allies, according to Potzel Markus, the German Envoy on Afghanistan.

Seven people have received medical treatment, and prosecutors have opened an investigation into suspicions of attempted murder.

France admitted that it has repatriated an Afghani man despite being connected to the Taliban, with similar security failures seen in the UK.

A pregnant woman evacuated from Afghanistan aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane went into labor during the flight and delivered her daughter in the cargo bay after the plane landed in Germany on Saturday.

U.S. and German military forces were involved in a deadly firefight at Kabul airport on Monday against unidentified gunmen at the North Gate of the facility.

A German national attempting to escape from Afghanistan has been shot, according to a statement from Germany’s deputy government spokeswoman on Friday.

MADRID (AP) — The President of the European Commission has urged the international community to open arms for Afghan refugees.