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As workers across Germany celebrate International Workers' Day, the head of the country's employers' associations said people should put in more hours on the job. "We need more work in Germany, not less," Rainer Dulger said in a statement on the group's website on Wednesday. "Germany discusses too much about the conditions of non-work and too little about the value of work," lamented the president of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations (BDA). The question of how to make Germany an attractive place to work again must take centre stage, he said. "This also means that we will all ...
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On a Sunday afternoon, inside a whimsical Redondo Beach plant shop, eight women and I sat at a workshop table, smiling and laughing as we played with dirt. With bird chirping sounds and mediation music humming in the background, we closed our eyes and dug our hands into containers filled with soil, noticing the coolness of it and its texture. There were tissue boxes within reach in case we needed to wipe away any tears. "Remember when we were little, we weren't scared of this," said Barbara Lawson, who was leading the group at Meet Me in the Dirt, which she opened at the South Bay Galleria in ...
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President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has warned his fellow Germans against viewing political and social problems in the United States with smug superiority, given the increasing divisions and radical politics at home in Germany. "In my view, we look across the Atlantic with far too much arrogance and think that what has been happening in the United States for many years has nothing to do with us," Steinmeier said on Friday at a conference organized by the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspapers. "But we do not live on an island." Steinmeier said that Germany is still a long way from what has "manifeste...
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Germany's parliament has voted in favour of introducing a national Veterans Day on June 15 each year, with a large majority of lawmakers backing the proposal. Defence Minister Boris Pistorius described Veterans' Day as a strong, important and overdue sign of appreciation for soldiers who have served the country. "It is about recognizing those who are ultimately prepared to give their utmost for others and who risk life and limb for our country," Pistorious, a centre-left Social Democrat (SPD), said during debate on the measure. The conservative opposition CDU/CSU bloc supported the measure, wh...
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German government ministers on Wednesday backed a plan to address homelessness by building more affordable housing and overhauling emergency shelters. The strategy calls for giving all homeless people in the country access to housing by 2030, but details remain vague. The plan also calls for new standards for accommodation in emergency shelters that would give people more privacy, and steps to ensure that all homeless people have health insurance. Germany has been struggling with a major housing shortfall in recent years, and the government has been forced to acknowledge that targets of buildi...
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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has called on Germans to join forces to tackle the numerous current crises. "We must take on our destiny," Steinmeier writes in his book "Wir" (We), which he presented on Wednesday at his official residence, Bellevue Palace in Berlin. "We know what Germany can be: A country that has stood under pressure and found its way." Steinmeier argues in favour of more cooperation between government and opposition on key issues, for state reform, and for a new, thoughtful and not arrogant patriotism - a "patriotism of quiet tones." The president's long essay is be...
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German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has called on Germans to join forces to tackle the numerous current crises. "We must take on our destiny," Steinmeier writes in his book "Wir" (We), which he presented on Wednesday at his official residence, Bellevue Palace in Berlin. "We know what Germany can be: A country that has stood under pressure and found its way." Steinmeier argues in favour of more cooperation between government and opposition on key issues, for state reform, and for a new, thoughtful and not arrogant patriotism - a "patriotism of quiet tones." The president's long essay is be...
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The number on Albrecht Weinberg's left forearm is clearly visible even some 80 years later: 116,927. Albrecht Weinberg sees the slightly faded tattoo when getting ready for the day every morning - and with it come the memories of Auschwitz. "It's unbelievable that something like that really happened," the 99-year-old says looking back on the Holocaust, when Germany's Nazi regime systematically murdered more than 6 million Jews across Europe, plus many other minorities and dissidents. Weinberg, who emigrated to the US after surviving the unspeakable horrors of Nazi persecution but has since mov...
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It’s a nearly 10-hour car drive from Tampa to a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Wilmington, North Carolina. By plane, it’ll take about two hours to fly to the Washington, D.C., area — then another 20 minutes to drive to an abortion provider in Virginia. It’s a 1,850-mile round trip to get from St. Petersburg to a southern Illinois clinic that offers the surgical procedure. But Florida women’s clinics and abortion providers say cross-country trips like these to become routine after the state’s Supreme Court ruled to ensure a restrictive abortion ban will take effect at the beginning of Ma...
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Of course there would be quieter places for a Pinscher to do his business in Bolzano. But now, in South Tyrol's capital, he squats in Waltherplatz, right in front of the cathedral. The owner, mid-20s, fur-trimmed down jacket, dog on a lead, doesn't seem to care much. He doesn't even look up from his phone. Then the dog and owner are gone again. The legacy is left behind - right in the centre of the busy square. You can guess how it ends. Scenes like this are soon to be a thing of the past in Italy's northernmost province with its half million inhabitants - the majority of whom are German-speak...
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