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German Chancellor visits China
[BBC]- German Chancellor Merkel has arrived in China for a two day trip. Discussions will include the European economic crisis, German-Chinese trade and sanctions against Iran. full story …
French president proposes tax shift plan to cut labor costs
[Bloomberg Newsweek]- President Nicolas Sarkozy of France has proposed an increase in sales tax rates in an effort to reduce labor costs. The plan is to increase the revenue generated…
Hunt intensifies for man who killed daughter
This story infuriates me! It comes from TheLocal.de. “Police hunting the man who shot and killed his 13-year-old daughter after she refused to move back home from a children’s home,…
Rwandan militia leader commanding Congo violence from Germany
In spite of an international arrest warrant, Ignace Murwanashyaka lives free in Germany. By telephone, he leads FDLR, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda. A Deutsche Welle article…
Special A/H1N1 vaccine for Germany’s government
Leaders of the German government will receive a different vaccine than the one distributed to the public, reports The Local. The government’s vaccine does not have a booster and a…
Anti-nuclear group criticizes German waste shipments to Russia
[Deutsche Welle]– In the wake of a French investigation into reports that nuclear waste is sent from French plants to Siberia, news has emerged that Germany has a long tradition…
Stranded cargo vessel with Russian sailors near UAE impounded
[RIA Novosti]– A cargo vessel with nine Russian crewmembers stranded in the United Arab Emirates has been impounded, an inspector from the International Transport Workers’ Federation said. The Magdalena, owned…
High hurdles for extending the life of Germany’s nuclear power plants
[Deutsche Welle]– Germany’s new government is considering extending the lives of some of the country’s nuclear plants – under strict conditions. The deliberations come as a ceiling at a temporary…
Berlin’s former city finance chief calls the capital too stupid to be great
[Deutsche Welle]– Berlin’s outspoken former city finance chief Thilo Sarrazin has provoked the citizens of his old home town once again by blaming the city’s underclass and its leftist mentality…
Merkel has centre-right majority with 33.5%, exit polls show
[France 24]– Chancellor Angela Merkel has won a second mandate in the German federal elections with a new centre-right CDU/CSU coalition holding 33.5% of the vote, exit polls show. The…
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