Tag: german
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Appeals against far-right extremism as people remember Hanau massacre
Claus Kaminsky said the memory of the racist killings in Hanau town on Feb.19, 2020, should bring the whole of Germany to an annual assessment of its fight against far-right extremism.
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German opposition lawmakers call for migration crackdown
German centre-right opposition lawmakers on Friday called on the country’s coalition government to sharply limit the number of asylum-seekers allowed in the country.
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Requiem for Benedict XVI to hold in his former German archdiocese
Former German archdiocese of Munich and Freising has planned to bid farewell to the late pope emeritus Benedict XVI with a requiem on Tuesday evening. As Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, he was Archbishop of Munich and Freising from 1977 to 1982. The current incumbent, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, is expected to celebrate the mass for his predecessor…
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ECOWAS Court orders Nigerian Government to pay N53m for unlawful detention of German
The ECOWAS Court of Justice has ordered the Nigerian Government to pay over N53 million to a German national, Mr Martin Gegenheimer, for unlawful arrest and detention. The Court’s Communications Department disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Abuja, following the judgment of the court on the matter on Thursday. According to the statement,…
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Nigerian suspect linked to kidnap of German national arrested after 32 months
The Kano State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of an armourer of a syndicate alleged to have kidnapped a German national and killed one police officer in the state. This comes about three years after 59-year-old Kreser Krank Michael of Dantata & Sawoe Construction Company was abducted at a construction site along the Madobi…
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Top 3 Well-known German Bundesliga Footballers
Bundesliga is the main football championship in Germany. Even people out of this country bet on Germany Bundesliga predictions. If you also want to get engaged in this championship, you should learn more about the most popular footballers there. Gerd Müller, 365 goals Gerd Müller was born in 1945 in Nördlingen. Since childhood, the boy…
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Two dead, four wounded as gunman opens fire in German nightclub
A gunman opened fire at a nightclub in southern Germany early Sunday, killing one and wounding four before being shot by police, officials said in a statement. The 34-year-old attacker “was critically injured in a shootout with police officers as he left the disco, and later succumbed to his wounds in hospital,” police said in…
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Video: German inspectors forcefully drag Nigerian man out of train
Inspectors of the S-Bahn Munich in Germany pulled a 48-year-old Nigerian from the train by force. The two ticket inspectors of the Deutsche Bahn German train system were caught on camera savagely dragging the Nigerian man out of a train after he reportedly refused to provide his ID and pay a fine for not having…
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German national dies after slumping at Lagos airport
A German national, Mr Brenard Christo, who slumped on Friday at the General Aviation Terminal of the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos, has died at an undisclosed hospital. The spokesman for the Lagos Airport Police Command, DSP Joseph Alabi, confirmed the death of the German to newsmen on Saturday. Alabi said the deceased was waiting to…
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German Court sends 16-year-old girl to jail for terrorist attack
A German Court sentenced a 16-year-old girl to six years jail on Thursday for an attack on a Police Officer. The prosecutors described it as the first assault ordered by Islamic State in the country. The teenager, identified as Safia S, was 15 years old when she slashed the police officer in the neck with…