Tag: #AngelaMerkel
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To stand with Palestine is to stand with humanity
Clearly, there has to be a change in the US policy and the policy of the EU to guarantee the protection of the rights of the Palestinians. The merciless killing and a barrage of the bombings in Gaza is heart-rending. Destruction of the residences and now almost the entire city on part of the two…
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Angela Merkel’s party braces for drubbing in German state polls
Stuttgart, Germany, March 14 (AFP/APP): Germans headed to the polls in two key regional elections on Sunday, with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives bracing for a drubbing on anger over a corruption scandal and a series of pandemic setbacks. The votes for new regional parliaments in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Wuerttemberg are seen as a bellwether ahead of…
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Angela Merkel Warned that the Pandemic Risked Rolling Back Progress Made on Gender Equality
Berlin, March 6 (AFP/APP): German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Saturday that the pandemic risked rolling back progress made on gender equality, as women take on the lion’s share of childcare in lockdown and are more likely to work in at-risk jobs. “We have to make sure that the pandemic does not lead us to fall back…
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Germany’s Lockdown Decision about Christmas
Berlin, Dec 13 (AFP/APP): Chancellor Angela Merkel will hold crisis talks Sunday with regional leaders of Germany’s 16 states to agree on tougher curbs including the closure of shops ahead of Christmas, as coronavirus infections surge unabated. The drastic measures hitting shops other than those selling essential goods would be imposed from Wednesday until at…
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Alexei Navalny is out of coma: Berlin Hospital
7th September: Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny is out of a coma now, Berlin hospital has said. According to reports from Reuters, Russian critic Alexei Navalny has been removed from a medically induced coma and is responding to speech, Berlin’s Charite hospital said in a statement on Monday. The hospital which has been treating Navalny since…
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Kremlin denies the poisoning accusations to Navalny
Moscow, 3rd September: The Kremlin has rejected accusations that Russia had been responsible for the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Thursday. According to Reuters, Kremlin rejects the accusations regarding the poisoning of Alexei Navalny and said it saw no grounds for sanctions to be imposed against Moscow over the case. German Chancellor Angela…
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Putin’s critic Navalny still in critical condition
Moscow, 23rd August: Russian anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny, who has been in a coma since Thursday, remains in a “very critical” condition. According to reports from Bloomberg, Alexei Navalny, who has been in a coma since Thursday, remains in a “very critical” if stable condition since arriving in Germany for medical treatment after his suspected…
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EU leaders to battle over recovery plan at first face-to-face summit since pandemic
Brussels, July 17 (AFP/APP): The leaders of the European Union held their first face-to-face summit in five months on Friday but the reunion seems unlikely to bridge their divide over a post-virus economic rescue plan. Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel turned 66 on the day she and her 26 colleagues returned to Brussels, not to celebrate but to…
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Global lockdown tightens as virus deaths mount
Paris, March 31 (AFP/APP): Harsh lockdowns aimed at halting the march of the coronavirus extended worldwide Monday as the death toll soared past 35,000 and new waves of US outbreaks pushed the nation’s containment efforts to the brink. Despite slivers of hope in stricken Italy and Spain, the tough measures that have confined some two-fifths…
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COVID-19: German Minister commits suicide amid the outbreak
FRANKFURT, 29th March: With the increasing stress due to the outbreak of the deadly pandemic around the world many countries are falling apart by being severely damaged in the health and economy sector. According to reports, Thomas Schaefer, the finance minister of Germany’s Hesse state, has committed suicide apparently after becoming “deeply worried” over how…