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| UpdatedUS Vice-President Mike Pence promises "unwavering" support to NATO and vows to "hold Russia accountable", even as President Donald Trump searches for new common ground with Moscow.
Topics: world-politics, defence-forces, germany, european-union, united-states
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Germany bans a children's doll capable of listening to children's conversations and responding in real time, with the country's telecommunications watchdog labelling the toy a "concealed surveillance device".
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, information-technology, germany
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| UpdatedA man uses his robotic exoskeleton to walk onto the soccer pitch. A woman sees the world using her bionic eye. Sound like science fiction? No, these are all real stories.
Topics: biotechnology, science-and-technology, neuroscience, robots-and-artificial-intelligence, disabilities, health, australia, germany, sweden
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| UpdatedTwo elderly German tourists who died at Trephina Gorge, east of Alice Springs, were not well suited to be at the remote location and probably perished on the first day of their walk, police say.
Topics: death, missing-person, alice-springs-0870, germany
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European football giants Barcelona look set to miss out on the Champions league quarter-finals, after the Catalans are hammered 4-0 by PSG in the first leg of their last-16 tie.
Topics: sport, soccer, champions-league, france, spain, portugal, germany
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| UpdatedNorthern Territory Police find a woman's body at Trephina Gorge, east of Alice Springs, believed to be missing German woman Gisela Thor.
Topics: missing-person, death, alice-springs-0870, germany
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| UpdatedThe search for Gisela Thor, missing in the remote Trephina Gorge in the Northern Territory, continues a day after the body of her husband, 76-year-old Wilfred Thor, is found.
Topics: missing-person, alice-springs-0870, germany
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The United States Tennis Association has been forced to apologise after a Fed Cup match against Germany was opened with a version of the German national anthem banned after World War II
Topics: world-politics, united-states, germany
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FBI agents recover a 17th century oil painting that disappeared more than 80 years ago when Nazis confiscated it from a German art dealer.
Topics: world-war-2, visual-art, arts-and-entertainment, germany, italy
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Until recently the German Chancellor — often referred to as Mummy — seemed untouchable, but now she is facing her most serious contender in a decade, and rather than being from the anti-immigration far right, he is a straight-talking Europhile of the centre left.
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More than 1,100 German police have searched 54 homes, business premises and mosques in Frankfurt and other towns in the western state of Hesse and arrested a Tunisian man suspected of planning an attack.
Topics: terrorism, police, foreign-affairs, religion-and-beliefs, germany, european-union
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| UpdatedBrunhilde Pomsel, the former secretary of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, dies aged 106.
Topics: history, human-interest, world-war-2, community-and-society, germany
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| UpdatedAmid growing criticism that the US immigration curbs are discriminatory and divisive, US President Donald Trump defends the move and says visas will be granted to those affected by the ban once "the most secure policies" are put in place.
Topics: immigration, community-and-society, government-and-politics, federal-government, donald-trump, world-politics, united-states, germany, united-kingdom, netherlands
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| UpdatedRussian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump have said they want their nations to cooperate to defeat terrorists, including the Islamic State group.
Topics: world-politics, government-and-politics, terrorism, donald-trump, united-states, russian-federation, germany
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Germany's population grew by some 600,000 last year to reach a record high of 82.8 million people due to the number of asylum seekers who have arrived in the country, the Federal Statistics office says.
Topics: refugees, world-politics, germany
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| UpdatedDozens of elderly Auschwitz survivors place wreaths and flowers at the infamous execution wall of the former German death camp, as Germany's Foreign Minister calls for history to be a "lesson and warning".
Topics: world-war-2, history, poland, germany
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| UpdatedFaced with Trump's 'declaration of war', some European leaders have now taken the gloves off where the US president is concerned.
Topics: world-politics, us-elections, germany, france, united-states
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| UpdatedThe team from Germany that took part in the Coral Coast Sevens in Fiji, say the experience will stand them in good stead as they continue their preparations for the World Series qualifier in Hong Kong in April.
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| UpdatedFar-right populist leaders from Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands are meeting in the German city of Koblenz to present their vision for "a free Europe".
Topics: political-parties, world-politics, forms-of-government, germany
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to author Irina Borogan about suggestions Russia may try to influence the upcoming election in Germany.
Topics: world-politics, hacking, government-and-politics, elections, russian-federation, germany
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The National Democratic Party resembles Adolf Hitler's Nazi party, Germany's Constitutional Court says, but rules against banning it because the party is too weak to endanger democracy.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, germany
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| UpdatedStunned European leaders are reacting with defiance to the US President-elect Donald Trump labelling the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) "obsolete".
Topics: us-elections, government-and-politics, foreign-affairs, world-politics, european-union, germany, italy, united-states
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Valtteri Bottas replaces retired Formula One world champion Nico Rosberg at Mercedes, with Brazilian veteran Felipe Massa coming out of retirement to take the Finn's seat at Williams.
Topics: formula-1, motor-sports, sport, germany
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| UpdatedFacebook announces it will update its social media platforms in Germany to reduce the dissemination of fake news after concerns were raised that false information could influence September's election.
Topics: social-media, elections, government-and-politics, information-and-communication, germany
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Researchers excavating the remains of one of the most notorious Nazi death camps uncover a pendant that appears identical to one belonging to Anne Frank, Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial says.
Topics: world-war-2, history, community-and-society, judaism, religion-and-beliefs, israel, poland, germany