German Hijacking Law Challenged
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A new German law that allows the government to have hijacked airliners shot down as a last resort may be unconstitutional, the country's president said.
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A German-language mouthpiece for al Qaeda has re-emerged on the Internet, vowing to defy the authorities despite this month's arrest of suspects linked to it in Austria and Canada.
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Joschka Fischer, Germany's foreign minister, was fighting for his political life last night after accepting the blame for a legal loophole that allegedly allowed tens of thousands of criminals from the ...
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The European Commission has begun legal action against Germany over the so-called &quot;Volkswagen law&quot; which protects the carmaker from hostile takeovers.
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Data logging? Nein danke Privacy activists have filed a constitutional complaint against Germany's data retention laws.â¦
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An Islamist group has claimed that it  hijacked two Russian planes that crashed this week, killing at  least 89 people, and threatened more attacks, according to an  Internet statement posted on Friday.
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A controversial new bill signed into law Wednesday will allow the German air force to shoot down hijacked planes on federal government orders.
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European insurers could appeal against a US jury decision that treats the 2001 hijacked plane attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC) as two separate events, potentially raising their costs.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on  Friday that Germany must allow security services to use the  Internet to track terrorist suspects&#39; online movements.
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A new Polish law gives authorities the power to order hijacked airliners shot down &#151; a post-Sept. 11 measure that underscores growing terrorism concerns in Europe but drew criticism when enacted in Germany.
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BERLIN, Aug 23 (IPS) - A man who attempted to bomb a German train has been  caught but his accomplice is still at large, waking Germany up to  the reality that terror attacks can strike at home.
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German politicians called for tougher anti-terrorism measures and immigration rules on Thursday after police said they had foiled a plot by Islamist militants to carry out massive bomb attacks.
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The European Union&#39;s head office took Germany to court Wednesday to challenge a German law that effectively protects Volkswagen AG, one of the country&#39;s biggest employers, from hostile takeovers.
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A German court blocks the extradition of a former Nazi SS member wanted over a murder in Denmark.
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BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell on a German attempt to criminalise Holocaust-denial across Europe.
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Campaigners against the expansion of Britain's airports mount a legal challenge to the government.
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"For me, it is a unique case in federal German legal history for a minister to say, 'this verdict doesn't interest me, I will violate it,'"  Germany's defense minister said he might order the shooting down of hijacked airlines to avert a Sept. 11-style attack, drawing widespread criticism Monday after the country's highest court threw out a law permitting such action.In a weekend magazine interview, Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung argued that, despite the ruling, shooting down a plane would be possible 'in cases of common danger or danger to free and democratic basic order.''If there are no other means, I would give the order to shoot down (a plane) in order to protect our citizens,' he said. Read more