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Germany cites terror threat to extend border controls
Germany's interior minister, Thomas de Maiziere, justifies the move with the continued threat of terrorism, illegal migration inside Europe's passport-free Schengen zone, and the European Union's porous outside borders
German MPs approve partial burka ban, security measures
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere says the social integration of immigrants requires that we make clear and communicate our values and the limits of our tolerance to other cultures
Germany migrant arrivals down sharply as Merkel faces polls
The figure dropped from 890 000 in 2015 to 280 000 in 2016 the government says largely due to the closure of the Balkan overland route and a fragile EU Turkey deal to limit the mass influx
Merkel hopes for 'quick arrest' of Berlin market attacker
UPDATED Just as Merkel praises the country for not succumbing to fear in the wake of the attack she insists that authorities will manage to track down the alleged assailant
Manhunt for Berlin suspect intensifies as anger grows
It emerges that the prime suspect in Berlin s deadly truck attack a rejected Tunisian asylum seeker was known as a potentially dangerous jihadist
Anis Amri: Tunisian suspect in Berlin truck attack
UPDATED Anis Amri is named in European arrest warrants that offered a 100 000 euro 104 000 reward for information and warned he could be violent and armed
Germany hunts for Tunisian asylum seeker in Berlin market attack
UPDATED Officials say the suspect 24 year old Tunisian national Anis Amri had already been under investigation for planning an attack in a development certain to fuel public outrage
Germany hunts Tunisian suspect after ISIS claims truck attack
3rd UPDATE The man is in his early 20s known by 3 different names and was born in the southern city of Tataouine reports say
Germany: Facebook has 'social responsibility' to curb hateful content
Thomas de Maiziere: Facebook has an immensely important economic position and just like every other large enterprise it has an immensely important social responsibility
Germany proposes burka ban in public places
UPDATED German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere tells public television that the full face veil does not belong in our cosmopolitan country
Doubt cast on German train attacker's nationality
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere says the teenager is believed to be a lone wolf attacker who appears to have been inspired by the Islamic State ISIS group but is not a member of the network
Greece expels second wave of migrants to Turkey under EU deal
Greek officials say two boats carrying 124 migrants – most of them Pakistani men – had been sent back across the Aegean Sea where hundreds have lost their lives in a quest to reach Europe
Thousands of Afghans stranded in Greece as Macedonia shuts border
UPDATED Overall some 8 000 people are trapped on Greece s northern frontier and at the port of Piraeus after Macedonia introduced the measure on Sunday in a bid to stem an unrelenting influx of migrants
Germany rejects about 10% of migrants – minister
Tighter border control comes after EU s top economy took a record of 1 1 million refugees and migrants in 2015 Germany s interior minister says
German interior minister heads to Istanbul after attack
German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere will visit the site of the attack and then confer with Turkish officials
Germany, eyeing threat, bans aiding Islamic State
German politicians call for a crackdown on radical Islamist propaganda after ultra conservative Salafists took to the streets calling themselves the Sharia Police
Turkey to ask for NATO support on border with Syria
NATO said Monday November 19 it would urgently consider a request from Ankara to deploy Patriot missiles along Turkey s troubled border with Syria as the EU announced its recognition of the new Syrian opposition coalition
