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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
Deniz Naki (C) speaks to the press after the case against him was dropped, in Diyarbakir in 2016. EPA / STR

Kurdish football player shot at on German motorway 

It was an MIT agent or someone who doesn’t like my political stance: Deniz Naki

January 9, 2018
Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and German foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel talk in Goslar, Germany, on January 6, 2018. Sven Pfoertner / Reuters

Germany and Turkey seek to rescue relations from 'current spiral'

Turkish foreign minister visits German counterpart to resolve disputes that broke out after 2016 coup attempt

January 6, 2018
The face of exasperation: nearly four months after being re-elected chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel is still nowhere near forming a coalition government. Hannibal Hanschke / Reuters

They call her 'Mummy' and she has looked after them well, but Germany is starting to dislike Angela Merkel 

She has remained at the head of Europe's biggest economy for 12 years by never taking risks or taking a stand - so much so that her surname has become a byword for inaction

January 3, 2018
German chancellor Angela Merkel leaves the presidential residence in Berlin on November 20, 2017. She met with the German president there after coalition talks failed overnight. Odd Andersen / AFP

Germany plunged into political crisis after talks to form government break down

Before the election, the chancellor had for four years shared power with Germany's centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD). But it has refused to join her government again and reiterated that position on Monday despite mounting pressure for it to reconsider.

November 20, 2017