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...synagogues led newscasts around the world. But in the week before the blaze, hundreds of hate crimes were committed throughout Europe against Jews, Muslims, Roma, Pakistanis and Africans. On Nov. 10, German police discovered a large black swastika painted on the wall of an empty factory building in Marienwerder Brandenburg. On Nov. 14, a box of six Molotov cocktails was found outside a synagogue in Ivry-sur-Seine, just south of Paris. On Nov. 15, this message appeared on a web forum hosted in the Netherlands, according to Magenta, a watchdog group in Amsterdam: "Just throw that Muslim vermin, those...
...early September, police followed Wiese from Munich to a patch of woods in Brandenburg, near the Polish border. On Sept. 6, investigators say, they stopped Wiese near Nuremberg and found traces of explosives in his backpack. They say they also found a bag with 1.7 kilos of explosives in Metzing's carpentry shop. Searches of the homes of other suspected gang members allegedly turned up 12 more kilos of explosives, grenades and detonators. The plot in Munich could be a sign that the fractious radical right is organizing itself into a terrorist network. There is increasing concern among politicians...
...glassware, has had a tough couple of years. Following the 9/11 terror attacks, orders slumped from the United States, its largest market. But business is finally starting to sparkle again at this 35-year-old company, which employs 130 people at its factory in the eastern German state of Brandenburg. Orders are up not only domestically and from the U.S., but also from France, Spain, Britain - even China. Instead of closing for its annual vacation in July and August, the company went on three shifts to keep up with the influx of new business. "We see the light...
...nonsense. Cooper and King's work, they argue, is merely warmed-over theories with a dash of forensic science thrown in. This field has been plowed before, they note, and has yielded nothing conclusive. "People love to speculate," says Marianne Eaton-Krauss, a Tutankhamen expert at the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. "But there isn't any evidence...
...into industrial action." Assuming the strike vote passes - at least 75% of the membership is required - work stoppages could begin as soon as May 6 in the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg, home to carmakers DaimlerChrysler and Porsche, and also in Berlin and the surrounding state of Brandenburg, where many new businesses have been started in the former East Germany. The last strike by IG Metall was in 1995 and affected only workers in prosperous Bavaria for three weeks. What's so unusual about this year's negotiations is that the two sides were remarkably close when talks...