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Germany braces for tougher lockdown before Christmas
Dec 12, 2020 06:36Germany will have to impose tougher coronavirus restrictions before Christmas to try to get the pandemic under control, ministers and regional leaders said on Friday (December 11), as Baden-Wuerttemberg became the latest state to impose a night curfew.
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German government extends ban on exporting arms to Saudi Arabia
Dec 11, 2020 06:28Germany has decided to extend until the end of next year an embargo on exporting weapons to Saudi Arabia, which was adopted due to the Saudi-led war against Yemen and the 2018 killing of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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Iran: Germany trying to achieve what Trump did not versus Tehran
Dec 07, 2020 13:36Iran says Germany’s demand for a renegotiation of the 2015 nuclear agreement is in fact a new push to achieve what Washington's “maximum pressure” campaign against Tehran failed to fulfill.
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Congress moves to block US troop pullout from Afghanistan, Germany
Dec 06, 2020 08:30US President Donald Trump's controversial move to pull out 2,000 American troops out of Afghanistan and 12,000 more from Germany would be blocked by the major defense policy bill, a report has said.
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Zarif tells German FM Maas, E3 to correct own conduct before lecturing Iran
Dec 05, 2020 07:46Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif fires back at his German counterpart over the latter’s call for renegotiation of the 2015 nuclear agreement and claims about Iran’s national defense program, saying the European parties to the Iran deal should first change their own harmful behavior before lecturing the Islamic Republic.
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German vote to pick Merkel’s successor set for September 26, 2021
Nov 25, 2020 17:36The German government has agreed on September 26 next year for the general election to choose a successor to Chancellor Angela Merkel, a government spokeswoman said.
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Turkey summons EU, Germany, Italy envoys to protest search of Libya-bound vessel
Nov 24, 2020 13:40The Turkish Foreign Ministry has summoned the ambassadors of Germany, Italy and the European Union (EU) to protest the interception of a Turkish-flagged commercial ship bound for Libya in the Eastern Mediterranean by an EU-led mission.
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German prosecutors charge 12 with plot to attack mosques, kill Muslims
Nov 14, 2020 15:33Twelve men in Germany have been charged with hatching a well-funded plot to stage armed attacks on mosques with the intent of killing or injuring as many Muslims as possible, say German prosecutors.
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Germany: No return to normal by Jan. even if infections fall
Nov 14, 2020 10:17Germany's health minister said on Thursday he expects restrictions imposed to curb the coronavirus pandemic will continue through winter, with life unlikely to get back to normal in December or January even if infections fall.
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Russia to impose sanctions on German, French officials in tit-for-tat move over Navalny: Lavrov
Nov 12, 2020 18:17Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Russia will soon impose retaliatory sanctions on German and French officials over the alleged poisoning of the Russian opposition figure, Alexei Navalny.