Germany confirms Cruise can't film at key site
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Makers of a movie about a failed plot to kill Adolf Hitler will be barred from filming at a German memorial site, but not because star Tom Cruise is a Scientologist, the Finance Ministry said on Monday.
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The makers of a movie starring Tom  Cruise about a failed plot to kill Adolf Hitler will most  likely be allowed to use a German memorial site after all, a  spokesman for the Finance Ministry said on Friday.
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Preparations for filming in a movie  about a plot to kill Adolf Hitler began on Friday at a memorial  site in Berlin after the German government reversed its  decision to bar Tom Cruise.
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Aides to Queen Elizabeth II have denied reports that her legal team had been sent to Venice to view the world premiere of a film about the royal family's reaction to the death of Princess Diana.
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BERLIN - The German government said yesterday it will not budge from its refusal to send troops to Iraq, reinforcing its position after its Defence Minister appeared to suggest that Berlin might one day consider a deployment.
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Germany's film board will grant subsidies worth 4.8 million euros ($6.5 million) for a controversial new film in which Tom Cruise plays a German hero executed for trying to kill Hitler, officials said on Thursday.
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German police tightened checks around the Group of Eight summit site of Heiligendamm on Sunday, and Chancellor Angela Merkel said the "dreadful pictures" of rock-throwing protesters a day earlier showed the need for tight security.
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Germany will not seek extradition of suspected CIA agents in an alleged kidnapping case, officials say.
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ATHENS (Der Spiegel) - According to recent reports resulting from October fact-finding missions conducted by the German Working Group on Refugees, Pro Asyl, and the Greek Group, Lawyers for the Rights of Refugees and Migrants, the Greek coast guard has not only been rejecting but torturing asylum seekers that are arriving in ever greater numbers on the Aegean coast.  Refugee organisations are demanding a response at the European level. ...refugee seekers' boats, often barely afloat, are being forced out of Greece's territorial waters. Some passengers are being set ashore on uninhabited islands on the Turkish Greek border region, provided with no water or food... It is hardly a secret that Greece has shown reluctance recently to accept refugees and asylum seekers. Earlier this year, the Mediterranean country was lampooned for the fact that it turned down almost all of the asylum applications it received from Iraqis fleeing violence back home.  But now it looks as though Greece may be in blatant violation of human rights norms. Reports released this month by Greek and German refugee organisations suggest that the Greek coast guard in the Aegean Sea has been systematically maltreating and obstructing asylum seekers arriving on their shores. Fact-finding missions conducted in summer and October of 2007 by Pro Asyl and Lawyers for the Rights of Refugees and Migrants found that refugee seekers' boats, often barely afloat, are being forced out of Greece's territorial waters. Some passengers are being set ashore on uninhabited islands on the Turkish Greek border region, provided with no water or food.  The investigative missions visited three detention centers on Greek islands and found the conditions to be "degrading and inhuman." In one case, on the island of Chios, there were reports of electric shock treatments, mock executions and beatings. In an independent report, the Greek branch of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), described the detention center on Samos, an island less than two kilometers from the Turkish coast, as being "deplorable" and demanded that the government close it down. Fully 391 people were found living in a room designed for 120. The staff consisted of one doctor, one social worker and a caretaker. Read more...
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U.S. civilian officials have been barred from road travel in Iraq outside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone because of possible attacks after a deadly shooting involving American security firm Blackwater.
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(LONDON) - Airline officials said a Chicago-bound flight from Germany has been delayed for security reasons. The security check follows a bomb threat made against three flights from Frankfurt, including a
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The makers of a movie starring Tom Cruise about a failed plot to kill Adolf Hitler will most likely be allowed to use a German memorial site after all, a spokesman for the Finance Ministry said on Friday.
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Holidaymakers who thought they had lost out on a cruise after the collapse of Travelscope may have a lifeline.
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The former SS France cruise liner can be scrapped in India,  an official says, despite environmentalists' protests.
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Germany will not bow to terrorist threats demanding the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan, Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Monday.
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The makers of Tom Cruise's latest film get go-ahead to shoot in Germany, despite a ban from military sites.
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The country declares its facilities off-limits to a film starring Hollywood's top gun because he is a Scientologist