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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…
Germany sets up no-fly zone over Oktoberfest in wake of terror threats
German authorities have banned air traffic in the skies above Munich’s Oktoberfest in response to the spate of terror threats in recent days. Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann announced a…
Germany on edge after fourth consecutive al-Qaeda bomb attack warning
Germany was on edge yesterday after a fourth consecutive al-Qaeda video warned of an imminent bomb attack in Germany unless the Government withdrew its troops from Afghanistan. The threats were…
Merkel presses Netanyahu on settlements
The construction of Jewish settlements on Palestinian lands must be stopped, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a meeting in Berlin. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…
Berlin continues to spin its wheels over Opel’s future
The tug-of-war over European carmaker Opel seems set to continue after talks between Opel’s troubled parent company General Motors and the German government ended inconclusively on Tuesday. General Motors’ chief…
Poles, Germans rebury 2,000 WWII victims found in mass grave
The remains of more than 2,000 German civilians discovered in a mass grave in the town of Malbork in northern Poland have been reburied at a ceremony at one of…
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