Crime

Armed Islamist gang terrorizing 'immoral' Chechen women in Berlin: report

A group of armed Chechen men have beaten or threatened several women in Berlin in recent weeks for not abiding by their retrograde understanding of the Quran, Tagesspiegel reports.

Immigration

'Inhumane' authorities separate refugee family

Authorities in the southern German town of Ansbach came under fire on Thursday for tearing a family apart while the traumatised and heavily-pregnant mother lay in hospital - a move politicians described as "inhumane" and "unconstitutional."

Russia

German among dead in Moscow attack

A German man was among the 35 people killed in an explosion detonated by a suicide bomber at Moscow’s busiest airport, media reports said Tuesday.

Russia

Police raid suspected Islamist terrorists

German police carried out dawn raids on 26 premises in Berlin on Wednesday in an operation aimed at suspected Islamists believed to be planning "terror attacks" on Russia, prosecutors said.