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BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel is pressing General Motors Co. to come up with a "reliable concept" for the future of its subsidiary Opel. GM last week called off the planned sale of Germany-based Opel to car parts maker Magna and Russian lender Sberbank.
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Telefonica SA Chairman Cesar Alierta is ready to put down 11 times profit for Brazilian phone company GVT (Holding) SA. He was less generous with Germany’s Hansenet Telekommunikation GmbH.
RUESSELSHEIM, Germany -(Dow Jones)- General Motors Co. Frederick "Fritz" Henderson Tuesday that the company's Opel and Vauxhall brands are set become more independent as the U.S. automaker is preparing for a wide-ranging restructuring of its European operations.
We're hearing that suspicious powder was also found at the German Consulate, located at U.N. Plaza, this morning. Yesterday, envelopes containing a suspicious white powder arrived in the mail at the French and Austrian Missions as well as the Uzbekistan Mission; authorities deemed those envelopes to be safe and the three incidents as hoaxes.
MOSCOW, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Russia and Germany contribute to regional energy security and environmental protection through their commercial interests, the Russian prime minister said.
(AP:RUESSELSHEIM, Germany) General Motors Co. said Tuesday that Nick Reilly will take over responsibility for the European units Opel and Vauxhall while the company searches for a permanent chief executive.
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev , drawing on his experience of military failure in Afghanistan in the 1980s, said the U.S. can’t win the conflict there and should begin pulling out its soldiers.
James Weekes was TTLA 's longtime Berlin Bureau Chief. Now based stateside, Weekes e-mailed us his reflections on what's happened since the Fall of the Wall : "Twenty years have now passed. The skin heads still roam much of the far eastern parts (just mention Marzahn to any foreigner), now joined by the more menacing Russlanddeutsche contigent who joined the scene thanks to the quirks of Germany ...
Brett Carter, president of Duke Energy Carolinas, said he has finally witnessed the realization of renewable energy plans developed in the United States 30 years ago – on a recent trip to Germany. “We put those plans on a shelf,” Carter told a...
Throughout the Cold War, Germany was the steadfast trans-Atlantic ally — and France the perpetual skeptic. Paris snubbed NATO, booted allied soldiers off its soil and sought a privileged relationship with Moscow.
As a European Union ban on making or importing certain incandescent lightbulbs takes hold, Ulf Erdmann Ziegler has hoarded 3,000 to last a lifetime -- he hopes. The ban aims to slow global warming.
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- German stocks swung between gains and losses as BASF SE and Henkel AG’s shares climbed and Volkswagen AG dropped. BASF, the world’s largest chemical company, and Henkel both added more than 1 percent. Volkswagen fell on Qatar’s plans to sell preferred stock in the carmaker.
June 6, 1944. D-Day. As hundreds of American soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy, the airborne infantry parachuted behind enemy lines to fight German soldiers from every angle. One of those parachuters was Cass native Jim White.
Warsaw - Poland's government approved a draft law Tuesday that would ban slot machines outside casinos and raise taxes for the industry, the prime minister's chancellery said Tuesday. According to the draft law, there will be no new permits issued to...
German first and second division clubs on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly in favour of keeping a rule that stops investors acquiring majority control.
When they sat down to eat, the 25 people gathered for Shabbat dinner at the temporary synagogue here on a recent Friday night segregated themselves along the spectrum of Jewish identity and experience.
Herzogenaurach, Germany - New call-ups Aaron Hunt and Thomas Mueller can expect to earn their first cap in two upcoming friendlies, Germany coach Joachim Loew said on Tuesday. I can well imagine that they will get a chance (to play), Loew said at t...
Bundesliga clubs voted down a proposal to scrap a rule that prevents outside investors from taking a majority stake in German soccer teams. Martin Kind, the president of first-division Hannover, had argued to abolish the so-called "50+1" rule, which stipulates that clubs must keep a majority of their own shares.
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- European stocks fluctuated after earnings from HSBC Holdings Plc, the region’s biggest bank, offset a bigger-than-forecast decline German investor confidence.
Hundreds gathered in this small English market town Tuesday to pay tribute to six soldiers killed in Afghanistan — five of whom were shot to death by an Afghan police officer who turned against them.
On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germans looked back in celebration at the event that effectively ended the Cold War. Jeffrey Brown reports.
