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Germany vows to overhaul Turkey relations amid tensions
Jul 20, 2017 14:14Germany has vowed a full "overhaul" of its troubled ties with Turkey, signaling its patience has snapped after Ankara's arrests of human rights activists.
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Angela Merkel voices renewed commitment to European Union
Jul 16, 2017 08:14German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she has found new commitment to the European Union (EU) as a unified entity ahead of general elections in her country.
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Germany starts pulling out troops from Turkish base
Jul 09, 2017 16:25German defense authorities have finally ordered the start of withdrawal of troops from a base in southern Turkey after the two countries failed to settle disputes on how Berlin could access the base.
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Thousands evacuated in Poland to remove WWII bomb
Jul 09, 2017 08:47Thousands of people were evacuated in eastern Poland on Sunday after a huge World War II bomb was found during construction work there.
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G20 wraps up, protests continue in Hamburg
Jul 09, 2017 04:23A summit of 20 industrialized countries has wrapped up in the German city of Hamburg, but protests against capitalism and corporatism have continued in the city.
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Trump calls meeting with Putin at G20 ‘tremendous’
Jul 08, 2017 15:47US President Donald Trump says his first meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the sidelines of the Group of Twenty summit in the German city of Hamburg was “tremendous."
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G20 communique exposes split with US on climate policy
Jul 08, 2017 15:47The G20 summit final communique has been issued with all members except the US collectively agreeing that the landmark Paris Climate Accord must be implemented.
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Germany, France, Russia stress Ukraine truce implementation
Jul 08, 2017 08:42The leaders of Germany, France and Russia have underlined the importance of implementing a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine that was agreed under the Minsk agreements.
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Far-right violent acts up 14 pct in Germany in 2016: Report
Jul 04, 2017 08:32Violent acts by neo-Nazis and other far-right groups in Germany rose 14 percent to 1,600 in 2016, reflecting a steady increase in anti-immigrant sentiment triggered by the arrival of large numbers of migrants since 2014, an intelligence report said.
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Mass rally held ahead of G20 summit in Hamburg
Jul 02, 2017 12:20Thousands have attended a rally in the northern German city of Hamburg to protest at an imminent meeting of leaders of the world's major industrialized and emerging economies, known as G20.