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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
A satellite image shows Syria's military-run Saidnaya prison, located 30 kilometres north of Damascus. CNES and ASTRIUM / Amnesty International via AFP

Former Syrian prisoners are firing back at the Assad regime

Thirteen former prisoners have testified in two criminal complaints filed to the German Federal Public Prosecutor

November 16, 2017
Frauke Petry, chairwoman of the anti-immigration party Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD leaves a news conference in Berlin, Germany, September 25, 2017. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

Far-right election gains in Germany spark warnings from Muslim and Jewish leaders

Central Council of Muslims alarmed at the gains of the Alternative for Germany party which became the third-biggest party in Sunday’s election

September 25, 2017
Angela Merkel wins her fourth term as chancellor of Germany in the election on September 24, 2017, but her victory is tarnished by the rise of the far-right. Joerg Carstensen/ dpa via AP

Germany election: Merkel wins fourth term but far-right makes big gains

In a bombshell for the German establishment, the anti-Islam, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) captured around 13 per cent of the vote, making it the country's third biggest political force

September 24, 2017