Author: David Rising
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Merkel: Europe must stay united in face of ally uncertainty
BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday urged European Union nations to stick together in the face of emerging policy divisions with the U.S., Britain’s decision to leave the bloc and other challenges. Speaking at a campaign event held in a Bavarian beer tent, Merkel suggested that the G-7 summit in Italy that ended…
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Poland confirms Minnesota man as Nazi commander
WARSAW, Poland — Poland will seek the arrest and extradition of a Minnesota man exposed by The Associated Press as a former commander in an SS-led unit that burned Polish villages and killed civilians in World War II, prosecutors said Monday. Prosecutor Robert Janicki said evidence gathered over years of investigation into U.S. citizen Michael…
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Islamic State claims responsibility for Berlin market attack
BERLIN — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Tuesday for a truck attack on a crowded Berlin Christmas market that German authorities said came right out of the extremist group’s playbook, inflicting mass casualties on a soft target fraught with symbolic meaning. The Monday night attack on the popular market by the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial…
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Swiss police report stabbings, fire on train; suspect held
BERLIN — Police in Switzerland say a Swiss man set a fire and stabbed people on a train in the country’s northeast, wounding six people as well as himself. Police in St. Gallen canton (state) say the incident happened at 2:20 local time (1220 GMT) Saturday afternoon as the train neared the station in Salez,…
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Financing of Airbus military transport plan appears resolved
BERLIN — The nations that ordered the Airbus A400M military transporter have agreed to pay nearly $4.8 billion more to address cost overruns and keep the troubled project alive, manufacturer EADS NV and the German Defense Ministry said Friday. The agreement was worked out by deputy defense ministers and industry representatives in a meeting in…