BERLIN -- Nearly 1.1 million people were registered as asylum seekers in Germany last year, more than 400,000 of them from Syria, the government said Wednesday. INTERACTIVE: Europe's migrant crisis The Interior Ministry said 1,091,894 people were registered between last January and December. Syrians were by far the biggest single group, accounting for 428,468 people. They were followed by Afghans, 154,046 of whom were registered, and 121,662 Iraqis. Germany Read more [...]

BERLIN -- Nearly 1.1 million people were registered as asylum seekers in Germany last year, more than 400,000 of them from Syria, the government said Wednesday. INTERACTIVE: Europe's migrant crisis The Interior Ministry said 1,091,894 people were registered between last January and December. Syrians were by far the biggest single group, accounting for 428,468 people. They were followed by Afghans, 154,046 of whom were registered, and 121,662 Iraqis. Germany Read more [...]

A collaboration between sports car designer Bugatti and yacht builder Palmer Johnson has created a super model series combining desire and demand. WITH 2015’s Back to the Future nostalgia disappearing in the wake, the new year is heralding a new era of design as European boatbuilders focus their vision on 2020 and beyond. Some photos appearing have grown men salivating, none more so than a new collaboration between supercar builder Bugatti and superyacht builder Palmer Johnson.Bugatti Read more [...]

German police said Thursday that they had “indications that a terror attack” was being planned for New Year’s Eve in Munich. As thousands geared up to celebrate New Year’s Eve in the Bavarian capital, police sent out a terse 140-character message warning of a planned terror attack at two of the city’s train stations. On Friday (local time), police took to social media telling people to avoid crowded areas and train stations after they received “serious information” of an “imminent” Read more [...]

Annotated reprints of Hitler's semi-autobiographical book "Mein Kampf," or "My Struggle," are going on sale in Germany and elsewhere this week, after the copyright to the book expired at the end of last year. The new German publication of Hitler's political manifesto for the first time after 70 years has sparked a debate about whether it is right to reprint the anti-Semitic work.The German state of Bavaria, which held the copyright to Hitler's book from 1945, refused anyone the rights to Read more [...]

Munich's main rail station and another station in the west of the city were closed on New Year's Eve over a "serious, imminent threat" of a suicide attack linked to the Islamist State (IS) extremist group, police said. "Please avoid crowds", it said."There is nobody in the main station at the moment, but the atmosphere in Munich is like a normal New Year"."No one has seen or heard these suspected terrorists but the French don't just dream these things up", he said, referring to a tip that came from Read more [...]

Angela Merkel attended a meeting on Wednesday with representatives of the Christian Social Union (CSU), sister party of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU), after a tense previous appearance in November alongside state premier Horst Seehofer. Meeting with CSU representatives in the Bavarian town of Wildbad Kreuth, Merkel again rejected proposals for capping the number of refugees allowed into Germany in 2016. "There exist some varying positions. That will probably not change in the discussion Read more [...]

Trains stations have reopened and police presence across the city has been reduced after police say there is no imminent terror threat."We still have many colleagues deployed".High threat "Security forces anticipate that the high threat of global terrorism will persist", he said.The "concrete tip" indicated a group of up to seven Islamic State militants was planning a massacre involving suicide bombers targeting train stations in the Bavarian capital. He did not name the country but German television Read more [...]

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* A look at the day ahead from European Economics and Politics Editor Mark John and Jamie McGeever, Chief Correspondent, Financial Markets, EMEA. The views expressed are their own.LONDON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Angela Merkel's Bavarian sister party, the CSU, holds its party conference in the spa town of Wildbad Kreuth from 1300 GMT, with the controversy over migration policy firmly at the top of the agenda. CSU party chief Horst Seehofer stepped up attacks on Merkel's open-door refugee policy at the weekend Read more [...]