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Former German Chancellor and statesman Helmut Kohl, the longest-serving postwar Western leader, died at the age of 87 on June 16.

Germany is the final destination for many migrants and refugees from the Middle East; the message to these "new Germans" is to integrate as soon as possible.

Several thousand people on Monday started a march from Berlin to Syria, appealing in this way for an end to the fighting in that country.

The march for Aleppo, with the participants carrying white flags, began from the former Berlin airport Tempelhof.

German authorities came under fire Dec. 22 after it emerged that the prime suspect in Berlin's deadly truck attack, a rejected Tunisian asylum seeker, was known as a potentially dangerous jihadist, AFP reported.

Twelve people have been confirmed dead, up to 50 are injured and an attacker is reportedly on the run after a truck ploughed into a crowd at a Christmas market in Berlin, Germany. German authorities have officially dubbed the attack an act of terrorism. The truck crashed last night local time, near the fashionable Kurfuerstendamm avenue in Breitscheidplatz in western Berlin.

The Economist writes that “Europe will soon have more physical barriers on its national borders than it did during the Cold War.