London, Dec 21 (DPA) British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Monday accused a ‘handful of countries’ of preventing a climate change treaty at last week’s Copenhagen conference and vowed that there would be no repeat of the ‘chaotic proceedings’.
Speaking via video link to a meeting in London, Brown said he was still determined to achieve a [...]
Copenhagen, Dec 18 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday held a quick meeting with leaders of other major economies in an effort to break the logjam over a political declaration to come out of the Copenhagen climate summit.
Besides Manmohan Singh, US President Barack Obama, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, German Chancellor [...]
Copenhagen, Dec 16 (DPA) A total of 119 heads of state and government were expected to attend the final two days of the UN climate change summit in Copenhagen, the Danish prime minister’s office announced Wednesday.
The almost two-week summit opened Dec 7 and was scheduled to end Friday.
Among leaders due to attend the final phase [...]
London, Dec 13 (IANS) Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi made doodles of women’s underwear at a recent European Union summit and then passed them around to shocked leaders, a newspaper reported.
He etched women’s underwear through the ages – from Victorian bloomers to thongs – as the leaders discussed climate change at the meeting in Brussels [...]
Stuttgart, Dec 9 (DPA) German officials are planning to step up the fight against online viruses by phoning Internet users to warn them their computers are infected, an industry summit was told Tuesday.
Germany’s federal computer security agency (BSI) and the German internet business federation ECO said Internet providers already had the technology to know which [...]
Dharamsala, Dec 8 (IANS) The Tibetan government-in-exile Tuesday mourned the demise of Otto Graf Lambsdorff, a prominent figure in West German politics who had championed the cause of Tibet on various international fora.
‘On behalf of the Kashag (Tibetan cabinet), we mourned the demise of Lambsdorff,’ acting prime minister Tsering Phuntsok said in a condolence message [...]
Berlin, Dec 3 (DPA) Germany is to assist Brazil in staging the 2016 Summer Olympic Games, according to German Chancellor Angela Merkel after a meeting in Berlin Thursday with visiting Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
The Germans are to provide similar help in getting Brazil ready for the 2014 Football World Cup in Brazil.
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Berlin, Dec 1 (DPA) Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and German Chancellor Angela Merkel promised closer cooperation between their two countries Tuesday, and heralded the signing of a new economic agreement in Berlin.
Gilani is on a four-day visit to Germany to discuss economic cooperation, as well as the insurgency along the border between Pakistan [...]
Berlin, Nov 27 (DPA) Former German defence minister Franz Josef Jung resigned his post as labour minister Friday over an alleged cover-up of civilian casualties in an airstrike in Afghanistan earlier this year.
‘I take the political responsibility for the internal information policy in the defence ministry’ he told reporters in Berlin.’
Jung, a member of Chancellor [...]
Berlin, Nov 26 (DPA) NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Thursday that European states would have to send more troops to Afghanistan, as a scandal over civilian casualties in the country rocked the German government.
Two of Germany’s highest military officials resigned and a former defence minister came under severe pressure, accused of covering up [...]
Berlin, Nov 26 (DPA) Germany’s highest-ranking army officer has resigned over his handling of an Afghan bombing raid which left dozens of civilians dead, it was announced Thursday.
The resignation of General Inspector Wolfgang Schneiderhan was announced by the country’s Defence Minister Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg in parliament at the opening of a debate on the [...]
London, Nov.19 (ANI): Britain is locked in a dramatic clash with Germany over backing former prime minister Tony Blair’s bid to be President of Europe.
With Berlin deciding not to back Blair, Prime Minister Gordon Brown is preparing one last-ditch effort to urge deadlocked leaders to pick his predecessor for the powerful new role.
His chances [...]
London, Nov. 16 (ANI): The helicopter of Germany’s new Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg was almost hit by the Taliban in Afghanistan, where he had gone to visit German troops.
On Friday, Guttenberg’s helicopter narrowly missed the heavy machine gun and tracer firing from Taliban, as it flew in convoy with two others above Kunduz province.
The [...]
Prague, Nov 15 (DPA) Former Czech president Vaclav Havel opened festivities in Prague celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, which toppled the communist regime in 1989.
Lou Reed, Suzanne Vega and Joan Baez performed at the concert, on Havel’s request Saturday. Revellers also watched video messages from US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor [...]
New York/Hamburg, Nov 14 (DPA) Google has reached a new, more limited agreement with the US publishers over the Internet search giant’s project to make millions of digitalised books available online.
The new Google Books settlement, following months of negotiations, restricts the venture to books with copyrights registered in the US, Canada, Britain and Australia.
This means [...]
Copenhagen, Nov 13 (DPA) Denmark has invited 192 heads of state and government to the UN climate-change talks it will host next month in Copenhagen, reports said Thursday.
Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen had instructed Danish embassies to issue the invitations, Danish news agency Ritzau reported.
The UN summit runs Dec 7-18, and according to Ritzau [...]
Berlin, Nov 9 (DPA) German Chancellor Angela Merkel Monday retraced the steps she took after the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, as international leaders gathered in Berlin to celebrate the events of Nov 9, 1989.
Addressing throngs of onlookers, the chancellor said the historic events of 1989 were ‘the result of a long [...]
Berlin, Nov 9 (DPA) The German parliament Sunday celebrated the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, commemorating the efforts of European civil rights activists which helped end the divide between East and West in Germany and Europe.
‘The people east of the Iron Curtain only had their large hearts to set against the [...]
Berlin, Nov. 6 (ANI): German Chancellor Angela Merkel has revealed that she was not part of the frenzied East German crowd that poured through the newly opened border to witness the historic fall of the Berlin wall, instead [...]
Berlin, Oct 27 (DPA) The new German coalition deal was signed Monday, as the incoming centre-right leaders formally approved the government charter earlier approved by their parties.
Chancellor Angela Merkel of the Christian Democrats (CDU), Free Democrat (FDP) leader Guido Westerwelle and Horst Seehofer of the CDU’s Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) sister party signed the [...]
London, Oct. 3 (ANI): Conservatives have vowed obstruct former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s road to the European Union’s presidency, if such a post is created after Ireland’s ‘yes’ vote today.
“We will be very hostile to a Blair presidency. He may be the favourite but people [...]
Berlin, Sep 28 (DPA) German Chancellor Angela Merkel secured victory Sunday at the head of a new centre-right coalition she said was needed ‘to move our country forwards.’
‘We’ve achieved our goal of forming a new government,’ she said after her Christian Democrats (CDU) and their preferred allies won a safe parliamentary majority in federal elections, [...]
Berlin, Sep 27 (DPA) German Chancellor Angela Merkel was set for another four years in power after her Christian Democrats (CDU) won enough votes to form a centre-right coalition with the smaller Free Democrats (FDP), early returns from Sunday’s general election showed.
Projections by Germany’s two biggest television networks showed the CDU and FDP polling just [...]
Berlin, Sep 22 (DPA) The German economy is turning into something approaching a trump card for Chancellor Angela Merkel as the nation’s election campaign enters its final days.
Only few months ago, the sense of economic gloom was deepening as the global recession tightened its grip on Europe’s biggest economy and fears were growing that Germans [...]
