The mayor of a small German town has been assaulted and beaten unconscious after receiving threats because he planned to settle migrants in the area. Joachim Kebschull, the 61-year-old mayor of Oersdorf near Hamburg, was pushing to house migrants in a property in the town of 900. The attack occurred immediately before a meeting of the town’s urban planning committee where migrant issues were due to be discussed. According to police, the mayor had returned to his car to retrieve a laptop. As he leaned in, someone approached him and struck a blow to his head with either a club...