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EARTHtimes.org - Thu Nov 26, 7:11 am ET
Berlin- Two of Germany's highest military officials lost their jobs Thursday and a former defence minister came under severe pressure, accused of covering up their knowledge of civilian casualties of a bombing raid in Afghanistan. The re...
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UPI - Wed Nov 25, 6:50 pm ET
BERLIN, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- A former paratrooper in the German Army says discrimination against gays continues almost two decades after it was officially abolished.
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The Forex Market - Thu Nov 26, 6:53 am ET
(Adds data from Bavaria and analyst comment.) By Geoffrey T. Smith Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES FRANKFURT (Dow Jones)--Consumer prices in five of Germany's largest federal states rose in year-on-year terms for the first time since the spring, according to data published Thursday.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Nov 25, 7:18 am ET
A top General Motors executive completed a tour of Opel's four German plants on Wednesday pledging that none would be shut down as the US giant takes the axe to its loss-making unit.
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The Forex Market - Thu Nov 26, 5:53 am ET
(Adds information about price trends in individual sectors.) FRANKFURT (Dow Jones)--Consumer prices in four of Germany's largest federal states rose in year-on-year terms for the first time since the spring, according to data published Thursday.
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Hartford Courant - Tue Nov 24, 12:35 pm ET
Gretel Bergmann matched a German high jump record on June 30, 1936. Two weeks later, the 5 feet, 3 inches she jumped in Stuttgart, Germany, was all but obliterated and she was kicked off the team.
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The Arizona Republic - Wed Nov 25, 10:18 pm ET
Devon Hollahan was reported missing while traveling with a friend in Frankfurt, Germany.
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Bloomberg - Wed Nov 25, 11:16 am ET
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- The German government returned a Hans Makart painting, which had been in the collection of a museum in Muenster for 40 years, to the heirs of a Jewish woman persecuted by the Nazis and forced to sell it in 1940.
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UPI - Wed Nov 25, 10:42 am ET
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Nov. 25 (UPI) -- Claudia Pechstein, who has won nine speed skating Olympic medals for Germany, will miss the 2010 Winter Olympics because of a doping ban.
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The Forex Market - Tue Nov 24, 6:08 am ET
BERLIN -(Dow Jones)- Programs to keep people employed by reducing work hours have helped prevent broad layoffs in Germany and will be extended, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday.
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The Forex Market - Tue Nov 24, 5:38 am ET
BERLIN -(Dow Jones)- There is no certain way to predict how and when the global economy will recover, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday. "It's next to impossible to predict how the international economic situation will develop," Merkel said at a business conference in Berlin.
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Bloomberg - Wed Nov 25, 9:15 am ET
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- German carmakers battered by the strong euro and the end of “cash for clunkers” incentives are set to benefit from an extension of subsidies to keep workers on the payroll decided by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Cabinet.
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Bloomberg - Thu Nov 26, 6:06 am ET
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Germany’s top general quit amid a report that the army withheld evidence of Afghan civilian deaths in an air strike, overshadowing a debate in parliament over how long to keep German troops in Afghanistan.
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NPR - Thu Nov 26, 4:18 pm ET
The head of Germany's armed forces and a senior official from the defense ministry resigned Thursday following allegations the ministry withheld information about civilian casualties sustained during an airstrike in Afghanistan in September. Christian Thiels, senior defense correspondent for the German television network ARD, says the two officials who resigned knew of the civilian casualties.
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New York Times - Thu Nov 26, 6:34 am ET
The head of the German armed forces resigned following reports that information on civilian casualties had been withheld from the public and from prosecutors.
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NPR - Thu Nov 26, 5:21 pm ET
The German military's inspector general — the equivalent of chief of staff — and a deputy defense minister have stepped down over the Sept. 4 attack. A classified NATO report cited "procedural errors" in the strike, which killed 30 civilians.
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Bloomberg - Thu Nov 26, 9:28 am ET
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Co. doesn’t qualify for aid under the so-called Germany Fund and it would be a “farce” if the carmaker were granted the assistance to help restructure the Opel division, a German government adviser said.
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Bloomberg - Thu Nov 26, 9:19 am ET
Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Co. doesn’t qualify for aid under the so-called Germany Fund and it would be a “farce” if the carmaker were granted the assistance to help restructure the Opel division, a German government adviser said.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Thu Nov 26, 5:00 pm ET
Kate Winslet returned to the German film studio where she made the Oscar-winning film "The Reader" on Thursday evening to accept the 2009 Bambi Award for best international actress.
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KJCT 8 Grand Junction - Thu Nov 26, 4:21 am ET
BERLIN (AP) - Germany's defense minister says the inspector general of the German military has been relieved of his duties in connection with the investigation of a September airstrike in Afghanistan in which civilians were killed.