WORLD MATTERS: The Brexit sorrow of an Anglo-German couple
Special to WorldTribune.com By Uwe Siemon-Netto “Oh dear, I’d better stay in bed,” groaned my English wife, Gillian, when I woke her on Friday morning with the sad news that her compatriots had voted...
View Article WORLD MATTERS: An Edmund Burke conservative in Europe protests Brexit...
Special to WorldTribune.com By Uwe Siemon-Netto Of the half-billion people living in the European Union, 440 million are not British. These 440 million all live in functioning democracies. Most of...
View ArticleGermany passes ‘no means no’ law in wake of Cologne sex attacks
by WorldTribune Staff, July 8, 2016 Germany has strengthened its laws on rape in a move that was spurred by the New Year’s sex assaults in Cologne. The “no means no” law, passed unanimously no July 7...
View ArticleNATO 2.0: More important now than ever
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — In a sense NATO has been a victim of its own success. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also known as the Atlantic Alliance, has...
View ArticleMerkel: Erdogan response to attempted overthrow ‘raises profound and...
by WorldTribune Staff, July 18, 2016 Germany slammed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s response to a failed coup attempt, criticizing what it called “revolting scenes of caprice and revenge.”...
View ArticleISIL flag found in room of teen who attacked passengers on German train
by WorldTribune Staff, July 20, 2016 A 17-year-old Afghan refugee who attacked passengers on a train in Bavaria, Germany with an axe had a hand-painted Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) flag in...
View ArticleNew wave of migrant violence hits Germany in Ansbach and Stuttgart
by WorldTribune Staff, July 25, 2016 Four violent attacks in the past week have Germans increasingly questioning the government’s taking in of over 1 million Middle Eastern migrants and refugees. A...
View ArticleISIL claims credit for killing of French priest, attack in Ansbach, Germany
by WorldTribune Staff, July 26, 2016 Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) announced its role in the murder of a French priest on July 26 and the bombing near a German music festival on July 24....
View ArticleMerkel defends migration policies: ‘Fear cannot inform us in political actions’
by WorldTribune Staff, July 28, 2016 German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the spate of terror attacks in Germany are “horrifying and depressing” but won’t move the government to turn its back on...
View ArticleGermany warns Erdogan: Europe ‘will not be blackmailed’
by WorldTribune Staff, August 3, 2016 Germany’s vice chancellor said the EU “will not be blackmailed” after Turkey threatened to walk away from its agreement to reduce the flow of migrants into...
View ArticleAuthor: The ‘quiet conquest’ of Europe is well underway
by WorldTribune Staff, August 12, 2016 Islam’s “quiet conquest” of Europe has begun with the ultimate goal being total domination under Sharia law, Italian author and journalist, Giulio Meotti wrote...
View ArticleGermany turns blind eye as Christian migrants forced to hide Bibles amid...
by WorldTribune Staff, August 12, 2016 Christian asylum seekers who are residing in Germany’s migrant housing facilities regularly receive death threats from Muslim refugees in the camps. “Bibles and...
View ArticleTurkey, once a staunch NATO ally, enters uncharted waters under strongman...
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler PARIS — A vital American ally has gone geopolitically adrift in the wake of Turkey’s failed military coup, and the subsequent crackdown on all forms of...
View ArticleGerman intel official cites ‘hundreds of reports’ of ‘hit squads’, sleeper cells
Special to WorldTribune.com by Dr. Jack Caravelli, Geostrategy-Direct Last year’s mass influx of refugees from Syria and Iraq triggered a series of security, social and political troubles throughout...
View ArticleGerman anti-immigration party gains big in Merkel’s home state
by WorldTribune Staff, September 5, 2016 The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party made huge gains on Sept. 4 as voters sent a “message of protest” to German Chancellor Angela Merkel....
View ArticleReport: Merkel pushes German firms to hire unqualified migrants
by WorldTribune Staff, September 16, 2016 Chancellor Angela Merkel is urging the bosses of some of Germany’s largest companies to begin hiring unqualified refugees, a report said. Merkel, in a fight...
View ArticleNein: Iran rejects Germany’s condition that it recognize Israel
by WorldTribune Staff, October 2, 2016 Iran will not recognize Israel as a precondition for normalizing relations with Germany, the Islamic Republic’s Foreign Ministry said on Oct. 2. “Ties between...
View ArticleIMF: Iran economy ‘rebounded strongly’ after lifting of sanctions
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Iran’s economy has “rebounded strongly” over the first half of the year, while authorities are...
View ArticleIran minister causes uproar by shaking hands with female German official
by WorldTribune Staff, October 10, 2016 A handshake between female officials from Iran and Germany caused an uproar in Iranian media and social media because Iranians said the lesbian German official...
View ArticleOne year after Germany welcomed 1.3 million migrants, town builds wall for...
by WorldTribune Staff, November 8, 2016 In September of last year, many media outlets were gushing over Munich’s warm reception for the first wave of Arab refugees in the German city. Headlines blared...
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