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 Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday slammed the restrictions on immigration imposed by US President Donald Trump, saying it was "not justified" to target people based on their background or religion. https://www.thelocal.de/20170129/merkel-slams-trumps-muslim-ban-as-not-justified Sun, 29 Jan 2017 15:01:33 +0100 merkel-slams-trumps-muslim-ban-as-not-justified President Donald Trump and Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed Saturday on NATO's "fundamental importance," the White House said, despite the American leader's past characterisation of the transatlantic military alliance as "obsolete." https://www.thelocal.de/20170129/trump-and-merkel-agree-on-natos-fundamental-importance Sun, 29 Jan 2017 10:16:52 +0100 trump-and-merkel-agree-on-natos-fundamental-importance Move over, Alexander Graham Bell, Germany is marking the anniversary of the first phone call today – a century and a half after Johann Philipp Reis first transmitted a spoken sentence over a cable. https://www.thelocal.de/20111026/38451 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:07:00 +0200 38451