A court in Germany has banned a German comedian from re-publishing a section of a satirical poem that mocked Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
German Development Minister Gerd Mueller has accused Qatar of financing Takfiri militants of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) who have seized wide areas of northern Iraq.
As violence escalates in the Egyptian capital Cairo, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has raised possibility of halting arms sale to Egypt.