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Germany and Kazakhstan ink $4 billion agreement

admin — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:18:17 +0000

[The Local]- Germany and Kazakhstan has signed documents agreeing to cooperate on $4 billion on natural resources and industry. Trade continues to grow between the two countries grew 20 percent last year. Questions are being raise in Germany over the agreement due to human rights concerns in Kazakhstan.

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German Chancellor visits China

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:16:40 +0000

[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.

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French president proposes tax shift plan to cut labor costs

admin — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:11:04 +0000

[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 from sales taxes so that there can be a reduction in labor taxes. France currently has higher labor costs than Germany. Sarkozy faces election this spring and is convinced that his plan will continue to fund the tremendous budget dedicated to social programs and make France more competitive in the labor market.

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Hunt intensifies for man who killed daughter

admin — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 05:25:40 +0000

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, released a picture of him on Thursday and appealed to the public for help in finding him.”

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Rwandan militia leader commanding Congo violence from Germany

admin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:26:08 +0000

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 states, “In 1994 Rwanda was the site of one of the worst genocides in history. More than 800,000 people – mostly Tutsi – were killed over three months by the army and Hutu militias. Today, there’s peace in Rwanda but on the other side of the mountain range, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, many of the Hutu militiamen continue their fight. Organized as the FDLR, they bring havoc over the eastern Congo – turning 1.5 million people into refugees.”

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Special A/H1N1 vaccine for Germany’s government

admin — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:27:49 +0000

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 preservative containing mercury.

“Chancellor Angela Merkel, her cabinet members and ministry civil servants as well as those working for other agencies will get Celvapan, produced by US firm Baxter, which does not have the adjuvant or the preservative, according to Der Spiegel.”

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Anti-nuclear group criticizes German waste shipments to Russia

admin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:07:34 +0000

[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 of shipping toxic waste to Russia.

The German anti-nuclear group “Ausgestrahlt” said that since 1996, Germany’s only uranium enrichment plant in Gronau has shipped about 22,000 tons of uranium hexafluoride, which is a compound used in the uranium enrichment process, to Russia.

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Stranded cargo vessel with Russian sailors near UAE impounded

admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:35:49 +0000

[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 by a German company and flying the flag of Antigua and Barbuda, has been anchored 16 miles off UAE coast near Dubai since early August due to an engine breakdown.

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High hurdles for extending the life of Germany’s nuclear power plants

admin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:36:21 +0000

[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 nuclear waste storage site caved in.

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) and her new liberal Free Democrat (FDP) coalition partner are embroiled in coalition talks this week, where both parties have indicated their willingness to nix current nuclear phase-out plans in favor of extending the operational life span of nuclear plants in connection with strict security standards.

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Berlin’s former city finance chief calls the capital too stupid to be great

admin — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:48:33 +0000

[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 for what he sees as its lack of success.

“The city is burdened by its ‘68 tradition and the West-Berliner sloppiness factor,” Sarrazin said in an interview with the cultural magazine Lettre International. “Its politics are not elitist – it has a plebeian and petit-bourgeois outlook,” he said.

Sarrazin pointed out that Berlin’s unique 20th century history prevented it from re-attaining its status as an intellectual, financial and industrial metropolis. The destruction of Jewish culture in the 1930′s drained the city of its intellectual and business elite, Sarrazin believes.

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