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Renewed threats of attack at German schools, radio station

There have been renewed threats at several German schools and radio stations, following a series of bomb threats that targeted at least seven schools and public broadcaster ZDF on Monday, publishes the news agency dpa. A secondary school in the southern state of Bavaria was...

It Is Not True that Russia Does Not Bomb Inhabited Places

The post we are fact-checking claims that Russia does not bomb inhabited places. It is a fact that Russia, on several occasions, has targeted inhabited places and hundreds of civilians, including women and children, were killed, writes Truthmeter.mk.   Under the content-sharing agreement between Truthmeter.mk and...

Unauthorized refugee entries into Germany near record level

The number of refugees crossing the border to Germany without permission is expected to be higher this year than at any time since the migration crisis in 2016, according to official data published on Saturday, writes German news agency DPA. Last month, the federal police...

Record increase in packaging waste in the EU

Waste from packaging, including from food deliveries and other online purchases, has reached a record high in the European Union, the EU's statistics agency Eurostat said on Thursday, writes German news agency DPA. In 2021, every person living in the EU generated on average 188.7...

Top German medic says AI must be used cautiously

German Medical Association president Dr Klaus Reinhardt sees a growing use of artificial intelligence in medicine, but has also called for ethical guidelines for it. "Artificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionize patient treatment," Reinhardt told dpa. This also applies to increasing efficiency in the healthcare...

Scholz vows German help for Egyptian efforts to free Hamas hostages

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has promised Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah al-Sissi German help with efforts to secure the release of hostages kidnapped from Israel by the Islamist militant group Hamas, writes German news agency DPA. "We are making every effort to secure their release," Scholz...

Germany to notify EU of checks on Czech, Swiss, Polish border

Germany is firming up its plans to introduce fixed border checks on entry points from Poland, the Czech Republic and Switzerland, government sources told dpa on Monday, writes German news agency DPA. German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser is set to notify the European Commission about...

Former East German intelligence employee charged with 1974 murder

A former agent of communist East Germany's intelligence agency, the Stasi, has been charged with murder of a Polish national at the border of divided Berlin in 1974, writes German news agency DPA. The now 79-year-old German is alleged to have fired at the man...

European airports expect more passengers in 2024 than pre-pandemic

Europe's airports expect to see a higher number of passengers next year than before the Covid-19 pandemic, writes German news agency DPA. After a strong year-on-year increase of 11.6% in passenger numbers in August, industry body ACI on Wednesday upgraded its forecast for next year. Volumes...

Scholz: Germany ‘defending democracy’ after far-right election gains

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has expressed concern about the significant gains made by the far-right in two state elections at the weekend. "It is a matter of defending democracy," Scholz said on Tuesday at a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron after a...

(REPORTAGE): Even the air in Moldova seems to tremble in suspense over the Russian aggression in Ukraine

Demolished hotel “National” in the centre of Chișinău in the colours of the Ukrainian flag; Photo: Meta.mk   An old dilapidated building greets the passengers arriving at the airport in Chișinău. In terms of its size and interior, it overwhelmingly reminds me of the old building...

Centre-right parties win in key German state elections

Germany's centre-right sister parties CDU and CSU have won two state elections in the southern German states of Bavaria and Hesse, while parties from German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's governing performed poorly, according to initial results, writes German news agency DPA. Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD) and its...

Propaganda video to smear Biden and glorify Putin

The two contexts of Biden and Putin’s meetings with children are different. In Putin’s case, one can see that the interview and meeting were previously organized since the cameras on the video are already positioned and he is acting in accordance with the set...

Petra Balažič: Youth should be able to recognize disinformation with malign intent

Meta.mk spoke with Petra Balažič from the Slovenian Center for European Perspective, which works in the Western Balkans region in dealing with disinformation. Answering our questions, she pointed out that spreading of disinformation is a matter of security and stability of the countries of...

German universities increasingly popular with foreign students

German universities are becoming increasingly popular destinations for foreign students, with a record 370,000 enrolled foreign students during this past winter's academic term, according to the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), writes German news agency DPA. India has replaced China as the top country of...

Only 90 Russians trying to avoid conscription granted German asylum

Some 3,500 Russian men of conscription age have applied for asylum in Germany since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but only 90 have been accepted so far, writes German news agency DPA. The German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) has...

The claim that Russia is at war with the “Anti-religious” Western civilization is a myth

Photo: part of the post with disinformation One cannot claim – as the post does – that the anti-religious civilization, or the West, is fighting against Russia. Russia wants to impose itself as the main global defender of the traditional and religious, which could be...

Study finds views of German voters shifting to the right

According to a new study, far-right extremist attitudes have increased sharply in Germany since 2021, with the researchers determining that one in 12 adults now hold an extreme right-wing worldview, writes German news agency DPA. The study, conducted by researchers at Germany's Bielefeld University, was...

German minister thinks EU law clashes with Ukraine grain restrictions

The import restrictions on Ukrainian grain maintained independently by Poland, Hungary and Slovakia are probably not compatible with EU law, according to German Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir, writes German news agency DPA. Özdemir, a Green Party politician, said ahead of a meeting with other EU...

Germany must up defence spending as in Cold War days, NATO head says

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has stepped up pressure on Germany to increase its defence spending in the face of Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine, writes German news agency DPA. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has stepped up pressure on Germany to increase its defence...