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 The gunman in a deadly anti-Semitic shooting in the German city of Halle was planning a "massacre" in a synagogue, Germany's chief federal prosecutor said Thursday, calling the violence an act of terror. https://www.thelocal.de/20191010/latest-german-leaders-visit-scene-of-deadly-anti-semitic-attack-in-halle Thu, 10 Oct 2019 17:19:32 +0200 latest-german-leaders-visit-scene-of-deadly-anti-semitic-attack-in-halle Jewish groups pushed back against government insistence that anti-Semitism is not growing in Germany at a gathering on Tuesday, saying that newly-arrived Muslim migrants and the traditional far-right both posed a threat to their safety. https://www.thelocal.de/20160120/german-jewish-groups-fear-rising-anti-semitism Wed, 20 Jan 2016 09:38:36 +0100 german-jewish-groups-fear-rising-anti-semitism A German city official who was stabbed in the neck in an attack apparently over her work with refugees was Sunday elected the first female mayor of the western city of Cologne. https://www.thelocal.de/20151019/cologne-votes-knife-victim-in-as-mayor Mon, 19 Oct 2015 09:07:12 +0200 cologne-votes-knife-victim-in-as-mayor Federal police said on Thursday that they had arrested a man in Berlin after he climbed over the fence around the Chancellery during the night and threw a Molotov cocktail. https://www.thelocal.de/20150709/police-arrest-man-after-chancellery-molotov-attack Thu, 09 Jul 2015 17:56:07 +0200 police-arrest-man-after-chancellery-molotov-attack Germans throw away 18 million tonnes of perfectly good food every year, a report showed on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20150619/germans-waste-18m-tonnes-of-food-yearly Fri, 19 Jun 2015 11:05:09 +0200 germans-waste-18m-tonnes-of-food-yearly Best-selling German author and Holocaust survivor Ralph Giordano, whose writing offered a moral compass for the nation in the post-war period, died Wednesday aged 91, his publisher said. https://www.thelocal.de/20141211/author-and-holocaust-survivor-dies-aged-91 Thu, 11 Dec 2014 13:04:00 +0100 author-and-holocaust-survivor-dies-aged-91 Wolfgang Böhmer, Christian Democratic premier of the state of Saxony Anhalt, on Saturday warned of the possibility of the rise of a populist far-right party in Germany, "even if it is not clear who could lead it." https://www.thelocal.de/20100918/29907 Sat, 18 Sep 2010 13:23:00 +0200 29907 The five wild wolves in the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania can gorge themselves on up to €150,000 worth of sheep and other livestock, Agricultural Minister Till Backhaus said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.de/20091209/23843 Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:46:00 +0100 23843