Germany

Germany

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  Yen in focus as G-7 discusses nurturing recovery

  Financial leaders from the world's top seven developed economies are gathering in the U.K. to discuss how to shore up the global recovery just as the ... 

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  German court rejects bias claim in neo-Nazi trial

  Lawyers for the main defendant in Germany's highest-profile neo-Nazi trial in decades have failed in a bid to replace the presiding judge. German news ... 

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  Dortmund's Goetze to resume training next week

  Borussia Dortmund coach Juergen Klopp says he expects midfield star Mario Goetze to be fit for the all-German Champions League final against Bayern ... 

• German banker pulls appeal in F1 bribe case

  A German court says a banker has withdrawn his appeal against his conviction last year for taking an illegal payment worth $44 million in connection ... 

• Jupp Heynckes won't coach in Bundesliga again

  Outgoing Bayern Munich coach Jupp Heynckes says he will not coach in the Bundesliga again, without specifying his future plans. Heynckes, who turned ... 

• Germany says Obama to visit Berlin in June

  President Barack Obama will visit Berlin next month for talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel on his first visit to the German capital since taking ... 

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  Germany: Chancellor Merkel on visit to Afghanistan

  Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel made a surprise visit Friday to northern Afghanistan to visit her troops less than two weeks after insurgents ... 

• German exports 0.5 percent higher in March

  German exports rose 0.5 percent in March compared with the previous month, a figure that follows promising data on industrial orders and production ... 

• Schalke midfielder Julian Draxler extends contract

  Schalke announced the extension of the contract of rising star Julian Draxler on truck-mounted panels driven through the city on Thursday. 

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  Thomas Bach announces IOC presidential candidacy

  Thomas Bach is counting on his track record and long experience in the Olympic world to carry him to the top job in the IOC. The 59-year-old German ... 

• Lightning strike injures 39 at party in Germany

  A lightning strike has injured 39 people, eight of them severely, at a Father's Day party in eastern Germany. More than 500 people were attending ... 

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  4 clubs still sweating on Bundesliga survival

  Four sides are fighting for survival in the Bundesliga's penultimate round of games on Saturday, with European qualification places also at stake. 

• Nazi-themed opera canceled in Germany

  A modern version of Richard Wagner's "Tannhauser" has been canceled in Germany after the opening-night audience complained about new scenes showing ... 

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  AP source: Bach to announce IOC presidential bid

  Germany's Thomas Bach is set to become the first member to declare he is a candidate to succeed Jacques Rogge as president of the International ... 

• Timmy Chandler's season ends with knee injury

  United States defender Timmy Chandler will miss the rest of the Bundesliga season with a knee injury. Nuremberg says Chandler tore a ligament in his ... 

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  Swiss win 4th straight at ice hockey worlds

  Switzerland defeated last-placed Slovenia 7-1 for its fourth straight win at the ice hockey world championship in Stockholm on Wednesday. The Swiss ... 

• Victims: thalidomide sold in Spain post-withdrawal

  Spanish victims of thalidomide on Wednesday published documents they claim prove a German drug company kept distributing the notorious drug in Spain ... 

• T-Mobile US sells 500,000 iPhones in a month

  T-Mobile US Inc., the last of the major U.S. carriers to start carrying iPhones, is selling them at a brisk pace, it reported Wednesday. T-Mobile US, ... 

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  Germany's expected tax take slightly lower

  Germany's tax revenues will be slightly lower than expected in the coming years because of a recent economic slowdown, but the government is sticking ... 

• 5 arrested on Greek-Turkish border

  Greek authorities have arrested five foreign nationals from Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany on the Greek-Turkish border on charges of illegally ... 

• Stuttgart signs New Zealand forward Rojas

  New Zealand forward Marco Rojas is joining Bundesliga club Stuttgart from Australia's Melbourne Victory. Stuttgart says it has signed the 21-year-old ... 

• Germany OKs export of over 100 tanks to Indonesia

  The German government has approved plans to export 104 main battle tanks to Indonesia along with dozens of other armored vehicles — drawing criticism ... 

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  Merkel challenger hits brakes on autobahn limits

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel's challenger in September's election is trying to avoid a political speed bump. Peer Steinbrueck is trying to halt a ... 

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  German Cabinet approves ECB bank supervision

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Cabinet has approved plans to hand the European Central Bank the power to oversee the continent's lenders, the main ...