BERLIN - Security at asylum sites in Bavaria was being stepped up Friday after fires broke out at three empty buildings earmarked to house asylum seekers and anti-foreigner slogans and swastikas were painted at one site.The fires broke out late Thursday evening in Vorra, in southern Germany near Nuremberg, and police said they were treating it as an arson case.There was no one in the buildings at the time. The blazes Read more [...]

BERLIN (Reuters) - A majority of Germans think Angela Merkel's government is paying too little attention to concern about immigration and asylum seekers that has prompted weekly marches in the city of Dresden, according to a poll. In the survey by TNS for Spiegel magazine, to be published on Sunday, 65 percent said the chancellor's right-left coalition was not taking current record levels of immigration and asylum seekers seriously enough. More than a third believe Germany Read more [...]