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Boston Scientific competitor calls the cops to seize illegal stents in Germany
A stent is a tiny mesh tube implanted during an angioplasty procedure improve blood flow. A Hong Kong-based medical device manufacturer thats been accusing Boston Scientific Corp. (NYSE:BSX) of patent infringement since at least 2009 upped the ante last week, seizing more than 190 heart stents from a BSX site in Germany with the help of police. OrbusNeich Medical Inc., which has U.S. offices in ...
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Germanys collective blame phobia
People don't always make the best choices, even if their aims are honest. Realizing this can be painful but it doesn't debase our common morality. We have to try to do what's right without presuming that our choice would automatically be so. The Germans collectively made themselves so guilty for what happened between 1933 and 1945 that they've been trying to avoid being ...
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Justin Biebers Pet Monkey Will Stay in Germany
n tour, but ended up leaving Malley behind after the creature was taken into custody. Bieber had until midnight last Friday to submit the proper documentation for the monkey and secure ownership, but according ...
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Analysis - German households pay for lower industrial power prices
LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German households are paying for ever cheaper wholesale power supplies to industry as the government uses money from soaring domestic bills to subsidise renewable energy, in turn creating overcapacity on the country's grid. Chancellor Angela Merkel accelerated the exit from nuclear in 2011, speeding the path towards a power sector that is increasingly dominated ...
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Berlin loses a second Simon
journalists are unhappy that both made the announcement to quit in English. Simon Halsey, 55, has made it clear that he needs to spend more time with his family in England. He has been director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus for 30 years. Under the two Simons, the Berlin Philharmonic and the excellent radio chorus have coordinated their plans more closely than ever ...
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Weak German growth drags oil below $94
The price of fell below $94 on Wednesday after Germany, Europe's largest economy, reported anemic growth for the first quarter. Benchmark oil for June delivery was down 64 cents to $93.57 per barrel at late afternoon Bangkok time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Germany avoided recession in the first three months of the year, growing 0.1 percent compared with the ...
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Justin Bieber’s monkey to live in Germany - forever
In this April 2, 2013 photo, Capuchin monkey Mally sits on the head of an employee in an animal shelter in Munich, Germany. Justin Bieber's pet monkey is set to become the property of Germany. (Matthias ...
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German central bank Economy to improve markedly
FRANKFURT, Germany Germany's central bank expects the country's economy to improve "markedly" in the second quarter -- a development that could boost the wider eurozone as it struggles to get out of recession. The Bundesbank said Tuesday that Europe's largest economy should expand more robustly after a weak first three months of the year. Germany grew only 0.1 percent in ...
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Lawmakers call for ban on East German symbols
Germany's Christian Democrats called Tuesday for a ban on symbols associated with the former East Germany totalitarian socialist regime. Earlier in May, veteran Stasi soldiers, the official state security service of East Germany, marched in uniform through Treptow where a Soviet War Memorial and graves of thousands of soldiers are located, TheLocal.de reported. Volker Kauder, ...
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Cannes U.K.s Rainmark Films Partners With Germanys Beta for Nordic Crime Thriller
Cannes: U.K. to Get 'Sake-Bombed' The novel follows 82-year-old widower and ex-Marine Sheldon Horowitz who, having grudgingly moving to Oslo with his granddaughter and her Norwegian husband, witnesses the murder of a woman in his apartment complex. He rescues her six-year-old son and goes on the run, fearing that the Balkan gang responsible for the murder will return. Chased by the ...
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Conservatives demand East German symbol ban
Germany's Christian Democrats (CDU) called on Tuesday for symbols associated with the totalitarian socialist regime of former East Germany to be banned, in the same way that it is illegal to display Nazi ...
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Champions League Final London Pubs Brace for the German Invasion
With tens of thousands of German football fans expected in London for the all-German Champions League final on Saturday, pubs in ...
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Germany Justin Bieber were keeping your monkey
BERLIN Justin Bieber's pet monkey is set to become the property of Germany. Mally the Monkey was seized by German customs March 28 when Bieber failed to produce required vaccination and import papers for the animal after landing in Munich. He had until midnight Friday to produce those ...
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Biebers Monkey Becomes German Property
Justin Bieber's pet monkey is set to become the property of Germany. Mally the Monkey was seized by German customs March 28 when Bieber failed to produce required vaccination and import papers for the animal after landing in Munich. He had until midnight Friday to produce those ...
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Germany on track for solid Q2 recovery Bundesbank
FRANKFURT: Germany, the euro zone's largest economy, is on track for a solid recovery thanks to a pick-up in demand for its products from abroad, ...
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How the French economy compares to Germanys UKs
PARIS -- Here's how the struggling French economy stacks up compared to Germany's and Britain's.GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT (2012)France: 2 trillion euros ($2.7 trillion) Germany: 2.6 trillion euros ($3.3 trillion)Britain: 1.9 trillion euros ($2.4 trillion)MANUFACTURING AS A PERCENT OF GDP (2009)France: 10.7 percentGermany: 19.3 percentBritain: 11.0 percentGROWTH RATE (2012)France: ...
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German bank borrowing from Bundesbank hits euro-era low
FRANKFURT | Tue May 21, 2013 6:10am EDT FRANKFURT May 21 (Reuters) - German banks borrowed less money from the Bundesbank as part of the European Central Bank's liquidity operations in April than ever before during the 13-year history of the euro, Bundesbank data showed on Tuesday. The Bundesbank's balance sheet, published in its May monthly report, showed that German banks took ...
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Germany nationalises Justin Biebers monkey Mally after the pop star fails to claim him
Justin Bieber's pet monkey is set to become property of Germany after the Canadian pop star failed to produce the correct vaccination and import papers for the ...
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Germany nationalises Bieber monkey
Justin Bieber's pet monkey is set to become the property of Germany.Mally the Monkey was seized by German customs on March 28 when the pop star failed to produce required vaccination and import papers for the animal after landing in Munich.He had until midnight on Friday to produce those documents.Customs spokesman Thomas Meister said after offices opened following a holiday weekend that ...
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German Stocks Drop From a Record as Commerzbank Declines
German stocks declined from a record as Deutsche Bank AG and Commerzbank AG, the country's two largest lenders retreated. The benchmark DAX Index lost 0.3 percent to 8,428.26 at 9:15 a.m. ...
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The German Bund closed near opening levels
On Monday, many European markets closed for Whit Monday holiday, keeping trading flows in the Bund very low. In the US, the market calendar was devoid of market moving releases or events. Besides some intraday volatility, US Treasuries ended the opening session of the week nearly unchanged , even if volumes traded were not bad. Intraday, US Treasuries moved higher at the onset of US trading, but ...
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Ethiopia Germany Supports Ethiopias Agriculture Sector
Germany will further strengthen ongoing support through knowledge and technology transfer towards growth of Ethiopia's agricultural productivity, the Federal Minister of Agriculture of Germany, llse Aigner has said. A German-Ethiopian advanced training center with the Kulumsa Agricultural Research Center was inaugurated by Aigner and Agriculture State Minister Wondyirad Mandefro. The ...
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CORRECTED-German stocks - Factors to watch on May 20
Tue May 21, 2013 3:37am EDT (In May 20 item, corrects to remove Aixtron from ex-dividend section as the company did not pay a dividend for 2012) FRANKFURT May 20 (Reuters) - The DAX top-30 index looked set to open 0.6 percent higher on Monday, which is a public holiday in Germany, though the Frankfurt stock exchange is open for trading. The following are some of the factors that may move German ...
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German Eagle Flourishes as Farm Runoff Boosts Fish Stocks
white-tailed eagle , Germany's national emblem, has tripled to record levels since East joined West in 1990 as conservation programs nurtured their growth. Behind ...
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German Government Bonds Little Changed as Producer Prices Slow
government bonds were little changed as a report showed a measure of inflation in the euro area's biggest economy slowed last month. Benchmark 10-year yields were about four basis points from the highest level in seven weeks. ...
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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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