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January 25, 2021

Merkel invites Biden to Germany ‘as soon as pandemic allows’

Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday invited US President Joe Biden to visit Germany “as soon as the pandemic situation allows,” her spokesman said, in their first phone call since the Democrat took office. In what appeared to be a markedly…

January 25, 2021

Anger on Czech border as Germany demands virus tests

Long queues of cars formed at the Czech-German frontier on Monday and cross-border workers voiced frustration as tighter restrictions for travel into Germany came into force. At the Folmava-Furth im Wald border post — where the Iron Curtain once separated…

January 25, 2021

Greece, Turkey hold first crisis talks since 2016

Greece and Turkey bowed to EU pressure on Monday and locked horns in the first direct talks in nearly five years over their explosive eastern Mediterranean standoff. The three-and-a-half hour meeting ended without a breakthrough after the uneasy NATO neighbours’…

January 25, 2021

Former VW boss’s fraud trial pushed back over Covid-19

Former Volkswagen chief Martin Winterkorn’s trial over the car giant’s emissions-cheating scandal has been postponed until April due to the coronavirus pandemic, a German court said Monday. Winterkorn, 73, and four former colleagues had been due to stand trial on…

January 25, 2021

German politician panned over Candy Crush confession

A German regional leader has sparked a backlash after he admitted on a chat app to playing Candy Crush on his phone during online pandemic response meetings with Chancellor Angela Merkel. Bodo Ramelow, head of the eastern Thuringia state, made…

January 25, 2021

German business confidence slips on tighter lockdown

German business confidence declined in January, a key survey showed Monday, after Europe’s top economy toughened measures to fight a second wave of the pandemic and new coronavirus variants. The Ifo institute’s monthly confidence barometer, based on a survey of…

January 24, 2021

Germany buys same corona meds used to treat Trump

Germany will become the first European Union country to start using the same experimental antibodies treatment credited with helping Donald Trump recover from Covid-19, health minister Jens Spahn said Sunday. “The government has bought 200,000 doses for 400 million euros…

January 24, 2021

Germany to use corona meds that helped Trump

Germany will become the first European Union country to start using the same experimental antibodies treatment credited with helping Donald Trump recover from Covid-19, health minister Jens Spahn said Sunday. “The government has bought 200,000 doses for 400 million euros…

January 22, 2021

Vaccine boost for poor countries as Biden pledges US Covid aid

New US President Joe Biden on Friday ordered more help for Americans struggling to cope with the pandemic in the world’s worst-hit country, as international deals won cheaper tests and vaccines for millions in less wealthy nations. The Biden administration…