Tag: Germany

Siemens presents “ehighway” test track for electrically powered trucks

TEMPLIN, Germany (Reuters) — The joint project by Siemens and the German government aims to achieve climate friendly traffic by 2050, according to Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks who visited the test track north of Berlin. Hendricks told reporters that what Germany needed was not just Chancellor Angela Merkel’s “Energiewende”, or shift from nuclear power and fossil fuels towards renewable energy sources. A shift away from conventional traffic was equally crucial, the environment minister said. According […]

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Football: Blasts hit Dortmund team bus, hurting player

by Christophe Beaudufe and Emmanuel Barranguet Agence France Presse DORTMUND, Germany (AFP) — Three explosions rocked the Borussia Dortmund bus, injuring Spanish international Marc Bartra, as the German team headed for a Champions League game against Monaco on Tuesday. Bartra faces wrist surgery after being hit by flying glass and the quarter-final match was postponed until Wednesday because of the attack. The club said the other Dortmund players were “shocked” but safe. “We are assuming […]

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Diver finds first-ever European cave fish

MIAMI, United States (AFP) — A diver spotted an unusual pink fish swimming in an underwater grotto in Germany, and researchers now say it is the first known cave fish ever discovered in Europe. The fish, known as a loach in the genus Barbatula, was found in the dark, remote, frigid underground caverns at the junction of the Danube River and Aachtopf springs in southern Germany, said the study in Current Biology. Until now, more […]

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Need to get into shape for summer? Eat asparagus, says German farmer

WEITERSTADT, Germany (Reuters) — Asparagus season has started in Germany, kicking off an annual frenzy in which restaurants dedicate entire menus to the vegetable and Germans rush to buy bundles of spears from the temporary stalls which appear each spring. In the state of Hesse, a burst of intense sunshine has led to the harvest beginning several weeks earlier than last year, according to local farmer Peter Lipp. He’s hoping for a bumper crop between […]

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Japanese PM Abe wants economic deal with EU soon

HANOVER, Germany (Reuters) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Sunday (March 19) that the European Union and Japan should soon reach an economic deal, and stressed the importance of free trade to his country. “We must conclude an economic partnership agreement between Japan and the EU at an early time,” Abe said at the opening of the CeBIT technology fair in Hanover, northern Germany. He also highlighted the importance of innovation, saying that […]

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Erdogan lashes out at EU over ‘anti-Islam crusade’

by Fulya OZERKAN / Stuart WILLIAMS Agence France Presse ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday accused the European Union of starting a “crusade” against Islam and said his country was no longer friends with The Netherlands, further souring relations. Turkey and the EU are locked in their most explosive row in years after Germany and The Netherlands blocked Turkish ministers from campaigning for a ‘Yes’ vote in an April referendum on […]

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Erdogan angers Dutch with Srebrenica jibe

  by Raziye Akkoc with Stuart Williams in Istanbul ANKARA, Turkey (AFP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan prompted a fresh outcry in The Netherlands on Tuesday with a jibe about the Srebrenica massacre, warning of retaliation in a spiraling diplomatic crisis. Keeping an uncompromising tone in a tumultuous dispute that risks wrecking the entire Ankara-Amsterdam relationship, Erdogan said a ‘yes’ vote in a April 16 referendum on expanding his powers would be the best […]

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Merkel meets Trump amid tense ties

BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — Europe’s most powerful leader, Angela Merkel, meets for the first time next week America’s flamboyant President Donald Trump whose arrival in the White House has sent shockwaves across the Atlantic. While former United States president Barack Obama had labelled Merkel his “closest international partner,” there has been little known contact between the German leader and Trump since he took office. Trump’s criticism of Germany over issues ranging from its record-trade surplus […]

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Axe attackers injure five at German station: police

DUSSELDORF, Germany (AFP) — Attackers wielding axes injured five people at the main train station in the west German city of Duesseldorf late Thursday, local police told AFP. Two suspects were arrested, said police, who warned that others may have fled the scene. No details were given of those arrested or their possible motives. “People travelling were injured by the assailants’ axes,” the police said, adding that it was unclear exactly how many attackers were […]

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Digital publishing pays off for Axel Springer

BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — German media group Axel Springer said Thursday its digital publishing empire would bring further increases in sales and profits in 2017, after meeting its forecasts last year. The publisher achieved a net profit of 450 million euros ($474 million) in 2016, up almost 50 percent on the previous year’s figure. Operating, or underlying, profit increased 6.5 percent to 595 million euros, on revenues around the same level as in 2015 at […]

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Facebook wins case against refugee in Merkel selfie

by Carsten HAUPTMEIER wih Frank ZELLER in Berlin Agence France Presse WURZBURG, Germany (AFP) — Facebook clinched victory Tuesday in a German court case brought by a Syrian refugee whose selfie with Chancellor Angela Merkel had made him the target of racist trolls. The court ruled that the US social media giant was not obliged to actively search out and delete defamatory posts, like those that had falsely linked the claimant to Islamist attacks and […]

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Turkey’s Erdogan likens Germany’s blocking rallies to ‘Nazi practices’

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AFP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lashed out Sunday at Germany for blocking several rallies there ahead of an April vote in Turkey on boosting his powers as head of state, likening it to Nazi practices. “Your practices are not different from the Nazi practices of the past,” Erdogan told a women’s rally in Istanbul, ahead of an April 16 referendum on whether to approve changes to the constitution. “I thought it’s […]

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