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Berlin - Police in Germany said they had begun an international manhunt Friday, after two convicted criminals broke out of a prison in the western city of Aachen. The two convicts, named by police as Michael Heckhoff, 50, and Peter Paul Michalski, 46...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Berlin - Germany's top military officer resigned Thurday in connection with a botched airstrike two months ago, and a cabinet minister's future was on the line, with Chancellor Angela Merkel grimly demanding an explanation. The scandal, over whether ...
Ensaios Imperfeitos (Free subscription) | yesterday
Within Germany’s top political circles fear is growing of a second international financial crash exceeding in intensity and impact that of autumn 2008. At the weekend, Chancellor Angela Merkel and Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble (both Christian Democratic Union—CDU) warned that the economic crisis was far from over. “We have initially succeeded in limiting the effects of the...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Berlin/Brussels - The resignation Thursday of Germany's top military officer over an airstrike in Kunduz encapsulates many of the difficulties that NATO's European allies face in Afghanistan. General Wolfgang Schneiderhan, the military's chief of sta...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Berlin - NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Thursday that European states would have to send more troops to Afghanistan, as a scandal over civilian casualties in the country rocked the German government. Two of Germany's highest milita...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Berlin- Germany's top soldier and a senior defence ministry official have resigned because of an airstrike ordered by the German army on two fuel tanker trucks hijacked by the Taliban in Afghanistan. The exact details of what happened on the night of...
Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday
BERLIN (Reuters) - John Demjanjuk suffers from bouts of mental absence and will enter court in a wheelchair on Monday to fight charges of helping to kill 27,900 Jews in the Holocaust, the 89-year-old's lawyer said.
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Berlin- Two of Germany's highest military officials lost their jobs Thursday and a former defence minister came under severe pressure, accused of covering up their knowledge of civilian casualties of a bombing raid in Afghanistan. The re...
Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's armed forces chief Wolfgang Schneiderhan has resigned, Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg said, after accusations the military withheld information about an air strike in Afghanistan.
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Berlin - Germany's highest army officer has resigned over his handling of a Afghan bombing raid which left dozens of civilians dead, it was announced Thursday. The resignation of General Inspector Wolfgang Schneiderhan was announced by the country's ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Munich - Herta Heuwer was stuck in her snack stall in the western Berlin district of Charlottenburg. She was finished cleaning up for the day but it was raining cats and dogs and she had no umbrella. So she started to experiment. There was no more mu...
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Berlin could lose more than €10bn in tax revenues next year after a court ruled that a tax levied since the early 1990s to finance the reconstruction of the former East Germany was unconstitutional
distributorcap NY (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
a nice story for Thanksgiving..... In 1931, the International Olympic Committee gave Germany a double dose of nationalism - awarding the XI Summer Games to Berlin and the IV Winter Games to Garmisch – the last time both games were held in one country during one 4 year Olympiad. When Germany was given the games, the nation was still governed under the law of the Weimar Republic. That all changed...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Berlin - Germany is planning a big increase in its military spending in Afghanistan, according to budget data Wednesday. The Defence Ministry said the reason was an increase in personnel, running and purchasing costs as well as the need to improve a ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Berlin - In raids throughout Germany and Austria, police closed down a web gang which stole private credit-card data and used viruses to create a network of 100,000 robot computers, Germany's Federal Crime Office said Wednesday. In Germany, three per...
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trymi | 12/18/2008
Mercedes-Benz’s fashion activities in more than 20 countries have gained a new face. Julia Stegner, an internationally acclaimed top model will make her debut as the fashion brand-ambassador at the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Berlin Autumn/Winter 2009, which will run from January 28 to February 1 2009 at Bebelplatz, in the center of Berlin. At a current photo shoot for the new key visual, Julia Stegner
gbayx7 | 11/25/2008
A WWII-set story as seen through the eyes of Bruno (Butterfield), whose Nazi-Officer father (Thewlis) has just been made the commandant of a concentration camp outside Berlin. Bruno’s eventual friendship with Shmuel.
trymi | 11/10/2008
Seat is commemorating a series of remarkable European awards for its all-new Ibiza super mini after the panel of judges in both Germany and the Netherlands designated it top of its class. Earlier this week executives from the Barcelona-based car maker flew to Berlin to gather a prominent ‘Golden Steering Wheel’ awarded by leading German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, one of Europe’s largest-selling names.
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