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| Germany 2014
3-1-2014 In western Germany a World War II bomb exploded during construction work in Euskirchen, near Bonn, killing one person and wounding at least eight others. (AP, 1/3/14) ------------------------- 8-1-2014 German authorities said they have charged Werner C. (88), a former member of an SS armored division, with 25 counts of murder over allegations that he took part in the June 10, 1944, slaughter in Oradour-sur-Glane in southwestern France, the largest civilian massacre in Nazi-occupied France. (AP, 1/8/14) ------------------------- 8-1-2014 A German court dropped the case against Siert Bruins (92), a former member of the Nazi SS, ruling that there are too many gaps in the evidence to deliver a verdict. Bruins was accused of killing resistance fighter Aldert Klaas Dijkema in September 1944 in Appingedam, near the German border in the northern Netherlands. (AP, 1/8/14) ------------------------- 8-1-2014 A Croatian court ruled that Josip Perkovic, a communist-era intelligence chief, could be extradited to Germany where he is wanted over a killing of a Yugoslav dissident in 1983. On Jan 24 Perkovic was flown to Germany. (Reuters, 1/8/14)(Reuters, 1/24/14) ------------------------- 9-1-2014 Germany said it has accepted a UN request to destroy remnants of Syria's chemical weapons on its own soil as part of a bid to eliminate the arsenal by June 30. (AFP, 1/9/14) ------------------------- 12-1-2014 In western Germany a small jet crashed near an airfield near Trier and four people on board were killed. (AP, 1/12/14) ------------------------- 13-1-2014 German antitrust authorities fined a group of beer brewers a total of 106.5 million euros ($145 million) for illegal price-fixing between 2006 and 2008. (AP, 1/13/14) ------------------------- 14-1-2014 Germany's No.2 utility RWE said it is preparing to sue for millions of euros of damages after a federal court confirmed that a state's decision to shut down the company's Biblis nuclear plant for three months in 2011 was illegal. (Reuters, 1/14/14) ------------------------- 21-1-2014 Germany~ez_rsquo~s Federal Office for Information Security said an analysis of hijacked computer networks has turned up about 16 million compromised online accounts. (SFC, 1/22/14, p.A2) ------------------------- 26-1-2014 Germany ARD TV quoted Edward Snowden saying the US NSA does not limit its espionage to issues of national security and he cited German engineering firm, Siemens as one target. (Reuters, 1/26/14) ------------------------- 29-1-2014 In France Bayern Munich winger Franck Ribery and Real Madrid forward Karim Benzema were acquitted on charges of soliciting an underage prostitute, ending a case that has lasted more than three years and tarnished both players' reputation. (AP, 1/30/14) ------------------------- 2014 Jan German officials seized a box packed with 14 condoms filled with cocaine from South America. The 340 grams of cocaine, valued at 40,000 euros ($55,200), was seized at the international airport in Leipzig and was addressed to the main postal center at the Vatican. (AFP, 3/23/14) ------------------------- 2-2-2014 In Germany Frankfurt 116-meter (380-foot) University Tower, built in 1972, was brought down with explosives in one of the biggest such operations in Europe. (AP, 2/2/14) ------------------------- 2-2-2014 German conductor Gerd Albrecht (78) died in Berlin. He had led orchestras in the Czech Republic, Japan and Denmark and worked to bring music to children. (AP, 2/3/14) ------------------------- 3-2-2014 In Germany a group of computer hackers and human rights campaigners announced that they are suing their government for allegedly breaking the law by aiding foreign spies. (AP, 2/3/14) ------------------------- 5-2-2014 A German newspaper reported that the US National Security Agency (NSA) bugged the phone of former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder from at least 2002, compounding the most serious row between the allies in a decade. (Reuters, 2/5/14) ------------------------- 5-2-2014 Germany's government approved increasing the number of soldiers sent to Mali from 180 to 250 as part of an EU-led mission to train the national army for its fight against Islamic extremists. (AFP, 2/5/14) ------------------------- 5-2-2014 In Germany a fire at an asylum home in Hamburg killed a woman from Pakistan and her two children. On Feb 7 a boy (13), a member of the city's youth fire department, admitted to setting the fire. (AP, 2/8/14) ------------------------- 7-2-2014 German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed outrage over a leaked phone conversation in which Victoria Nuland, a top US diplomat, used the f-word regarding the European Union's handling of the crisis in Ukraine. An angry US State Department pointed the finger at Russia for allegedly bugging the diplomats' phones. (AFP, 2/7/14) ------------------------- 9-2-2014 Danish director Lars von Trier brought an extra-long version of his "Nymphomaniac Volume I" to the Berlin International Film Festival, a cut that increases to nearly 2½ hours the first installment of the two-part drama about a woman's sexual life from girlhood to age 50. (AP, 2/9/14) ------------------------- 11-2-2014 German and Dutch authorities arrested five men in a sting operation against a website allegedly used to sell illegal drugs and weapons. (AP, 2/13/14) ------------------------- 14-2-2014 In Germany Agriculture Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich announced his resignation over claims he leaked confidential information about an international child porn probe. (AFP, 2/14/14) ------------------------- 15-2-2014 In Germany the film ~ez_ldquo~Black Coal, Thin Ice won the Golden Bear award for best film at the 64th Berlin Film Festival. It was directed by Diao Yinan of China. (Econ, 2/22/14, p.38) ------------------------- 18-2-2014 A German court sentenced Onesphore Rwabukombe, a Rwandan Hutu, to 14 years in jail for his role in the genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994, ending Germany's first trial related to the mass killings in central Africa. (Reuters, 2/18/14) ------------------------- 20-2-2014 German police raided the homes of nine elderly men suspected of serving as SS guards at the Auschwitz death camp and arrested three of them on allegations of accessory to murder. (AP, 2/20/14) ------------------------- 21-2-2014 In Germany a strike by security staff at Frankfurt airport caused nearly 50 flight cancellations and delayed thousands of passengers, bringing chaos to Europe's third largest hub. (Reuters, 2/21/14) ------------------------- 21-2-2014 The EU bloc's executive Commission added Bavarian pretzels to its "protected origins" list. (AP, 2/21/14) ------------------------- 26-2-2014 Germany's top court struck down the country's 3% electoral threshold for political parties to win seats in the European Parliament. (AFP, 2/26/14) ------------------------- 27-2-2014 In Germany former Pres. Christian Wulff (54) was acquitted of corruption charges from his time as a regional governor. (SFC, 2/28/14, p.A2) ------------------------- 28-2-2014 In Germany two lawyers were attacked at an office in Duesseldorf. One was killed and the other soon died of his wounds A third person was killed at another lawyers' office in nearby Erkrath before the suspected assailant, a Chinese-born resident, was arrested. (AP, 3/2/14) ------------------------- 28-2-2014 A Germany rescue helicopter crashed during a training flight off the Baltic Sea coast, killing 3 people. One person on board survived. (AP, 3/1/14) ------------------------- 5-3-2014 Germany Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said that Germany is ready to help Ukraine in its difficult phase and added that this would include financial assistance. (Reuters, 3/5/14) ------------------------- 9-3-2014 Russians took over a Ukrainian border post on the western edge of Crimea, trapping about 15 personnel inside. Germany's Angela Merkel delivered a rebuke to President Vladimir Putin, telling him that a planned Moscow-backed referendum on whether Crimea should join Russia was illegal and violated Ukraine's constitution. (Reuters, 3/9/14) ------------------------- 10-3-2014 In Germany Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness admitted to evading millions of euros (dollars) in taxes through an undeclared Swiss bank account at a trial that could send the German football great to prison. (AP, 3/10/14) ------------------------- 13-3-2014 Germany's Angela Merkel warned Moscow that it risked "massive" political and economic damage if it refused to change course on Ukraine. (AP, 3/13/14) ------------------------- 13-3-2014 In Germany Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness was found guilty and sentenced to 3½ years in prison for evading millions of euros (dollars) in tax through an undeclared Swiss bank account. (AP, 3/13/14) ------------------------- 26-3-2014 Pope Francis permanently removed German bishop Franz-Peter Terbartz-van Elst from his Limburg diocese after his 31 million-euro ($43-million) new residence complex caused an uproar among the church faithful. Francis had temporarily expelled him in October pending a church inquiry. (AP, 3/26/14) ------------------------- 27-3-2014 Germany's main airports were hit by a strike as public sector workers raised pressure on the government in pay talks. (Reuters, 3/27/14) ------------------------- 29-3-2014 German magazine Der Spiegel reported that the US National Security Agency kept more than 300 reports on Chancellor Angela Merkel in a special databank about scores of foreign heads of state. Other leaders listed in the databank include the heads of Peru, Somalia, Guatemala, Colombia and Belarus. (AP, 3/29/14) ------------------------- 31-3-2014 German authorities arrested three people in raids against suspected supporters of a hard-line Islamic group in Syria, a move meant to curb risks posed by extremists returning from Syria's civil war. (AP, 3/31/14) ------------------------- 31-3-2014 Germany's Lufthansa said it will cancel some 3,800 flights because of a three-day strike by the pilots' union later this week (April 2-4), hitting more than 425,000 passengers. (AP, 3/31/14) ------------------------- 31-3-2014 In Germany workers at Amazon logistics center in Leipzig staged the short-term warning strike to try to get management to return to the negotiating table over wages. (AP, 3/31/14) -------------------------
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| | | Historiana عضو فعال
عدد المساهمات : 79 تاريخ التسجيل : 23/06/2010
| موضوع: رد: Germany 2014 الخميس مارس 05, 2015 5:58 pm | |
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2-4-2014 Germany's antitrust authority said it has fined a group of brewers 231.2 million euros ($319 million) for allegedly fixing the price of beer, the second round of punishments it has made in the case. (AP, 4/2/14) ------------------------- 2-4-2014 Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel's Cabinet approved a national minimum wage, guaranteeing workers at least 8.50 euros per hour ($11.75) starting next year. (AP, 4/2/14) ------------------------- 2-4-2014 Lufthansa canceled almost 900 domestic and intercontinental flights after the pilots' union started a three-day strike in a wage dispute with Germany's largest airline. (AP, 4/2/14) ------------------------- 3-4-2014 Germany Deutsche Post said it is no longer accepting letters bound for Crimea after its Ukrainian counterpart told the Geneva-based Universal Postal Union (UPU) that delivery to the region was no longer guaranteed. (Reuters, 4/3/14) ------------------------- 7-4-2014 German authorities said reclusive collector Cornelius Gurlitt, who hoarded hundreds of valuable artworks at his Munich home, has agreed to cooperate in efforts to determine which pieces were seized by the Nazis. (AP, 4/7/14) ------------------------- 8-4-2014 The German government signed off on a draft law that will allow young Germans of foreign origin to have dual citizenship, a move that relaxes some of Europe's strictest nationality laws and will benefit the large Turkish community. (Reuters, 4/8/14) ------------------------- 8-4-2014 Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet approved a reform of Germany's renewable energy law designed to curb a rise in the cost of electricity. (Reuters, 4/8/14) ------------------------- 9-4-2014 German prosecutors released more than 1,000 artworks found at the Munich apartment of reclusive collector Cornelius Gurlitt, days after he agreed to cooperate with authorities in determining which pieces were seized by the Nazis. At least 458 works owned by the collector that are being checked for a Nazi-era past remained in government hands. (AP, 4/9/14) ------------------------- 13-4-2014 German media citing official sources said the government will not approve a reported deal to sell up to 800 Leopard-2 battle tanks to Saudi Arabia. (AFP, 4/13/14) ------------------------- 15-4-2014 German utility company RWE said it has started sending natural gas to Ukraine, a move that could support the country if Russia acts on its threat to cut off supplies because of a massive debt for past deliveries. (AP, 4/15/14) -------------------------
25-4-2014 German-Jewish writer Stefanie Zweig (81), best known for her autobiographical novel "Nowhere in Africa" (1995), died. The book retold the story of her family's time in Kenya. A movie adaptation won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2003. (AP, 4/27/14) ------------------------- 2014 Apr Germany Pres. Joachim Gauck visited Turkey and criticized the erosion of civil libertties there (Econ, 5/24/14, p.45) ------------------------- 6-5-2014 Germany's Bayer said it has agreed to buy Merck & Co.'s non-prescription medicine and consumer care business for $14.2 billion. (AP, 5/6/14) ------------------------- 7-5-2014 Switzerland Kunstmuseum Bern said that it has been named as the unrestricted and unfettered heir of German art collector Cornelius Gurlitt, who a day earlier (SFC, 5/8/14, p.A2)(AFP, 5/13/14) ------------------------- 9-5-2014 In Germany SLM Solutions, a pioneer in making selective laser melting equipment, i.e. 3D printers, used in factories, began trading on the Frankfurt stock exchange. Here additive manufaturing was used to describe one aspect of 3D printing. (Econ, 5/3/14, p.56) ------------------------- 16-5-2014 German authorities said they have arrested a Mexican man (44) at the Frankfurt Airport after finding his suitcase full of snakes, turtles and lizards, including endangered species. (AP, 5/16/14) ------------------------- 25-5-2014 In Germany Berlin voters cast ballots on whether to develop or preserve as leisure space a big part of the former Tempelhof airport, the hub of the historic 1948-49 Berlin Airlift. Voters decided to keep it bare. (AP, 5/25/14)(Econ, 5/31/14, p.44) ------------------------- 6-6-2014 Germany's foreign intelligence agency officially lifted the lid on some of its worst-kept secrets, acknowledging that half a dozen facilities around the country are in fact spy stations as anyone with Internet access could already figure out. (AP, 6/6/14) ------------------------- 9-6-2014 In Germany at least 6 people were killed in storms that swept North Rhine-Westphalia, forcing Duesseldorf airport to shut down, felling trees and leaving some roads impassable. (Reuters, 6/10/14) ------------------------- 11-6-2014 Taxi drivers staged protests in London, Berlin, Barcelona, Madrid and Paris. Cabbies and train workers walked off the job, leaving traffic snarled, as they protested changes to the travel industry that they say could endanger passengers and give untested upstarts an unfair advantage. (AP, 6/11/14) ------------------------- 12-6-2014 A Berlin court ordered Germany to pay the heirs of Jewish owners of a department store chain an additional 50 million euros ($68 million) in compensation for Schocken family property seized by the Nazis. (AP, 6/12/14) ------------------------- 17-6-2014 US authorities in Philadelphia arrested Johann Breyer (89) after a German warrant charged him with 158 counts of complicity in the killing of Jews while he was a guard at Auschwitz in 1944. (SFC, 6/19/14, p.A9) -------------------------
19-6-2014 An injured German caver was hauled out of the country's deepest cavern by a multinational rescue operation that involved more than 700 people. Johann Westhauser (52), an experienced caver, had gone into the Riesending cave system in the Alps with two companion on June 8 and was injured during a rock fall. (AP, 6/19/14) -------------------------
23-6-2014 In Germany a Learjet chartered by the German air force to take part in a training exercise with two unarmed Eurofighter jets collided with one of the military planes near the town of Elpe Two civilian pilots were presumed dead. The fighter pilot landed safely. (AP, 6/24/14) -------------------------
25-6-2014 Greek authorities said they have broken a massive lottery scam targeting Germans that tricked about 360,000 people into paying to take part in non-existent draws. Two German-born suspects were arrested a day earlier in Athens. (AP, 6/25/14) -------------------------
27-6-2014 German travel group TUI and its British subsidiary TUI Travel said that they had agreed to a tie-up that will create the world's biggest tourism operator. (AFP, 6/27/14) -------------------------
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| | | Historiana عضو فعال
عدد المساهمات : 79 تاريخ التسجيل : 23/06/2010
| موضوع: رد: Germany 2014 الخميس مارس 05, 2015 6:00 pm | |
| 2-7-2014 Germany arrested a 31-year-old man on suspicion of spying for foreign intelligence services. They did not identify the suspect or the intelligence services. Media reports said he is an intelligence service employee accused of spying for the United States. (AP, 7/4/14) ------------------------- 6-7-2014 The German government said it wants a quick and clear explanation from Washington for US intelligence's apparent contact with a German man arrested last week on suspicion of being a double agent. (Reuters, 7/6/14) ------------------------- 7-7-2014 Germany's transport minister announced plans to introduce a car toll that seeks to make money off foreign drivers for the maintenance of its roads. (AP, 7/7/14) ------------------------- 8-7-2014 In Brazil World Cup semifinals the German soccer team beat Brazil national team in a record-breaking 7-1 game. (http://tinyurl.com/l5496fm) ------------------------- 10-7-2014 Germany ask the CIA station chief in Berlin to leave the country in response to fresh allegations of US spying on Berlin. (Reuters, 7/11/14) ------------------------- 10-7-2014 A European Union court ruled that Germany can't require the spouses of Turkish immigrants to show basic knowledge of the German language as a condition for being granted a visa. (AP, 7/10/14) ------------------------- 13-7-2014 Germany won its 4th World Cup title. Argentines celebrating their team's gutsy performance in a 1-0 loss to Germany in the World Cup finals in Brazil. In Buenos Aires Riot police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse a group of rock-throwing vandals who disturbed a rally. (AP, 7/14/14) ------------------------- 15-7-2014 Germany's Federal Cartel Office said it has imposed fines totaling 338 million euros ($460 million) on 21 sausage manufacturers for colluding on prices. (AP, 7/15/14) ------------------------- 23-7-2014 Air France and Germany's two largest airlines canceled more flights to Tel Aviv because of ongoing safety concerns amid the fighting between Israel and Hamas. (AP, 7/23/14) ------------------------- 4-8-2014 Germany's Economy Ministry confirmed it has halted Rheinmetall's export of combat simulation gear to Russia, going beyond recently imposed EU sanctions which block future defense contracts. (Reuters, 8/4/14) ------------------------- 5-8-2014 In Germany a Munich court freed Bernie Ecclestone (83), the boss of Formula One motor racing, but ordered him to pay $99m to the state of Bavaria and $1m to a charitable foundation for children over allegations of bribery. Ecclestone wealth was estimated at $4 billion. (Econ, 8/9/14, p.54) ------------------------- 16-8-2014 In Iraq airstrikes pounded the area around the Mosul Dam in an effort to drive out militants who captured it earlier this month. Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier announced in Baghdad that his government would provide more than 24 million euros ($32.2 million) in humanitarian aid to Iraq. (AP, 8/16/14) ------------------------- 23-8-2014 Several thousand people formed a human chain across the German-Polish border to protest the expansion of mining for brown coal, aka lignite, in the region. (SSFC, 8/24/14, p.A6) ------------------------- 6-9-2014 In Germany the GdL union for train drivers began a three-hour national strike to put pressure on German railway company Deutsche Bahn in their ongoing wage negotiations. (AP, 9/6/14) ------------------------- 16-9-2014 A court in Germany lifted an emergency injunction that banned the SF-based ridesharing service Uber from operating anywhere in the country. (AP, 9/16/14) ------------------------- 16-9-2014 Germany-listed Ultrasonic AG said in a statement it has been unable to reach its chief executive, Qingyong Wu, and chief operating officer, Minghong Wu, since the weekend. The company said most of its cash was in China and Hong Kong has been transferred beyond its control. (AP, 9/17/14) ------------------------- 22-9-2014 German authorities seized 330 kg (728 pounds) of heroin worth an estimated 50 million euros ($63 million) that smugglers brought to Europe hidden in a shipment of bottled pickles and garlic from Iran. (AP, 10/9/14) ------------------------- 25-9-2014 Germany began arms deliveries to the semi-autonomous Kurdish region, with the ultimate goal of supplying 10,000 Kurdish fighters with some 70 million euros ($90 million) worth of equipment. (AP, 9/25/14) ------------------------- 28-9-2014 In Germany Dennis Kimetto of Kenya knocked 26 seconds off the world marathon record. Kimetto won the 41st edition of the Berlin Marathon in 2 hours, 2 minutes, 57 seconds, becoming the first man to complete a marathon in under 2 hours, 3 minutes. (AP, 9/28/14) ------------------------- 30-9-2014 German investigators asked for help in tracking down two Pakistani men suspected of defrauding Germany of 136 million euros ($173 million) in connection with carbon dioxide emissions trading. Mobeen Iqbal (32) and Ashraf Muhammad (35) were wanted on international warrants for tax fraud for allegedly running the scheme between August 2009 and April 2010. (AP, 9/30/14) ------------------------- 30-9-2014 In Germany pilots on Lufthansa's long-haul fleet started a 15-hour walkout at the airline's main Frankfurt hub in a festering contract dispute. (AP, 9/30/14) -------------------------
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عدد المساهمات : 79 تاريخ التسجيل : 23/06/2010
| موضوع: رد: Germany 2014 الخميس مارس 05, 2015 6:04 pm | |
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7-10-2014 The German government said a convoy of 112 trucks carrying aid from Germany has crossed into Ukraine and the goods will be distributed in the country's east by local officials. (AP, 10/7/14) ------------------------- 7-10-2014 In Germany train drivers' union GDL called for a nine-hour nationwide strike starting this evening. Pilots' union Vereinigung Cockpit announced a two-day strike at Lufthansa's freight arm starting at 2100 ET on Oct 8. (Reuters, 10/7/14) ------------------------- 11-10-2014 Germany, one of the countries that suspended aid to Malawi after a massive 2013 public sector graft scandal, said it has granted the impoverished southern African nation $25 million to conduct an audit into the fraud. (AFP, 10/11/14) ------------------------- 12-10-2014 In Cairo, Egypt, US Sec. of State John Kerry presided over a conference on peace in the Middle East and announced an additional $212 million in US aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Qatar said it would provide $1 billion in reconstruction assistance for Gaza, while fellow Gulf Arab states Kuwait and United Arab Emirates promised $200 million each. Germany also announced it would contribute 50 million euros ($63 million) to reconstruction efforts in Gaza. (Reuters, 10/12/14) ------------------------- 18-10-2014 In Germany millions of passengers were left stranded after train drivers began a 50-hour strike that halted two thirds of long-distance trains in a dispute over pay and negotiation rights. (Reuters, 10/18/14) ------------------------- 20-10-2014 Lufthansa pilots launched a strike, deepening Germany's travel chaos after train drivers stopped work at the weekend just as school holidays began in much of the country. (AFP, 10/20/14) ------------------------- 26-10-2014 In Germany 49 police officers were injured as some 4,000 neo-Nazis attended a demonstra tion in cologne by a group calling itself Hooligans against Salafis (SFC, 10/28/14, p.A2) ------------------------- 27-10-2014 In Germany workers at Amazon.com were on strike again as a union pushed its demands in a long-running wage dispute with the American online retailer. (AP, 10/27/14) ------------------------- 30-10-2014 German regional court in Wuerzburg sentenced a trucker (58) to 10 ½ years in prison for shooting at fellow drivers more than 700 times over a five-year period. (AP, 10/30/14) ------------------------- -------------------------
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