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(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday (February 28) expressed his apologies to the German government and to the whole German nation a day after the confimation on the beheading of one of its nationals, Jurgen Kantner, by the terrorist group, Abu Sayyaf. At the same time, he reiterated the Philippine government’s policy not to give in to the ransom demands of the terrorist group who claims to be linked to the Islamic […]
(Eagle News) — There will be no letup in military offensives against the Abu Sayyaf. The Armed Forces of the Philippines issued this statement on Tuesday, a day after a German national was confirmed beheaded by the terrorist group in Sulu. “There will be no letup in our operations until we have rescued all the remaining kidnap victims and we have negated the Abu Sayyaf capability who continue to fight government and perpetrate their terrorist activities,” Col. Edgard […]
(Eagle News) — Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr., said the Philippine government would be doing everything in its power to destroy the terrorist group, Abu Sayyaf, which had recently beheaded its German hostage Jurgen Kantner. Speaking to CNN anchor Cristiane Amanpour, Yasay said that the Philippine military is poised to destroy the terrorist group as he, on behalf of the Philippine government, condemned the recent beheading of Kantner. “We continue to make sure that […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Germany recorded more than 3,500 attacks against refugees and asylum shelters last year, according to new interior ministry figures, amounting to an average of nearly 10 acts of anti-migrant violence a day. The assaults — coinciding with the country’s bid to cope with a record influx of newcomers — left 560 people injured, 43 of them children, the ministry said in a written reply to a parliamentary question. The government “strongly […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — A Berlin court on Wednesday began hearing a case against a former Iraqi soldier charged with war crimes after he allegedly posed for photographs with the severed heads of two Islamic State jihadists. The 28-year-old, identified by the court as Rami K., was photographed in March 2015 holding the severed heads by their hair. The accused was then a soldier in the Iraqi army, and the picture, taken near the […]
by Stuart WILLIAMS Agence France Presse ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Turkey on Thursday for the first time since the failed July coup, seeking to keep a key partnership alive after a series of crises. Merkel is expected to meet both President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim during the hugely sensitive one-day visit to the capital Ankara. The relationship between the two NATO allies has been battered in […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel made a “catastrophic mistake” in letting migrants flood into Germany, US President-elect Donald Trump said in a newspaper interview Sunday. He blamed the refugee crisis for being the “straw that broke the camel’s back” and triggered Britain’s vote last year to leave the European Union. “I think she made one very catastrophic mistake and that was taking all of these illegals, you know, taking all of the people […]
MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) — Sales of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” have soared since a special edition of the Nazi leader’s political treatise went on sale in Germany a year ago, a German publisher said. The book outlines Hitler’s ideology that formed the basis for Nazism and sets out his hatred of Jews, which led to the Holocaust. The new edition is the first reprint since World War Two, released last January after a 70-year copyright […]
by Hui Min NEO Agence France Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Germany’s interior minister on Tuesday outlined plans for a security services overhaul, seeking greater federal powers on domestic intelligence and quicker expulsions of illegal migrants following the Berlin truck attack. Thomas de Maiziere also wants federal police to be given wider oversight across the country’s 16 states, and for a new national crisis management centre to be set up. “We don’t have federal jurisdiction […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — The Tunisian man suspected of carrying out the deadly Berlin truck attack at the market was shot dead by police in Milan on Friday, Italy’s interior minister Marco Minniti said. The minister told a press conference in Rome that Anis Amri had been fatally shot after firing at two police officers who had stopped his car for a routine identity check around 3:00 am (0200 GMT). Identity checks had established “without […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — German authorities have arrested two brothers on suspicion of planning an attack on one of the country’s biggest shopping centers, in the western city of Oberhausen, police said Friday. The two men, aged 28 and 31, are originally from Kosovo, police said, four days after a jihadist drove a truck into a Christmas market in Berlin killing 12 people. Investigators were trying to establish what stage of preparation the plot was […]
by Deborah COLE Agence France Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel voiced hope Thursday that the prime suspect in Berlin’s deadly truck attack would be caught quickly, after it emerged that the Tunisian rejected asylum seeker was a known jihadist. In an act of defiance, Berliners flocked to the same market that witnessed the murder of 12 people on Monday, as it reopened for the first time in three days. Just as […]
