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German IT firm seeks autistic workers
Declaring its eagerness to find workers that "think differently", a German software giant has announced it plans to recruit hundreds of people ...
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Syrian Rebels in Trouble German Intelligence Sees Assad Regaining Hold
Not even a year ago, German intelligence predicted Syrian autocrat Bashar Assad's regime would soon collapse. Now, the agency instead believes the rebels are in trouble. Government troops are set to make significant advances, it ...
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German Chancellor Merkel Named Worlds Most Powerful Woman
German chancellor Angela Merkel has been named as the most powerful woman in the world by business magazine Forbes for a third year in a row. Merkel has now made the Forbes list eight times out of the past ten years -- seven times as No. 1. Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff, who is of Bulgarian dissent, is second in the list. Melinda Gates and Michelle Obama are third and fourth, ...
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Germanys Bundesbank chief says France must cut deficit
PARIS (AFP) - The head of Germany's Bundesbank, Jens Weidmann, said France needs to make additional efforts to reduce its public deficit, in an interview published Wednesday.France was originally supposed to bring its public deficit back to the EU's ceiling of 3.0 percent of gross domestic product, but has won a two-year extension from the European Commission.Given that the Commission, ...
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German-French plan to help jobless
unemployment has become a pressing problem in many countries as economic belt-tightening continues.The German-French initiative comes at a time when both governments are under pressure: Germany faces criticism of its austerity-heavy remedy for Europe's debt crisis, while France has gone ...
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German-French plan to tackle EUs youth unemployment
Germany and France are preparing to launch a drive to combat the problem of high youth unemployment in Europe.Germany's labour minister said that she and her French counterpart will meet in Paris next week along with the countries' finance ministers and European industry representatives to discuss the initiative. Officials in Berlin say the jobs drive will focus on putting already ...
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German software firm SAP plans to hire hundreds with autism
German software firm SAP says it wants to hire hundreds of people with autism to work as programmers and testers for its products. In a statement Wednesday, the firm said it hopes the plan will boost the number of workers with autism to as much as one per cent of its 65,000 workforce by 2020. Autism is a developmental disorder that can cause difficulties communicating in certain situations. ...
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German opposition attacks Merkel minister over dud drone deal
View Photo Reuters/Reuters - German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, May 22 , 2013. REUTERS/Thomas ...
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German 10-Year Bunds Erase Gain Leaving Yield at 1.39
German 10-year bunds erased an advance, leaving the yield on the 1.5 percent securities due in February 2023 at 1.39 percent as of 3:40 p.m. London time. To contact the reporter on this story: Lucy Meakin in London ...
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German tech company recruits people with autism
The headquarters of SAP AG, Germany's largest software company, which recruits people with autism. German software giant SAP AG said Tuesday it plans to recruit people with autism to take make full use of their talents to process information.Autism is a developmental disorder characterized by difficulties in communicating, emotional detachment and rigid or repetitive behavior. But some ...
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UPDATE 1-Germany takes bilateral paths to tackle EU jobs crisis
Wed May 22, 2013 10:49am EDT * Deals with Portugal, Spain and France * Berlin aims to get speedier response than EU * Critics say efforts are belated By Annika Breidthardt BERLIN, May 22 (Reuters) - Germany is banking on bilateral deals to fight record youth unemployment in the euro zone, agreeing to cooperate with several countries to bypass pan-European bureaucracy. On Wednesday, Finance ...
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German women should stay at home and have three or four children
German women should be encouraged to "stay at home and bring three or four children into the world", the archbishop of Cologne has declared, rather than relying on immigration to solve the country's demographic ...
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German intel Assad strengthening hold in Syria
Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime has become more stable, gaining an upper hand in capabilities to successfully thwart rebels amid the conflit plaguing the country, German foreign intelligence agency assessments were reported as stating Wednesday in German ...
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German personal care appliances market driven by growth in electric toothbrush units
The German personal care appliances market recorded healthy growth through 2012, rising in volume by 2% and in value by 3%. Consumer demand for health and wellness-oriented products continued to build in Germany over the course of 2012 and personal care appliances are generally perceived as important personal grooming tools which make a positive contribution to the overall wellbeing of those ...
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Germany backs call to put Hezbollah armed wing on EU terror list
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Germany will throw its weight behind a British drive to put the armed wing of Hezbollah on the European Union's list of terrorist organizations, German diplomats said on ...
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Major Event in Germany Promoting European Magnitsky Sanctions Cancelled Because German Government Refuses to Grant Safe Passage to William Browder from Politically Motivated Russian Arrest Warrant
Release 22 May 2013 - German authorities have refused to grant William Browder, the leader of the global campaign for justice for Sergei Magnitsky, safe passage to Germany from a politically motivated Russian arrest warrant, resulting in the cancellation of the European Magnitsky Law event, scheduled in Berlin on 27 May 2013. In the latest development concerning the Magnitsky sanctions, the ...
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Sahara Sams Berlin park to celebrate expansion
With summer around the corner, Sahara Sams in West Berlin, N.J. underwent a $6.5 million expansion, according to the Courier Post. The waterpark includes a 25-meter leisure pool, a childrens play zone, and a ...
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Germany Backs Blacklisting of Hezbollahs Military Wing
German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has expressed his support for blacklisting Hezbollah's military wing in the EU, officials have said. "In the light of discussions we have had with our partners following the terrorist attack in Burgas, Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle supports listing at least the military wing of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization in the EU," German ...
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Germany celebrates bicentennial of Richard Wagner
Germany today celebrated the 200th birthday of Richard Wagner, the 19th-century composer whose music has been hailed as sublime art at the height of Western culture even as he remains tainted by his visceral anti-Semitic views, which later found favour with the ...
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PM Netanyahu Meets with German FM Westerwelle
PM Netanyahu Meets with German Foreign Minister Westerwelle (Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, today (Friday, 17 May 2013), in Jerusalem, met with German Foreign Minister Dr. Guido Westrwelle. Prime Minister Netanyahu said at the start of the meeting: "It is always a pleasure to host you here in Jerusalem. You are a friend of ...
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German KfW bank to help set up Portuguese financial body-finmins
BERLIN | Wed May 22, 2013 8:21am EDT BERLIN May 22 (Reuters) - German state development bank KfW will help establish a Portuguese financial institution to help economic growth and boost job creation in the crisis-stricken country, the finance ministers of Germany and Portugal said in a joint statement. They said a fall in Portugal's sovereign borrowing costs had not yet completely ...
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Merkel the Red footsoldier German chancellor under fire over Communist links as image of her in uniform is released
All children had to take part if they wanted to go to university, but Mrs Merkel is also alleged to have been a propaganda secretary for the youth movement, the ...
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UEFA Champions League Final 2013Is London ready to German invasion UK News
Thousands of German football fans expected in London for the all UEFA German Champions League final on Saturday, pubs in theEnglishcapital are anxiously ...
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German 10-Year Bonds Stay Higher After Auction of May 2023 Debt
German 10-year bunds stayed higher after the nation sold 4.1 billion euros of securities due in May 2023 at an average yield of 1.41 percent. ...
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German fixation with romance writer Rosamunde Pilcher boosts south west tourism
Regular visitors to the South West will have noticed themselves sharing the beaches and attractions with a remarkably large number of Germans lately. But they may be unaware that the reason for the invasion lies in the work of an 88-year-old English writer of unashamedly soppy romance ...
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Germany has leading role to play in climate change talks
Germany and Mexico co-hosted a global summit on climate change and some significant headway was made, but as the German Environment Minister pointed out, the most important issues remain unresolved. Germany is the regional power in Europe and just as it has played a leading role in dealing with the EU’s financial crisis, it will play a leading role in resolving climate change issues as well.
Environment Minister Norbert Roettgen, commenting on the outcome of the 40-nation summit, told Germany news media that it had been “a contribution to making success possible again”, adding that the importance of the summit’s outcomes were significant because it laid the groundwork or foundation for further agreements on the most important issues. Read more
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