| SPIEGEL ONLINE | INTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER |
| Compiled on October 31, 2013, 06:57 PM CET |
| WASHINGTON TALKS Envoy Pushes for Spying Concessions German diplomats have traveled to Washington to express anger over surveillance of Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone -- but they have yet to make headway. The Obama administration seems "almost helpless" in the face of continued leaks, says one diplomat. |
| TAKING STOCK Why Bankers Still Aren't Chastened Bankers have gone from being global elites to universally despised villains. Recent headlines suggest authorities are finally cracking down on illicit practices -- but the truth is very different. |
| CUT OFF Starving Syrians Hope to Live Through Winter As the world focuses on Syria's chemical disarmament, thousands of people in the country face a more pressing concern: starvation. Cut off by ongoing violence, they are dying because they have no access to supplies. Many will not survive the winter. |
| RAW NERVE Germany Seethes at US Economic Criticism German policymakers are striking back at the United States, after a US Treasury report blasted the country's massive trade surplus. Sensitivities in Berlin are still high over US spying on Chancellor Angela Merkel. |
| NSA BLOWBACK Counterespionage Pushed to Step Up Amid the continuing NSA scandal, the German intelligence community is being pushed to do more to counter US spying. But with limited resources and a complex bureaucracy, that may not be easy. |
| HOLIDAY BACKLASH Germans Cringe at Rise of Halloween Halloween is barely two decades old in Germany, but it's swiftly become a wildly popular holiday among children and adults alike. Retailers say it's now a vital source of revenue. Still, not everyone is getting in the spooky spirit. |
| BENEVOLENT PROTECTOR Vattenfall Overpowers Coal Critics Swedish energy giant Vattenfall dominates life in the Lausitz region of eastern Germany. Now it wants to expand its coal mining operations there -- but opposition to the plans is being drowned out by the company's importance to the local economy. |
| NAZI SCANDAL Gestapo Chief Reportedly Buried in Jewish Cemetery As head of the feared Gestapo secret police, Heinrich Müller perpetrated some of the worst crimes of the Nazi regime. His fate was unconfirmed -- but now a newspaper claims he was buried in a Berlin Jewish cemetery in 1945. |
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