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  Syrian refugee allows smugglers to rape his wife as payment

  World | January 08, 2016 11:35 IST

  New Delhi: A Syrian man who had run out of money allegedly allowed smugglers to rape his wife as payment for his family being trafficked to Europe.The unidentified woman and a mother-of-four children, is now

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  Munich terror threat remains in place, stations open again

  World | January 02, 2016 9:49 IST

  Berlin: A terror warning in Munich on New Year's Eve that led to the evacuation of two train stations was not a false alert, security officials said Friday, although there have been no arrests.The evacuation

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  No bomb on Berlin-Egypt flight diverted to Hungary

  World | December 07, 2015 23:37 IST

  Budapest: Hungarian police on Monday said that no explosives have been found aboard an Egypt-bound plane that made an unscheduled landing in Hungary because of a bomb threat.Police spokeswoman Viktoria Csiszer-Kovacs told The Associated Press

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  East German who announced Berlin Wall opening dies at 86

  World | November 01, 2015 21:25 IST

  Berlin: Guenter Schabowski, the senior East German official whose cryptic announcement that the communist country was opening its fortified border precipitated the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, died Sunday at 86.His widow, Irina

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  Damascus to Berlin; a Syrian family's escape to new life

  World | September 11, 2015 21:53 IST

  Berlin: The Syrian family asks with wonder why they didn't die like thousands of others like them: killed by bombs in their native Damascus; drowned by the rough waves of the Mediterranean; or suffocated in

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  At a Berlin church, Muslim refugees converting in droves

  World | September 05, 2015 17:02 IST

  Berlin: Mohammed Ali Zonoobi bends his head as the priest pours holy water over his black hair. "Will you break away from Satan and his evil deeds?" pastor Gottfried Martens asks the Iranian refugee. "Will

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  Bose family approaches UK on declassifying Netaji files

  India | August 30, 2015 15:07 IST

  Berlin: Subhash Chandra Bose's family, still awaiting a response from Prime Minister Narendra Modi over declassifying files on the “mystery” surrounding Netaji, has approached the UK asserting it has the relevant documents on him.Netaji's grandnephew

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  Remains of World War II plane, crew found in Polish riverbed

  World | August 26, 2015 7:21 IST

  Warsaw, Poland:  The remains of a Soviet fighter-bomber plane and two crew members shot down by Germans in 1945 have been found in a river in central Poland, a museum official said.Explorers made the find

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  Al-Jazeera journalist remains in Germany awaiting extradition decision

  World | June 22, 2015 9:15 IST

  Berlin: A prominent Al Jazeera journalist will remain in German custody for a second night, prosecutors said Sunday, adding they have not yet decided whether to extradite him to Egypt or set him free.As dozens

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  Top 5 Unusual hotels around the world

  World | June 21, 2015 20:34 IST

  Whether you still harbour  childhood dreams of living in a tree house, or you love cars so much that you'd give anything to sleep inside one, there's a crazy hotel somewhere to fit into your

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  Netaji's daughter to visit India later this year: MEA

  World | April 23, 2015 8:54 IST

  Jakarta: Amid a row over reported snooping on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's family decades back, the government today said the Germany-based daughter of the revolutionary leader will be visiting India later this year where she

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  Which plane PM will take on his return home?

  India | April 15, 2015 21:24 IST

  New Delhi: Air India would take a decision tomorrow whether to fly Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the plane that was grounded in Berlin or continue using the standby aircraft to ferry him back home

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  Modi leaves Berlin for Ottawa

  World | April 15, 2015 9:36 IST

  Berlin: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday left Germany for Canada on the third and final leg of his three-nation tour."I leave Germany with great satisfaction... this visit will strengthen the India-Germany ties," the

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  PM to hold talks with Merkel in Berlin tomorrow

  World | April 13, 2015 23:33 IST

  Berlin: Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived here today from Hannover on the second leg of his maiden visit to Germany and will hold wide-ranging talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel tomorrow, focusing on how the tech-giant

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  2 arrested in Berlin on suspicion of supporting terrorism

  World | January 16, 2015 14:28 IST

  Berlin: Hundreds of Berlin police raided 11 residences at dawn Friday, taking two Turkish men into custody on suspicion they were recruiting fighters and procuring equipment and funding for the so-called Islamic State group in

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  'Lucknow by cycle' to be launched for tourists by Jan end

  India | January 15, 2015 10:48 IST

  Lucknow: On the lines of Berlin and London, Uttar Pradesh Tourism will launch a new scheme here ‘Lucknow by cycle' for visitors by the end of this month and later in heritage cities of Varanasi

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  German daily that printed Charlie Hebdo cartoons attacked

  World | January 11, 2015 20:30 IST

  Berlin: A German newspaper was today targeted in an arson attack for reprinting controversial cartoons from French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo and two people were arrested for involvement in the assault.The building housing the office

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  'Fifty Shades of Grey' to debut at Berlin International Film Festival

  Hollywood | December 23, 2014 13:52 IST

  Los Angeles: The much-talked about film "Fifty Shades of Grey", a big screen adaptation of British author E. L. James's erotic novel of the same name, will make its international debut at the Berlin International

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  Black money case fallout: India pulls out of multilateral information sharing agreement

  India | October 30, 2014 10:00 IST

  New Delhi: India has pulled out of multilateral information sharing agreement today, after submitting its list of 627 Indians who have accounts in the Swiss Bank for tax probe on the apex court's order Wednesday.The

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  Creatures' ability to regrow limbs is 300 million years old

  World | September 28, 2014 18:57 IST

  London: The ability of some vertebrates to re-generate or re-grow amputated limbs first evolved at least 300 million years ago, says a study.Salamanders have this remarkable ability to fully regenerate their limbs into adulthood. Besides,