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 German police were Sunday investigating the assassination-style killing in a Berlin park of a Georgian man who was reportedly a former special forces commando and Chechnya war veteran. https://www.thelocal.de/20190825/police-probe-georgians-execution-in-berlin-park Sun, 25 Aug 2019 14:10:44 +0200 police-probe-georgians-execution-in-berlin-park Russia will expel four German diplomats in a tit-for-tat response to Berlin ordering four Russian agents to leave Germany over the poisoning of an ex-spy in Britain, the German foreign minister said on Friday https://www.thelocal.de/20180330/russia-to-expel-four-german-diplomats-over-spy-poisoning Fri, 30 Mar 2018 18:33:01 +0200 russia-to-expel-four-german-diplomats-over-spy-poisoning A Swiss man who admitted to spying on German tax officials was given a suspended sentence and fined by a German court, in a case that has tested ties between Berlin and Bern. https://www.thelocal.de/20171109/swiss-man-who-spied-on-german-tax-officials-avoids-jail-time Thu, 09 Nov 2017 11:55:20 +0100 swiss-man-who-spied-on-german-tax-officials-avoids-jail-time Germany's former top spy, Werner Mauss, was Thursday given a two-year suspended sentence and ordered to donate €200,000 to charity as he was convicted for tax evasion. https://www.thelocal.de/20171005/germanys-james-bond-given-2-year-suspended-sentence-for-tax-evasion Thu, 05 Oct 2017 14:18:42 +0200 germanys-james-bond-given-2-year-suspended-sentence-for-tax-evasion A Düsseldorf court on Wednesday freed an intelligence agent detained last November on suspicion of being an "Islamist" preparing to bomb his agency's headquarters. https://www.thelocal.de/20170713/court-frees-suspected-islamist-intelligence-agent-spy Thu, 13 Jul 2017 11:42:08 +0200 court-frees-suspected-islamist-intelligence-agent-spy Just a fortnight after the revelation that Switzerland conducted a spying mission in Germany in 2012, media in the two countries have reported that the neighbouring nations recently signed an agreement to stop all such espionage. https://www.thelocal.de/20170512/switzerland-and-germany-sign-no-spying-agreement-report Fri, 12 May 2017 13:18:50 +0200 switzerland-and-germany-sign-no-spying-agreement-report German officials confirmed that an agent with the country's domestic spy service, the BfV, was in fact a suspected Islamist. Then media reported he had also once been a porn actor. Here's what we know so far. https://www.thelocal.de/20161201/what-we-know-about-the-gay-porn-star-turned-islamist-spy Thu, 01 Dec 2016 16:53:17 +0100 what-we-know-about-the-gay-porn-star-turned-islamist-spy The bizarre story of a spy for Germany's domestic secret service who was revealed to be an Islamist got even stranger when media reported on Wednesday that he was also once a gay porn star. https://www.thelocal.de/20161130/german-islamist-spy-was-spanish-gay-porn-actor-report Wed, 30 Nov 2016 18:52:46 +0100 german-islamist-spy-was-spanish-gay-porn-actor-report Germany's former top spy, Werner Mauss, went on trial on Monday accused of hiding millions of euros from authorities. https://www.thelocal.de/20160926/germanys-james-bond-goes-on-trial-over-tax-evasion Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:46:39 +0200 germanys-james-bond-goes-on-trial-over-tax-evasion After digital rights blog Netzpolitik revealed that state prosecutors were investigating two of its journalists for treason, Chancellor Angela Merkel's office reacted with shock. Now Spiegel reports that the Chancellery knew about the investigation in April. https://www.thelocal.de/20150827/chancellory-knew-about-investigation-months-ago Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:03:40 +0200 chancellory-knew-about-investigation-months-ago The German intelligence service BND, which is accused of helping the United States spy on EU leaders and companies, had actually "deleted 12,000 requests" targeting European officials, according to a media report on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.de/20150501/berlin-deleted-12000-nsa-spying-requests-report Fri, 01 May 2015 20:21:07 +0200 berlin-deleted-12000-nsa-spying-requests-report Journalist Glenn Greenwald reported on Thursday that the USA told the German government it would cut off intelligence sharing if the country offered NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden asylum. https://www.thelocal.de/20150319/us-threatened-germany-over-snowden-asylum-claim Thu, 19 Mar 2015 17:12:18 +0100 us-threatened-germany-over-snowden-asylum-claim NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden accepted the Stuttgart Peace Prize and called on the public to keep fighting for peace in a speech via video uplink on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.de/20141124/nsa-whistleblower-snowden-feted-in-stuttgart-espionage-surveillance-peace-prize Mon, 24 Nov 2014 11:23:00 +0100 nsa-whistleblower-snowden-feted-in-stuttgart-espionage-surveillance-peace-prize A Russian spy, jailed in Germany with her husband last year, has been freed early and allowed to return home, media reports said Friday, suggesting a possible prisoner swap. https://www.thelocal.de/20141122/germany-frees-female-russian-spy-early Sat, 22 Nov 2014 11:49:49 +0100 germany-frees-female-russian-spy-early The US National Security Agency and British intelligence services are able to secretly access data from telecoms giant Deutsche Telekom and several other German operators, according to Der Spiegel magazine. https://www.thelocal.de/20140914/merkel-to-rally-fight-against-anti-semitism Sun, 14 Sep 2014 11:53:00 +0200 merkel-to-rally-fight-against-anti-semitism A former US listening station in Berlin is experiencing a boom in visitor numbers since the NSA spying scandal hit the headlines. The Local takes a tour of the abandoned Teufelsberg, guided by one of its former spies. https://www.thelocal.de/20140912/berlin-spy-station-sees-tourism-boom Fri, 12 Sep 2014 17:29:00 +0200 berlin-spy-station-sees-tourism-boom Germans want more independence from the United States in security and diplomacy affairs, according to a major survey released on Wednesday, which showed negative attitudes towards the USA have hardened. https://www.thelocal.de/20140910/germans-want-more-independence-from-usa Wed, 10 Sep 2014 16:32:00 +0200 germans-want-more-independence-from-usa A German military flight to the conflict-addled region in northern Iraq has been delayed because Turkey denied landing permission for the layover at Incirlik airbase, according to a spokesman for the air force. https://www.thelocal.de/20140820/german-aid-planes-to-iraq-delayed Wed, 20 Aug 2014 11:17:00 +0200 german-aid-planes-to-iraq-delayed The German secret service listened in on at least one of Hillary Clinton's telephone calls when she was US secretary of state, German media reported Friday. https://www.thelocal.de/20140816/german-secret-service-spied-on-hillary-clinton-report Sat, 16 Aug 2014 12:03:00 +0200 german-secret-service-spied-on-hillary-clinton-report UPDATE: The CIA station chief in Germany left the country on Thursday after Berlin's shock decision last week to demand his expulsion, the US and German governments said. https://www.thelocal.de/20140717/usa-spy-station-chief-leaves-germany Thu, 17 Jul 2014 20:18:00 +0200 usa-spy-station-chief-leaves-germany