Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
DW-WORLD.DE spoke with Middle East expert Kamal Sido about the fate of the Christian minority in Iraq after EU ministers this week dropped calls to take in more Iraqi refugees.
Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Syrian Interior Minister Bassam Abd Al-Majid and German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble have signed agreements to exchange refugees and wanted men, and to tighten relations between their security apparatuses, in order to fight terror and ... July 15, 2008, 3:50 pm
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Munich aims to erase some recent German disasters by hosting the 2018 Winter Olympics, 46 years after the city also staged the Summer Games.
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble signed a repatriation agreement with his Syrian counterpart Bassam Abdelmajid in Berlin Monday, July 14. The deal followed talks between Chancellor Merkel and President Assad.
Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Germany - Jewish community leaders in Germany last week criticized the interior ministry’s planned citizenship exam for new immigrants, which features a questionnaire that does not make any mention of the Holocaust. Imitating a trend taking hold in other European countries, Germany will require immigrants who wish to obtain citizenship to pass a 33-question “proficiency exam.” [...]
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
The German government has said that it will not give in to demands of a group of Kurdish rebels, who abducted three German mountaineers from Turkey's highest mountain.
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Kurdish rebels said Thursday that they won't release three abducted German mountain climbers unless Germany changes its policies towards the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) and the Kurdish people.
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
The citizenship test to be introduced for would-be Germans has met with broad resistance. It's too hard, too ideologically biased, historically unsound and littered with errors, say its detractors.
