Tag: Germany

Merkel condemns ‘disgusting’ Virginia far-right violence

BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday slammed as “disgusting” the role of white supremacists in a violent protest in Virginia and an “evil attack” against counterdemonstrators that left one woman dead, her spokesman said. In sharply worded remarks, Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert expressed shock at the weekend rally by Ku Klux Klan members and other white nationalists in Charlottesville. “The scenes at the right-wing extremist march were absolutely repulsive — naked racism, anti-Semitism […]

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Puma raises forecast after leap in sales and profits

FRANKFURT MAIN, Germany (AFP) — German sporting goods firm Puma raised its sales and profits forecasts for the full year Monday, saying it enjoyed strong second-quarter performance and was confident for the second half. The Bavaria-based firm now expects to increase sales between 12 and 14 percent, adjusting for currency effects — up from “a low double-digit percentage” increase previously. That would mean growth up to twice as fast as last year’s, when high-profile sponsorships […]

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Xi’s Germany visit lifts bilateral cooperation to higher level, drives further development of China-EU relations: Chinese FM

GERMANY (Reuters) – President Xi Jinping’s state visit to Germany has promoted comprehensive strategic cooperation between the two countries to a higher level, and has driven further development of China-EU relations, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Saturday in Hamburg, Germany. During the July 4-6 visit, Xi met with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin to review bilateral ties and discuss guidelines for the promotion of China-Germany comprehensive strategic partnership. The […]

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Fresh G20 clashes in Hamburg; police cars torched

  HAMBURG, Germany (AFP) — Protesters clashed with police, torched patrol cars and blocked roads in the German city of Hamburg on Friday in fresh violence just before the start of the G20 summit, police said. “An operation is under way against violent individuals” who threw petrol bombs and set fire to patrol cars near a police station in the city’s Altona district, federal police said on Twitter. In the west of the city, a “plume of black smoke” was […]

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Trump-Putin talks overshadow problem-strewn G20 summit

  by Andrew Beatty and Hui Min Neo Agence France Presse United States President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin were to meet Friday for the first time in a highly-awaited encounter at a G20 summit marked by divisive issues, a rift between America and its Western allies and violent protests. New clashes erupted outside the fortified venue where leaders of the world’s biggest economies were gathering, after a demonstration late Thursday degenerated into […]

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Putin attacks sanctions, protectionism on eve of G20

BERLIN, Germany(AFP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin attacked sanctions against his country and called for an end to trade protectionism, in an editorial published in Germany Thursday ahead of the G20 summit. Sanctions against Russia, imposed because of the Ukraine crisis, “are not just short-sighted but go against the principles of the G20 for cooperation in the interests of all countries,” Putin wrote in the business daily Handelsblatt, urging “open trade relations, based on uniform […]

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Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in Germany ahead of G20 summit

BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) — Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Berlin on Tuesday (July 4) for talks with German chancellor Angela Merkel ahead of the G20 summit in Germany’s second largest city of Hamburg, which starts on Thursday (July 7). Merkel, hosting the meeting of the G20 leaders, and Xi will dine on Tuesday and discuss G20 strategy over lunch on Wednesday. After that, the two leaders will indulge in classic “panda diplomacy,” opening a […]

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Germany bus accident leaves up to 18 feared dead

  by Ralf ISERMANN Agence France-Presse   MUNICH, Germany (AFP) – Up to 18 people were feared killed Monday in one of Germany’s worst road accidents after a tour bus carrying pensioners burst into flames in a collision with a trailer truck, police said. “Thirty passengers were taken to hospitals, some with serious injuries. The others are believed to have died in the burning tour bus,” which had been carrying 48 people, police said in […]

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Bus crash in Bavaria leaves 31 injured, 17 unaccounted for, German media report

STAMMBACH, Germany (Reuters) – Thirty-one people were injured, some seriously, when a coach burst into flames after colliding with a lorry on a motorway in the German state of Bavaria on Monday (July 3), police said. There were 48 people on the bus at the time of the crash, according to a police Twitter. A police spokesman told broadcaster n-tv that 17 people were unaccounted for and he expected several had died.

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Ahead of G20, Merkel warns against protectionism, isolationism

BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Thursday against protectionism and isolationism at a time when the world faces global challenges such as climate change and the threat of terrorism. “Those who think that the problems of this world can be solved with isolationism or protectionism are terribly wrong,” she told the German parliament ahead of the July 7-8 Group of 20 summit. She acknowledged that even within export powerhouse Germany, there are anti-globalization […]

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Merkel says EU future more important than Brexit talks

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that the European Union’s future took priority over Brexit talks, in a rebuke to British Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans to bring the negotiations up at a Brussels summit. “For me, the future of the (remaining) 27 member-states comes before the exit negotiations with Great Britain” said Merkel as she arrived for the two-day meeting. “We want to conduct these negotiations in a good spirit,” she […]

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