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Under fire Berlin mayor equates BDS with Nazis, rejects Israel boycott
The mayor of Germany’s capital, Michael Müller, will personally stop all city support and space for groups that advocate the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign targeting the Jewish state, according to a Wednesday statement from the Central Council of Jews in Germany.
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Merkel shouldn’t have opened borders without parliament’s approval, internal report finds
A report written by the German parliament’s legal experts has found that parliament and not Angela Merkel should have decided on opening Germany’s borders to refugees in September 2015. The report by the Bundestag Scientific Office, a team of non-partisan legal experts, stated that it is the role of the Bundestag (German parliament) to decide on all matters of essential relevance to the state.
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Berlin's new surveillance system has some former East Germans spooked
Germany is testing out facial-recognition technology at a Berlin train station. The goal is to improve security, but for those who remember the Cold War, it has shades of life under East Germany's notorious secret police, known as the Stasi.
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Radioactive playing cards found in Berlin
Police say players could wear a hidden detector to help them detect certain cards and cheat.
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Explosives found near German market
Police in the German city of Potsdam say they have found an explosive device next to a Christmas market. The device was sent to a pharmacy in the city south-west of Berlin, and was found to have wires protruding from it. Police said they later found explosives inside, before they conducted a controlled detonation of the device.
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Explosive device defused at Christmas market in Potsdam, Germany
Experts on Friday defused an explosive device found near an outdoor Christmas market in the German city of Potsdam near Berlin, local police said on Twitter. Germany is on high alert for potential militant attacks nearly a year after a Tunisian Islamist hijacked a truck, killed its driver, and then rammed the vehicle into a Christmas market in central Berlin, killing 11 people there.
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Germany offers refugees benefits in kind to return home
The German government is offering rejected asylum seekers benefits in kind worth up to €1000 if they voluntarily return home. The Federal Ministry of the Interior announced the new program called “Your Country, Your Future, Now!” which will run until February 28, on Saturday. Under it families who agree to leave will be entitled to up to €3000.
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'Women's safety area' set up in Berlin for NYE
New Year's Eve celebrations in Berlin will feature a special safe area for women who feel harassed. The Red Cross has set up a tent where women can get help if they feel unsafe on the Eberstrasse, just south of the Brandenberg Gate, the focal point of New Year's festivities in the German capital.
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In surplus and growing fast, German economy powers on
Economic growth in Germany hit a six-year high in 2017 and its public finances posted a record surplus, fuelling hopes of another strong showing in 2018 and sharpening a debate about how its next government should manage the windfall.
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German police sue American woman for slander for calling them 'Nazis'
An angry American traveler found herself plunged into German legal waters this month after allegedly calling federal police officers "Nazis" during a dispute at Frankfurt International Airport. Police say the woman, a 49-year-old professor, became "unreasonable and irritated" when they told her she had too many liquids in her carry-on during a screening for explosives.
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Anti-foreigner rally in Berlin draws ten times more protesters than expected
An estimated 3,000 right-wing demonstrators protesting against migrants were met by pro-asylum left-wing counter protests in Berlin. Such protests have become a regular occurrence. Right-wing protesters, including known neo-Nazis, marched through Berlin's government quarter on Saturday, chanting "Merkel must go" and "We are the people" in an anti-immigration rally that drew ten times more people than police had expected.
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The Berlin Wall has now been down longer than it was up
German history is entering a new phase: the post-post-wall era
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The Berlin Wall has now been gone one day longer than it stood
Today that wall has been gone one day longer than it stood. The 155km, 3.6-metre-high concrete and barbed wire divider separated East and Western Berlin from August 1961 to November 1989. Along its length were more than 300 watchtowers and 20 bunkers, thousands of soldiers, guard dogs, alarms, ditches to trap vehicles, and a no man's land that varied in width from about 300 metres to the width of a street. Despite these preventative measures, many attempted to cross the wall. Exact numbers are uncertain but it is understood about 5,000 people crossed the wall successfully and more than 130 died in the attempt.
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North Korea used the Berlin embassy to procure technology for the nuclear program
North Korea used the Berlin embassy to obtain technology and equipment for its nuclear program, said on Monday the head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, as reported by the German public broadcaster DW. “We determined that procurement activities were taking place there, from our perspective with an eye on the missile program, as well as the nuclear program to some extent,” the President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Hans-Georg Maassen, told NDR.
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Berlin mayor backs ‘basic income’ to tackle capital’s unemployment
Berlin Mayor Michael Müller has called for an end to the controversial Hartz IV welfare system, saying that every jobless Berliner should have the right to a basic income. The Social Democrat (SPD) politician told the Berliner Morgenpost that he wants to see an overhaul of the welfare system, with Hartz IV to be replaced by a “solidary basic income” model. Hartz IV was one of the biggest components of the major labour market reform, which was adopted in the mid-2000s by the then red-green federal government under Gerhard Schröder (SPD).
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Zu Asche, Zu Staub (Psycho Nikoros)
Severija
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Crime rate in Germany lowest since 1992, but Seehofer still issues stern warning
Horst Seehofer has presented Germany's latest crime figures for the first time since becoming interior minister. The stats show a 10 percent overall decrease in the past year, but upward trends in certain hate crimes.
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Germany Acts to Tame Facebook, Learning From Its Own History of Hate
Security is tight at this brick building on the western edge of Berlin. Inside, a sign warns: “Everybody without a badge is a potential spy!” Spread over five floors, hundreds of men and women sit in rows of six scanning their computer screens. All have signed nondisclosure agreements. Four trauma specialists are at their disposal seven days a week. They are the agents of Facebook. And they have the power to decide what is free speech and what is hate speech.
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Seventy Berlin nightclubs to protest AfD march
Dozens of Berlin nightclubs have organized a dance party to protest a march led by the far-right Alternative for Germany.
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German police seek fugitive Iraqi over killing of girl, 14
German authorities investigating the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl said Thursday they are seeking a fugitive Iraqi asylum-seeker and have arrested a Turkish man in the latest high-profile case involving migrants. The body of the girl, who had been missing since May 22, was found Wednesday on the outskirts of the western German city of Wiesbaden.
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