May 23, 2018
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While airport security officials around the world check for weapons and identification before letting passengers board a plane, the police in Germany are checking for school-age children — and reporting families who take their youngsters on vacation without a teacher’s authorization.
Before school ended on Friday for the two-week spring vacation in Bavaria, officers caught 21 families allowing their children to play hooky, the police confirmed on Wednesday.
Offending parents were reported to the school and to the local authorities. In Bavaria, that could mean a fine as high as 1,000 euros, or about $1,200, in the mail that piled up during a trip.
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November 27, 2017
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Anas Maghrebi rolled his drumsticks back and forth between his thumb and forefinger.
The 27-year-old singer-songwriter fled Syria’s civil war and landed on the Greek island of Lesbos in September 2015, at the peak of Europe’s migrant crisis.
His post-rock band made its way north to Germany, handing out CDs and holding impromptu gigs along the way.
Maghrebi now enjoys his new life in Berlin, a diverse city that he described as the “mecca for artists” in Europe. And for the most part, he feels at home here.
But not everything is rosy for Maghrebi. More than 18 months after arriving, he is only now beginning to learn German.
“It’s not like I come here and all of a sudden I’m a free bird,” he explained.
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Migrants arrive at the Austrian-German near Wegscheid, Germany, on Oct. 28, 2015. Around 1 million asylum-seekers registered in Germany that year. Johannes Simon / Getty Images, file
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A lesson in Görlitz, Germany. “Before the start and after the end of vacation, we see a big increase in children excused as being sick,” said the head of a teachers’ federation in the country.CreditFlorian Gaertner/Photothek, via Getty Images
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