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Pella stuns Tipsarevic in Dusseldorf
Top seed Janko Tipsarevic suffered a shock defeat to qualifier Guido Pella in the clay-court Power Horse Cup in Dusseldorf on Wednesday.The Serbian lost the first set in a tie-break and failed to recover as his Argentine opponent surrendered just one game in the second to take a place in the quarter-finals of the ATP 250 event, winning 7-6 (7-1) 6-1.Pella will meet Serbia's Viktor Troicki ...
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Israeli embassy slams Germany party over labeling
BERLIN - The Israeli embassy slammed the German Green Party on Wednesday for its Bundestag efforts to label products from the West Bank, calling those efforts "another try to negatively single out Israel while promoting an economic boycott of it."In a statement ...
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Germany at odds with Brussels over solar panel tariffs
/enpproperty--> No political party in the German Parliament supports Brussels' decision to levy punitive tariffs against China's exports of solar panels, a German politician said. Hans-Josef Fell, a senior member of the Bundestag, the German Parliament, admitted Germany and the European Commission hold conflicting positions on the issue. Speaking before Premier Li Keqiang's ...
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An irreverence for classics plays well in Berlin. Why not in Canada
Thomas Ostermeier, artistic director of Berlin's famed Schaubuhne theatre company, has made a name for himself internationally over the past decade with his productions of Henrik Ibsen's plays.But what does the German director really think of the 19th-century Norwegian playwright who penned such classics ...
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Germany and Britain Push to List Hezbollah as a Terror Group
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Legacy of Jupp Heynckes cemented at Bayern Munich
Bayern Munich's coach Jupp Heynckes waves to acknowledge well-deserved cheers. In his return to Bayern for a third stint he has led them to the domestic league title and Uefa Champions League ...
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Ich bin ein Belieber Stars pet monkey a German
BERLIN--Justin Bieber's pet monkey, which was seized by German customs in March, officially became German property Tuesday after the Canadian pop sensation failed to claim the animal, officials ...
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Bayreuth celebrates Wagners 200th birthday
Braving blustery showers and unseasonally chilly temperatures, hundreds of people turned out in Bayreuth Wednesday to celebrate the 200th birthday of German composer Richard Wagner.Bavaria's political elite, headed by state premier Horst Seehofer, were among the invited guests for a rare concert in the legendary Festspielhaus theatre, which was built according to Wagner's own demands ...
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Hollande announces Franco-German economic initiative
France and Germany are working on a joint economic initiative to put to their European Union partners at a summit in June, French President Francois Hollande said Wednesday.It would be the first Franco-German initiative since the French Socialist leader took office a year ago.Hollande said at the close of an EU tax and energy summit that he and Chancellor Angela Merkel were planning talks ...
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Germany Works to Curb European Youth Unemployment
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Pella beats Top 10 player at ATP tournament in Germany
Qualifier Guido Pella defeated a Top 10 player Wednesday in gaining a spot in the quarterfinals of the Power Horse Cup tennis tournament in Germany. Pella, ranked No. 101 in the world, eliminated ...
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Germany now owns Justin Bieber’s pet monkey
Canadian pop star Justin Bieber performs in front of a crowd of 15,000 fans at the Sevens Stadium in Dubai on May 4, 2013. (KARIM SAHIB/AFP/Getty ...
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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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Cop faces charges for punching woman
German state prosecutors filed on Wednesday charges against a policeman who punched a woman in the face, breaking her nose and eye socket while she was at a Munich police station in ...
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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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Germans French eye plan to create jobs for young
Germany's labor minister, Ursula von der Leyen, said Wednesday 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. On July 3, Chancellor Angela Merkel plans to host a meeting of the 27 European Union nations' labor ministers and national labor agency heads in ...
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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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Germany France seek to fight EU youth unemployment aim for better use of existing funds
BERLIN - Germany and France are preparing to launch a drive to combat the problem of high European youth unemployment, which officials in Berlin say will centre on trying to get business involved and make better use of already-pledged public money. Germany's labour minister, Ursula von der Leyen, said Wednesday that she and her French counterpart will meet in Paris next week along with the ...
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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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War Crimes in Italy German Prosecutors Reject Massacre Case
REUTERS A monument commemorates the victims of a Nazi SS massacre in the Tuscan village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema, in northern ...
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Deadly Drug Trials Western Firms Bribed East German Doctors
It wasn't just the East German government that benefited from risky patient drug trials commissioned by Western pharmaceutical manufacturers decades ago. These companies also sent liaisons with lavish gifts to bribe and influence doctors to ...
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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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Huey-Inglot gains q’finals in Dusseldorf
Filipino Treat Huey and Dominic Inglot of Great Britain barged into the men’s doubles quarterfinals of the Power Horse Cup ATP 250 Tuesday with a hard-earned 5-7, 7-6 (7-2), 10-2 victory over local bet Philip Marx and Florin Mergen of Romania in Dusseldorf, Germany. The come-from-behind triumph lifted the third-seeded tandem of Huey and Inglot into a Final 8 clash with Daniel Brands of ...
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German chancellor Angela Merkel named most powerful woman in the world by Forbes - again
German chancellor Angela Merkel has been named as the most powerful woman in the world by business magazine Forbes for the third year ...
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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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