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by Sophia Besch-Mareeg-LONDON – At long last, Germany is ready to swear in a new government. After five months of political wrangling, the Social Democrats (SPD) and the Christian Democratic Union – together with the CDU’s Bavarian sister…

by Helmut K. Anheier-Mareeg.com-BERLIN – Few people outside Germany are familiar with the caricature of themselves that many Germans hold in their minds. Far from the aggressive bully of twentieth-century war propaganda, the perfectionist…

BERLIN, Germany, January 9, 2018--Since September 2016, Germany has helped to destroy the last stockpiles of chemicals from Libya’s former chemical weapons programme. Some 500 tonnes of dangerous dual-use chemicals were successfully…

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, November 30, 2017-The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany has contributed EUR 2 million to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in order to maintain food assistance for almost half a million…

By Stephanie Nebehay BERN (Reuters) - Some 150 art works from a massive trove amassed by a German collector during the Nazi era went on public display for the first time on Wednesday in the Swiss capital, amid lingering questions about…

By Thorsten Severin and Andreas Rinke BERLIN, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Germany's Greens said on Wednesday that any coalition government they join would have to agree to make carmakers introduce mechanical changes to engine and exhaust systems…

PARIS (Reuters) - An appeals court in Paris on Monday released the younger brother of former Burkina Faso president Blaise Compaore, a day after he was taken into custody in connection with the murder of a journalist, his lawyer said.…

BERLIN (Reuters) - Shallow waters off a North Sea island complicated efforts on Monday to dislodge a large freighter that ran aground as Germany began cleaning up after a storm that killed at least six people there and in Poland and Czech…