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Germany drafting law to give people the legal right to work from home
Germany has said that it wants to give its citizens the legal right to work from home. Workers in many parts of the globe are now much more familiar with the ins and outs of the remote office than they were at the start of this year. In Germany, about 40% of people wanted to work from home at least some of the time even before the pandemic struck.
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QAnon Is Thriving in Germany. The Extreme Right Is Delighted.
As the U.S. conspiracy theory goes global, it has found fertile ground in the putsch fantasies and anti-Semitic tropes long popular on Germany’s far-right fringe. Counterterrorism officials worry.
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Tesla Opens Large Sustainably Powered Supercharger Station In Germany
As the numbers of electric vehicles grow throughout all continents, the necessity for large charging stations to take over from petrol stations to power cars grows. Tesla has understood this so that is why it has pioneered the largest electric charger network worldwide.
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America has never grappled with its racist past. Could Germany be a model?
The long and public reckoning that followed the Holocaust shows a path forward for a United States that desperately needs to confront its demons.
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Navalny team says nerve agent was found on hotel room water bottle
The nerve agent used to poison Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detected on an empty water bottle from his hotel room in the Siberian city of Tomsk, suggesting he was poisoned there and not at the airport as first thought, his team said on Thursday.
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Germany's nationwide emergency warning day sees bumpy rollout20
For the first time in almost 30 years, Germany carried out a nationwide emergency warning day. But not everything went as planned.
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As slow as possible: German organ changes note for first time in years
Dozens of mask-wearing music enthusiasts gathered at a church in an eastern German town on Saturday to witness the first note change in seven years in the world’s longest lasting pipe organ performance. The Saint Burchardi Church in the city of Halberstadt started playing “As Slow as Possible” by U.S. composer John Cage in 2001 and the last note change took place in 2013.
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Elon Musk is going to Germany to review Tesla's vaccine printer venture and Gigafactory Berlin - Electrek
Elon Musk confirmed that he is going to Germany to review Tesla’s effort to build a new kind of vaccine printer with Curevac and the progress at Gigafactory Berlin. Earlier this year, Musk announced that Tesla has become the manufacturing partner for biotech firm CureVac who is working on a COVID-19 vaccine based on their RNA technology. The CEO announced that Tesla would be “building RNA micro-factories for CureVac,” a Germany-based company.
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Germany puts on crowded concerts to study Covid
Scientists are using Saturday's three concerts to explore ways of holding mass indoor events safely.
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‘For climate protesters, we are like filth’: the German village where coal is still king
Europe is going coal-free, but a vast lignite mine is expanding in eastern Germany and coronavirus has delayed new climate laws
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Germany is beginning a universal basic income trial with individuals getting $1,400 a month for 3 years
Germany is about to become the latest country to trial a universal basic income after 1,500 people signed up to a three-year experiment into how it affects the economy and the wellbeing of recipients. As part of the study, 120 individuals will receive the equivalent of $1,430 a month for 3 years, which is just above Germany's poverty line, with their life outcomes compared to another group of 1,380 people who will not receive the payments.
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Amazon investigated by German watchdog for abusing dominance during pandemic
Amazon is being investigated by the German Federal Cartel Office for allegedly abusing its market position during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Germany's biggest union calls for 4-day week to save thousands of jobs
Germany's automotive and industrial sectors were already undergoing huge structural changes before the pandemic struck. The IG Metall union thinks a shorter working week could now help prevent mass layoffs.
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Cheeky boar leaves nudist grunting in laptop chase
A nudist in Berlin got too close to nature for comfort when a wild boar snatched his plastic bag - which had his laptop inside. The naked man gave chase to the boar and her two piglets - much to the amusement of fellow sunbathers. Adele Landauer, an actor and life coach, took photos of the chase at Teufelssee - a popular bathing spot - and put them on Facebook. "Nature strikes back!" she wrote, adding that the man laughed it all off.
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Germany's largest meteorite discovered after sitting for decades in garden
The out-of-this-world find is being hailed as a "scientific sensation." The meteorite was first dug up in 1989 and sat in a garden for decades before the homeowner shared his unusual rock with researchers.
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Tesla can’t use Autopilot ads in Germany, court says
Tesla’s ads for its Autopilot driver-assistance system were rebuffed by a German court, which said the carmaker misled consumers. The Munich Regional Court on Tuesday ruled that the automaker can no longer use the ads in Germany because they improperly claimed the vehicles have “full potential for autonomous driving.”
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German court bans Tesla ad statements related to autonomous driving
Germany has banned Tesla from repeating what a court says are misleading advertising statements relating to the capabilities of the firm's driver assistance systems and to autonomous driving, a Munich judge ruled on Tuesday.
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Survey Finds 30% of German Catholics Are Considering Leaving Church
A survey released Thursday found that 30% of German Catholics are considering leaving the Church. The poll, conducted by the research institute INSA Consulere for the Catholic weekly newspaper Die Tagespost, reported that almost a third of respondents agreed with the statement “I am a member of the Church and can imagine leaving the Church soon.”
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Germany plans to phase out coal after nuclear phase-out
After Fukushima in 2011, Germany decreed the end of nuclear power by 2022. A decision strongly criticized, especially in France, world champion in nuclear power and accused of replacing nuclear with coal, thereby increasing their CO 2 emissions. A “fake news” that always lasts. In accordance with the agreement of the coalition government, the latter appointed this June 6 a commission responsible for drawing up the timetable for the exit of the coal.
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As Neo-Nazis Seed Military Ranks, Germany Confronts ‘an Enemy Within’
As Germany emerged from its coronavirus lockdown in May, police commandos pulled up outside a rural property owned by a sergeant major in the special forces, the country’s most highly trained and secretive military unit. They brought a digger. The sergeant major’s nickname was Little Sheep. He was suspected of being a neo-Nazi. Buried in the garden, the police found two kilograms of PETN plastic explosives, a detonator, a fuse, an AK-47, a silencer, two knives, a crossbow and thousands of rounds of ammunition, much of it believed to have been stolen from the German military.
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