BERLIN (AP) — Germany has committed millions of dollars in extra funding to help ensure all Holocaust survivors are able to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, an organization that handles claims on behalf of Jewish victims said Wednesday. By virtue of their ages alone, survivors of the Holocaust are at […]
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Germany tightens border checks to keep out virus variants
Bavarian governor Markus Soeder, speaking at Schirnding on the Czech border, said that “not taking the (virus) mutations seriously would mean significant consequences.” Soeder, whose state contains half the German-Czech border and the entire German-Austrian border, noted that districts on the Czech border have particularly high infection rates. “On top […]
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Germany to let citizens store ID cards on smartphone
Germany says its citizens will be able to use smartphones to store their government-issued ID cards and prove their identity online ByThe Associated Press February 10, 2021, 5:47 PM • 1 min read Share to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article BERLIN — Germany says its citizens will be able to […]
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Germany considers strict new Covid restrictions on international travel
The German government is to consider introducing tough new restrictions on international travel in a bid to prevent coronavirus mutations from entering the country, a senior minister said on Tuesday. The measures include strict border controls and closing Germany’s airports to almost all passenger flights. “The danger posed by the numerous […]
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France, Germany Push for Tighter EU Borders After Attacks | World News
By Thomas Escritt and Matthieu Protard BERLIN/PARIS (Reuters) – France and Germany pushed on Tuesday to tighten European Union borders to head off what President Emmanuel Macron called the “threat of terrorism” after suspected Islamist militants killed eight people in Paris, Nice and Vienna within a month. The attacks refocused […]
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Germany to present report on far-right extremism in police
Germany will publish a much-anticipated report on right-wing extremism in its security forces on Tuesday after a string of scandals over far-right networks in the police and military. Several regional German police forces have been caught up in far-right scandals in recent months, and a unit of the country’s elite […]
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Why does Germany make so little room for working moms?
It was about six years ago, after the birth of her second child, that Felicitas Sochor quietly began to worry about being called a Rabenmutter. Ms. Sochor had long dreamed of starting a cafe. But even if she could balance the work commitment that would require with the needs of […]
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Germany wants to permit driverless cars across the country by 2022
Despite coming down hard on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving, Germany isn’t totally against the concept of self-driving cars. Sure, Tesla’s Autopilot isn’t actually a self-driving system, but it is considered a large part of the autonomous or partially automated vehicle landscape. According to a report from local news outlet, […]
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Air ambulance carrying Kremlin critic Navalny lands in Germany
An air ambulance landed in the German capital on Saturday carrying Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has suffered a suspected poisoning, after a day-long standoff over his medical evacuation. The plane, chartered by the German NGO Cinema for Peace, landed at 8:47 am local time (0647 GMT) at Tegel […]
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Air ambulance flies Russian opposition leader Navalny to Germany
An air ambulance took off from the Siberian city of Omsk on Saturday carrying Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to Germany for treatment of a suspected poisoning, after a day-long standoff over his medical evacuation. The 44-year-old lawyer and anti-corruption campaigner, one of President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critics, fell into […]