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German business and consumer confidence ended 2011 on a high note despite ongoing fears about the European economy, two closely watched surveys showed Tuesday.
For more than half a century, the legacy of World War II has meant that the mere mention of a new rise of German power sent shudders through European nations. Now, Germany is increasingly calling the shots for the entire continent — and few seem to mind.
German consumer confidence is up despite the eurozone's sprawling debt problems, a closely watched survey showed Monday, while the government reported that the inflation rate in Europe's largest economy remained higher than desired.
Luke Adam scored twice in a 2:20 span early in the second period to help the Buffalo Sabres beat the Los Angeles Kings 4-2 on Saturday night in the first NHL game in Germany.
After 9/11, it was the men who went to radicalized mosques or terror boot camps who were seen as the biggest terror threat. Today, that picture's changed: Authorities are increasingly focusing on the lone wolf living next door, radicalized on the Internet — and plotting strikes in a vacuum.
Volunteer staff from the U.S. military's Landstuhl Regional Medical center huddle outside the emergency room doors, waiting under heat lamps on a crisp morning for what has become a daily routine in a decade of war — the arrival on a blue bus of the latest casualties from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Faced with an unprecedented E. coli outbreak, a team of German doctors is trying something equally new: an antibiotic therapy that some fear could do more harm than good.
The U.S. 1st Armored Division lowered its flag this month in a ceremony that signaled the quiet return home of a unit whose tanks first rumbled onto the continent through Italy during World War II.
John Demjanjuk left prison in an unmarked vehicle on Friday for a nursing home after a judge ordered him released pending an appeal of his conviction for serving as a guard at a Nazi death camp.
An FBI report kept secret for 25 years said the Soviet Union "quite likely fabricated" evidence central to the prosecution of John Demjanjuk — a revelation that could help the defense as closing arguments resume Wednesday in the retired Ohio auto worker's Nazi war crimes trial in Germany.
Germany's surging economy slowed more than expected in the fourth quarter of 2010, posting a 0.4 percent gain on the previous quarter as a harsh winter hurt business, the Federal Statistical Office reported Tuesday.
This is a town taken over by neo-Nazis.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday he was concerned that the unrest in Egypt could have "serious implications" for the Middle East peace process.
Germany's unemployment rate jumped in January to nearly 8 percent, the government reported Tuesday, but economists said that when adjusted for the harsh winter's effects on seasonal jobs the labor market in Europe's largest economy is showing continued signs of strength.
A German al-Qaida member whose online threats of attacks in Germany prompted heightened terrorism warnings ahead of 2009 national elections was killed while leading an offense on the largest U.S. base in Afghanistan, according to an Islamic extremist group.
An American Jew who says he posed as a neo-Nazi sympathizer to document a 97-year-old German man's part in the Nazi genocide of millions has filed a civil lawsuit in U.S. court against the former SS officer.
The number of people unemployed in Germany fell again in November as the job market benefited from the country's rebounding economy, according to figures released Tuesday by the Federal Labor Agency.
Rolls-Royce modified a problematic section on new models of its engine for the world's largest jetliner months before one caught fire and blew apart over Indonesia, a Lufthansa spokesman said Thursday.
An Air Berlin flight from Namibia to Munich was delayed after police found a suspicious bag in the luggage hall of the airport in the southern African nation's capital, authorities said Thursday. Germany sent federal police experts stationed in South Africa to help in the investigation amid heightened concerns of terrorist threats against Germany, though it appeared later that the bag may have been part of an airport security test.
Germany's second largest lender Commerzbank AG on Monday posted a euro113 million ($159 million) profit for the third quarter, helped by lower loan losses but still below analysts' expectations.
Greenpeace activists rappelled from the roof of Chancellor Angela Merkel's party headquarters to hang a massive anti-nuclear banner Thursday — one of several protests against her government's plan to extend the lives of Germany's atomic power plants.
The video at first seems like many others filmed in Pakistan's tribal areas: The bearded militant sits cross-legged on the floor, an AK-47 propped against the wall behind him. But as he applauds his three companions' decision to join jihad, the words come out in fluent German: "Wir sind die Soldaten Allahs," he says — "We are the soldiers of Allah."
One of Russia's most wanted men — a charismatic Chechen activist who counts Vanessa Redgrave among his supporters — was arrested in Poland Friday on Russian charges related to Chechnya's separatist war of the 1990s, but later set free.
One of Russia's most wanted men — a charismatic Chechen activist who counts Vanessa Redgrave among his supporters — was arrested in Poland Friday on Russian charges related to Chechnya's separatist war of the 1990s, then set free pending a decision on whether to extradite him.
One of Russia's most wanted men — a charismatic Chechen activist who counts Vanessa Redgrave among his supporters — was arrested here Friday on Russian charges of murder, kidnapping and terrorism during Chechnya's separatist war in the 1990s.
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