The suspect behind the deadly incident at a Christmas market in the German city of Magdeburg, a Saudi national identified as Taleb A., had prior run-ins with law enforcement, multiple media outlets reported on Saturday. His home country’s requests for extradition, however, had been met with silence. Saudi Arabia warned …
Read More »Shielding Israel: Germany is still drawing the wrong lessons from the Holocaust
On 6 August, a court in Berlin sentenced a young woman called Ava Moayeri to a fine of €600 for shouting “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free.” One of Moayeri’s lawyers, Alexander Gorski, deplored this as “a rather dark day for freedom of expression in Germany.” …
Read More »Putin warns of reciprocal response to US missiles in Germany
Russia will consider itself free from a moratorium on the deployment of medium and shorter-range missiles if the US places missiles in Germany, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said in an address to sailors at the Navy Day parade in St. Petersburg. Earlier this month, the US and Germany announced …
Read More »Ukrainian children ‘kidnapped’ by Moscow found in Germany
Allegations by Kiev that Moscow has mass kidnapped Ukrainian children have been exposed as a lie after some of the purported victims were found in the EU, according to Russian children’s rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova. She is among the officials to have been accused of abducting youngsters from Ukraine amid …
Read More »Germany renames Kiev
Germany’s authorities have decided to move away from the Russian spelling of Ukraine’s capital of Kiev to the Ukrainian one, the nation’s foreign ministry said on Saturday. The city that was previously spelled as ‘Kiew’ in written German would now have to be spelled as ‘Kyjiw’, the ministry said in …
Read More »Ukraine must copy 1944 Nazi Germany – retired US general
The Ukrainian government needs to look at what Germany did in WWII to stand a chance against Russia, according to Ben Hodges, former commander of US Army forces stationed in Europe. Hodges, who retired as a lieutenant-general in 2017, has long been an outspoken supporter of Ukraine. In an interview …
Read More »Germany is not Ukraine’s ally – defense chief
Germany is doing its best to provide Ukraine with necessary military assistance, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has said. He recalled, however, that Berlin and Kiev are not part of the same alliance. Speaking in an interview with German broadcaster ZDF on Tuesday, Pistorius dismissed speculation that Germany is dosing …
Read More »Germany’s leadership a global ‘laughing stock’ – Putin
Germany is being bossed around by its Western partners because it lacks sovereignty, and its policymakers demonstrate poor leadership skills, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a Wednesday meeting with young Russian scientists. Putin weighed on the EU’s push to wean itself off Russian energy following the start of the …
Read More »Germany today could do what Hitler did but faster – Hungary’s top MP
Germany is destroying itself faster than under Adolf Hitler’s rule, while the UN is nothing but a front company for propaganda, Hungarian parliamentary speaker Laszlo Kover has said. The senior MP, well-known for repeatedly making various controversial statements, produced a flurry of inflammatory remarks on Thursday when he spoke at …
Read More »Ukrainian refugees in Germany prefer benefits to work – Spiegel
Ukrainian refugees living in Germany have not begun to find jobs more quickly despite the conditions created by the government for their integration into society, Der Spiegel reported on Saturday. According to the publication, while around 700,000 Ukrainians receive ‘citizens’ benefits’ (Buergergeld), most of them do not have legal jobs …
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