Mosque row exposes Germany's integration challenges
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Abdul Basit Tariq serves tea and biscuits, removes his black cap and chats in English and German about how residents in the German capital oppose his plans to build a new mosque on the site of an old sauerkraut factory.
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The European Commission dragged  Germany to court on Wednesday over a law that shields carmaking  icon Volkswagen AG from hostile takeovers, the culmination of a  long battle to break down barriers to foreign investment.
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BERLIN By publicly questioning whether the big differences in living standards and unemployment in his country could ever be bridged, President Horst KÃ¶hler of Germany broke a taboo few prominent personalities in the political establishment would dare do
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BERLIN - When Karl-Theodor Freiherr zu Guttenberg, a legislator in Germany's Parliament, travels around his district deep in conservative Bavaria, he usually talks about local issues and then valiantly attempts to raise international topics.
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Militant Islamic leader Metin Kaplan, the self-described &#39;Caliph of Cologne&#39;, in Cologne, Germany, in this June 1, 2004 file photo.
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BERLIN, Aug 5  (IPS) - After a period of what many felt was collective  suspicion, Germany's Muslims are  searching new ways of  recovering identity.
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KARLSRUHE, Germany - Investigators were trying to build a case yesterday against a handful of suspects beyond the three arrested in connection with a foiled terrorist attack by Islamic militants, and German officials prepared to debate whether security services should be given wider surveillance powers.
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The Bundestag, or lower chamber of the German parliament, will host a high-level conference on German-Arab relations next month, it was announced Tuesday.
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BERLIN -- Anger flared across the Islamic world yesterday over comments by Pope Benedict XVI, with Muslims from London to Jakarta assailing the pontiff for implicitly linking Islam with religious violence in a speech earlier this week.
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In the wake of the latest British scare, Germany has erupted in a rancorous dispute over how to deal with a terrorist threat.
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VIENNA, Austria -- A German Muslim says his neighbors suspect he is making weapons in his mosque.
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COLOGNE, Germany An anti-terror march by German Muslims has brought about 25-thousand people to the city of Cologne. Marchers carried signs saying &quot;religion doesn&#39;t produce terror&quot; and rallied at a downtown square.
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Comments by the Dutch justice   minister that Sharia law could be introduced if two-thirds of   the population supported it have unleashed a political storm in   the Netherlands, where immigration is a hotly debated issue.
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Turkey's plans to lift a ban on Islamic headscarves in universities has become a hot topic of conversation among young Turkish women in Berlin, home to western Europe's biggest population with Turkish roots.
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COLOGNE, Germany -- On Muslim holidays, hundreds of faithful hoping to pray at the city's Ditib Mosque are forced to spread their prayer rugs in a nearby parking lot and follow the service on loudspeakers. The mosque holds only 600 people.
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Human rights advocates and the German media used the international forum of the St.
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Danish papers consider anti-terrorism raids in the city of Odense, while the German press discusses the mandate under which the country's navy may operate in Lebanese waters. Elsewhere, Africa is in the spotlight but for different reasons.