German authorities have released Al Jazeera journalist Ahmed Mansour, who had been detained at Berlin airport at the request of the Egyptian government. Mansour’s lawyers, who told Al Jazeera of the German decision, were expected to meet him following his release on Monday. Earlier reports had said a court in[…]
A court in Germany is set to consider a request from Egypt to extradite Al Jazeera journalist Ahmed Mansour, who was detained at Berlin airport at the request of the Egyptian government. Egypt asked Germany and Interpol on Sunday to extradite Mansour, but prosecutors have said they have not yet[…]
Al Jazeera has urged Germany to immediately release its journalist Ahmed Mansour, who was detained at a Berlin airport at the request of the Egyptian authorities. “The crackdown on journalists by Egyptian authorities is well known. Our network, as the Arab world’s most-watched, has taken the brunt of this. Other[…]
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi is in Berlin for meetings with Chancellor Angela Merkel and other German leaders amid widespread concerns about the ex-general’s government’s human rights record. Last month, Parliamentary Speaker Norbert Lammert cancelled his planned meeting with Sisi, citing the Egyptian government’s “systematic persecution of opposition groups” and other[…]
Amid a series of attacks in Europe, another mosque was burnt in Germany on Tuesday morning, adding to the increasing number of Islamophobic attacks on Muslims and Islamic centres in recent months. “At first we thought the tea burnt. But then we noticed the smoke in the prayer room” said[…]
A 21-year-old German of Turkish origin admitted on Thursday on the first day of his trial in a Munich court that he enlisted as a foreign fighter among radicals battling Damascus. He told the court that at the time he went to Syria last year, he had believed it was[…]
China has overtaken Germany to become the world’s third-biggest arms exporter, although its 5 percent of the market remains small compared to the combined 58 percent of exports from the U.S. and Russia, a new study says. China’s share of the global arms market rose 143 percent during the years from[…]
German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel was set to appeal for the release of liberal blogger Raif Badawi at a meeting with the Saudi Arabian King Salman on Sunday. Badawi was sentenced last year to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in jail for allegedly insulting Islam. The first of the lashings[…]
Germany’s parliament has approved a four-month extension of Greece’s financial bailout, despite unease over the new government in Athens. Greece was granted the extension by its European creditors on Friday in exchange for a commitment to budget reforms. “This is not about new billions for Greece, not about changing this[…]
Germany and Italy have closed their embassies in Sana’a, the foreign ministries in Berlin and Rome said Friday, after Shiite Houthi fighters took control of the Yemeni capital. Germany said the embassy closed late Thursday, and the diplomats left the country early Friday. The closure is temporary and the government[…]
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