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German foreign minister starts Mideast tour

German foreign minister starts Mideast tour

AFP - 4 hours 14 mins ago

BERLIN (AFP) - Germany's foreign minister left for Israel Sunday at the start of a two-day tour that will also take in Syria and Lebanon and is aimed at lending support to the new US engagement in the region. More »

  • Crew onboard hijacked ship are "desperate" - report

    Reuters - Saturday, July 4 02:21 pm

    BERLIN (Reuters) - The 24 hostages on board a German ship that was hijacked by Somali pirates in April have no more water, food or medicine, a German weekly reported, citing comments emailed by the captain of the ship. More »

  • German foreign minister lines up Mideast tour

    German foreign minister lines up Mideast tour

    AFP - Friday, July 3 08:02 pm

    BERLIN (AFP) - Germany's foreign minister will tour the Middle East next week seeking to lend momentum to US President Barack Obama's drive to jumpstart the dormant peace process, a spokesman said Friday. More »

  • Ex-Nazi guard Demjanjuk fit for trial in Germany

    Ex-Nazi guard Demjanjuk fit for trial in Germany

    AFP - Friday, July 3 04:33 pm

    MUNICH, Germany (AFP) - Former Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk, accused of herding 29,000 Jews to the gas chambers, is fit to be tried in what could be Germany's last major Nazi case, prosecutors said Friday. More »

  • John Demjanjuk is pictured on his return to the U.S. from an Israeli jail in this 1993 file photo.

    Demjanjuk pronounced fit to stand trial in Germany 

    Reuters - Friday, July 3 04:05 pm

    BERLIN (Reuters) - Accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk has been deemed fit enough by medical experts to stand trial for helping to kill 29,000 Jews in World War Two, the state prosecutors office in Munich said Friday. More »

  • Ex-Nazi guard Demjanjuk 'fit for trial' in Germany

    AFP - Friday, July 3 12:31 pm

    MUNICH, Germany (AFP) - German prosecutors said on Friday that ex-Nazi camp guard John Demjanjuk, accused of herding 29,000 Jews to their deaths, is fit to be tried in what could be Germany's last major Nazi case. More »

  • Merkel likens Iran to repressive East Germany

    Merkel likens Iran to repressive East Germany

    AFP - Thursday, July 2 10:23 am

    BERLIN (AFP) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday likened events in Iran to the oppression at the hands of the Stasi secret police in communist East Germany, where she grew up. More »

  • Porsche says request for state aid rejected

    Porsche says request for state aid rejected

    AFP - Tuesday, June 30 12:46 pm

    FRANKFURT (AFP) - Porsche suffered a fresh blow Tuesday as Germany rejected a request for a multi-billion-euro state loan to relieve financial pressure created by the company's failed attempt to take over Volkswagen. More »

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