The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Dresden, Germany - German authorities put online Monday the names of 700,000 captured Soviet soldiers, most of whom died in horrific Nazi prison camps during the Second World War. The lists had previously been kept by German authorities who help peop...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Dresden,Germany - Germany's opposition Social Democratic Party (SPD) inched slightly leftwards with a proposal to reintroduce an inheritance tax as the party on Sunday wound up a three-day conference to take stock of its recent electoral defeat. The ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Dresden, Germany - German police began six weeks ago with an inquiry against the German judge who was presiding in a courtroom when a racist man stabbed a pregnant Egyptian mother to death, officials said Saturday. They are studying whether to lay ch...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Dresden, Germany - Opposition Social Democrats in Germany called Saturday for amendments to unpopular restrictions on social welfare, arguing this was the key to winning renewed public support. A three-day national congress of the Social Democratic...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Dresden, Germany - Germany's opposition Social Democratic Party (SPD) appointed Sigmar Gabriel, 50, a career politician, as its new leader Friday in a sweep-out of its leadership after a crushing setback at the polls. Gabriel succeeds party veteran F...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Dresden, Germany - Germany's opposition Social Democrats (SPD) elected Siegmar Gabriel as their new party leader Friday evening as the party starts to regroup after severe losses in the September national elections. Gabriel, who was enviroment minist...
Political Islam (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Bulletin of Jew Hatred November 13, 2009 Facts without comments - we collect the dots, you connect them Mid-East October 12, 2009 Egypt An Egyptian cleric says, "Judgment Day Will Not Come Before the Muslims Fight the Jews and Kill Them" among other things in his violent Jew hatred speech. Asia November 1, 2009 Indonesia Israeli tennis star can play in a tournament in Indonesia but the Israeli...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Dresden, Germany - Sigmar Gabriel, the nominee to lead Germany's opposition Social Democratic Party (SPD), said Friday the left-of-centre party went wrong by trusting the ideology of the free market. The party was meeting for two days in the eastern ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Dresden, Germany - Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD), smarting after a crushing election loss in September, met Friday in the eastern city of Dresden to elect a new leadership. The media were also expecting a fractious debate on policy, with so...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
In some fantasy parallel universe of open-door British publishing, we might greet the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall's fall by hailing the English version of Uwe Tellkamp's Der Turm. After all, Tellkamp's landmark epic of Dresden in the 1980s, as the GDR slithered towards its end, won the Booker-equivalent German Book Prize a year ago. Back in the real world of scant and sluggish translations,...
Twelfth Bough (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
[ Note: The use of the term "Russian Organized Crime" is misleading since over 70 of the top Russian crime oligarchs also carry Israeli passports]. What has got me off on the Russians? I don't know. I have hope for the Russians, they are tough people. The Russian must be admired. They have endured so much and I admire them, I really do. There is something to be said for persevering, for raw...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Dresden, Germany - Defence lawyers for the man convicted of killing Egyptian pharmacist Marwa el-Shirbini announced Thursday that they would lodge an appeal against the decision. Alex Wiens, 29, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Wednesday for sta...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Dresden, Germany - Defence lawyers for the man convicted of killing Egyptian pharmacist Marwa el-Shirbini announced Thursday that they would lodge an appeal against the decision. Alex Wiens, 29, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Wednesday for sta...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Dresden, Germany - The judge in the Marwa el-Shirbini murder case said Wednesday that the motive of the convicted killer, Alex Wiens, was hatred of foreigners. A hatred of foreigners ran right through the accused's stay in Germany, judge Birgit Wie...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Dresden, Germany - A German man found guilty of murdering a pregnant Egyptian woman in a courtroom killing was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole on Wednesday, after a high-profile case which has stir...
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