News Archive for September 2016
Here you can find articles published in September 2016. Return to full archive here-
01 September
- Germany and Italy signal tougher stance on immigrants
- Refugee influx leaves 'Mama Merkel' isolated in EU
- 'Confused' mum sparked Frankfurt airport evacuation
- Drunk partygoer gropes Hamburg's deputy mayor
- Germany to rebuild quake-hit school in Italy
- Refugees, though unseen, dominate state election rallies
- Lucky 'wrong number' saves 96-year-old's life
- Football legend Beckenbauer faces money-laundering probe
- Germans divided: Is it OK for kids to pee on trees?
- Man dies while trying to burn wife alive at refugee home
- Merkel won't give up on 'dead' US trade deal
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02 September
- Germany takes step to soothe Turkey ire over Armenia vote
- Merkel’s approval rating sinks to five-year low
- German spies 'systematically violating constitution'
- More than 50 arrested in Berlin Blockupy protest
- What's on in Germany - September 2016
- Intersex Germans call for 'third gender' option
- Woman found in farmhouse attic - 40 years after her death
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05 September
- Merkel under pressure after poll defeat to far-right AfD
- Murder in Berlin’s 'Kotti' blamed on bikers
- Merkel takes responsibility for party's election defeat
- 12 essentials for surviving as a vegan in Germany
- Does the AfD's success really mean 'the end of Merkel'?
- Dutch cops mistake German tourists for fugitive terrorists
- EU urges Volkswagen crackdown after 'dieselgate'
- Teen girl injures ten in pepper spray attack spree
- Pub owner faces jail for offering 'Hitler wine' to guests
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06 September
- Germans don't want 'Berlin politics', ally warns Merkel
- Germany to invest €58 million in Turkish airbase: report
- German government attacked by hackers 20 times a day
- AfD supporters attack activists, journalists in Munich
- Merkel past it? Don't write her off yet, analysts say
- German Islamist preacher on trial over Syria terror links
- Ever more German families burdened with serious debt
- Nine things Germans have way too many words for
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07 September
- Swiss charge banker who helped nab German tax cheats
- German broadcaster angered as Turkey confiscates footage
- Germans need integration classes too, says sociologist
- Turkey ready to calm Armenia row with Berlin: minister
- Merkel: situation in Germany 'much improved' in past year
- No queue, no bouncer: Berlin clubs open as 'monuments'
- Is Netflix series behind 'stone murder' of German woman?
- Germany to UK: don't enter trade talks before Brexit
- How German dentists use hypnosis to fix your teeth
- These six fussy laws could've only been made in Germany
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08 September
- Ex-pope Benedict 'was in love as young man'
- Germany to spend €20 billion on refugees in 2016: report
- Report: Refugees in Germany are often overqualified
- Bavarian CSU call for drastic tightening of immigration laws
- Germans celebrate 40th birthday of a very cheeky bee
- Seven police cars set on fire at Magdeburg train station
- Turkey allows German MPs to visit base after row: minister
- Nine things you never knew about Star Trek in Germany
- Drownings rise sharply as refugees 'overestimate ability'
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09 September
- Libya's last chemical weapons reach Germany for destruction
- Poll shows far-right AfD could win 15 percent in Berlin vote
- Aldi releases first ever television advert
- 1 in 7 kids from less-educated families go down path to uni
- 12-year-old boy drives 200 km to see grandma
- Studying in Germany - nine very compelling reasons to do it
- Beefy Bavarian tries to smash world beer-carrying record
- Hundreds of refugees under 14 arrive in Germany married
- DM, Alnatura recall sesame goods in salmonella scare
- Boy sends card to grandad in heaven, and gets reply
- 10 September
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12 September
- Libya to free German aid workers held by coastguard
- Far-right AfD comes in fourth place in Lower Saxony vote
- Beautiful late summer weather set to continue into week
- I smuggled refugee over border, Left Party MP admits
- Almost 2 million children in Germany living in poverty
- Fireman gets 6 years in jail for refugee home arson
- Berlin world's 2nd 'most liveable city': magazine
- German retailer ups payout for Pakistan factory fire victims
- Germans would give up sex over driving licence for cash
- Ex-Auschwitz medic, 95, goes on trial in Germany
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13 September
- Man dies in car crash with horses on Autobahn
- German police hold 3 refugees 'linked to Paris attackers'
- Merkel chastises Berlin mayor for 'not taking responsibility'
- 'Lonely' dolphin befriends local children in Baltic Sea
- Refugees draw fear, anger and generosity from Berlin voters
- 5 reasons to hit Oktoberfest - and 5 reasons not to
- EU 'war' looms as German leader tries to cling to power
- Dog has puppies on train. Owner chucks them into bin
- Berlin ballet angry at 'political choice' of new director
- Are refugees really going back to war zones 'on holiday'?
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14 September
- Berlin's hold-out squat fires up gentrification battle
- 10 words and phrases you'll need to survive Oktoberfest
- Merkel to blame for terror arrests: Bavarian minister
- Beckenbauer 'paid millions' as World Cup committee chair
- Bayer buys Monsanto for $66 bn after months-long pursuit
- Who is at fault for Berlin's poverty, crime and debt?
- Germans go to doctor WAY too much, says insurer
- 112-year-old Holocaust survivor to have bar mitzvah
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15 September
- Adblock Plus launches 'Acceptable Ads' service
- Newspaper reveals terror attackers' chats with Isis
- Steinmeier makes first visit to war-torn east Ukraine
- Anti-migrant AfD eyes big gains even in hip Berlin
- Far-right and refugees in mass fight in east German town
- AfD's Petry bashes 'Mutti Merkel' over childlessness
- 10 grammar mistakes Germans keep making in their own language
- Restaurant suffers backlash for throwing out veiled woman
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16 September
- One year on, can Volkswagen leave 'dieselgate' behind?
- Bautzen tightens rules for refugees after far-right clash
- How Oktoberfest security has tightened after July attacks
- Germans' favourite European country? Easy: Germany
- Cannabis sales at German pharmacies almost double
- Turkey detains 4 over alleged threat to German embassy
- Berlin mulls plan for magnetic levitation train to new airport
- DB wants to arm conductors with pepper spray, martial arts
- Per-student spending in Germany drops drastically
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19 September
- Merkel party routed in Berlin polls as right-wing AfD gains
- Anger mounts over delayed trial of aged Auschwitz medic
- Blackmailer targets schools with poisoned marzipan treats
- Oktoberfest visitor numbers down by half on first weekend
- 'AfD will become Germany’s 3rd largest party. At least'
- Syrian hurls kids out window 'because wife wants freedom'
- Police hunt knifeman who stabs two at Berlin town hall
- Merkel: we were unprepared for refugee influx in 2015
- How the AfD could wield real power in Berlin
- Is this the lowest sum ever demanded by armed robbers?
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20 September
- Murder-suicide suspected as Berlin politician found dead
- WhatsApp warned for passing user phonebooks to Facebook
- Merkel praised for admitting refugee policy mistakes
- One in five Germans now has immigrant background
- German official charged with spying on Sikhs for India
- Lufthansa signs joint venture with Air China
- Bayern Munich coach Ancelotti: club is 'like family'
- World's first hydrogen train to go into service in Germany
- Court denies German man's fatherhood of nine embryos
- Foreign state 'aims hack attack' against top politicians
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21 September
- Bayer-Monsanto deal 'danger for our food': French chefs
- Police free man arrested as terror suspect in August
- Obama thanks Merkel for open refugee policy
- Several Germans trapped in Turkey since coup attempt
- New AfD Berlin senator: Nazi civilian killings were 'legal'
- Xenophobia threatening peace in eastern Germany: govt
- Leader of anti-refugee Pegida becomes 'refugee' in Africa
- Police arrest Syrian refugee, 16, over Isis links
- You'll never really be German until you try these 10 weird foods
- Want a fat state pension at 37? Join the Social Democrats
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22 September
- Investors sue VW for €8.2 bn over 'dieselgate' in Germany
- 10 years since horror crash on magnet-train's maiden voyage
- Pirate politician wrote to party about murder: report
- How a butcher's son gave Hamburg its wild reputation
- Over 500,000 rejected asylum seekers still live in Germany
- AfD caught in Nazi scandal as members' activities revealed
- Expats in Germany rich but have few friends: survey
- A night on Berlin's most notorious clubbing mile
- US cops killed 100 times more than German police in 2015
- First two victims of Würzburg axe attack to leave hospital
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23 September
- German lawmakers ratify landmark Paris climate accord
- Bautzen youth beat up pensioner in racist attack
- Far-right AfD reach record high in national poll
- German court tries man for smuggling arms to Paris
- Berlin the new London? 10m2 flat to rent for €750 a month
- Green party demand 'quick and easy' citizenship for Brits
- Symbols of migrant plight to go on show in Bonn museum
- EasyJet 'in talks to buy German airline' to duck Brexit
- Accusation of sexism within Merkel's party creates uproar
- Trump protesters rebuild and tear down 'Berlin Wall'
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26 September
- Left politician who smuggled refugee could lose immunity
- 15 pics that prove Germany is totally enchanting in autumn
- Norwegian police charge German man for friend's death
- Germany holds first national 'mermaiding' championship
- Norwegian tourist bites chunk off man's ear in Berlin train
- Germany's 'James Bond' goes on trial over tax evasion
- German broadcaster sues Turkey over confiscated video
- The 10 worst German cities for students to find digs
- Americans abroad: get off the fence, stop Trump
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27 September
- Deutsche Bank shares hit lowest level in quarter century
- Audi tech chief leaves after reports link him to 'dieselgate'
- Young man destroys 17 cars after visiting Oktoberfest
- Dresden police guard Islamic buildings after mosque attack
- Stuttgart fest pulls in twice as many boozers as Oktoberfest
- German ex-policeman is Swiss city’s new hermit
- Norwegian police: No crime in German fisherman’s death
- Germany blocks WhatsApp data transfers to Facebook
- The AfD - is it fair to call them a far-right party?
- Pegida take to Dresden streets - to march against Pegida
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28 September
- UK files show how Spanish spy tricked Nazis over D-Day
- TV celebrity criticized for claiming 70 kg is overweight
- Police shoot dead father who attacked daughter's abuser
- After fatal hail storm, south Germany set to see sun
- Munich at high risk of housing bubble: report
- Govt denies planning bailout for troubled Deutsche Bank
- Merkel party MP under fire for using Nazi propaganda term
- Germans cut home energy usage by six percent in a year
- Man arrested in Wuppertal as part of Spanish Isis raids
- Train evacuated as passenger flips out during ticket check
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29 September
- Germany's 10 most Instagram-able places
- Air Berlin to cut 1,200 jobs and halve airline fleet
- Kidnapped German journalist and her baby freed in Syria
- Thousands evacuated after WWII bomb found in Cologne
- Germany's favourite smoker wins battle against eviction
- Commerzbank to make one in five staff redundant by 2020
- Green party wants only e-cars on Autobahn by 2030
- German court jails man who tried to smuggle guns to Paris
- After 3-year trial, suspected neo-Nazi terrorist speaks out
- EU takes Germany to court for 'discriminatory' foreigner toll
- Lion shot dead at Leipzig Zoo after breaking out of cage
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30 September
- Self-driving Tesla car hits bus on Autobahn
- Merkel condemns 'barbarous' Russian strikes on Aleppo
- Fire at major Ruhr area hospital kills at least two
- Small town mayor beaten up for plan to house refugees
- Munich pharmacy’s nighttime porno show draws crowd
- Sinking Deutsche Bank stock sends shock across Europe
- Missing Swiss cat turns up 600km away in Germany
- Racist attacks cast cloud over Dresden Unity Day planning
- Baby found alive in suitcase with skeleton in Hanover
- 890,000 refugees arrived in Germany last year - not 1.1m
- Morocco to speed up repatriation of illegal migrants
- Deutsche Bahn jacks up prices for first time in 3 years
- Six things you need to know about troubled Deutsche Bank
- 75 years since one of Holocaust's worst massacres