Head of German spy agency in trouble for playing down recent anti-migrant violence in the eastern city of Chemnitz

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Top German spy awaits his fate as party leaders meet

BERLIN (AP) — The leaders of Germany’s three governing parties are meeting in Berlin to decide the fate of the country’s domestic intelligence chief amid calls for him to be fired over his approach to far-right extremism.

Chancellor Angela Merkel is meeting her coalition partners late Tuesday in what’s being described as a power struggle between the German leader and conservative forces in her own bloc.

The center-left Social Democrats and some in Merkel’s party want her to fire the head of Germany’s BfV agency, Hans-Georg Maassen, for playing down recent anti-migrant violence in the eastern city of Chemnitz.

Maassen, in office since 2012, has also been forced to deny having improper contacts with members of the far-right Alternative for Germany. That party and Germany’s right-wing interior minister, Horst Seehofer, have backed Maassen.

Hope for the 3rd world yet! Their Great Awakening?

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Burkina Faso arrests 30 over illegal female circumcisions

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso authorities have jailed more than 30 adults after they carried out botched female genital mutilation on nearly 60 infants and girls who have been hospitalized.

Viviane Ursule Sanou, head of the National Secretariat against Circumcision, said Tuesday the banned procedure was carried out on girls and young women ranging from 10 months to 24 years old in the capital, Ouagadougou, Kaya in the north and two towns in the central east.

She says because the practice is illegal, many people carry out the circumcisions in secret. All of the victims have been admitted to hospitals for treatment of hemorrhage and infection.

Burkina Faso adopted measures banning female circumcision in the early ’90s. The penal code adopted this year suggests up to 10 years in prison and severe fines.