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VILNIUS, Lithuania (AFP) — Painter and Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak on Monday opened a museum of his allegorical work inspired by Jewish history in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, more than half a century after he held his first exhibition as a nine-year-old inside its wartime ghetto. As a boy he was sent to live in the ghetto after the German Nazis occupied the city in 1941 during World War II. He survived — unlike most of his […]
by Hui Min Neo and Deborah Cole © Agence France-Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel was left scrambling for ways to drag Germany out of crisis Monday after high-stakes talks to form a new government collapsed, potentially forcing Europe’s top economy into snap elections. Germany now faces weeks, if not months of paralysis with a lame-duck government that is unlikely to take bold policy action. With no other viable coalition in sight, Germany may be […]
by Mariette le Roux and Marlowe Hood Agence France Presse BONN, Germany — World leaders shared the spotlight with a 12-year-old Pacific islander on Wednesday to drive home a plea for urgent climate action despite the Trump administration’s rejection of a planet rescue plan. UN chief Antonio Guterres, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel led the diplomatic push in Bonn, but it was a small boy with a big smile who got the message […]
by Tom Williams Agence France-Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — With both squads beset by injuries, Friday’s Wembley friendly between England and Germany represents an opportunity for fringe players and untested youngsters to stake claims to World Cup places. Harry Kane, Dele Alli and Raheem Sterling are among the players to have withdrawn from England’s squad, while world champions Germany are without Manuel Neuer, Jerome Boateng and Thomas Mueller. Whilst the fans who make their way to […]
by Andrew Beatty Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – Donald Trump will unveil a more aggressive strategy to check Iran’s growing might Friday, withdrawing presidential backing for a landmark nuclear deal and targeting the country’s missile program and militia proxies. During a White House speech at 12:45 pm (1645 GMT), Trump is expected to declare a 2015 deal, which curbed Iran’s nuclear program in return for massive sanctions relief, is no longer in the US national […]
by Jérôme Rivet Agence France-Presse FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany (AFP) — French President Emmanuel Macron takes his push for deeper European integration to Germany Tuesday, where he and Chancellor Angela Merkel will open the world’s largest book fair in Frankfurt. In his landmark speech on the future of Europe last month at the Sorbonne university in Paris, Macron stressed that “culture will always be the strongest cement of the European Union.” France is this year’s guest of honor […]
BERLIN, Germany (AFP) – Two people were killed in northern Germany Thursday as fierce winds toppled trees onto cars, while the intense storm also forced the cancellation of many train services. Police in Hamburg said a woman was killed when a tree fell on her car, while first responders brought another woman to the hospital with serious injuries. A truck driver was killed by a falling tree on the main road in northeastern state Mecklenburg-Western […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday congratulated German Chancellor Angela Merkel on her election win, promising that the two key European partners would keep up their “essential cooperation.” “I called Angela Merkel to congratulate her. We will continue our essential cooperation with determination for Europe and for our countries,” Macron said on Twitter. Merkel won her fourth term in office on Sunday, scoring around 33 percent of the vote with her […]
BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) — Germany’s conservative chancellor Angela Merkel may have won her fourth consecutive national election on Sunday (September 24), but she faces a huge challenge in trying to forge a three-way alliance between parties far apart on the political spectrum. Speaking to her supporters, Merkel said the coming weeks would not be easy. Despite winning most votes, Merkel’s bloc slumped to its worst result since 1949 and, just as significant in terms of […]
FRANKFURT AM MAIN, Germany (AFP) – Insolvent Air Berlin cancelled dozens of more flights Wednesday as pilots again called in sick, despite warnings from the airline that the wildcat action could jeopardize rescue talks. The mass “sick-out” comes ahead of a Friday deadline for potential investors to submit bids for Air Berlin assets. “More than 30 flights” had to be scrapped early Wednesday as some 150 pilots handed in sick notices for the second […]
by Pascale Mollard Agence France Presse PARIS, United States (AFP) — A sleek, subterranean X-ray laser to be unveiled Friday in Germany, by far the most powerful in the world, has scientists in a dozen fields jostling to train its mighty beam on their projects. European XFEL will reveal — and capture in images — secrets at the sub-atomic level, promising breakthroughs in medicine, biology, energy, information technology and chemistry. It will map the molecular […]
CALIFORNIA, United States (Reuters) — A team from the Technical University of Munich in Germany, known as WARR Hyperloop, won a competition hosted by Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Sunday (August 27) to design the fastest pod for a proposed future transportation system of giant vacuum tubes known as the “Hyperloop.” The WARR (pronounced: VAR) team’s pod traveled down the mile-long Spacex Hyperloop test track at 324 kilometers per hour (201 miles per hour). “That was […]
