Germany imposes ban on Tom Cruise
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The German government bans makers of Tom Cruise's latest movie from filming because the star is a Scientologist.
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Berlin's local government on Monday banned a planned Islamic conference in the German capital that security officials feared would be a forum to preach support for terrorism.
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Putin signs law restricting airtime and content in effort to curb his country&#39;s alcohol intake. MOSCOW  - A sweeping ban on beer advertising in Russia became law Tuesday in a move to curb the country&#39;s
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Chancellor Angela Merkel has joined a growing movement to criminalize forced marriages in Germany, which is growing less tolerant of practices among Muslim immigrants that clash with the nation's liberal social values.
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Norwegian authorities are trying to stop the improper use of the Norwegian flag by a German clothing company that caters to neo-Nazis. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg was in Berlin over the weekend for the ...Comment
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BRUSSELS, Jan 19 (IPS) - The European Union will consider banning the  swastika and other Nazi symbols next week after British Prince  Harry was photographed wearing a swastika armband to a fancy  dress party.
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Smoking bans come into effect in pubs and restaurants in much of Germany and all of France.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law that imposes severe restrictions on beer advertising across the country, the presidential website said Tuesday.
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Germany is in an uproar as the Social Democrats suggest putting a limit on how fast cars can go on the limitless autobahn
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A German film fund said on Thursday it will grant subsidies worth 4.8 million euros ($6.5 million) for a controversial new film in which Tom Cruise plays a German hero executed for trying to kill Hitler.
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VIENNA, Austria (AP &#151; St. Nick, nein! A ban on St. Nicholas at Vienna's kindergartens is taking some of the ho-ho-ho out of the holidays for tens of thousands of tots this year. And it's creating a political ruckus, with opposition parties accusing City Hall of kowtowing to a growing Muslim population by showing Europe's Santa the kindergarten door.
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Crackers Updates to Germany's computer crime laws banning so-called "hacking tools" have been criticised as ill-considered and counterproductive.â¦
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EU judges are to make a ruling on alcohol and tobacco duties which could end the need for "booze cruises" from the UK.
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An Islamic leader sought by Ankara on treason charges has been deported by Germany hours after a court cleared his extradition. Muhammad Metin Kaplan, 51, was detained at an Internet cafÃ© in Cologne and hustled
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Two hot-button issues in Germany &#151; the Nazi era and Scientology &#151; are being pushed simultaneously by a new film in which Tom Cruise plays the country's most-famous anti-Hitler plotter, sparking controversy in Berlin.
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The makers of a movie about a plot to kill Adolf Hitler said on Friday they had the permits needed to film in Germany despite being declared unwelcome at military sites because its star Tom Cruise is a Scientologist.
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COLOGNE, Germany  - The German Defense Ministry is scrambling to qualify its stance on the Tom Cruise World War Two thriller "Valkyrie," saying Thursday that, despite reports to the contrary, it has no opposition to the film shooting in Germany.