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Berlin's world-famous Pergamon Museum, which is closed for several years of renovation work, is seeking to maintain its presence through international collaborations, one of the museum's directors said on Friday during a tour of the construction site. "We want to remain visible," said Barbara Helwing, director of the Near East Museum. Cooperation with other Berlin museums are already planned. Discussions were also under way about loans to institutions such as the Louvre in Paris, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the British Museum in London. The ...
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To mark the 75th anniversary of Germany's de facto constitution, the Basic Law, the government in Berlin is inviting citizens to a major Democracy Festival to be located around the buildings housing the Chancellery and the Bundestag. From Friday to Sunday, there are events planned in the form of dialogue, information stands, games, concerts, plays, dance, sport and the opportunity to meet celebrities in the centre of the government district. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has already organized a state ceremony for Thursday to mark the anniversary of the Basic Law, where he plans to d...
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Despite international criticism over the Gaza war, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has emphasized that Israel "will stand alone" and defend itself alone if need be. In remarks late Sunday marking Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday, Netanyahu said: "In the terrible Holocaust, there were great world leaders who stood by idly; therefore, the first lesson of the Holocaust is: If we do not defend ourselves, nobody will defend us. And if we need to stand alone, we will stand alone." Israel has been waging war against the Palestinian Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip since October 7. This ...
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Polish police have detained a 16-year-old boy suspected of having thrown a Molotov cocktail at the historic Nożyk Synagogue, a police spokesman told the Rzeczpospolita newspaper on Thursday. The motive behind the Wednesday attack on the only Warsaw synagogue to have survived the Nazi onslaught during World War II, remained unclear. The suspect refused to make a statement. On Wednesday, the Israeli ambassador to Poland, Yacov Livne, published a photo on X, formerly Twitter, showing burn marks on the Nożyk Synagogue in the centre of the city. "Outrageous anti-Semitic attacks such as this can not...
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Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski urged Germany to make proposals on how to make reparation for the damage Poland suffered during World War II in a keynote speech to parliament in Warsaw on Thursday. "There is no shortage of ideas," Sikorski, a key member of Prime Minister Donald Tusk's government, which has pledged to repair relations with its powerful western neighbour following strains between the two countries under Poland's previous government. Germany could provide financial support to Polish survivors of German occupation between 1939 and 1945, contribute to rebuilding historica...
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The discovery of an unexploded aerial bomb from World War II in Cologne forced the evacuation of broadcaster RTL's headquarters on Wednesday, but programming continued without disruption. Discovery of unexploded bombs is common in Cologne and other German cities, which were heavily bombed by Allied air forces during the war. Specially trained crews are dispatched to defuse or safely detonate the bombs. An RTL spokeswoman said the network continued broadcasting its full programme from outside the evacuation zone, and that RTL's studio in Berlin temporarily took over direction. Presenter Roberta...
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The discovery of an unexploded aerial bomb from World War II in Cologne forced the evacuation of broadcaster RTL's headquarters on Wednesday, but programming continued without disruption. Discovery of unexploded bombs is common in Cologne and other German cities, which were heavily bombed by Allied air forces during the war. Specially trained crews were dispatched to defuse or safely detonate the bomb. An RTL spokeswoman said the network would continue broadcasting its full programme from outside the evacuation zone, and that RTL's studio in Berlin would temporarily take over direction. Presen...
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In his posthumous memoir, longtime German conservative politician and former finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble details an attempt by fellow Christian Democrats (CDU) to overthrow then-chancellor Angela Merkel during the 2015 refugee crisis. The memoir alleges that a prominent Bavarian politician tried to recruit him as a potential chancellor candidate as part of an effort to replace Merkel. Some Bavarian politicians on Wednesday disputed Schäuble's account. The incident is recounted in an excerpt from the memoir published on Wednesday in the magazine Stern. The book, "Memories: My Life in Pol...
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In his posthumous memoir, longtime German conservative politician and former finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble details an attempt by fellow Christian Democrats (CDU) to overthrow then-chancellor Angela Merkel during the 2015 refugee crisis. The memoir alleges that a prominent Bavarian politician tried to recruit him as a potential chancellor candidate as part of an effort to replace Merkel. The incident is recounted in an excerpt from the memoir published on Wednesday in the magazine Stern. The book, "Memories: My Life in Politics," is due to be published next week. Schäuble was the longest-s...
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A former officer in communist East Germany's notorious Ministry of State Security, or Stasi, went on trial for murder on Thursday over the 1974 fatal shooting of a Polish man at Berlin's Friedrichstrasse train station. The man from the eastern city of Leipzig, a former Stasi lieutenant who is now 80 years old, stands accused by prosecutors of having killed 38-year-old Czesław Kukuczka "with a targeted shot to the back from a hiding place" as he crossed the border to West Berlin on March 29, 1974, according to the indictment. At the time of the crime, the German officer is said to have belonged...
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