[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/news/poisonous-leak-evacuation-germany-547/if34e00236c23ec194a42afd9a18b1b0d_fire.dv.flv] Seven hundred firefighters are struggling to extinguish a blaze at a German Kraft Foods factory, hours after a chemical leak triggered a mass evacuation. One thousand eight hundred people were removed from the area….
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Summer vacation is over and things are about to get very interesting in Europe. Most Americans don’t realize this, but much of Europe shuts down for the entire month of August. I wish we had…
[anyplayer:url=http://rt.com/files/news/munich-war-bomb-explosion-870/id49e28751a6fb0e867089f2db5cb5708_00b2f5bf.flv] Authorities have performed a controlled detonation of a 250 kilogram WWII-era bomb in the heart of one of Germany’s largest cities. Thousands of Munich residents were forced to leave their homes before the explosive,…
A German ad campaign aimed at fighting Islamist radicalism has provoked an incensed response from offended Muslims. Thought up by an anti-radicalization center set up earlier this year at the behest of German Interior Minister…
Are you willing to bet against three of the wealthiest men in the entire world? Jacob Rothschild recently bet approximately 200 million dollars that the euro will go down. Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson…
When Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip fatally shot the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, archduke Franz Ferdinand, in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914, the assassination is seen as the event that ushered in the First World…
German intelligence estimates that “around 90” terror attacks that “can be attributed to organizations that are close to al-Qaeda or jihadist groups” were carried out in Syria between the end of December and the beginning…
From Vietnam to Syria – This article was written by Ulrike Marie Meinhof during her time as Editor in Chief of the German magazine “konkret” between 1959 and 1969. Later Ulrike Meinhof took up arms…
German Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass is in the international spotlight after labeling Israel a “threat to world peace” in his new poem. Germany and Israel have both responded by strongly criticizing the writer. In…
Eurozone unemployment jumped to an all-time high in February, hitting southern nations the hardest as the social toll from the debt crisis grips the 17-nation bloc, official figures showed Monday. The jobless rate rose…