News: Germany

We have started to collect the most important news related to Germany in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Germany: news

Iran nuclear offer bid 'progress'

Wednesday, May 24th 2006, 18:26
related countries: Iran

Major world powers report "good progress" in talks on incentives for Iran to end its nuclear programme.
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German MPs report on spy claims

Wednesday, May 24th 2006, 9:51

A special commission in Germany is to decide whether to publish a report into claims journalists were spied on.
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Germans warned of neo-Nazi surge

Monday, May 22nd 2006, 16:04

The German interior minister urges extra vigilance from the public to help tackle far-right extremism.
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CIA 'torture' lawsuit thrown out

Thursday, May 18th 2006, 23:05
related countries: United States

A US judge dismisses a lawsuit by a German man who says he was seized and tortured by the CIA.
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Germany orders press spy halt

Monday, May 15th 2006, 17:42

Germany's foreign intelligence service is told not to spy on reporters amid claims it used journalists to trace leaks.
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Football: Chelsea confirm Ballack

Monday, May 15th 2006, 11:17

Chelsea unveil Germany captain and midfielder Michael Ballack as the club's first signing of the summer.
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German centre-left gets new boss

Sunday, May 14th 2006, 20:00

Kurt Beck is elected leader of Germany's Social Democratic Party, the fourth in just over four years.
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Huge crowds at Pakistani funeral

Saturday, May 13th 2006, 14:12
related countries: Pakistan

At least 30,000 gather in Pakistan for the funeral of a man found hanged while under arrest in Germany.
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Awards for German Stasi film

Saturday, May 13th 2006, 10:34

A drama about the secret Stasi police force has won seven prizes at the German equivalent of the Oscars.
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The actor's wife and the Stasi files

Thursday, May 11th 2006, 11:11

Ray Furlong reports on how the chilling world of the Stasi is coming back to haunt Germany with the release of a film.
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Merkel says EU needs constitution

Thursday, May 11th 2006, 11:04

German Chancellor Angela Merkel makes a strong defence of the controversial EU constitution.
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Tennis: Hingis progresses

Tuesday, May 9th 2006, 18:25
related countries: Italy
related places: Berlin

Martina Hingis beats Flavia Pennetta of Italy 7-5 6-3 to reach the second round of the German Open in Berlin.
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German cannibal guilty of murder

Tuesday, May 9th 2006, 13:07

Cannibal Armin Meiwes, who killed and ate an apparently willing victim, is sentenced to life in prison after a retrial.
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School uniform worries Germans

Tuesday, May 9th 2006, 11:32

A debate rages in Germany over whether uniforms should be made compulsory in schools.
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German row over air honours

Saturday, May 6th 2006, 11:14

A German town reconsiders plans to erect plaques honouring two World War II aircraft designers after protests.
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Soviet graves wrecked in Leipzig

Saturday, May 6th 2006, 0:08
related places: Leipzig

The gravestones of 187 Red Army soldiers from WWII are vandalised in the east German city of Leipzig.
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German police urge march ban

Friday, May 5th 2006, 16:31

German police urge the courts not to allow any neo-Nazi marches near the World Cup venues.
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Pakistani dies in German prison

Friday, May 5th 2006, 12:22
related countries: Pakistan

Germany confirms the death in prison of a Pakistani man held for threatening a newspaper editor.
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Conference on racism in football

Friday, May 5th 2006, 1:18
related countries: United Kingdom
related places: Berlin

The British embassy in Berlin hosts discussions comparing the situation in Britain and Germany.
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Woman on trial for baby deaths

Thursday, April 27th 2006, 13:55

A woman charged with killing eight of her newborn babies goes on trial in a case that has shocked Germany.
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MEPs probe 'CIA detention' case

Thursday, April 27th 2006, 9:15
related countries: Afghanistan, Macedonia, United States

MEPs visit Macedonia to check claims a German man was held by US agents and flown to Afghanistan.
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Muslim fury at German brothel ad

Tuesday, April 25th 2006, 12:06
related places: Cologne

Protests prompt a Cologne brothel to black out Muslim countries' flags in a World Cup-themed advert.
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German business confidence up

Tuesday, April 25th 2006, 11:15

Germany's business confidence has risen to the surprise of analysts who expected a fall.
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German unions set strike deadline

Friday, April 21st 2006, 9:43
related places: Last

Last-ditch pay talks are being held in Germany to try and avoid potential strike action by engineering workers.
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Two held over German race attack

Friday, April 21st 2006, 8:49
related countries: Ethiopia

German police detain two men over a brutal attack which left an Ethiopia-born man fighting for his life.
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Germany to open Holocaust archive

Tuesday, April 18th 2006, 22:56

Germany agrees to open up a huge archive of Nazi records on concentration camp inmates and slave labourers.
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Iran's leader warns 'aggressors'

Tuesday, April 18th 2006, 14:38
related countries: Iran

Iran's president stays defiant as key UN Security Council members and Germany mull the nuclear stand-off.
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'Honour killing' brother jailed

Thursday, April 13th 2006, 9:08
related countries: Turkey

A German court jails a Turkish man aged 19 for shooting his sister in a so-called "honour killing".
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German SPD leader resigns

Monday, April 10th 2006, 11:53

Matthias Platzeck, head of the Social Democrats in Germany's ruling coalition, resigns on health grounds.
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Video shows German hostages

Sunday, April 9th 2006, 20:20
related countries: Iraq

Two Germans abducted in Iraq make a desperate appeal in the first video released by their captors since January.
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Lost words of a German conscript

Saturday, April 8th 2006, 11:00

Andrew Joynes discovers letters sent from a Nazi concentration camp... written by a German inmate.
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Germany to probe 'Iraq spy role'

Friday, April 7th 2006, 15:46
related countries: Iraq, United States

The German parliament is to investigate claims that German agents helped the US in the 2003 Iraq war.
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