Berlin, Germany

The problem of Muslim immigrants bringing anti-Semitism into Germany has since been publicly acknowledged, even by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose unchanging course for an open-door policy has cost her a chunk of her former ratings and boosted her right-wing opponents. “We have a new ...

Given the fact that these two countries are warmer and sunnier and have more beaches than Germany, this isn't surprising. Nonetheless, the land of Bier und Bratwurst is still a hot destination for Brits seeking to move abroad, at least within the EU. So where exactly do they all flock to? Berlin the top state for ...

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos received a hostile reception when he arrived in the German capital to pick up an innovation award on Tuesday (Apr. 24). ... Verdi has for years been a constant thorn in Amazon's side in Germany, organizing workers strikes to demand improved pay and working conditions.

BERLIN -- Germans of various faiths donned Jewish skullcaps and took to the streets Wednesday in several cities to protest an anti-Semitic attack in ... The kippa protest was triggered by the daytime assault last week of two young men wearing skullcaps in an upscale neighborhood in the German capital.

Ryan Harty, a 34-year-old from Denton, Texas, who moved to Berlin more than a decade ago and now works for Germany's national association of food banks, joined the resistance march even though his $700-a-month rent has not risen in 10 years and is unlikely to, thanks to rent control. He said he joined ...

BERLIN (AFP) - Germany put on trial on Tuesday (April 24) the only suspect held over what it calls a brazen Cold War-style kidnapping by Vietnamese ... German prosecutors are investigating a high-ranking Vietnamese security official, General Duong Minh Hung, who allegedly commanded the abduction ...

Most of the letters come from Berlin, but a few were sourced from elsewhere in Germany and beyond. Old shop signs, logos, and letters fill the space. Some are arranged by color, while others are clumped together to form an eclectic alphabet soup. Abandoned neon signs buzz and glow within the darker corners. The letters ...

... million) worth of funds that disappeared from an account belonging to a former East German export company at a private Swiss bank. The case is part of a larger attempt by Berlin to track down funds that disappeared during the tumultuous period brought about by the collapse of communist East Germany.

Josef Schuster, the president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, told Berlin public radio that Jews should exercise caution in big cities. His comments come ahead of a "Berlin Wears Kippah" solidarity march in the German capital on Wednesday. Last week, two young men wearing kippahs were assaulted in the city.

The accused – a Vietnamese-Czech man identified only as Long N.H., 47 – allegedly rented and delivered the van that was used in last July's abduction of a fugitive Vietnamese state company official in a Berlin park. The kidnapped man, Trinh Xuan Thanh, 52, who was seeking political asylum in Germany, ...

BERLIN: German prosecutors on Tuesday (Apr 3) asked a court to order the extradition to Spain of Catalonia's ousted president Carles Puigdemont on a rebellion charge following his arrest in Germany last month. The request comes after demonstrations by independence supporters at the weekend in ...

BERLIN—German Chancellor Angela Merkel is embarking on a fourth term in office after a struggle to form a new government that was prolonged in part by ... to help rebuild the nation after World War II, the nation's school system hasn't changed in structure, arguably much to the detriment of non-Germans.

Despite an overproliferation of cars on Germany's streets, cities have taken new measures against rental bikes as more and more people complain that free-standing cycles are cluttering sidewalks. Even the German Cycling Association (ADFC) has admitted that the "outstanding idea" of leave-anywhere ...

Julius Baer continues its rapid expansion in Germany, Europe's largest economy. The private bank ... Christian Liste, head of Bethmann Bank in Berlin, has joined Julius Baer together with a team of colleagues, according to a report by «Private Banking Magazin» (German language). With a team of local ...

Before Berlin was so radically and comprehensively gentrified, I lived in a fourth floor apartment of a crumbling house whose windows looked across a concrete yard into an apartment of an old man. We largely kept different hours, and he to himself. As such, our exchanges never progressed beyond the ...

On Friday, the Aksemsettin Mosque - belonging to the Muslim-Turkish association Islamic Community National View (IGMG) - in the town of Lauffen am Neckar was also attacked. Germany has a three million-strong Turkish community, many of whom are second and third-generation German-born citizens of ...

A Berlin police spokeswoman confirmed to DW that three men, all Berlin-born German citizens of "migrant background," were escorted off the ITB. She also said that no charges had been pressed and that there was no criminal investigation. She said two of the men were aged 19 and one was aged 21, but ...

As such, the #MeToo debate looks set to dominate conversation for a long time to come. Nuanced interpretation and all. In Berlin and beyond, British-born Tamsin Walker takes a closer look at some of the quirks and perks of life in Germany, which has been her home for almost 20 years. She tweets as @ ...

EARLY in “Babylon Berlin”, a lavish new television series, Gereon Rath, a police detective from Cologne, is sent to the German capital in 1929 to investigate a mafia pornography ring. Extremists have taken to the streets. The parallels between then and now are glaring. Moka Efti, the meticulously recreated ...

That includes German and ethics courses for refugees, optimally for all of them,” the Social Democrat added. The interior minister was responding to a long report published by Tagesspiegel on Tuesday which asked whether Berlin was becoming “a place of fear.” The newspaper reported on the individual ...

Germany's highest criminal court has struck down the life sentences given for the fatal effect of an illegal race in the German capital. The case will now be retried — at ... A Berlin court had rendered that verdict last year in a case that attracted considerable media attention. Defense attorneys have argued that ...

Berlin is set inside a gorgeously restored historic building that dates back to 1913. The rooms and public areas are stylish and subtly exotic, with handmade Iranian carpets, designer lights and furniture throughout. The chic ground floor hosts a stage for regular live music concerts, a dapper restaurant and ...

The first time I left Berlin I was a very small German person with an American mother, a German father and a very odd accent in English. ... After a year of American kindergarten, I didn't remember much about Germany except for the pink marzipan piglets they sold in pastry shops and my babysitter Gerde.

He had been given the kippah a few days before by a friend from Israel who had told him it was dangerous to wear one in Berlin and he wanted to see if that was true. Germany's Jewish population has grown rapidly since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Before 1989, the population was below 30,000 but an influx ...

anti-Semitism, Berlin, Germany Not the happiest days of their lives. Source: picture alliance / dpa. It's not your average school bullying case. A Berlin father told a local newspaper that his little girl was picked on and abused for being a Jew. On one occasion, a classmate at the Paul Simmel Elementary ...