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www.inhandnetworks.de Germany's foreign and justice ministers warned Tuesday that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was using "propaganda" to divide their country's three-million-strong ethnic Turkish community.In a tough-worded commentary published amid a raging bilateral row, they warned that Germany's democratic culture was at threat from the "radicalisation" of Erdogan's politics, spreading through state-backed mosques and groups. "We must be careful Muslim communities in Germany do not fall under the sway of President Erdogan," Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel and Justice Minister Heiko Maas wrote. "The slow dissolution of the separation of religion and state taking place in Turkey is poison for democracy," they said. "Erdogan's rhetoric about enemies and his defamation of people who oppose him as 'infidels' or 'traitors' is a threat to the democratic culture of Ge...

www.inhandnetworks.de A family had a lucky escape wh iot Lösungen en they came home to find a rocket had shot through the roof of their house after a student experiment went horribly wrong. A family home in Leiferder Lower Saxony has been left inhabitable after a rocket crashed through the roof. “We're trying to find out how this happened exactly,” Elisabeth Hoffmann spokeswoman from the Technical University of Braunschweig told broadcaster NDR on Tuesday. Launched on Sunday from an airfield near Hillerse, the rocket's flight did not go as planned. The missile went off course and crashed through the roof of the residential building, just one kilometre away. According to Hoffmann Industrie Computer , the 1.6-metre-long, 8 kilo rocket designed by university students was only supposed to fly a maximum of 800 metres. The family – a 38-year-old mother and her two children, aged 6 and 2, were not at home when when the rocket ...

www.inhandnetworks.de English fans played an impromptu football game in the Old Market Square in Dortmund on Tuesday - and they went ballistic when one of them scored a goal.England fans staged their street football match ahead of England's game against Germany on Wednesday evening. The video shows the square cleared with chairs from local restaurants set out as goal posts, and fans can be heard chanting and singing. Fans are seen storming the "pitch," singing and dancing after one of the participants scores a goal. Other fans can be seen throwing glasses into the air which smash on the paving stones near some of the supporters. On Tuesday evening, police in Düsseldorf were confronted by the first signs of trouble from English fans, Ruhr Nachrichten reports. About 700 English fans had met in the alleys and bars of the city centre to drink together. Police stepped in to send some aggressive fans away, but had bottles thrown at the...

www.inhandnetworks.de The federal competition watchdog is investigating social media giant Facebook for a possible breach of Germans' constitutional rights.The office will look into whether the configuration of user contracts allowing the company to use user data is a possible abuse of its position as the market leader in its field, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported on Wednesday. Facebook collects large amounts of personal data on its users which it uses to allow advertisers to target their campaigns. The investigation will look at “whether the consumer is sufficiently informed about the manner and scope of Industrie Router Verkäufer the data collection." "The authority is investigating suspicions that with its specific terms of service on the use of user data, Facebook has abused its possibly dominant position in the market for social networks," a Bundeskartellamt statement read. "It is essential to also examin...

www.inhandnetworks.de A US federal judge overseeing the Volkswagen emissions scandal said Friday he is optimistic about reaching an agreement for the last 80,000 vehicles affected in the United States.A new hearing has been set for Monday to review the German automaker's proposals. "I'm pleased to report that there has been substantial progress and I'm optimistic that there will be a resolution of this matter," San Francisco judge Charles Breyer said during a brief hearing, without giving further details. At the end of October, the US court endorsed a record-setting $15 billion compensation deal that covered the approximately 480,000 2.0-liter Volkswagen diesel cars equipped with software designed to defeat emissions tests. But that agreement did not apply to the 80,000 3.0-liter engine models on the roads in the United States, and for several months, the company has been negotiating with the US authorities to reach an accep...

www.inhandnetworks.de A US court on Wednesday sentenced former Volkswagen executive Oliver Schmidt to seven years in prison for his role in the German automaker's "dieselgate" emissions cheating scandal.Schmidt, who led Volkswagen's US regulatory compliance office from 2012 to March 2015, was also ordered by a federal judge in Detroit to pay a $400,000 fine. Schmidt, 48, the second and most senior employee to plead guilty in the affair, is among seven current and former VW executives that US prosecutors have charged so far. In exchange for his plea, federal prosecutors dropped multiple counts of wire fraud, which carry a maximum of 20 years in prison. Schmidt has agreed to be deported back to Germany after his sentence is completed. In August, the same court sentenced James Liang, a Volkswagen engineer who had cooperated with investigating authorities, to 40 month robust Industrie Router s and a $200,000 fine for his role in t...