After Twitter refused to take down hateful tweets from the social networking site, activist Shahak Shapira spray painted them outside the front door of Twitter's headquarters in Hamburg.

"One of my sources of information was what I heard in prison... that helped me find potential suspects and terrorists who later fled to Germany in 2015 and 2016."

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The German chancellor met with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency and the IOM - UN Migration Agency ahead of the country's September elections.

Prosecutors had accused the Russian journalist of creating an "extremist" group aimed at overthrowing authorities. But the group had actually called for a referendum for increased transparency from serving officials.

The men were sentenced to several years in jail for the deaths of 13 refugees in the Mediterranean.

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"If the US and South Korea carry out strikes and try to overthrow the North Korea regime and change the political pattern of the Korean Peninsula, China will prevent them from doing so."

For months, Saudi security forces have been engaged in firefights with militant Shiites in the tiny eastern city of Awamiya.

Pfau first came to Pakistan in the 1960s, where she saw the effects of leprosy in poorer areas. Her work is said to have helped heal 50,000 people suffering from the disease.

The company has been ordered to compensate World War II forced laborers. This angered Japanese authorities, who insist these claims have long been settled.

Since the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2007, financial institutions have paid $150 billion (€127.6 billion) - more than Qatar's GDP - in fines for their wrongdoings. Is it enough?

Using the controversial CRISPR gene-editing technology, researchers have created genetically engineered piglets that are free of viruses that might harm humans. Their organs could one day be fit for transplanting.