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Germany: 14,000 illegal immigrants crossed border by bus and train German federal police caught more than 14,000 people entering the country illegally on buses and trains in 2018, regional newspaper Rheinis‐ che Post reported on Monday. An internal federal police document seen by the newspaper showed just under 8,000 migrants entered Germany on buses and slightly more than 6,000 on trains. Most of the migrants were from Afghanistan, Nigeria, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. Some 6,000 entered on buses and trains from Austria, the border with the highest number of illegal crossings. The next highest number of illegal crossings was on the border with France and Switzerland. Passport checks on buses are set to become more difficult after the European Court of Justice ruled that Germanyʼs membership of the Schengen area prohibits bus companies from checking passenger identity papers.
German government rules out autobahn speed limit Germany confirmed on Monday the country will not beintroducing a speed limit on its autobahnroad network anytime soon. "There are more intelligent control mechanisms than a general speed limit," Government spokesman Steffen Seifert told reporters in Berlin. Proposals by agovernment-appointed committee on the future of mobilityto impose a 130 kph (80 mph) limit were recently leaked to the media. Seibert pointed out that the panel had not finished yet. Its proposals are to be finalized by the end of March.
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Israel has ʼrightʼ to defend itself against Iran in Syria Angela Merkel:
German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed support for Israelʼs policy of targeting Iranian forces in Syria. She told Israeli radio that Germany was working to keep Iranian military units away from the Israeli border.
Global trust in ʼmy employerʼ hits new high Thereʼs no doubt the level of trust that people have in institutions and firms has a direct impact on how successful the latter are. A fresh survey reveals a lot about the sensitivities of people across the globe. Peopleʼs trust in governments, institutions and companies seems hard to gauge, but itʼs exactly what US-based marketing consultancy Edelman has been doing for almost two decades. Over the past 19 years, the communications firmhas studied and documented some vital opinion shifts in its annual Trust Barometer. The 2019 edition of the global survey emphasizes once more that trust is a critical asset for any organization. And it has
a strong message for the business world. "Weʼre observing fascinating parallels between the level of trust a company enjoys and its long-term performance in the marketplace and on the stock market." Here are some major takeaways from the 2019 poll. Perhaps the most astonishing result of the survey is that people hold more trust in their own employers than in any single institution around them. A staggering 75 percent of respondents globally have expressed confidence in their respective employers — thatʼs 19 points more than trust in business in general and a whopping 27 points more than trust in governments compared with last yearʼs results.
Book shows Hitlerʼs Holocaust plans for Canada, US A Canadian archive has acquired a book previously owned by Adolf Hitlerwhich contains detailed Jewish population data, as well as information on key organizations and media for Canadian and American Jewish communities. Library and Archives Canada said the 137-page Germanlanguage book, Statistics, Media, and Or‐
Germany aims to revamp crisis-hit care industry amid worker shortage Three German cabinet ministers appeared in Berlin on Monday to offer an update on the governmentʼs effort to improve working conditions for Germanyʼs chronically underpaid care workers. Health Minister Jens Spahn, Family Minister Franziska Giffey, and Labor and Social Affairs Minister Hubertus Heil launched their "Konzertierte Aktion Pflege" ("Concerted Action Care," or KAP) last summer, in an attempt to recruit more people to a deeply unattractive industry that for years has been dogged by reports of mistreatment by overworked care workers. The German government is pushing hard to make care work an attractive career prospect. As Spahn put it: "Today itʼs clear if a young person goes to their parents and says: ʼfather, mother, I want to become a care worker,ʼ then a lot of them would say, ʼoh God, how do we talk them out of it.ʼ Because the image out there is of work conditions that really are difficult."
US: Russiaʼs INF rhetoric a ʼlaughableʼ fraud The United States has warned that unless Russia abides by the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) by February 2, Washington will withdraw from the agreement. The INF treaty forbids Russia and the U.S. from possessing any medium-range nuclear weapons. US Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs Andrea L. Thompson talked to DWʼs Zhanna Nemtsova about the U.S. position and the possibility of the new arms race.
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ganizations of Judaism in the United States and Canada, demonstrates that the
Holocaust was not purely a European event, but rather an operation that was stopped before it reached North America. The bookplate bears a stylized eagle, swastika and the words "Ex Libris Adolf Hitler" indicating it came from Hitlerʼs personal library.
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