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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan meets with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, Germany, September 29, 2018. Presidential Press Office / Reuters

Erdogan and Merkel start burying the hatchet

The pair have a mutual interest in repairing ties due to Turkish economic woes and migration pressure on Merkel

October 1, 2018
A woman tests Canon's first full-frame mirrorless digital camera Eos R at the Canon booth during the photokina in Cologne. EPA

Inside the tech revolution shaking up the camera industry

The death knell for digital SLR cameras is spurring an innovation race between Nikon, Canon and Panasonic

October 1, 2018
German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels addressing a Nazi party gathering, circa 1939. Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images

In echo of Nazism, book reveals similarities between Hitler acolytes and today's German far-right 

Hundreds of wartime essays lifted from storage describe a nationalism that is being repeated today

September 23, 2018
A protester holds a sign that reads: 'Whoever doesn't love Germany should leave Germany' in Chemnitz. Getty Images 

German far-right holds country in headlock as violence expected to resume

East Germany's troubled past makes the region more susceptible to Nazi rhetoric

September 2, 2018
Germany's midfielder Mesut Ozil kisses his medal after Germany won the 2014 FIFA World Cup final football match between Germany and Argentina. AFP 

Mesut Özil quits German national team citing racism

'I am German when we win but I am an immigrant when we lose'

July 22, 2018
Germany midfielder Mesut Ozil, left, defender Antonio Ruediger and forward Marco Reus watch as their team loses 3-0 to South Korea in their World Cup match on June 27, 2018. AFP

World Cup debacle adds to Germany's immigrant controversy

Blame laid on Turkish-descent star Mesut Ozil triggers response from Muslim leader

July 16, 2018
A grave of a Muslim soldier who died during the First World War in the French war cemetery La Ferme de Suippes, Champagne. David Crossland / The National

The forgotten Muslim heroes of WWI

How Muslim soldiers helped save the allies from defeat in the First World War

June 7, 2018
Yusra Mardini, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, speaks to the media at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on April 27, 2017. Martial Trezzini / EPA Photo

Yusra Mardini: Syrian girl who swam to freedom sheds light on horror of refugee crisis in book

Autobiography tells story of how she helped save fellow refugees stranded on dinghy before inspiring the world at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games

April 7, 2018
A picture taken on March 8, 2018 shows Syrians walking down a street past rubble from destroyed buildings, in the rebel-held town of Douma in the Eastern Ghouta enclave on the outskirts of Damascus. Hamza Al-Ajweh /AFP Photo

Syria trip by German far-right stokes refugee tension

AfD delegation claims that country is safe provoke locals and exiles while regime bombs civilians

March 8, 2018
Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed the outcome of the SPD vote, saying the collaboration will be "for the good of Germany". Markus Schreiber / AP

Merkel gets go-ahead to form German coalition government

But power struggles within her own party and with coalition partner raise doubts about whether long-serving leader will last a full term

March 4, 2018