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Despite a heavy police presence, and the creation of a special "Women's Safety Area" in Berlin, German police have said that "isolated" sex attacks occurred during this year's New Year's Eve celebrations. In Berlin, where hundreds of thousands of people greeted the New Year in celebrations at the Brandenburg Gate, "isolated
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - A car rammed into the main entrance of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) headquarters in Berlin around midnight local time (23:00 GMT on Sunday), city police have reported. An initial investigation indicates that a driver rammed his car into the building with the intention of committing suicide,
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TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Police brought in experts and an explosives robot to investigate a suspicious package found at the Christmas market in the West German city of Bonn late on Friday. Bonn police cordoned off and evacuated a large area of the market just before 9 p.m. local time, and experts
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The Office of the German Federal Public Prosecutor General has charged 1st Lt. Franco A. with plotting to kill senior politicians and blame the attack on refugees, the prosecutors' office said in a Tuesday statement. BERLIN (Sputnik) — In April, German law enforcement agencies detained two German officers, including Franco A.,
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A parcel bomber who caused a Christmas market in Potsdam to be evacuated last week tried to extort ten million euros in bitcoin from the delivery firm DHL, German media reports. A blackmailer who sent a parcel bomb to a German pharmacy last week demanded €10 million ($11.8 million) in bitcoin,
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Days after the collapse of the coalition talks in Berlin German Chancellor Angela Merkel has found a not-so-unlikely saviour in the form of the leadership of the SPD, Germany’s biggest ‘opposition’ party and her partner in the outgoing coalition. After the SPD’s dismal showing in the September parliamentary elections – when
Read More BERLIN (Sputnik) — German police have averted a terrorist attack in the country by detaining a Syrian national in the northern city of Schwerin, according to Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere. "German security authorities, under the auspices of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution and the Federal Criminal
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Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere is facing criticism after suggesting that Muslim holidays be observed in Muslim-majority areas of Germany; opinion polls suggest a majority of Germans are against the idea. A recent suggestion by Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere that Muslim holidays be observed in Muslim-majority areas of the country
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