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Mar 07, 2021 09:51 PM IST Nikolas Loebel, a member of Germany's lower house said on Sunday he would resign as member of Merkel's parliamentary group with immediate effect and no longer seek a new term in the lower house in federal elections scheduled for September.
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Mar 02, 2021 05:15 PM IST The draft document, seen by Reuters, states that starting from March 8 a maximum of five people from two households, excluding children younger than 14, will be allowed to meet, up from a maximum of two people under current rules.
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Feb 28, 2021 06:34 PM IST Germany's disease control agency, the Robert Koch Institute, said it would add Moselle to the list of variant of concern areas that already includes countries such as the Czech Republic, Portugal and the United Kingdom.
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Feb 26, 2021 02:57 PM IST Many people — including health workers — are skipping appointments or refusing to sign up for the AstraZeneca shot, which they fear is less effective than the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine
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Feb 24, 2021 03:04 PM IST While the European country is the fourth-largest economy, its leading enterprises have not outsourced heavily. With the onset of COVID-19, when German companies had to cut costs, they turned to Indian IT firms for help. For Indian firms, Germany has an outsourcing potential of about $40-50 billion.
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Feb 22, 2021 07:53 PM IST The brewers called on the German government to give beer breweries aid under the country’s programmes to help industry recover from the impact of the coronavirus crisis.
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Feb 20, 2021 08:11 PM IST Friedrich Karl Berger, who had been living in Tennessee and had German citizenship, was deported for taking part in "Nazi-sponsored acts of persecution" while serving as an armed guard at the Neuengamme Concentration Camp system in 1945.
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Feb 11, 2021 09:11 AM IST There will be some exceptions made during the extended lockdown, including allowing hairdressers to reopen their businesses on March 1, albeit with strict hygiene regulations.
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Feb 10, 2021 06:46 PM IST The number of new daily infections in Germany has been falling, prompting some regional leaders to push for a timetable to ease the lockdown, but concerns are growing about the impact of more infectious variants of the virus on case numbers.
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Feb 07, 2021 09:11 PM IST Snowstorm and strong winds pounded parts of Europe on February 7, turning the Netherlands, England, Germany and Lithuania into winter landscapes. The unusual weather and temperature divide was caused by a polar vortex pushing icy air from the Arctic toward northern and western regions of the continent.
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Feb 05, 2021 06:45 PM IST Pointing to US purchases of crude oil from Russia, Armin Laschet described himself as a political realist - or "Realpolitiker" - and said: "We have to take the world as it is in order to make it better."
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Feb 02, 2021 04:34 PM IST That consolation in official figures released Tuesday couldn't erase a gloomier outlook for this year, as the 19 countries that use the euro are expected to lag China and the US in bouncing back from the worst of the pandemic.
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Jan 31, 2021 06:54 PM IST Portugal, which said on Saturday that only seven of 850 ICU beds set up for COVID-19 cases on its mainland were vacant, had asked the German government for help.
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Jan 26, 2021 07:09 PM IST "The danger from the numerous virus mutations forces us to consider drastic measures," Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said.
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Jan 17, 2021 09:27 PM IST The 44-year-old, who boarded a plane in Berlin at the last minute from a car sitting on the tarmac, hence avoiding other passengers, said he was delighted to be flying home and made light of the risk of being arrested.
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Jan 16, 2021 04:57 PM IST Armin Laschet, the premier of the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia - Germany’s most populous - won a runoff vote against Friedrich Merz, securing 521 votes against 466 for his arch-conservative rival, according to a ballot of 1,001 party delegates.
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Jan 16, 2021 08:49 AM IST German voters will elect a new government September 26, and Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democratic Union remains the country’s most popular party, according to a survey
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Jan 15, 2021 04:53 PM IST Alarmed by the high infection rate and bracing for the spread of more transmissible variants of the virus, Merkel told top officials from her party on Thursday that she wanted "very fast action".
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Jan 12, 2021 09:11 PM IST The crematorium would typically have 70 to 100 caskets on site at this time of year, now it has 300 bodies waiting to be cremated and more are brought to the crematorium every day.
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Jan 07, 2021 09:16 PM IST The Frankfurt index climbed to an all-time high of 14,006.70 points in late afternoon trading, setting the latest in a series of records in recent days.
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Dec 31, 2020 08:47 PM IST For what is almost certainly her last New Year’s Eve speech as the government’s leader, as she is expected to leave office in 2021, she focuses on a single topic: the coronavirus.
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Dec 29, 2020 05:04 PM IST Researchers were "able to sequence the variant of the B1.1.7 virus in a person infected in November this year", the health ministry of Lower Saxony said in a statement referring to the new strain.
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Dec 27, 2020 06:10 PM IST The 20-year-old pilot mapped out the route he would need to take on a GPS device before taking to the skies near Lake Constance in southern Germany.
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Dec 27, 2020 11:15 AM IST The woman, from Halberstadt in the Harz hill range, lives in a care home for elderly people, where 40 residents as well as 11 staff were vaccinated, MDR reported.