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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Family Minister Ursula von der Leyen would take over as labor minister, replacing Franz Josef Jung who quit earlier on Friday after criticism of his role when he was defense minister.
Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Metro AG’s share-price gain has outpaced the outlook for the German retailer’s profit growth this year, according to fund manager Stephan Thomas , who said he’s selling the shares because weakness in the domestic economy may offset savings from the company’s cost-cutting plan.
BERLIN — Germany’s labor minister resigned Friday after conceding that he didn’t see a military report on a deadly September airstrike in northern Afghanistan while he held the government’s defense portfolio.Labor Minister Franz Josef Jung made the announcement a day after the head of Germany’s armed forces, Gen. Wolfgang Schneiderhan, and deputy Defense Minister Peter Wichert also stepped down ...
Germany's top general and a senior defence ministry official quit on Thursday over an air strike in Afghanistan in which NATO says as many as 142 people died.
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.
Germany's former defence minister Franz Josef Jung quit the cabinet on Friday over a deadly air strike in Afghanistan, the day after claims of a cover-up took the scalp of the country's top general.
BERLIN -(Dow Jones)- German Labor Minister Franz Josef Jung resigned Friday after revelations about his handling of information about an air strike in Afghanistan in which civilians were killed.
FRANKFURT (AP) -- Results from the 14th round of the Bundesliga, the German first-division football league (home team listed first): Friday's Game Bochum 0, Cologne 0 Saturday's Games Hertha Berlin vs. Eintracht Frankfurt Hoffenheim vs. Borussia Dortmund Werder Bremen vs. Wolfsburg Mainz vs. Hamburger SV Nuremberg vs. Freiburg Borussia Moenchengladbach vs. Schalke Sunday's Games Bayer Leverkusen ...
Germany's labor minister resigned Friday after conceding that a military report on a deadly September airstrike in northern Afghanistan failed to reach him while he held the government's defense portfolio.
Berlin - Despite a brace of positive data for the German economy on Tuesday, Chancellor Angela Merkel warned against undue optimism at an employers' conference in Berlin. We find ourselves on very volatile ground, Merkel said, adding that a new spe...
STUTTGART, Germany (AP) - German prosecutors say they have filed criminal charges against the father of a teenager who killed 15 people in a shooting spree in March.
German fourth division club Ulm said Friday it has sacked three players suspected by German authorities of being involved in a Europe-wide match-fixing network which is currently being investigated.
Austria and Germany were on Friday still blocking a planned accord allowing the United States to use data about European citizens in anti-terror investigations as a November 30 deadline closes in.
Germany's Labor Minister Franz Josef Jung will offer to step down following criticism of his former role as defense minister during the Afghanistan conflict, sources in the ruling coalition said on Friday.
The head of the German armed forces resigned following reports that information on civilian casualties had been withheld from the public and from prosecutors.
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.
Germany's top military leader resigned Thursday amid accusations he tried to cover up civilian casualties during an air strike in Afghanistan .
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.
POTSDAM, Germany, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Kate Winslet and Christoph Walz were honored with acting awards at the 61st edition of Germany's Bambi awards in Potsdam.
BERLIN — The head of the German armed forces resigned Thursday over accusations that the military withheld information on a deadly airstrike in Afghanistan in September that killed civilians as well as insurgents.
Former German Defense Minister and current Labor Minister Franz Josef Jung has resigned over a fatal Afghan airstrike ordered by German forces, the Labor Ministry said Friday.
