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International Desk
February 07, 2010
A Jesuit teacher has confessed to sexually abusing boys in the 1970s and 80s at a top German Catholic school.
More than 25 alleged victims of abuse have made claims against three staff members of Canisius college in Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s. The alleged victims have said they were punished b...
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Holmes Publications
January 07, 2010
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It is nearing that time again for the Olympic Games. This major international event comes every two years with summer and winter games alternating. This February, the winter games will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia where athletes and teams from around the world will comp...
Newswire Services
December 12, 2009
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- Musicians and performers gathered from around the world in Hamburg, Germany at the historic Kehrwieder Theatre for Ariana Television Network's (ATN) 4th Annual Awards to recognize and celebrate Afghan musical and performance talent while encouraging unity among the Afghan ...
Risto Stefov
October 04, 2009
Many Modern Greeks claim Tito created the Modern Macedonians. If there is any truth to that it would mean that Tito possessed a time machine because Macedonians existed way before Tito´s time. No matter how hard Greeks try to hide the truth there is always someone out there who will expose it! Please read this article and find out more about the existence of the Macedonians before Tito´s time and about the artificiality of Modern Greece and the Modern Greeks.
Robert Paul Reyes
August 02, 2009
"A sand sculpture has been made of Michael Jackson as a tribute to the singer.
The artwork was constructed in a shopping centre in Berlin, Germany, and features the singer surrounded by album artwork and other images.
It took nearly 200 tonnes of sand to make the sculpture, which will remain...
Darren Chow
July 16, 2009
Germany is a very strong economy with a good appetite for imported goods. The economic slowdown has not hit it much and it is only related to the fields that are influenced directly by the American market. There aren't too many of these fields and they are all recovering fast. As a whole, it is a go...
Darren Chow
June 21, 2009
After the end of World War II, Germany took various steps in order to reconstruct its economy and has certainly achieved significant economic success. This magical economic recovery has put Germany into the third spot after US and Japan in among the world's largest economies. The careful choice of f...
Christina England
May 30, 2009
All around the world concerns are mounting about the effectiveness and the safety of the HPV vaccines. Whilst many of our Governments refuse to listen to public concern and ignore the ever increasing numbers of children who have had adverse reactions to the Gardasil and Cervarix vaccines, in Germany their concerns are at last being looked at and examined carefully.
Rohan Arora
May 15, 2009
There are some Germany tourist attractions that are a must see for the foreign tourists. Travour offers information on Top Ten Germany Tourist Attractions.
Andy K.
March 04, 2009
WASHINGTON, DC -- The German Government is offering journalists the opportunity to get acquainted with Germany's climate change and energy policies during a visit to Germany in May 2009.
In view of the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference Copenhagen 2009 the program for the visit will focus on G...
Satis Shroff
February 07, 2009
The author takes you to Switzerland and Germany during the Fasnet celebrations, where a lot of revelry and merry-making is the order of the fifth season (Fasnet, Fasching,Karnival). The witches and knaves and other motley, costumes ghouls and figures are in the streets of the alpine republics and the Black Forest. Come rejoice with him.
GERMANY IS THE FIRST COUNTRY TO RECOGNIZE MULTIPLE CHEMICAL SENSITIVITY ( MCS) AS A PHYSICAL DISEASE
Christiane Tourtet B.A.
January 21, 2009
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) also known as, Toxic Chemical Injury, Environmental Sensitivities, affects 16% of the U.S. population, and has become a worldwide environmental health crisis, increasing daily at an alarming rate in countries such as USA, Canada, Australia, Germany, Denmark, Finl...
Newswire Services
November 25, 2008
Crossville, TN - At the 2008 Olympiad in Dresden, Germany, the U.S. Women's and Men's teams both earned bronze medals, the first time ever that American women´s and men's teams scored medals in the same Olympiad.
The women's team consisted of Irina Krush of Brooklyn, reigning U.S. women's ...
Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
October 30, 2008
To protest against the continued indifference of the world´s corrupt establishments for the ongoing Genocide of Ogaden where Amhara and Tigray death squads have been performing unprecedented and appalling atrocities over the past two years, Diaspora Ogadenis stage all forms of protestations in...
Diane Rose
August 26, 2008
Hamburg politician Ursula Caberta will host an anti-Scientology conference in September. She has specifically invited a group whose public face in Germany is neo-Nazi. Several Americas will speak at the conference including actor Jason Beghe.
Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
July 20, 2008
Wishing the immediate release of the two abducted Germans whose health conditions are reported as poor, sharing with them their psychological situation, and expressing all my sympathies to the relatives of the abducted Germans, I feel I understand very well the all-Somali regret and sorrow for this ...
Satis Shroff
July 03, 2008
Satis Shroff introduces you to the world of Ethnomedical therapies that are used by Practitioners of Traditional Medicine, and the seminar to go with these therapies in Munich, Germany. The Ethnomed therapy sessions are a regular affair organised by the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich.Traditional Medicine should go hand in hand with Modern Medicine. The Health Insurance organisations and medical schools authorities have yet to recognize this form of alternative, traditional medicine,which is based on Nature and so-called supernatural phenomenons.
Dr. W.R. Marshall
May 20, 2008
Bush would look great with a little moustache
Satis Shroff
February 04, 2008
Satis Shroff takes you to the Allemanic-Swabian Fasnet celebrations in Freiburg and the Swiss celebrations in Basle.
Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
January 11, 2008
We have repeatedly supported an Asiatic – Middle Eastern Vision for Turkey, as a means of extensive democratization and secularization of a vast region spanning between China and the Red Sea, which is inhabited by Muslims, predominantly but not exclusively. If we advocate Turkey's political, economi...
Linda Wieland
December 10, 2007
Ten years of OPC surveillance on Scientology churches has uncovered absolutely no wrongdoing which could justify a ban, as conceded by Federal Minister of Interior Wolfgang Schauble in his interview with German Radio. The reason is very simple. There is no evidence of wrongdoing to uncover.
Whil...
Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
November 16, 2007
In two earlier articles, we referred to the three-day deliberations concluded on November 14th in the UN General Assembly, as regards the impending UN reforms. We quoted the words of Srgjan Kerim, the UN General Assembly President, who in his closing remarks said that "the debate demonstrated the cl...
Satis Shroff
November 02, 2007
LIVING WITH AIDS IN GERMANY (Satis Shroff, Freiburg)
"It's the 1st of November (Allerheiligen) and I ask myself: why do you give the dying company? In all those years I haven't visited a single grave. I can't let go of my clients before they die. I just can't bear to do it after a certain ...
Emma Martin
September 25, 2007
For Halloween memorabilia collectors, German vintage Halloween items dating from the period between the two World Wars are the most highly sought after. According to Mark Ledenbach, the author of Vintage Halloween Collectibles, the prime years were 1919 to 1935.
Halloween isn’t traditionally cel...
Sam Vaknin
August 13, 2007
In an assertive, unified, and resurgent Germany, the Holocaust is now the butt of manifestly anti-Semitic jokes. This would have been unthinkable only 10 years ago. Yet, in meetings I have had over the last 4 years with young German scholars, intellectuals, artists, and budding politicians, as alcoh...
Ursula Siebert
July 16, 2007
Coming from secularized Germany, I was surprised to see the level of religiosity here in the US. In my naïve perception of America- no doubt influenced by Hollywood flicks- I was sure to find a modern, advanced, open-minded country. Previous visits to New York did nothing to prepare me for Jacksonvi...
Mike Banos
June 14, 2007
June 6, 2007- the world remembers the 63rd anniversary of the Liberation of Europe, better known as D-Day, — the day on which the Battle of Normandy began — commencing the Western Allied effort to liberate mainland Europe from Nazi occupation during the Second World War.
In the spring of 1944, th...
Heather Wokusch
June 10, 2007
“The point now is how do we work together to achieve important goals. And one such goal is a democracy in Germany.” – George W. Bush, May 2006
There’s an unexpected front in the Bush administration’s “war on terror” – Germany. And the roughly 68,000 US troops stationed across the country ofte...
Satis Shroff
February 16, 2007
Fasnet celebrations:
It was 8 am on a snowy Monday morning. There were hundreds of motley clad and coloured spectators stomping their cold feet, all waiting for the boisterous merrymaking (Narrensprung) at the Old Town of Endingen (Kaiserstuhl), with 3500 costumed Narren from five countries. Amon...
Satis Shroff
February 14, 2007
It was 8 am on a snowy Monday morning. There were hundreds of motley clad and coloured spectators stomping their cold feet, all waiting for the boistrous merrymaking (Narrensprung) at Oberndorf, a picturesque town in south-west Germany.
On this cold, wintry morning the ghoulish, tragi-comical fig...
Satis Shroff
January 16, 2007
Whereas the older people in Asia pray the whole day and are in communion with God because the life-span in Asia is shorter, I had the impression here in Europe that the older generation are still living it up.
You’re pensioned at 67 years in Germany and are still robust and not very old. This new...
Satis Shroff
November 12, 2006
"Do they have witches in Germany?" asked Archana S., a 26-year old Nepalese woman from Dharan at a Nepalese get-together in the Pochgasse 31 in Freiburg, a university-town in south-west Germany.
It was an interesting question. I thought about the symbolic burning of the witches during the f...
Jim Kouri, CPP
May 04, 2006
In a court case that shocked all Europe, killer and cannibal Armin Meiwes will be retried after being convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to a mere eight years in prison after admitting he killed and ate a Berlin engineer he met on the internet. A German federal judge ruled the verdict and sente...
Congressional Desk
January 12, 2006
(Washington, D.C.) - First District Congressman Jeb Bradley is part of a congressional delegation presently traveling in the Middle East to survey military operations and reconstruction efforts and review current progress in forming a representative government in Iraq. The delegation is also review...
