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3 hrs ago | Earth Times

'Climate friendly' nuclear power in controversial comeback - Feature

To stand underneath a nuclear reactor is a rare, unnerving experience. In the control-rod drive chamber at the Kruemmel nuclear power plant near Hamburg, where spars of boron carbide and hafnium are pushed upward into the reactor to regulate the fission of uranium nuclei that happens a few metres above, everything is dead quiet.

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Related Topix: Nuclear Energy, Europe, World News, Germany, Public Relations

21 hrs ago | New York Times

Clinton to Press NATO Allies on Afghanistan Effort

President Obama sent his top diplomat, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton , to Europe on Thursday to press sometimes balky NATO allies to contribute thousands of additional troops to his new strategy for turning the tide in the Afghanistan war.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), Hillary Clinton, US Politics, US News, Europe, Germany, Nicolas Sarkozy

Wed Dec 02, 2009

Swissinfo

Swiss women fill high political office in 2010

Next year the three highest political positions in Switzerland will be held by women, although women only got the vote in federal elections in 1971.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Doris Leuthard

Mon Nov 30, 2009

BBC

Timeline: Russia

A chronology of key events: 1237-40 - Mongols invade Russia, destroying all of its main cities except Novgorod and Pskov; Tatars establish the empire of the Golden Horde in southern Russia.

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Related Topix: World News, Russia, Asia,

Sat Nov 28, 2009

Deutsche Welle

German public TV network to lose editor-in-chief in freedoms row

A broadcasting freedoms row has deepened in Germany after the administrative board of the public television channel ZDF voted 7-7 not to extend the employment contract of its editor-in-chief. Calls mounted on Friday for the case of Nikolaus Brender to be taken before Germany's Constitutional Court, which has a post-war record of ruling in favor of ...

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Germany, Canada, Angela Merkel, Journalism, Silvio Berlusconi

Fri Nov 27, 2009

Ventura County Star

BC-AFGHAN-GERMANY-(TRIM)-NYT

The head of the German armed forces resigned Thursday over accusations that the military withheld information on a deadly airstrike in Afghanistan in September that killed civilians as well as insurgents.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Germany, Asia, Afghanistan, Angela Merkel, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

Thu Nov 26, 2009

Baltimore Jewish Times

Rock of Ages

Alan H. Fleischmann was 24 when he saw the Berlin Wall fall. He was in Germany as a Deutcher Bundestag fellow, studying international economics at the Friedrich Wilhelms Universitat and serving in the German Parliament working for former Chancellor Willy Brandt and his foundation, as well as other leading members of the Social Democratic Party.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Germany,

Tue Nov 24, 2009

Jerusalem Post

Hamas site encourages Europe attacks

The educational content of the Hamas children's Web site Al-Fateh is not a form of pedagogy, but an "indoctrination to suicide bombing," said David Oman, the director of communications for the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education on Tuesday at a press conference at the Regent Hotel.

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Related Topix: Israel, Middle East, World News

Sun Nov 22, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

Making allowances for childcare

Cash incentives alone won't solve childcare a ' perhaps Gordon Brown should look at Germany's response to a 'stove premium' While Gordon Brown has had to rethink his plan to abolish tax relief on childcare vouchers , family policy in Germany took a different turn right from the start.

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Fri Nov 20, 2009

The Economist

Germany's Social Democrats: Archangel Gabriel takes the burden

IT HAD the trappings of any other political party convention in Germany: the same airless arena, the same corporate kiosks offering free ballpoint pens.

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Wed Nov 18, 2009

New Statesman

Utopia or Auschwitz:Germany's 1968 Generation and the Holocaust

Earlier this year, before Angela Merkel's re-election as chancellor, the BBC's then Europe editor, Mark Mardell, called Germany "the most grown-up country in the world". Whether you share that judgement or not, Hans Kundnani's superb chronicle of mainly West German politics over the past 50 years shows the country's remarkable transformation since ...

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Related Topix: Angela Merkel, Israel, World News, Middle East

Tue Nov 17, 2009

BusinessWeek

Inside the Collapse of GM's Opel Deal

From meddling politicians to a skeptical U.S. board to tough tactics in Brussels, GM's sale of the German Opel unit fell apart when its weak logic unraveled Many refer to the man in charge at the corporate headquarters of General Motors , housed in the five glass towers of the Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit, as "Fix-it Fritz." Frederick A.

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Related Topix: Automakers, General Motors, Angela Merkel

Sun Nov 15, 2009

Deutsche Welle

Germanya s Social Democrats elect new leader after poll rout

Germany's Social Democrats have picked a new leader as they seek to overcome their humiliating defeat in September's general election.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Germany

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Chickasha Daily Express

Delegation discusses policies in Germany

As many of you know, last week I traveled to Germany on a diplomatic exchange program.

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Related Topix: Germany Travel, World News, Germany, Christie, OK

Wed Nov 11, 2009

The State

Merkel wants climate action from US, China, India

German Chancellor Angela Merkel called Tuesday for the U.S., China and India to make substantive pledges of action against global warming in order to prevent the failure of next month's climate summit in Copenhagen.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Germany, Angela Merkel, Global Warming,

Tue Nov 10, 2009

The Washington Monthly

Paul Hockenos reviews

The Berlin Wall, which had divided Germany for over a quarter century, had been torn down, unleashing huge questions about Germany's destiny and its place in the wider world.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Germany, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization),

Mon Nov 09, 2009

Canada.com

Factbox: Nov. 9 not just a Berlin Wall red letter day

The 20th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall on November 9 will coincide with other significant 20th-century anniversaries for Germany, some far darker: Nov 9, 1918 - As defeat approached in World War One, Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated and Social Democrat Philip Scheidemann declared Germany's first republic from a window of the Berlin ...

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The Weekly Standard

Deciphering Die Linke

It's an eventful autumn in Germany. Besides Oktoberfest, there has been a general election and events commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the Berlin Wall's demise.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

Sat Nov 07, 2009

Deutsche Welle

Debate on Germany's status in Afghanistan opens up

Germany's defense minister has called for clarification of Germany's status in Afghanistan, after a contoversial airstrike ordered by a German commander raised the question of whether the country is at war.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Germany, Asia, Afghanistan, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election,

Thu Nov 05, 2009

BBC

Press review: GM keeps Opel

Germany's government had heavily backed the decision by GM to sell its European Opel subsidiary to a consortium led by Canadian car parts maker Magna.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Germany, Angela Merkel, US News

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