News Archive for February 2016
Here you can find articles published in February 2016. Return to full archive here-
01 February
- Work hard and learn German or lose benefits, refugees told
- Bavarian premier plans to pal around with Putin
- Illegal Berlin road race kills innocent driver
- Avalanche risk high in German Alps
- Outrage after AfD call for armed force against refugees
- Small town's big plan to ditch small change
- Cologne police promise huge carnival presence
- How to vote as an American expat abroad
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02 February
- Eight dead sperm whales found on German beach
- AfD ‘inhuman, unbearable and cruel’, says party founder
- German disabled people explain everyday challenges
- Bavarian mayor brings hills alive with sound of music
- Clive Owen joins star-studded Berlin film festival panel
- New army camo 'can fool night vision goggles'
- Stop refugees or we'll stop aid, Germany tells Afghans
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03 February
- Germany to make condoms a must for prostitutes' clients
- Nearly 5,000 refugee children missing in Germany: report
- Artist inspired after clumsy cleaner bins her masterpiece
- Fake 'brothel vouchers' for refugees stir far-right hatred
- Far-right party accidentally call to 'deport Germans first'
- 10 German words you need to know for Cologne's 'Karneval'
- Women plan protests against 'pro-rape' pickup artists
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04 February
- Most Germans fear Merkel's refugee policy not working
- Man sues to end alimony over ex's Facebook snaps
- Arrested Islamists may have been targeting Berlin: police
- Merkel pledges over 1/4 of UN Syria aid target
- German charity-funded rescue ship to pull refugees from Med
- School books CAN call D-Day 'invasion': Berlin court
- Teen gets to keep gold found near Hitler’s summer home
- How Trump planned Europe's tallest tower in Frankfurt
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05 February
- Cologne opens Karneval on edge after sex attacks
- Journalist 'groped' in front of live camera in Cologne
- Customs seize 'stinking' ape skull from traveller's luggage
- None of 'Isis arrests' were for plotting terror attack: police
- Germany struggling under massive asylum backlog
- Auschwitz guard, 93, to face trial in April
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08 February
- Village faces investigation over anti-refugee Tiger tank
- Storm rains off Rhineland carnival parades
- Seven ways to make the most of Berlinale 2016
- Police search flats of Mainz 'terror suspects'
- Refugee saves reveller who fell into Rhine while peeing
- Berlin far left threaten €1m of damage per police raid
- EU 'will still accept Syrians after Turkey deal', says Merkel
- 3 football prodigies nabbed after planning casino heist
- 6 things I learned at my first Cologne Karneval
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09 February
- As it happened: Bavaria train crash
- 'They smelled burning human flesh from the crematoria'
- Germany puts two SS men on trial over Auschwitz killings
- Couple destroy stranger's car with vigorous carnival sex
- Germans rush for weapons licences amid public anxiety
- Bavaria train crash: what we know so far
- Football official given €6.7 million bribery bill
- Why the Bavarian train crash should never have happened
- Moscow tells Merkel to watch her mouth on Syria
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10 February
- All missing accounted for in Bavaria crash
- Four arrested after grenade thrown at refugee home
- Cologne locals take refugees under their wing for Karneval
- Five reasons why Germany is worried about Deutsche Bank
- Grow a thicker skin, Germany tells Poland
- 7 songs to make your German lover swoon on Valentine's
- Berlin to teach Germans how to dance with wolves
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11 February
- Big rise in sex offence reports at Cologne Karneval
- Hollywood comes to town as Berlinale rolls out red carpet
- 'Don't leave us alone with France', Lufthansa begs Brits
- Banks exchange 1000s of credit cards after hack attack
- Berlin police seize man who refuses to give up Döner
- ‘Nazi Grandma’ escorted from SS trial after being attacked
- Man plunges car into river Elbe on orders from satnav
- Munich woman 'murdered boyfriend with electric saw'
- Berlin extends border checks as Nato launches sea patrol
- Heartthrob Clooney hopes to charm Merkel over refugees
- Eleventh victim claimed by Bavaria train crash
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12 February
- Germany praises 'new hope for Syria' after Munich talks
- Cologne attacks 'not organized': police chief
- Are Germans right to fear limit on cash payments?
- 'Short German' text speak spares you from grammar
- Top German general praises Russian bombing in Syria
- The 11 types of American you meet in Berlin
- Germany ‘must act now to defuse debt time bomb’
- France and Russia blast Merkel's refugee policy
- Controller 'twice tried to warn trains before Bavaria collision'
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15 February
- German late abortion drama brings Berlinale to tears
- Stuttgart man bites volunteer cop’s ear off
- Inside Germany's Arabic-language paper for refugees
- Deutsche Bahn goes door-to-door with electric cars
- Is overtime robbing Germans of family, friends and rest?
- Reports of three refugees in Cologne attacks 'wrong'
- Germany orders one-year-old girl to leave within a week
- 1/3 of British and German managers fear Brexit havoc
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16 February
- Merkel calls for no-fly zone as Russian jets hassle Luftwaffe
- Govt denies plan to cut refugee numbers by half
- German scientists find dangerous gas in plane cabins
- Under terror suspicion for asking way to town square
- Keep Germans on hook for Auschwitz, Poland demands
- Human error caused Bavaria train crash: prosecutors
- No Balkan fence on my watch, Merkel tells eastern Europe
- 'I'd blow my brains out': Weird quotes from German politics
- 17 February
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18 February
- Cologne faces inquiry into NYE sexual assaults
- Munich New Year terror investigation comes up empty
- Alternative for Germany slams Church over refugees
- UK asks for German help to stop 'welfare shopping'
- Top court throws out bid to legalize bestiality
- Refugee women 'abused by camp security guards'
- Is minimum height for pilots unfair to women?
- Refugees to Germany commit tiny proportion of sex crimes
- 5th mysterious death in Neo-Nazi terror inquiry
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19 February
- Exhausted crowd cheers 8-hour epic at Berlin film fest
- Volkswagen sold more sausages than cars in 2015
- Berliners fight to keep police dog by injured cop's side
- Large majority of Europeans back Merkel on refugee quota
- Mayor stops watching BDSM porn to defend Constitution
- VIDEO: 'hate mob' chants at terrified refugees
- Whole town tries to flee socialist east Germany
- Culture shock: an Italian tries a Bavarian swimming pool
- 8 German tongue-twisters to leave your mouth in knots
- Man jailed for burning mother of his unborn child alive
- 20 February
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22 February
- Germany sets two-week ultimatum for EU refugee plan
- US sends 5,000 tons of ammunition to Germany
- Abolishing open borders 'could cost Germany €235 bn'
- Party colleagues ‘stabbing Merkel in back’ over refugees
- WhatsApp texts 'can count as sexual abuse', court finds
- Second shooting since Christmas in Berlin-Wedding
- Munich Airport streaks ahead of Berlin with driverless trains
- Firefighters flummoxed as fire strikes on home turf
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23 February
- New report: NSA did more than just tap Merkel’s phone
- Berlin opens Germany's first major gay refugee centre
- Mega budget surplus is Germany's best since 1990
- These 3 German cities are in the world top 10 for expats
- Here's why German bosses are worried for the future
- Prank leaves Facebook 'Nazis' red in the face
- Mars, Snickers and Milky Way recalled across Germany
- Germany blasts countries that won't take back migrants
- Local reporter takes a bullet for his job
- Bavaria goes wild for butcher's twist on fave food
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24 February
- One in three firms plan to hire a refugee
- Six months suspended: first verdict in Cologne NYE trials
- Fatal cucumber sex game lands man in court
- Berlin 'neglecting refugees' human rights': Amnesty
- Here are Germany's 2016 Eurovision hopefuls
- 6 ways Donald Trump is nothing like Adolf Hitler
- Students allowed to kick out flatmate's mum, judge rules
- Netflix bets on German with first-ever original show
- Almost half of Germans want legal maximum wage
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25 February
- Germany paying refugees cash to head back home
- Germany 'could take 3.6m refugees by 2020'
- Pesticide linked to cancer found in top German beers
- Berlin Brits share fears and beers over Europe vote
- The instrument maker bringing sexy back to music
- MPs vote through tough new asylum rules
- Leipzig mosque construction site targeted with dead pig
- Germany can withhold welfare from foreigners: EU court
- Frankfurt court releases terror suspect due to 'full schedule'
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26 February
- Germany sets collision course with US over global stimulus
- More than 130,000 asylum seekers disappeared in 2015
- Refugee official arrested for 'accepting €51k in bribes'
- Breaking Brandenburg: huge farm drug stash rumbled
- 'King of Germany' put in jail for driving without license
- VIDEO: Are these German 'First Aid Ladies' too sexy?
- Mercedes drops clapped-out robots for humans
- Berlin's bleakest district goes for Hollywood makeover
- Zuckerberg 'hopes USA follows German example'
- 30-strong group harasses young girls in north Germany
- 27 February
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