GENEVA (AA) – The Berlin police have banned rallies in support of Palestine, in order to prevent “incitement of anti-Semitic exclamations” and “glorification of violence”. In Berlin, two solidarity rallies with Palestinians were planned for Wednesday under the banners “Solidarity with All Political Prisoners on Pa...
BERLIN (AA) – Radical Islamophobic neo-Nazis threw stones at a mosque in the western city of Siegburg on Friday night, the latest in a string of attacks targeting Germany’s Muslim community. The assailants entered the mosque complex at around 11:10 p.m local time, smashed the windows, and left a flyer of the neo-Nazi group, ‘Letzte...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany has criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for showing a map of “The New Middle East” without Palestine during his recent speech at the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. “Showing a map that does not show territories that are occupied or annexed, so to […]
BERLIN (AA ) – German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Saturday that Islam belongs to Germany despite growing Islamophobia fueled by propaganda of far-right groups and parties that have exploited the refugee crisis and attempted to stoke fear of immigrants. “Islam, the Muslim religion, Muslim life, Muslim culture have taken root in...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany has condemned Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik for threatening to arrest a top international official overseeing peace in Bosnia. Speaking to media representatives in Berlin, Christian Wagner, the Foreign Ministry’s deputy spokesman, said Dodik’s threats against the high international representative Christian Schmi...
BERLIN (AA) – With Islamophobia already a major issue in Germany, there are heightened fears within the Muslim community that far-right activists could stage acts of desecration of religious scriptures in the country, like the ones seen in other European nations such as Sweden and Denmark. If that were to happen, it could lead to […]
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Niger’s military administration ordered only the French ambassador to leave the country, not the German, US, or Nigerian envoys. In a statement late Friday, it dismissed widely circulated reports indicating that the German, US and Nigerian envoys had been effectively expelled, specifying that “only the French ambassador i...
