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A preacher at a mosque in Berlin’s southern Neukölln district has told worshipers that women should be confined to their homes and submit whenever their husbands demand sex. “A woman must turn her home into a flourishing garden for her husband, so that he does not flee from her like a leper or a lion,” Sheik Abdel Moez al-Eila told the congregation at the Al-Nur mosque. The sermon was delivered on January 23rd, but has only just come under broad public scrutiny after a video of the address surfaced on Sunday. The imam went on to say that women should...

Karlsruhe - Police who searched a flat in Germany as part of a widening anti-terrorism inquiry have made chilling finds: a flight-simulator game, a list of chemicals, a litre of battery acid and a handbook on poisons. Also found were high-precision timing devices that could be used in bombs, according to the newspapers Tagesspiegel of Berlin and Süddeutsche Zeitung of Munich in reports released in advance of Friday publication. Asked for confirmation, federal prosecutors in Karlsruhe who head the national fight against terrorists said only that an apartment in the western city of Gelsenkirchen had been raided on March 21...