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Social Democrats, Greens Eye Coalition After Outgoing Merkel’s Bloc Ousted in German Elections
"The climate crisis is the leading issue of the next government, and that is for us the basis for any talks," said Annalena Baerbock, leader of the Greens. ...[Read more]
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Angela Merkel Was Bad for Europe and the World
Today’s German elections mark the effective end of Angela Merkel’s 16-year rule. Yanis Varoufakis writes for Jacobin about how she became Europe’s most dominant peacetime leader — at the expense of Europe itself. ...[Read more]
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Police suspect poisoning at German university as students turn blue
Several people experience nausea and some watch their limbs change colour after using campus kitchens ...[Read more]
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‘This Is Huge’: Top Court Rules Germany’s Climate Law Inadequate to Protect Future Generations
In a ruling hailed as a landmark victory for the climate justice movement, Germany's top constitutional court said Thursday that the nation's 2019 climate law violates young people's "fundamental rights to a human future" by failing to set adequate emissi ...[Read more]
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German Neo-Nazis Trying to Infiltrate Car Industry Labor Union
The Zentrum Automobil promotes itself as an alternative union, but it's leaders show its just more from a dark past. The Zentrum Automobil union is raising concerns in the automobile industry and with politicians in southern Germany for its increasing neo ...[Read more]
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German government wants backdoor access to every digital device
The RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND) reported that Thomas de Maizière had written up a draft proposal for the interior minister conference, taking place next week in Leipzig, which he has called “the legal duty for third parties to allow for secret ...[Read more]
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96-Year old Former Nazi SS Officer Charged for Mass Murders
A German court has handed down a sentence to a 96-year old former Nazi SS officer for carrying out killings at a concentration camp in Poland. The man, who has not yet been named, worked at the Majdanek Concentration Camp in the city of Lublin between Aug ...[Read more]
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Washington economic war against Russian gas supplies to Europe unacceptable
The United States would like to weaken Russia’s energy cooperation with the European Union, said former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, adding it’s unacceptable to create barriers to Russian gas deliveries to the German market. "It’s wrong if t ...[Read more]
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€˜Nazi grandma€™ jailed for third time for denying Holocaust of six million Jews
GERMANY'S infamous €œNazi Grandma€€“ an 87-year-old Third Reich fanatic repeatedly up before the courts for denying that the Holocaust took place has been handed down a new 11-month term behind bars. ...[Read more]
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Ten Years On, Germany Comes Round to Putin’s ‘Wake-Up Call’ in Munich
President Putin's speech to the Munich Security Conference ten years ago was "an invitation for discussion" that has been ignored by Germany and other Western countries to their detriment, former German ambassador Frank Elbe told Sputnik Deutschland. ...[Read more]
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Germany has unveiled a zero-emissions train that only emits water
Germany is set to introduce the world’s first zero-emission passenger train to be powered by hydrogen. The Coradia iLint only emits excess steam into the atmosphere, and provides an alternative to the country’s 4,000 diesel trains. Lower Saxony has a ...[Read more]
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