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German police swoop on far-right Reichsbürger group
Police in Germany have carried out nationwide raids on homes of members of the right-wing extremist Reichsbürger movement.
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As baby boomers retire, German businesses turn to robots
Companies are turning to automation as the gradual exit of the post-war generation tightens the labor squeeze.
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Making a PDF that’s larger than Germany
The claim that the maximum size of a PDF is 381 km x 381 km is completely false. There's no set limit to the size of a file.
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German parliament confirms Merkel
Angela Merkel has been confirmed as German chancellor for a third term, at the head of a grand coalition, by a vote in the Bundestag (parliament).
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Thousands of Germans get warning letters for watching copyrighted porn
It is the kind of letter that might well lead to a distinctly uncomfortable conversation around the breakfast table: this month, between 20,000 and 30,000 German households received legal warnings for having viewed copyrighted pornographic films via the streaming website RedTube.com.
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Merkel compared NSA to Stasi in heated encounter with Obama
German chancellor furious after revelations US intelligence agency listened in on her personal mobile phone.
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Berlin 1900 in colour!
This is a video showing Berlin, the German capital around the year 1900, although the last scenes are from 1914. ENJOY!
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Is A 500-Year-Old German Beer Law Heritage Worth Honoring?
Germans are serious about their beer. Serious enough for the European country's main brewers association to urge the United Nations to recognize that fact. The brewers association wants a five-century-old law governing how German beer is made to become part of the UNESCO World Heritage list. It would join the Argentinian tango, Iranian carpet weaving and French gastronomy, among other famous traditions, that are considered unique and worth protecting.
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Snowden ally Appelbaum claims his Berlin apartment was invaded
Jacob Appelbaum, a US Internet activist and one of the people with access to Edward Snowden's documents, has told a Berlin paper that his apartment was broken into, saying he suspected US involvement.
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World War II Somehow Claims Another Casualty
A German construction worker was killed Friday by an unexploded bomb. Some 70 years after the war's end, the bombs are still an everyday threat.
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Germany eyes parliamentary inquiry into NSA activities
German politicians across party borders have spoken out in favour of setting up a parliamentary inquiry into the NSA's spying activities in Germany. But what could such a panel achieve?
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Expelled from Yemen
It has been four days since I was forced to leave Yemen. Last Thursday, the president of Yemen College of Middle Eastern Studies, gave me a choice: face interrogation, arrest and, potential imprisonment over my article Explosions of Sana’a (and presumably others,) or leave the country by Tuesday.
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Berlin supermarkets discover banana boxes stuffed with cocaine
Boxes filled with bananas and cocaine were delivered to five Berlin supermarkets in what police on Tuesday called a logistical error by drug smugglers.Supermarket staff discovered the
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Car-Free City: Hamburg Announces Audacious 20-Year Plan
Germany may be known for its green political party and sustainable energy focus, but this daring plan to eliminate the need for automobiles entirely across the country’s second-largest metropolis is fresh and bold by any standard.
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Germany Conditions High-Tech, Science Grants on Settlement Funding Ban
Germany announced continued grants to Israeli high-tech companies, as well as the renewal of a scientific cooperation agreement, stressing that the Israeli companies that are located in West Bank settlements or East Jerusalem will not be eligible for funding, Haaretz newspaper reported Thursday.
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Himmler hoard of letters and diaries discovered in Israel
Lost letters, photographs and diaries by Heinrich Himmler have been discovered in Israel, shedding new light on one of the men most directly responsible for the Holocaust. The stash of documents from the Nazi era is currently held in a bank vault in Tel Aviv, but has been authenticated by the German federal archive, considered the world's leading authority on material from the period
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Scientists have likely found Charlemagne's skeleton
After 26 years of research, scientists finally announced last week that the bones interred at Charlemagne's supposed resting place at Aachen Cathedral probably do belong to the emperor, The Local reports.
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Toronto child-porn investigation leads to major political scandal in Germany
A child-pornography investigation that began in Toronto is behind a major political scandal in Germany, forcing the resignation of two prominent federal politicians, including a senior cabinet minister of Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition government.
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Polar bear dies after eating coat and bag
A polar bear has died after eating a visitor's coat and bag. Anton the bear is the latest in a string of animals who have died after eating things thrown into his enclosure at Stuttgart Zoo.
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Angela Merkel: Let US spies keep their internet. The EU will build its own
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has lent her support to the idea of building out new European data networks to help keep Europeans' email and other data out of the hands of US spies. In the latest edition of her weekly podcast on Saturday, Merkel said she planned to raise the issue among other topics in a meeting with French President François Hollande this week.
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