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Munich streets nearly deserted as Bavaria enforces full lockdown
Mar 21, 2020 16:07Munich's iconic Marienplatz was filmed empty of people on Saturday, as the newly introduced anti-coronavirus measures, such as the restriction of leaving one's home, came into full effect at midnight, as Bavaria tightened the lockdown due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis.
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German chancellor calls COVID-19 ‘biggest challenge since WWII’
Mar 19, 2020 06:32German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic is the biggest challenge the country has faced “since the Second World War”.
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No military solution to Libyan conflict: Germany’s Merkel
Mar 11, 2020 10:15German Chancellor Angela Merkel says there is no military solution to the conflict in war-torn Libya, stressing that an immediate ceasefire is necessary for a political process to continue.
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Concerned Berliners flock to supermarkets amid coronavirus panic buying
Mar 06, 2020 10:11Berliners reacted on Thursday to the race for groceries that has been ongoing since last week amid the coronavirus threat and recent outbreak in Germany.
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Merkel's party suffers worst ever result in Hamburg state elections
Feb 24, 2020 09:23Voters handed German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives their worst-ever result in Hamburg on Sunday, punishing them for flirting with the far-right in an eastern state and descending into a messy leadership battle.
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Hanau attack part of pattern of white supremacist violence flowing from US
Feb 23, 2020 14:25Hanau attack is evidence that “conspiracy theories that are circulated by Americans in the US, and through message boards that are predominantly American, do have an impact in other places.” While no early evidence emerged linking the Hanau attacker to established extremist groups or individuals, analysts said that both the online manifesto and the nine people the gunman chose to murder made it clear that his attack was part of an ongoing pattern of white supremacist terror.
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Pelosi slams Trump's 'dangerous' pick for intelligence chief
Feb 23, 2020 10:35Speaker of US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has censured President Donald Trump’s decision this week to tap Richard Grenell as the acting director of national intelligence, comparing his inexperience to her being asked to perform brain surgery.
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Erdogan announces 4-way summit on Syria’s Idlib
Feb 23, 2020 10:05Turkey’s president says his country is to join a quadrilateral meeting with Russia, Germany, and France to address the situation in the northwestern Syrian Province of Idlib, where Damascus’ anti-terror advances have posed a threat to the Turkish military presence.
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Germany ups police presence at mosques over 'very high' security threat
Feb 21, 2020 15:19Germany has increased police presence across the country, and at mosques in particular, as part of efforts to counter the "very high" security threat from far-right extremists in the wake of the recent racist attack.
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Trump’s new spy Chief Richard Grenell likened to ‘far-right colonial officer’
Feb 21, 2020 09:49US President Donald Trump has named the current Ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, as acting Director of National Intelligence, immediately drawing criticism for picking an unusually undiplomatic ambassador with little intelligence experience to lead America’s spy agencies.