Four arrested over Berlin heist but 100-kg gold coin missing
BERLIN: German police today arrested four suspects they linked to an Arabic criminal clan over the spectacular theft of a giant 100-kilogramme gold coin from a Berlin museum early this year. But they found no sign of the loot -- Canada's…
Narendra Modi targets Pakistan at G20; equates Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed to ISIS, Al-Qaeda
HAMBURG: Naming Pakistan-based terror groups LeT and JeM, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said some countries were using terror as a tool to achieve political objectives and pressed for "deterrent" action collectively by the G-20…
German police use water cannon on G20 protestors
HAMBURG: Riot police used water cannon to disperse several gatherings of protestors ahead of the G20 summit in Hamburg. Police first dislodged protestors who had set up tents in a park in the western district of Altona, according to police…
US President Trump, German Chancellor Merkel to meet on Thursday ahead of G20 summit: Berlin
BERLIN: US President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel plan to meet in Hamburg on Thursday, the eve of a Group of 20 summit, Merkel's spokesman said. "Indeed a meeting with the US president is planned before the G20 summit,…
German parliament paves way for gay marriage vote Friday
BERLIN: Germany's parliament is set to vote on a bill to legalise same-sex marriage Friday after the lower house legislative committee put it on the agenda, its chairwoman said. "The path to equality is open," said the chairwoman, Renate…
Germany set to open its first liberal mosque in Berlin
Seyran Ates’ vision of a liberal mosque where all Muslims can pray together women and men, Sunni and Shiite, straight and gay is almost a reality, and the 54-year-old daughter of Turkish guest workers in Germany is ecstatic as she enters…
Lynchjustiz in Pakistan Tod durch den Mob
Der Student Mashal Khan musste sterben, weil er angeblich ein Gotteslästerer war: An einer pakistanischen Universität prügelte der Mob auf ihn ein, schoss auf ihn, warf ihn über den Balkon. Der Staat wirkt hilflos. Sie kamen am vergangenen…