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German court issues guilty verdict in first Syria torture trial

A German court sentenced a former member of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s security services to four and half years in prison after finding him guilty of facilitating the torture of…

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Egg supply shrinking as bird flu reaches 2016 highs

Avian influenza in Europe is now approaching levels last seen in 2016 with egg supply shrinking in countries such as Poland, one of the hardest hit countries due to the loss of laying…

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German hotel chain says will require holidaymakers to be vaccinated

Germany’s Allsun hotel chain will in future require guests to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, owner Alltours said, seeking to drum up business from holidaymakers concerned about the risk of…

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EU should prepare additional sanctions on Russia, Germany says

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas urged on Monday his EU counterparts to give the green light for the preparation of additional sanctions on Russia at a meeting in Brussels. "I…

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German teachers, nursery workers could get vaccine sooner

Primary school teachers and nursery workers in Germany could get a COVID-19 vaccine sooner than originally planned, the country’s Health Minister Jens Spahn said. In its vaccination strategy, Germany has…

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Commerzbank to lose 1.7 mln clients by 2024

Commerzbank expects to lose 1.7 million customers by 2024 as part of its current restructuring, resulting in a 300 million euro ($364 million) hit to revenue, weekly Welt am Sonntag…

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Fears of third wave as schools prepare to reopen in Germany

Shortly before schools will reopen in ten of Germany’s federal states on Monday, there are increasing indications that a third coronavirus wave could be imminent in the country. Despite the…

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Photo Story: German Navy’s sailing school ship Gorch Fock almost completed

Photos of the German Navy’s sailing school ship Gorch Fock at the Luerssen shipyards in Berne, northern Germany. Luerssen shipyards has taken over the insolvent Elsflether Werft shipyards formerly responsible…

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Pandemic hitting German wages harder than financial crisis

Germans' nominal earnings fell for the first time in over a decade, the statistics office said on Wednesday, releasing data that showed the coronavirus pandemic having a more severe impact…

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Germany plans to offer free rapid coronavirus tests

Germany plans to offer all citizens rapid coronavirus tests free of charge from March 1, its health minister said on Tuesday. Jens Spahn said rapid antigen tests were now sufficiently available…

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Germany’s Soeder says new border entry checks have no time limit

SCHIRNDING, Germany, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Germany's south-eastern Bavaria has not set a time limit on new entry checks for travellers from the Czech Republic and Austria's Tyrol that kicked…

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Homeless people in Germany suffer deadliest winter in years

At least 20 homeless people in Germany have died this winter amid particularly low temperatures and heavy snowfalls the homeless charity BAG Wohnungslosenhilfe reported. The numbers continued to climb as…

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Germany tightens border controls

Germany on Sunday implemented more measures to keep coronavirus variants at bay, banning travel from Czech border regions and Austria’s Tyrol after a rise in contagious mutations. A thousand police…

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Germany to fine companies whose suppliers abuse human rights

Germany is set to introduce fines for companies procuring parts or materials abroad from suppliers who fail to meet minimum human rights and environmental standards, after the governing coalition reached…

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German health minister says border closures “unavoidable”

German Health Minister Jens Spahn said entry bans on travellers from the Czech Republic and Austria's Tyrol region from Feb. 14 were necessary to prevent the spread of new variants…

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Germany to impose entry ban on Czech Republic, Tyrol – Bild

FRANKFURT, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Germany will impose an entry ban on travellers from the Czech Republic and Austria's Tyrol region from Feb. 14, the mass-circulation tabloid Bild reported on…

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Commerzbank reports $3.3 billion Q4 loss amid restructuring

Germany's Commerzbank on Thursday said that its net loss deepened to $3.3 billion in the fourth quarter, as the lender undergoes a major restructuring and deals with the fall-out of…

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Frankfurt Airport January Passenger Volume Down 81%

Frankfurt Airport (FRA) served 882,869 passengers in January 2021, representing an 80.9 percent decline compared to the same month last year. This low demand resulted from ongoing travel restrictions imposed…

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UPDATED: Germany may move teachers up the priority list for COVID-19 vaccinations

Germany is considering moving school teachers and daycare staff up the priority list for vaccinations against COVID-19, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told journalists. “It is not possible for these people…

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Wife of jailed Kremlin critic Navalny arrives in Germany – Spiegel

BERLIN (Reuters) - Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, has landed at Frankfurt airport after flying from Russia, German magazine Spiegel reported in its online edition…

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Germany extends lockdown until March 7 – Covid-19 News Roundup

BERLIN, Feb 10 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and leaders of the country's federal states have agreed to extend lockdown measures until March 7, according to a document outlining…

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Merkel wants German lockdown to continue until March – sources

BERLIN, Feb 9 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to keep restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus in place until at least March 1, participants in a…

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EPA’s Eye in the Sky: Bochum, Germany

The 'Deutsche Post' DHL shipping center in Bochum, Germany. Deutsche Post DHL parcel center in Bochum has a sorting capacity of up to 50,000 items per hour and is one…

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EU expels three Russian diplomats, defends Borrell’s ill-starred Moscow trip

BRUSSELS, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Germany, Poland and Sweden expelled three Russian diplomats in a coordinated retaliation on Monday for the expulsion of three European Union diplomats by Russia while…

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Chinese demand helps German manufacturers weather COVID-19 pandemic

BERLIN, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Germany's industrial sector avoided a contraction in December despite coronavirus lockdowns at home and abroad as strong demand from China helped export-oriented manufacturers in Europe's…

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German SPD targets climate-neutral economy in election campaign

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Social Democrats on Sunday put a target to achieve a carbon neutral economy by 2050 at the centre of their economic platform for federal elections in…

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German sniffer dogs detect COVID-19 with 94% accuracy

Reuters - A German veterinary clinic has trained sniffer dogs to detect the novel coronavirus in human saliva samples with 94% accuracy. The dogs are conditioned to scent out the…

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Germany talking to BioNTech about funding for vaccine capacity

BERLIN, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Germany is in talks with BioNTech and other COVID-19 vaccine makers about possible funding to help them secure capacity and raw materials, Health Minister Jens…

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Russia’s Navalny case casts shadow on German politics ahead of election

The poisoning and jailing of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has thrust Nord Stream 2 - a pipeline to take Russian gas to Europe - up Germany's political agenda. That has…

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Navalny affair no grounds to cancel Nord Stream pipeline, new German CDU chief says

Germany should not drop support for the planned Nord Stream 2 pipeline from Russia over the crackdown on Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, as "feel-good moralising" is not foreign policy, the man…

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Germany culls 14,000 turkeys after bird flu was found on another farm

HAMBURG, Feb 3 (Reuters) - An outbreak of bird flu on farm in the eastern German state of Brandenburg has forced authorities to begin slaughtering about 14,000 turkeys, the state…

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Merkel vows to offer all Germans COVID-19 vaccine by end-summer

BERLIN, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel stuck to her government's pledge to offer all German adults a COVID-19 vaccination by the end of the third quarter, despite a…

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Germany sends doctors and ventilators to help Portugal with COVID-19 crisis

BERLIN, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Germany's military will send more than 20 doctors and nurses to Portugal, where space in hospital intensive care units is running out after a surge…

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Germany’s stricter lockdown sinks retail sales in December

BERLIN, Feb 1 (Reuters) - German retail sales plunged more than expected in December as a decision to tighten lockdowns to curb the spread of COVID-19 choked consumer spending in…

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German health minister open to using Russia, Chinese vaccines

Berlin (dpa) - German Health Minister Jens Spahn has said he is open to the use of coronavirus vaccines from Russia or China in Germany, as a debate over the availability of vaccines…

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Germany is already ordering vaccines for 2022, minister says

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany is ordering vaccines for 2022 in case regular or booster doses are needed to keep the population immune against variants of COVID-19, Health Minister Jens Spahn…

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Germany to ban travellers from Britain, Portugal amid fears of more contagious virus variants

Germany is preparing entry bans for travellers from Britain, Portugal, Brazil and South Africa to limit the spread of the more contagious variants of the coronavirus raging in these countries, Interior Minister Horst…

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Germany recommends AstraZeneca COVID-19 shot only for under 65s

Sky News / Reuters - Germany has said the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine should not be offered to people over the age of 65, a source close to the country's government has…

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German minister sees COVID-19 vaccine shortage well into April

BERLIN, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Germany's health minister expects the current shortage of coronavirus vaccines to continue well into April, he said on Thursday, as the government faced new criticism…

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Britain confident that vaccine makers will deliver for both UK and EU

Britain and the European Union should both get the vaccines they have ordered and it is wrong to respond to supply problems with restrictions, Nadhim Zahawi, the British COVID-19 vaccine deployment minister, said…

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Vaccine delays push European stocks to two-week low

European shares closed at two-week lows on Monday as a slump in German business morale underscored the damage from tighter COVID-19 restrictions, while investors feared a slow vaccine rollout could further…

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Merkel, Biden agree to stronger cooperation

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. President Joe Biden agreed in a phone call on Monday that the COVID-19 pandemic can only be overcome through closer international cooperation, a government spokesman in…

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Germany calls for immediate release of Navalny and his supporters

Germany on Monday reiterated its call on Moscow to immediately release Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, along with his more than 3,000 supporters who were arrested across Russia last Saturday. German Foreign…

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About 500 Airbus staff under quarantine after Hamburg COVID-19 outbreak

BERLIN, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Airbus said on Sunday about 500 of its staff had gone into quarantine after 21 workers at its aircraft factory in Hamburg tested positive for…

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Germany expects AstraZeneca to deliver 3 mln COVID-19 vaccine doses in February

BERLIN, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Germany expects British drugmaker AstraZeneca Plc to deliver 3 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine in February despite the company's latest production problems, Health Minister…

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German hospital under quarantine over more infections coronavirus variant

BERLIN (Reuters) - German health authorities put a Berlin hospital under quarantine after 20 patients and staff members tested positive for a more infectious variant of the coronavirus discovered in…

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Leipzig and Leverkusen both lose to hand Bayern the advantage

Berlin (dpa) - RB Leipzig wasted yet another chance to put pressure on Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich after a 3-2 defeat at lowly Mainz on Saturday. Leipzig remain four points behind Bayern, who…

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Scientific breakthrough as German scientists make paralyzed mice walk again

German researchers have enabled mice paralyzed after spinal cord injuries to walk again, re-establishing a neural link hitherto considered irreparable in mammals by using a designer protein injected into the…

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German CDU confirms Laschet as new leader

Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats confirmed centrist Armin Laschet as their new party leader on Friday after a postal ballot, which was required to legally uphold his election by delegates…

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Lufthansa’s Airlines to require crew, passengers to wear medical masks

From February 1, all passengers and crew members on Lufthansa flights must wear a medical mask. In a statement, Lufthansa said that passengers will be required to wear either a…

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‘Lichtfenster’: Germany remembers those who died of Covid-19

A handout photo made available by the German government showing German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier lighting a candle at a window of the presidential residence, the Bellevue castle, in Berlin, Germany.…

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German minister warns against relaxing COVID-19 measures too soon

Germany's coronavirus infection numbers are encouraging but remain too high, Health Minister Jens Spahn said on Friday, dampening expectations that restrictions to curb the spread of the virus could be…

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Volkswagen faces EU fine for missing 2020 emissions targets

Volkswagen faces a fine of more than 100 million euros ($121 million) for missing EU targets on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from its 2020 passenger car fleet, the world's largest…

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Glass maker Schott predicts enough vials to go around for COVID-19 vaccines

Germany’s unlisted Schott AG, the world’s biggest supplier of speciality glass for medical bottles and syringes, said it did not see any shortage of vials for bottling COVID-19 vaccines. Drugmakers…

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Germany agrees tax relief for computer purchases

German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz expects annual tax relief of around 2.3 billion euros from a new measure to support purchases of digital assets like computers and software, the ministry…

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Mutation is a threat to COVID-19 containment efforts – Merkel

Germans should take a new variant of the coronavirus believed to spread much faster very seriously or else risk a third wave of infections, Chancellor Angela Merkel said during a…

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Commerzbank deepens partnership with Microsoft

Commerzbank said on Wednesday that it would widen its partnership with Microsoft by putting a significant portion of its applications in the cloud over the next five years. The two…

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