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Germany's strategic ties with India get positive spin as ties with China worsen
The present centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU)-led coalition government already contains SPD's Heiko Maas as Foreign Minister. He is expected to remain in this position, thereby ensuring continuity.
Germany's SPD lead election race after final TV debate
Scholz, the incumbent Finance Minister and Vice Chancellor, was able to convince most potential voters of his merits during the debate on the private TV broadcasters ProSieben and Sat1 on Sunday, Xinhua news agency quoted a snap poll by Forsa released on Monday.
Ex-Afghan minister now delivers food on a bicycle in Germany
Syed Ahmad Shah Saadat, former Afghanistan Minister of Information and Communications, was spotted by a local journalist in Germany's Leipzig city when he was on his way to make a delivery on his bicycle. Saadat had joined the government of the now-exiled President Ashraf Ghani as a cabinet minister in 2018. After serving for two years, however, Saadat resigned and left the country for Germany last December.
US, Germany reach deal on Nord Stream 2 issue
The 1,230-km gas pipeline, expected to be completed next month, would bring 55 billion cubic meters of gas annually from Russia to Germany through the Baltic Sea, reports Xinhua news agency. A senior State Department official told reporters during a phone briefing on Wednesday that Washington and Berlin had profound differences over the Nord Stream 2.
Catastrophic floods kill over 120 in Europe, many still missing
Some countries inthe region received up to two months worth of rainfall in two days, with Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg strongly affected, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). In parts of western and southern Germany, towns and communities were hit by catastrophic flash floods after heavy and continuous rainfall this week.
Flooding in Germany kills 80 people
The death toll in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate has increased to 50, and "the fear is that there will be more", said a police spokesman in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. According to figures previously released by the Interior Department of North Rhine-Westphalia, at least 30 people died in the state as a result of the disastrous weather, Xinhua news agency.
3 people dead in Germany knife attack
The incident took place on Barbarossaplatz square in the city centre on Friday evening, reports Xinhua news agency. Following the attack, the square and its surrounding areas were sealed off. The suspect, a 24-year-old Somali man, stabbed several people with a 40-cm-long knife and police used firearms and arrested him, local media outlet Bayerischen Rundfunk said in a report.
Germany's ruling conservatives move up in polls
The CDU/CSU had gained one percentage point compared to the previous week and stood at 28 per cent, according to a recent Trendbarometer survey conducted by the market and opinion research institute forsa among 1,003 voters in Germany, reports Xinhua news agency. In the race for Chancellor, the Green Party candidate, Annalena Baerbock, has lost her first place to the CDU/CSU's candidate Armin Laschet.
G7 scolds China on human rights violations in Xinjiang, demands transparent investigation into Covid-19 origins
In view of many reports alleging that the Covid-19 virus was produced in a Wuhan lab, pressure has been mounting on China to lead a fair and transparent investigation into the matter. The G7 communique demanded an exhaustive investigation into the origins of Covid-19. The G7 in a statement said that they will promote their “values” by demanding fundamental rights from China.
German election polling suggests Greens continuing to lose ground
The poll, which was commissioned by RTL and ntv and published on Wednesday, has the CDU/CSU on 27 per cent - an increase of two points - while the Greens share fell two points to 22 per cent. All other parties remain unchanged compared with last week's figures. These suggest the SPD and FDP would come in at 14 per cent, the AfD at 9 and the Linke (Left Party) at 6, DPA reported.
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