Pompeo lays flowers at German synagogue after far-right shooting - The Times of Israel
Monday, April 6, 2020Pompeo is on a two-day tour of Germany ahead of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
On Thursday, he was in Leipzig meeting with demonstrators from the 1989 peaceful revolution that brought the communist regime down, and will on Friday give a speech in the German capital.
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Leipzig beat Augsburg 2-1 in the German Cup - Xinhua | English.news.cn - Xinhua
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Leipzig's players celebrate victory during the German Cup quarterfinal soccer match between FC Augsburg and RB Leipzig in Augsburg, Germany, on April 2, 2019. Leipzig won 2-1 after extra time and advanced into the semifinals. (Xinhua/Kevin Voigt)
BERLIN, April 2 (Xinhua) -- Leipzig progressed into the semi-finals for the first time in the club's history after beating Augsburg 2-1 in overtime on the late goal from Marcel Halstenberg at the German Cup quarterfinals on Tuesday.
Augsburg scored a very late equalizer through substitute Alfred Finnbogason but Leipzig had the last laugh as Marcel Halstenberg converted a handball penalty in the dying seconds of the overtime to book the semi finals.
Both sides staged an evenly balanced first half with slightly better chances for the hosts, who forced Leipzig's goalkeeper Peter Gulacsi into action twice as Marco Richter and Philipp Max came close.
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NH Hotel Group opens NH Leipzig Zentrum, Germany - The Luxury Editor
Tuesday, August 20, 2019NH Hotel Group opens NH Leipzig Zentrum, GermanyLeipzig has emerged as Germany’s latest hip weekend city break destination and now travellers looking to discover the city’s trendy bars, restaurants and art spaces have a new hotel to call home – the newly opened NH Leipzig Zentrum.Located in the heart of Leipzig, surrounded by trendy bars and eateries the NH Leipzig Zentrum is conveniently close to some of the city’s most famous buildings, museums, restaurants and the renowned Leipzig Zoo, making it a comfortable base for a weekend city break.Read our review of the NH Collection Flower Market AmsterdamDesigned by architect Gerd Heise, the hotel’s 197 rooms are spread across seven stories and are all decorated in a modern style, featuring elegant furniture and wooden floors. Some rooms offer fantastic views of the surrounding buildings including the Rathaus.Famous for his history of music and the arts, Leipzig has become a creative hub in Germany. The city has undergone a renaissance with its Art Nouveau and pe...https://theluxuryeditor.com/news/3150
Faye Webster Returns With Silky New Song ‘Flowers,’ Headlining Tour Dates - Rolling Stone
Tuesday, April 23, 2019Blues
April 30 – Miami, FL @ Fillmore Miami Beach
May 1 – Jacksonville, FL @ Mavericks
May 3 – Mobile, AL @ Soul Kitchen
May 12 – Bremen, DE @ Modernes
May 13 – Hanover, DE @ Capitol
May 14 – Leipzig, DE @ Taubchenthal
May 15 – Vienna, AT – WUK
May 17 – Hamburg, DE @ Große Freiheit Sat. May 18 – Frankfurt, DE @ Batschkapp
May 19 — Berlin, DE @ Huxleys
May 24 — Manchester, UK @ Dot to Dot Festival
May 25 — Bristol, UK @ Dot to Dot Festival
May 26 — Nottingham, UK @ Dot to Dot Festival
May 28 —London, UK @ Bermondsey Social Club
May 29 — London, UK @ Bermondsey Social Club
May 31 — Hilvarenbeek, NL @ Best Kept Secret Festival
June 03 — Paris, FR @ Le Boule Noire
June 16 — Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival
June 18 — Minneapolis, MN @ 7th Street Entry
June 19 — Chicago, IL @ Schubas Tavern
June 21 — Toronto, ON @ The Drake
June 22 — Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Cafe
June 23 — Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
June 24 — Allston, MA @ Great Scott
June 26 — Brooklyn, NY @ Baby’s All Right
June 27 — Washington, DC @ DC9
June 28 — Asheville, NC @ The Mothlight
June 29 — Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
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German conservative politician resigns over far-right ties - DW (English)
Sunday, January 26, 2020Now, the local lawmaker has left Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union.
Robert Möritz, a local politician from the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt, surprisingly announced his resignation from Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) on Friday, saying he wanted "to shield the party from further harm" and calm the political uproar. It recently emerged that Möritz had ties to Germany's right-wing extremist milieu, and has a symbol tattooed on his arm associated with neo-Nazism. Möritz said his resignation was about sending a signal, and that "sometimes, life is about focusing on one's true priorities." He added that he nevertheless fully subscribes to the conservative CDU's values. News of Möritz' links to Germany's far-right milieu had brought Saxony-Anhalt's government — a coalition between the CDU, center-left Social Democrats and environmentalist Greens — to the verge of collapse. On Thursday, the state's CDU issued an ultimatum to Möritz, demanding that he distance himself from the far-right or face repercussions. Read more: Right-wing extremists in Germany to face amped up intelligence The CDU governs Saxony-Anahlt in a coalition with the So...https://www.dw.com/en/german-conservative-politician-resigns-over-far-right-ties/a-51756713
German Man Arrested After Failed Attack on Synagogue - The Wall Street Journal
Sunday, January 26, 2020Halle’s university hospital. A senior security official identified the suspect as Stephan Balliet, 27, a German citizen from the state of Saxony-Anhalt, where Halle is located, and said he wasn’t previously known to authorities. German Interior Minister
Horst Seehofer
said prosecutors had enough information to assume a far-right motivation behind the attack, even though it was too early to make a final determination. The 35-minute video of the assault was streamed live on Twitch, a streaming platform owned by
Amazon.com Inc.,
according to Storyful, a social-media intelligence company owned by News Corp, which also owns The Wall Street Journal. Christiane Prinz, 49, who owns a hairdressing salon opposite the synagogue, said she saw the suspect, dressed in a dark-green military outfit, launch a projectile over the synagogue’s gate into its front yard and cemetery, after which there was a loud bang.
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Chemnitz: Syrian asylum-seeker convicted of killing that sparked far-right riots - DW (English)
Sunday, January 26, 2020Daniel H.'s death, took another 8% and now has five of the 60 seats in the city council. Karsten Hilse, an AfD Bundestag member for Saxony, says last year's demos have been misrepresented. "Of course there were some far-right extremists there," he said. "But a young man was murdered, and then citizens got together who weren't far-right extremists, but just normal people like you and me, who said, 'right, this is enough now'." "What annoyed a lot of Chemnitzers is that hardly anyone talked about the murder afterwards, but only about the people who demonstrated," he argued. "But if you're a normal citizen, you go to work, you pay your taxes, and then you say ok, now I'm going on the street to say: 'I just don't...https://www.dw.com/en/chemnitz-syrian-asylum-seeker-convicted-of-killing-that-sparked-far-right-riots/a-50120472
Green party politician remains most popular head of federal state in Germany: poll - Xinhua | English.news.cn - Xinhua
Sunday, January 26, 2020With an approval rate of 66 percent, Daniel Guenther, Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein, was the second most popular head of a federal state in Germany, followed by Stephan Weil of Lower Saxony who was ranked third with 60 percent.
At the bottom of the ranking was Berlin's governing mayor, Michael Mueller (SPD), whose work was only rated positively by 27 percent of people living in the German capital's federal state.
Following a big win in the European Parliament elections in May, where the Green party in Germany won 20.5 percent of votes and became second strongest political force, support for the Green party in Germany is at a historic high.
According to last week's Trendbarometer, the Greens would gain the same number of votes as the governing conservative union CDU/CSU if elections were to be held.
With regards to a first Green German chancellor, Winfried Kretschmann recently told the Funke Media Group that a German government led by the Greens would not involve a radical change of policy.
"Nobody needs to be afraid of a Green Chancellor. We are not trumps or Erdogans or Orbans who throw everything overboard," Kretschmann told the German newspapers.
The head of Baden-Wuerttemberg noted that he did not see "big differences" in alliances with the CDU/CSU and the SPD. "In socio-political issues, we make progress with the social democrats, in economic policy with the CDU/CSU".
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