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Germany says antisemitic crimes up 15% in 2020, far-right attacks on the rise

Illustrative: Policemen walk through a street close to the site of a shooting in Halle an der Saale, eastern Germany, on October 9, 2019. (Sebastian Willnow/dpa/AFP)
BERLIN, Germany (AP) — Berlin police arrested a 53-year-old German man on suspicion of sending dozens of threatening letters to politicians, lawyers and journalists that were signed with the acronym of a neo-Nazi group, as officials warned Tuesday that statistics show a disturbing rise in far-right extremism across Germany.
Antisemitic crimes rose by more than 15 percent in 2020, the data showed.
Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said far-right crime rose 5.65% in 2020, accounting for more than half of all criminality categorized as “politically motivated.”

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Germany hits climate target thanks to pandemic

Germany hits climate target thanks to pandemic
Posted : 2021-03-16 21:24
Updated : 2021-03-16 21:57
Svenja Schulze, German Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety presents the German greenhouse gases balance 2020 at the Federal Press Conference in Berlin, Germany. EPA-Yonhap
Germany said Tuesday it had met its national climate goal for 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic helped to drive the biggest reduction in emissions for three decades in Europe's biggest economy.
Greenhouse gas emissions last year were around 41 percent lower than 1990 levels, the biggest yearly decline in more than three decades, the environment minister said.
"It's clear that the coronavirus pandemic has fuelled the reduction in emissions," Svenja Schulze told reporters, warning there was "no reason to relax".

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RT Germany: Berlin Fears Growing Influence of Russian Propaganda Platform

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The Disinformation Station
Germany Fears Influence of Russian Propaganda Channel
With RT DE, Moscow wants to provide a platform for corona skeptics, right-wing populists and leftist fans of the Kremlin to destabilize democracy in Germany. Internal emails provide insights into the media organization.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin during a visit to RT in Moscow in 2015
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The call to order from Moscow came at 2 p.m. on Oct. 23, 2020, per video call. That Friday, RT DE, the German-language arm of the Russian state-funded television channel RT, had a news story on its website: "China and Germany Are Becoming Superpowers.” According to the report, Vladimir Putin had said as much during a video conference. A photo of the Russian president was at the top of the story. Putin was further quoted as saying that the absolute dominance of the U.S. was passé.

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Germany's Merkel warns of third wave if lockdown is lifted too quickly

Germany's Merkel warns of third wave if lockdown is lifted too quickly
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2/25/2021
By Claudia Otto, Nadine Schmidt and Angela Dewan, CNN
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel puts on her face mask after giving a press conference on the Covid-19 situation in Germany at the house of the Federal Press Conference (Bundespressekonferenz), on January 21, 2021 in Berlin. (Photo by Michael Kappeler / POOL / AFP) (Photo by MICHAEL KAPPELER/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that her country could be caught in a third wave of Covid-19 if it lifts its lockdown too quickly.

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Extended lockdown needed to slow spread of COVID-19 mutation: Merkel

Berlin: Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday defended a decision to extend a hard lockdown in Germany by two weeks until mid-February, saying it was necessary to slow a new and more aggressive variant of the coronavirus.
Speaking at a news conference, Merkel said that while restrictions were showing results in the form of fewer new infections, it would be a mistake to ease curbs given the mutation had been identified in Germany.
“Our efforts face a threat and this threat is clearer now than at the start of the year and this is the mutation of the virus,” said Merkel.

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Germany's Merkel points to variant risk as infections drop | Taiwan News

Germany's Merkel points to variant risk as infections drop | 2021/01/21

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Major EU countries to coordinate COVID-19 vaccine release | News | DW

"The rate of progress is reliant on a robust and complete assessment of the quality, safety and efficacy and is determined by availability of additional information from the company to respond to questions raised during the evaluation," read an EMA statement.
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen applauded the EMA decision, tweeting: "Likely the first Europeans will be vaccinated before end 2020," a comment that left many on her Twitter feed asking whether the British were no longer considered Europeans.
EU countries have secured doses of vaccine but the bloc has opted for a slower, more thorough approval process rather than the abbreviated testing the vaccine was put through elsewhere. EMA says it will also review other vaccine candidates in January.

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