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Merkels party faces tough election-year test in state polls Geir Moulson Tags:  Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved Election posters show Winfried Kretschmann from the Greens and the partys top candidate for the Baden-Wurttemberg federal state elections in Mannheim, Germany, Wednesday, March 10, 2021. The elections will take place next Sunday. Letters on left poster read "edges stabilize", letters on right poster read "you know me". (AP Photo/Michael Probst) BERLIN – Two...

Two German states are set to vote on Sunday in regional elections seen as a bellwether for September’s national poll as Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) continue to reel from a mask procurement scandal that could prove the party’s undoing. Voters go to the polls in the south-western states of Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate, with the vote in Baden-Württemberg seen as a stress test for CDU party leader Armin Laschet and his bid to succeed Merkel as chancel...

Parliament proceedings | Let’s have Men’s Day too for gender parity, says Sonal Mansingh Updated: Updated: Upper House reserves Zero Hour for women members to mark the Day Share Article AAA BJP MP Sonal Mansingh speaks in the Rajya Sabha during ongoing Budget Session of Parliament, in New Delhi, Monday, March. 8, 2021.   | Photo Credit: PTI Upper House reserves Zero Hour for women members to mark the Day Noted classical dancer and nominated Rajya Sabha member Sonal Mansingh left the Uppe...

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Updated Feb 25, 2021 | 23:01 IST During a probe by Satara police, it was revealed that the accused German nationals were also arrested by Goa police in a drug case in 2017. Police said they are also probing any possible chain of marijuana distribution. &nbsp | &nbspPhoto Credit:&nbspiStock Images Key Highlights The banned plants weighed around 29 kg. Pune: Two German nationals, who were arrested for alleged cannabis cultivation, thrashed jail guards and allegedly created...

Two German men were fined for late payment of their public broadcaster fee after being told they could not pay in cash. The Klappergasse in Frankfurt’s pub district of Alt-Sachsenhausen is deserted in Frankfurt, Germany, on Nov. 2, 2020. (Arne Dedert/dpa via AP) LUXEMBOURG (CN) — EU public authorities must accept cash as payment but can refuse coins and notes for reasons of public interest, the union’s high court ruled on Tuesday.  The Court of Justice of the European Union announced the...

26 Jan 2021 Two German newspapers reported last night that German government sources had told them the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is only 8 per cent effective (or less than ten per cent) in the over-65s. But there are good reasons to think these reports are incorrect. The main data we have on the jab was published in the Lancet medical journal back in November. Scientists were last night struggling to reconcile this with the figures relayed by the Handelsblatt and Bild news...

By JOHN VANDIVER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: January 14, 2021 STUTTGART, Germany — Two German lawmakers are calling for changes in an international treaty that leaves most criminal cases involving U.S. troops in the hands of the military justice system, saying local authorities should have more say in such matters. Federal parliamentarian Angelika Gloeckner and Rheinland-Pfalz state representative Daniel Schaeffner, both members of Germany’s Social Democratic Party, cited a German teen...

Two German WWII graves bearing Nazi swastikas have been removed from Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery and replaced with new headstones.

The two grave markings belonging to German prisoners of war were taken down on Wednesday at the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antionio.