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December 3, 2003

Germany seeks ‘dirty war’ leader

3 December 2003 , NUREMBERG – Germany on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for Jorge Videla, 78, former military president of Argentina, on charges of murdering two Germans, prosecution authorities said. The move vindicates a quarter-century battle by a German family to see justice done to the men who tortured and killed their daughter. No application has been made yet to extradite Videla and two other accused officers from Argentina. Videla seized power through a 1976 military coup and was the first of f

December 3, 2003

Cannibal tells court of early fantasies

3 December 2003 , KASSEL – A man who has admitted killing and eating parts of his victim before a running camera told a German court Wednesday he began to have cannibalism fantasies as young as eight. Armin Meiwes told the court in Kassel on the first day of his murder trial he had fantasized about killing and eating fellow pupils while a schoolboy aged between eight and 12. Meiwes said the fantasies were a way of compensating for not having the younger brother he had always wanted. During puberty he had g

December 3, 2003

Greens say ‘no’to China nuke sale

3 December 2003 , BERLIN – German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s bid to lift a European Union arms embargo on China and to sell nuclear technology to Beijing received a sharp rebuke Wednesday from a top member of his Greens coalition partner. Schroeder, who is visiting China, told Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Monday that Berlin would push for lifting a European Union embargo on arms sales to China imposed after the 1989 massacre of pro- democracy protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. Germany is the se

December 2, 2003

Headscarves for Islamic women defended

2 December 2003 , BERLIN – A group of liberal German women have weighed into the Islamic headscarf issue, calling for it to be accepted if schoolteachers wished to wear one. Like other European nations, Germany has mainly adopted the secularist stance that religious symbols should be banned from public schools. However its constitutional court has said headscarves can only be banned by explicit legislation, not by official fiat. Moslem women who want to wear the scarves received backing Monday from various

December 2, 2003

Munich, Berlin hope for better cup show

2 December 2003 , HAMBURG – Holders Bayern Munich and Hertha Berlin have plenty to make up for in their third-round German Cup matches on Wednesday. Bayern, coming off a terrible 2-2 draw in the Bundesliga against bottom club Cologne, host SV Hamburg, who are on the up after a slow start to the season. Hertha travel to in-form Werder Bremen and face a tough task there if they don’t improve on the form that has seen them slip into the Bundesliga drop zone after a 3-1 home defeat against Schalke. Hertha coac

December 2, 2003

Billion-dollar ‘merger’ trial begins

2 December 2003 , WILMINGTON – Lawyers for a US investor told a federal judge this week that they were seeking more than USD one billion in damages over DaimlerChrysler’s five-year-old merger with Chrysler Corp., one of the Big Three US automakers. Opening statements were made Monday in a lawsuit by billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian, the largest individual Chrysler shareholder at the time of the merger. He alleges that Daimler-Benz AG misled US investors that the deal was a “merger of equals” instead of

December 2, 2003

‘How I blew 3 million dollars’

2 December 2003 , HAMBURG – Germany’s winter gloom has been brightened a bit by the story of a man who went from riches to rags after squandering a tidy inheritance. Many readers, feeling the pinch in the tight economy, may also be feeling a bit of “schadenfreude” over the story of the Munich man identified only as “Tim M.” But they also have to give him credit: If you are going to blow an inheritance, then Tim M. has set some pretty high standards. “Altogether, I squandered around DM six million (about EU

December 2, 2003

Discount store puts art on the shelves

2 December 2003, MUELHEIM – Branches of the German discount supermarket chain Aldi were sold out within hours of cut-price works of arts in a special offer this week. Framed prints by several prominent German artists were offered for EUR12.99 in many of the 1,500 branches of Aldi-Sued. Some buyers were immediately offering their Aldi art purchases on the internet auction site eBay for EUR19.99. Dusseldorf artist Felix Droese, whose works have featured at the Kassel Documenta and Venice Biennale, was one of

December 2, 2003

Brewery buy-in talks collapse

2 December 2003 , DORTMUND – Germany’s fourth-largest beer brewing and soft drink beverages group Brau & Brunnen confirmed Tuesday that talks with potential buyers for a 56 percent stake in the company had been broken off. At a press conference, a defiant company chairman Michael Hollmann said Munich-based HypoVereinsbank was to remain the Dortmund brewery group’s chief shareholder. “The continuation of the partnership with HypoVereinsbank is currently the optimal solution for Brau & Brunnen, for s