Tag: Berlin
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At least eight killed in shootings in Germany: police
Berlin, Feb 20 (AFP/APP): At least eight people were killed in two shootings late Wednesday near the German city of Frankfurt, with an unknown number of attackers still at large, police said. The shootings targeted shisha bars in Hanau, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Frankfurt, according to local media, and police launched a huge…
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Germany on alert as swine fever nears border
Berlin, Dec 11 (AFP/APP): Sniffer dogs, drones and electrified fences: Germany is deploying a full array of defences to stop boars from bringing swine fever into the country and avert a disaster for its thriving pork industry. “The question is no longer if swine fever will come to Germany but when,” Torsten Reinwald, a spokesman…
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Six European countries join barter system for Iran trade
Paris, Dec 1 (AFP/APP): Paris, London and Berlin on Saturday welcomed six new European countries to the INSTEX barter mechanism, which is designed to circumvent US sanctions against trade with Iran by avoiding use of the dollar. “As founding shareholders of the Instrument in Support of Trade Exchanges (INSTEX), France, Germany and the United Kingdom…
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German coalition in suspense as SPD picks new leaders
Berlin, Nov 30 (AFP/APP): The future of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government hung in the balance on Saturday as her junior coalition partners, the Social Democrats, prepared to announce the result of their leadership election. The favourite to win is a leadership duo composed of Finance Minister Olaf Scholz and his running mate Klara Geywitz, who…
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Major museum heists
Paris, Nov 26 (AFP/APP): The art heist at a museum in Dresden on Monday is the latest major robbery of artworks and precious objects from museums. Following are some precedents: – The Mona Lisa, the Louvre – On August 21, 1911, Leonardo de Vinci’s famed “Mona Lisa” was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris.…
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‘Priceless’ jewels snatched from German state museum
Berlin, Nov 26 (AFP/APP): Robbers made off with priceless 18th century jewellery from a state museum in Dresden on Monday, police and museum directors said, in a major art heist that has shocked Germ67any. The thieves at dawn broke into the Green Vault at Dresden’s Royal Palace — home to around 4,000 precious objects of…
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Indian couple go on trial in Germany for spying on Sikhs
Berlin, Nov 21 (AFP/APP): An Indian couple accused of spying on Sikh and Kashmiri communities in Germany went on trial Thursday on charges that carry a sentence of up to 10 years in prison. The suspects were charged in March and have been named only as Manmohan S., 50, and his wife Kanwal Jit K.,…
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Son of former German president stabbed to death
Frankfurt am Main, Nov 20 (AFP/APP): An assailant has stabbed to death the son of former German president Richard von Weizsaecker in attack at a Berlin hospital that left one other person seriously injured, police said Wednesday. The motive for the attack on Fritz von Weizsaecker, 59, on Tuesday evening was unclear. Von Weizsaecker, a…
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Merkel’s conservatives brace for stormy party congress
Berlin, Nov 19 (AFP/APP): German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s centre-right CDU braces for a tumultuous two-day party congress in Leipzig from Friday, with members smarting from recent local election drubbings and bickering over her successor. Here’s a look at what’s ailing the Christian Democratic Union in the twilight of Merkel’s reign. – ‘Floundering’ in the polls?…