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German Bonds Face Selloff as ATP Urges Merkel to Block Added Tax
Denmark 's biggest pension fund, which holds $36 billion of long-term German bonds, says it may have to sell the debt unless Chancellor Angela Merkel moves to block a tax on financial transactions. Such a levy "would instantly destroy our business model and would force us to invest differently," Carsten Stendevad, chief executive officer of the $140 billion ATP fund, said in ...
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Dreamliner battery maker ties up with Germanys Bosch
TOKYO (AFP) - Japan's GS Yuasa, the battery supplier for Boeing's troubled Dreamliner, on Thursday announced a tie-up with German technology giant Bosch to develop lithium-ion batteries.The pair are planning to set up a joint venture early next year with trading house Mitsubishi Corp. that would research and develop "high-performance" powerpacks, GS Yuasa said."These ...
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Michelle Obama daughters visit Holocaust Memorial in Berlin
US First Lady Michelle Obama and her two daughters, Malia and Sasha, on Wednesday visited Berlin's Holocaust Memorial as part of a tour of key sites of Germany's troubled Nazi and Cold War history. They were also to take in the Cold War-era Checkpoint Charlie, where US and Soviet tanks once faced off, and a remaining stretch of the Berlin Wall that once split the city. The Obamas, ...
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Kerry calls Karzai twice to smooth waters over Taliban talks
Hamid Karzai twice to try to mend fences over the U.S. outreach to the Taliban. The phone diplomacy occurred after Karzai said the Afghan government had suspended security talks with the United States in Kabul "in view of the contradiction between acts and the statements made by the United States of America in regard to the peace process." "The secretary spoke with President ...
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Steve Bell on Barack Obamas Berlin speech – cartoon
Australia's dreaded cost of living - manacle or myth? George Negus: Tony Abbott is keen to lower the cost of living faced by ordinary families. But there is a significant difference between cost of living and cost of ...
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Is Obamas Berlin Call for Nuclear Weapons Reductions Realistic
President Barack Obama returned to Berlin for the first time since he became president in 2008 today, where he delivered a speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate, which previously overlooked the Berlin Wall. His speech acknowledged not only how far the western world has come since the Cold War era, but also how far it has yet to ...
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Obama in Berlin the world’s big problems are global warming American nukes
President Obama couldn’t have been more out-of-touch if he’d delivered his Berlin speech on Mars, instead of to a shriveled German audience only a fraction the size of the one he addressed in 2008. He identified the absolutely non-existent ';climate change'; issue the ';global threat of our time,'; and according ...
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Video Obama toasts his German hosts
Toasting his German hosts in Berlin, President Obama said, "We are proud to join with millions of men and women throughout the world who hold the cause of freedom ...
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Video In Berlin Obama summons up spirit of Cold War
Speaking at Berlin's historic Brandenburg Gate, President Barack Obama summoned the spirit that won the Cold War to confront the challenges of a new century: terrorism, intolerance and the continued threat posed by nuclear arms. (June ...
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Berlin Brandenburg Gate Become Icons for US Presidents
WASHINGTON, June 19 (by Suleiman Wali for RIA Novosti) – Summertime in Germany has become a popular time and place for several American presidents over the past 50 years, ever since John F. Kennedy delivered his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in 1963. On ...
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Minnesota to open trade office in Dusseldorf Germany
The state of Minnesota will open a new foreign trade office in the Dusseldorf, Germany, to promote exports and foreign investments in the state, Katie Clark Sieben, the state commissioner of employment and economic development, announced Wednesday. Clark Sieben and Gov. Mark Dayton revealed the location during a conference call with Minnesota reporters from Berlin, where they are wrapping up a ...
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Obama Merkel exchange toasts in Berlin
U.S. President Barack Obama kisses German Chancellor Angela Merkel after she finished her speech at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on June 19, 2013. Obama is in Berlin on his first official state visit to Germany and spoke at the historic site where fifty years earlier U.S. President John F. Kennedy delivered his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a Berliner)" address . UPI/David ...
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Life is good for Germanys economy. But is it good for Germans
While the German economy is being held up as the model for ailing Europe to follow, some Germans say that the benefits of the boom aren't reaching ...
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Germany register narrow win against Canada
Germany 1-0 CanadaLeonie Maier scored in the second half as the European champions followed up their weekend win against Scotland with another ...
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Germanys Serviceplan Repeats as Grand Prix Winner in Design
CANNES, France-Serviceplan in Munich, Germany, walked off with its second straight Design Lions Grand Prix here tonight, winning this time for embedding a store's sustainability report on a single shopping ...
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Video Obama salutes the Berlin Airlifts Candy Bomber
During a speech in Berlin, President Obama paid tribute to 92-year-old Gail Halvorsen, a retired Air Force colonel who dropped candy to German children during the Berlin Airlift, saying, "We could not be more proud of ...
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Canada’s women’s soccer team loses to Germany in friendly
Canada's Kadeisha Buchanan, left, and Germany's Dzsenifer Marozsan challenge for the ball during the international friendly women's soccer match between Germany and Canada in Paderborn, Germany, Wednesday, June 19, 2013. (Martin ...
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Obama Offers Few Nuclear Policy Surprises in Berlin
WASHINGTON -- President Obama on Wednesday delivered in Berlin a modified replay of his 2009 Prague speech on the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons, featuring a similar brand of soaring oratory about high ideals that his European fans and critics alike have come to expect. It is four years later, though, and Europeans, like their U.S. counterparts, have had plenty of time to glimpse the ...
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Altano can win the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot for Germany
can win the Gold Cup. Trained by Andreas Whler, he makes plenty of appeal at 20-1 in an open renewal of the famous marathon.Germany has not been a consistent source of top-quality Flat horses but has enjoyed notable successes in the past two years, especially through Danedream, winner of the Arc and the King George for Peter Schiergen. Energizer, trained by Jens Hirschberger, gave the country ...
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Obama defends US surveillance tactics in Berlin
BERLIN -- U.S. President Barack Obama defended U.S. intelligence methods on a visit to Berlin on Wednesday, telling German Chancellor Angela Merkel and wary Germans that Washington was not monitoring the emails of ordinary citizens or damaging civil ...
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Obama speech in Berlin looks to shared values of iron curtain era
Barack Obama to live up to the "Ich bin ein Berliner" or "Mister Gorbachev, tear down this wall" lines of John F Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.Yet as the US president admitted himself, after delivering the greeting "Hello Berlin!" - which despite its lack of oratory prowess drew huge cheers from the Berlin crowds at the Brandenburg Gate on Wednesday - times have ...
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Obama draws on Kennedy speech in Berlin
Speaking in front of Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate, President Barack Obama has called for a world of "peace and justice'' and said Russian and US nuclear weapons should be slashed by up to a third. Obama used the once divided city's rebirth as a metaphor for progress, as he stood on the east side of the route of the Berlin Wall, and warned the "complacent'' West that history did not stop with ...
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Obama relishes weather crowds in trip to Berlin
U.S. President Barack Obama waves before speaking at the Brandenburg Gate as German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Berlin Mayor Klaus Wowereit look on on June 19, 2013 in Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup, Getty ...
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German firms see opportunities in reform
/enpproperty--> China may be growing at a slower pace, but its focus on urbanization and green industries will offer "great opportunities," said an official from the German Chamber of Commerce. The "strategic industries laid down in the ...
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Obama defends US snooping in uneasy Germany
USA US President Barack Obama has defended the actions of his government's spying on Germany and its citizens on his Wednesday visit to the country, shortly after NSA revelations exposed that Germany was the US's most spied upon European nation. The codenamed 'Prism' operation instigated an outcry in a nation which still remembers the East German secret 'Stasi' ...
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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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