Germany’s cabinet on Wednesday approved the deployment of eight attack and transport helicopters as well as 350 additional soldiers to Mali as part of a UN peacekeeping mission, sources said. The helicopters will replace those of the Dutch army, and the additional troops will service and maintain the fleet. After ...
Germany took in 280,000 asylum seekers in 2016, about one third of the previous year’s record figure, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said on Wednesday. At the height of the huge refugee and migrant influx to Europe in 2015, a total of 890,000 people came seeking safe haven in the ...
