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February 15, 2019

Germany seeks ban on gay conversion therapies

German Health Minister Jens Spahn said Friday he will seek to ban conversion therapies that claim to change sexual orientation. “Homosexuality is not an illness, which is why it does not need to be treated,” Spahn, who is gay himself,…

February 15, 2019

No movement in Russian missile talks: NATO chief

Russia gave “no new signals” Friday about saving a landmark Cold War missile control agreement, the head of NATO said, as fears grow of a new arms race in Europe. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said a meeting with Russian Foreign…

February 15, 2019

EU, Germany reject US call to leave Iran nuclear deal

Germany and the EU on Friday rejected an appeal by US Vice President Mike Pence for Europeans to withdraw from the Iranian nuclear deal and isolate Tehran. Foreign Minister Heiko Maas defended the 2015 agreement under which Iran drastically scaled…

February 15, 2019

US struggles to convince anti-IS allies to secure Syria after it leaves

Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan struggled Friday to convince sceptical allies in the coalition fighting the Islamic State militia to help secure Syria once American soldiers pull out. President Donald Trump said the United States will announce the end of the…

February 15, 2019

Germany rejects US call to leave Iran nuclear deal

Germany on Friday rejected an appeal by US Vice President Mike Pence for Europeans to withdraw from the Iranian nuclear deal and isolate Tehran. Foreign Minister Heiko Maas defended the 2015 agreement under which Iran drastically scaled back its nuclear…

February 15, 2019

Shell buys German battery maker Sonnen

Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch Shell agreed Friday to buy German rechargeable battery maker Sonnen, as the sector eyes growing demand for cleaner energy. Shell, which already invested in the German start-up in May 2018, revealed in a statement that…

February 15, 2019

German watchdog steps up Deutsche Bank money laundering monitoring

German financial regulator Bafin on Friday said it had asked an external monitor to take a closer look at Deutsche Bank’s anti-money laundering efforts amid questions over the lender’s role in handling suspicious transfers for Danske Bank. Bafin took the…

February 15, 2019

‘Narcos’ star unveils ‘first resistance film’ of Bolsonaro era

“Narcos” star Wagner Moura premiered his new movie about a 1960s resistance hero Friday, calling it the first Brazilian blockbuster to attack state repression since far-right President Jair Bolsonaro came to power. “Marighella” features Brazilian superstar Seu Jorge as Marxist…

February 15, 2019

Pence visits Auschwitz after saying Iran plotting ‘new Holocaust’

US Vice President Mike Pence on Friday paid homage to victims of the Holocaust at the former Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, a day after he accused Iranian authorities of plotting a “new Holocaust”. More than a million European Jews…