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Berlin bans fast-growing neo-Nazi group

AFP - Thursday, November 5 03:10 pm

BERLIN (AFP) - Berlin authorities outlawed a rapidly-expanding neo-Nazi group on Thursday, with police staging dawn raids at the homes of its leading members, according to the city's interior minister Ehrhart Koerting. More »

Berlin bans neo-Nazi group
AFP - Thursday, November 5 02:26 pm
BERLIN (AFP) - Authorities in Berlin said on Thursday they have banned a neo-Nazi group whose members appeared in public wearing a black uniform similar to that worn by Hitler's paramilitary "storm troops." More »
Weak leadership still clouds East Europe success
Reuters - Wednesday, November 4 03:22 pm
PRAGUE (Reuters) - The collapse of communism may have changed the face of eastern Europe but the region remains blighted by corruption and poor governance, lacking the strong institutions and leaders essential to a healthy society. More »
Germany and Egypt plan talks over Nefertiti statue
AFP - Wednesday, November 4 03:15 pm
LUXOR, Egypt (AFP) - A German expert will attend talks next month to discuss Cairo's demand for the return of a 3,400-year-old statue of Queen Nefertiti, Egypt's antiquities chief said on Wednesday. More »
No remorse from Stasi as Berlin marks fall of Wall
Reuters - Wednesday, November 4 02:19 pm
BERLIN (Reuters) - For thousands of former employees of Communist East Germany's loathed Stasi secret police, next week's 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall is no cause for celebration. More »
November 9 not just a Berlin Wall red letter day
Reuters - Wednesday, November 4 12:54 pm
November 9, 1938 - Nazi thugs went on the rampage against Jews and Jewish property. At least 91 Jews were killed, 26,000 rounded up to be sent to concentration camps and thousands of synagogues, shops and other Jewish buildings were damaged. The broken glass that littered the streets of Berlin and other cities next morning gave the pogrom a name -- "Kristallnacht" (Crystal Night) - (Reuters) - The 20th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall on November 9 will coincide with other significant 20th-century anniversaries for Germany, some far darker: More »
Merkel under fire for German tax cut plans
AFP - Tuesday, November 3 03:44 am
BERLIN (AFP) - Chancellor Angela Merkel, sworn in for a second term last week, is coming under pressure from all sides over her plans for Germany to borrow its way out of its worst recession since World War II. More »
Kohl, Bush, Gorbachev remember Cold War in Berlin
AFP - Saturday, October 31 10:01 pm
BERLIN (AFP) - Helmut Kohl, George Bush, and Mikhail Gorbachev hailed their excellent relations at a Berlin cabaret on Saturday, 20 years after the Cold War leaders watched over the Wall's fall. More »
Huge divide between rival Koreas
Reuters - Tuesday, October 27 06:40 am
SEOUL (Reuters) - A united Korea -- combining Asia's fourth biggest economy with one of its poorest -- could surpass that of Germany or Japan in economic might in the next 30-40 years, U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs said last month. More »