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Merkel calls for joint efforts with Moscow to battle terrorism
Feb 18, 2017 15:00German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called for joint cooperation with Russia in the fight against terrorism.
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Turkish cleric slams German police raids on homes of peers
Feb 17, 2017 14:37The chief of the Turkish Presidency of Religious Affairs has condemned raids by German police on the homes of four clerics as politically motivated ahead of elections in Germany.
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Germany to blame for UK pollution: Farage
Feb 16, 2017 10:05Former leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) Nigel Farage has blamed Germany for the alarming levels of air pollution in British cities.
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Zarif congratulates Steinmeier on election as German president
Feb 13, 2017 02:48Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has congratulated Frank-Walter Steinmeier on his election as the new German president.
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Germany elects anti-Trump former FM as president
Feb 12, 2017 13:58Former German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, known for his fierce opposition to US President Donald Trump, has been elected as the country’s new president.
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50 affected after unknown corrosive substance spreads at Hamburg’s airport
Feb 12, 2017 13:57Hundreds of people have been evacuated from the main airport in the northern German city of Hamburg as some 50 people are reported to have been affected by a corrosive substance spread through the facility’s air conditioning system.
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1,000s protest deportations of Afghans from Germany
Feb 12, 2017 11:53Several thousand people have staged rallies across Germany to protest the deportation of Afghan asylum-seekers from the country.
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German police arrest two Nusra-affiliated suspects
Feb 09, 2017 10:26Police in Germany have arrested two suspects over alleged links to the Takfiri al-Nusra Front terrorist group following large-scale raids across the country’s west.
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Lithuania hails arrival of German's NATO battalion
Feb 08, 2017 05:53NATO has deployed hundreds of German troops to Lithuania as part of its multinational battalion aimed at bolstering its eastern flank against Russia.
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Merkel 'appeals to' Putin regarding peace in eastern Ukraine
Feb 07, 2017 17:16Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on Russia's President Vladimir Putin to use his "influence" on pro-Russians in eastern Ukraine to help establish peace in the war-ravaged region.