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Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on April 23, 2020 11 Comments
After the postponement of this year's Tokyo Olympics, Germany has called off Oktoberfest set to take place between September 19 and October 4. With Germany struggling to contain Wuhan coronavirus, "the risk is simply too big," Bavarian state Prime Minister Markus Söder said while announcing his decision. "To live with coronavirus means to live carefully till there is a vaccine or a medicine," he added.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on April 18, 2020 37 Comments
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has voiced strong support for the World Health Organization (WHO) after the United States cut its funding earlier this week. Chancellor Merkel "expressed her full support for the WHO," German government spokesman Steffan Seibert said on Thursday. German leader "defends the WHO's work following sharp criticism from Trump," German weekly Der Spiegel reported.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on April 16, 2020 7 Comments
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday rolled out a '"road map" for easing the nationwide lockdown aimed at curbing the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus. With the number of new infections and deaths starting to come down, Berlin wants to relax restrictive measures placed on public life and commercial activities. As a first step, the government will open schools and most shops on May 4.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on April 05, 2020 22 Comments
Having reported news for almost six years, I seldom become a subject of it myself. Yesterday was one such rare exception as I was repatriated from South Africa to Germany.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on March 15, 2020 21 Comments
With Europe now officially the epicenter of the Coronavirus pandemic, Germany has announced its decision to close its borders with France, Austria, and Switzerland starting Monday, German news agency dpa reports. The German borders will remain closed barring some exceptions. Daily commuters and movement of goods have been exempted from the closure.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on March 08, 2020 34 Comments
With thousands of migrants amassing at Europe's outer borders, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's left-wing coalition partner has called for a "Pact for Humanity" to bringing these asylum seekers directly into the country. Germany's ruling Social Democratic Party wants to take in "unaccompanied minors" trying to enter into Greece from Turkey, German media reports said.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on February 23, 2020 37 Comments
A summit of top European Union leaders failed on Friday after German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other heads of government left the conference without an agreement on how to fill the hole created in the bloc's budget by Britain's exit. The leaders of 27 EU member states had gathered in Brussels to finalize the trillion-dollar-budget for the next seven years.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on February 08, 2020 34 Comments
Almost a week after the United Kingdom left the European Union, French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday unveiled a pan-European nuclear doctrine as part of country's new military strategy. "The vital interests of France now have a European dimension," he declared during the graduation ceremony at the French War College, l'Ecole de Guerre. Following Brexit, France is now the only nuclear power within the EU.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on January 19, 2020 18 Comments
The number of Islamists in Germany has again hit a record high, exceeding 12,000 for the first time, says the German domestic intelligence agency, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. The number of radicalized Muslims committed to jihad has shown a three-fold rise since 2011, the intelligence assessment disclosed.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on January 01, 2020 36 Comments
German Chancellor Angela Merkel declared jihad on climate change, vowing to do "everything humanly possible" in her New Year’s message to the nation. “Global warming is real. It is threatening,” she told Germans in a televised address. Merkel, who has been at the helm for more than 14 years, wants to remain Germany's chancellor until 2021.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on December 29, 2019 16 Comments
Having covered Europe, and Germany in particular, since the day Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the continent to mass migration in the autumn of 2015, I often feel like a chronicler of doom. The multicultural utopia promised by the EU politicians and the media talking-heads has made way for the nightmare of Islamic terrorism, mass sexual assaults, and knife crimes of epidemic proportions. This year was no different. The compilation of my 2019 posts below reflects the grim reality that mainstream media chooses to deny.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on December 28, 2019 46 Comments
Germans regard U.S. President Donald Trump to be the "greatest threat to world peace," a latest YouGov poll shows. About 41 percent of German respondents picked U.S. President as most dangerous from a list of world leaders which included Iran's Islamic tyrant Ayatollah Khamenei, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, Communist China's Xi Jinping, and Russia's Vladimir Putin. More than 2000 Germans were polled for the survey.

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on December 08, 2019 2 Comments
U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell criticized the city of Berlin on Friday for allowing a pro-Hamas conference. "We have raised our concerns over this. Hamas is a terrorist organization and should not be welcomed in Berlin," the U.S. envoy said on Twitter.
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