https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Long overshadowed by the more numerous and vocal Turkish "guest worker" community, Mozambicans who arrived in Germany decades ago still struggle to assert their rights in their adopted homeland. https://www.thelocal.de/20170418/meet-germanys-forgotten-foreign-workers Tue, 18 Apr 2017 11:13:42 +0200 meet-germanys-forgotten-foreign-workers A German toy manufacturer is nearing success in its long battle to be able to make a Rubik's Cube all of its own. https://www.thelocal.de/20160526/german-firm-fights-years-long-battle-to-crack-rubiks-cube Thu, 26 May 2016 10:09:38 +0200 german-firm-fights-years-long-battle-to-crack-rubiks-cube Protests are being organized in cities across Germany – including Berlin, Frankfurt, and Munich – against meetings by followers of pickup artist Roosh V, who has argued for legalizing rape. https://www.thelocal.de/20160203/women-plan-protests-against-pro-rape-pickup-artists Wed, 03 Feb 2016 18:33:11 +0100 women-plan-protests-against-pro-rape-pickup-artists North Rhine-Westphalia's interior minister wants to ban future violent far-right and hooligan demonstrations, following chaotic scenes in Cologne on Sunday in which 44 police officers were injured. https://www.thelocal.de/20141027/nrw-to-ban-hooligan-anti-salafist-demos Mon, 27 Oct 2014 17:17:00 +0100 nrw-to-ban-hooligan-anti-salafist-demos Police deployed water cannon and tear gas against an anti-Salafist demonstration by thousands of hooligans and far-right supporters in central Cologne when it descended into violence on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.de/20141027/hooligans-battle-police-in-central-cologne Mon, 27 Oct 2014 09:34:00 +0100 hooligans-battle-police-in-central-cologne An American appeals court has denied a fundamentalist Christian family from Germany the right to asylum in the US. The family claimed they were being persecuted for not being allowed to homeschool their children. https://www.thelocal.de/20130516/49747 Thu, 16 May 2013 12:05:00 +0200 49747 Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest, will face legal action in Los Angeles after a US court denied the bank's bid to dismiss a case claiming it let hundreds of properties fall into disrepair and illegally evicted tenants. https://www.thelocal.de/20130425/49351 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:46:00 +0200 49351 EU leaders and analysts expressed relief, and financial markets lifted, on Wednesday after the German Constitutional Court cleared the way for the launch of a bailout fund and debt brake. https://www.thelocal.de/20120912/44933 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 18:08:00 +0200 44933 In the latest chapter of a controversy over the restoration of the Berlin Wall’s famed East Side Gallery, several artists are demanding compensation from the city because they say their artwork was removed, painted over or reproduced without their consent. https://www.thelocal.de/20110503/34773 Tue, 03 May 2011 17:38:00 +0200 34773 German Consumer Minister Ilse Aigner on Monday warned of the growing power of internet companies like Google and Apple, as CeBit, the world’s biggest high-tech trade fair, prepared to kick off in Hannover. https://www.thelocal.de/20100301/25579 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:18:00 +0100 25579 Senior government figures defended the maligned Hartz IV welfare system on Wednesday as political fallout continued following the German high court's ruling that the programme is unconstitutional. https://www.thelocal.de/20100210/25161 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:33:00 +0100 25161 He has brought shame to politicians on both sides of the Atlantic and now German-Canadian businessman Karlheinz Schreiber is back in Germany to face charges of tax-evasion, fraud and corruption. https://www.thelocal.de/20090803/21001 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:29:00 +0200 21001 A father and his three-year-old son have been found after falling through thin ice and drowning, police in the German state of Brandenburg said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.de/20090223/17605 Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:40:00 +0100 17605 A 58-year-old man faced trial in an Augsburg court on Thursday for the gruesome death of a young girl some 27 years ago. https://www.thelocal.de/20090219/17533 Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:33:00 +0100 17533 Two young men who beat an elderly man in a Munich subway last year went on trial at the Munich district court on Monday for attempted murder and theft. The crime ignited a storm of debate over immigrant and youth crime in Germany. https://www.thelocal.de/20080623/12657 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:58:00 +0200 12657