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Read More »Die Welt says Pakistani immigrant blamed for Christmas attack in Berlin
© AP Photo/Markus Schreiber BERLIN, December 20 /TASS/. A 23-year-old Pakistani immigrant, Naved B, can be the perpetrator of the recent Christmas terror attack in Berlin, the German newspaper Welt reported on Tuesday citing its own sources. The German police believe that the man used the “Balkan route” to enter …
Read More »Berlin Breitscheidplatz: Lorry kills 12 at Christmas market
An articulated lorry has ploughed into a busy Christmas market in the heart of Berlin, killing 12 people and injuring 48. Germany’s Interior Minister, Thomas de Maiziere, said “many things” pointed to a deliberate attack. Police said on Twitter that the lorry driver had been arrested, and that a …
Read More »Will Trump victory make Angela Merkel leader of the free world?
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, speaking at a Christian Democratic Union party conference in Essen, on Tuesday called for a ban on wearing Muslim burqas in public as she opened her election campaign for a fourth term. Photo by Kay Nietfeld/European Press Photo Agency After the election of Donald Trump, …
Read More »German Chancellor Angela Merkel says EU and Turkey must stick to migration commitments
PHOTO: Ms Merkel is trying to cool tensions after Mr Erdogan threatened to back out of the deal. (Reuters: Tobias Schwarz, file) German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the European Union and Turkey must honour their commitments to each other, as a row between the bloc and Turkish President Recep …
Read More »Germany amused by François Fillon brochure’s cold war map
French presidential frontrunner campaign booklet shows country split into east and west, 26 years after reunification German media reacted with amusement after the French presidential frontrunner François Fillon published a map in a campaign brochure that showed a divided Germany, 26 years after reunification. “Something is wrong,” noted news channel …
Read More »Europe could die, French PM Manuel Valls warns in Berlin
Europe is at risk of collapse, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has stated during a trip to Berlin, warning that “Europe could die.” Speaking at an event organized by the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper during an economic forum, Valls spoke abundantly about Europe, but also of the political situation in France. …
Read More »Obama doesn’t expect Trump to follow his approach to Russia
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks during a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, Germany, November 17, 2016 © Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Outgoing US President Barack Obama said that he did not expect President-elect Donald Trump to follow his administration’s blueprints in dealing with Russia, yet …
Read More »Unexploded Second World War bomb halts cross-channel ferry travel from Portsmouth Harbour
An unexploded Second World War bomb has been dislodged by dredging work in preparation for the next generation of Royal Navy aircraft carriers. A cordon has been put in place in Portsmouth Harbour, which is preventing cross-Channel ferries from entering or leaving the Hampshire city’s ferry port until the …
Read More »S&P predicts hard Brexit and fresh downgrade for UK
In a blunt assessment the ratings agency calls UK a deeply divided, diminishing economic power on verge of losing the right to freely export to the EU S&P believes a hard Brexit will likely take the ‘great’ out of Great Britain. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo Britain is in store for …
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