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Iran holds 2 Germans linked to stoning case (AP)

October 12th, 2010

FILE - This undated file image made available by Amnesty International in London on Thursday July 8, 2010, of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a mother of two who is facing the punishment of stoning to death in Iran, on charges of adultery. Iran said Monday, Oct. 11, 2010, that it had arrested two foreigners as they were interviewing the son of a woman whose sentence of death by stoning on an adultery conviction has ignited binternational/b outrage. ran's judiciary spokesman Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehi said the two foreigners arrested had entered the country on tourist visas and did not have documents to prove they were journalists. His comments were carried on the official IRNA news agency. (AP Photo/Amnesty International, ho, File) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY NO SALES **AP - Iran confirmed Tuesday that it arrested two German nationals as they approached the home of a woman whose sentence of death-by-stoning on an adultery conviction has drawn international…

5 Germans said killed in Pakistan missile strike (AP)

October 4th, 2010

Pakistani firefighters try to extinguish burning NATO oil tankers following the gunmen attack on the outside of Islamabad. Pakistani Taliban militants have claimed two fiery attacks on Afghanistan-bound NATO supply convoys in which nearly 60 trucks have been torched in three days -- and vowed more to come.(AFP/Aamir Qureshi)AP - A U.S. missile killed five German militants taking shelter in a house in northwest Pakistan on Monday, intelligence officials said.


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20 years on, Germans reflect on reunification (AP)

October 1st, 2010

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010, file photo, German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives at the weekly cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin. Twenty years after the unification of East and West Germany, old habits still die hard with even Chancellor Merkel confessing she still can't shed some of her East German tendencies. Merkel, who grew up in communist East Germany, still washes her laundry with East German 'fit' detergent, prepares East Germans' favorite Soljanka soup, an often eclectic mix of ingredients like sausage, cabbage and sour cream in a pickle juice broth for supper and can't fight a predilection to hoard food and other goods. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)AP - Angela Merkel, the leader of Europe’s richest country, still hoards food.


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Official: Germans, Brits behind Europe terror plot (AP)

September 30th, 2010

AP - A Pakistani intelligence official says eight Germans and two British brothers are behind a recent terror plot against European cities, and one of the Britons died in a…

No autos on the autobahn: Germans party on highway (AP)

July 19th, 2010

People gather on the Autobahn in Essen, western Germany, to celebrate 'Still-Life' on Sunday, July 18, 2010. The most-travelled motorway in Germany A40 is closed for one day on 60 kilometers for the most spectacular event of the European Cultural Capital Ruhr 2010, when 20,000 tables are set as the longest banquet of the world. About one million visitors and inhabitants of the Ruhr agglomeration area meet, eat and drink together on a Sunday between the cities of Dortmund and Duisburg in Germany's most populated region. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)AP - Germany’s autobahns are renowned for average speeds well in excess of 80 miles (130 kilometers) an hour. But the average dropped near zero Sunday as tens of thousands…

Defense Minister prepares Germans for Afghan ‘war’ (AP)

April 4th, 2010

German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg informs the media about the recent incident in Afghanistan during a news conference in Bonn, Germany, Sunday April 4, 2010. German troops in a deadly firefight with Taliban insurgents accidentally killed six Afghan troops. Three Germans died in the firefight with the militants. The friendly fire incident Friday took place in northern Kunduz province, where German forces were sharply criticized last September when they ordered an airstrike on two tanker trucks that had been captured by the Taliban. Up to 142 people died, many of them civilians. (AP Photo/Hermann Knippertz)AP - Germany’s defense minister on Sunday for the first time referred to military operations in Afghanistan as a war, while he promised to investigate a friendly fire clash that…

International Philosophy

March 20th, 2010

Monty Python’s classic skit of the Greeks vs. the Germans

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