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The numbers are shocking. Between 800,000 and 1.1 million people were killed in 131 civil wars around the world last year. The Syrian rebellion alone claimed some 60,000 lives ...
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The fight over fracking in Germany has taken an unexpected turn: German breweries are now warning that the controversial method of extracting natural gas from rock layers deep ...
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For a time in 2012, it seemed that hardly a day would go by without another protest in Southern Europe with signs depicting Chancellor Angela Merkel as a Nazi. Germany, ...
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David Stoliar's neat house sits atop a hill on the edge of Bend, a small city in central Oregon. A few steps lead up to the front door. Stoliar's wife, Marda, opens, followed ...
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The exterior might need some minor repair work, but at least there's no lawn to mow. This idyllic shelter on top of a rock on the river Drina near the western Serbian town of ...
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The call came at 2:20 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon. When the first police officers turned into John Wilson Street in the Woolwich neighborhood of southeast London a short time ...
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Appearances are deceiving on Klafthmonos Square in downtown Athens. Three imposing bronze statues, the "Monument to National Reconciliation," shimmer in the bright spring ...
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Riots continued for the fourth straight night in Sweden Wednesday, as youth set fire to cars and threw stones at police in immigrant suburbs of Stockholm and the southern ...
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In April, Germany's central bank, the Bundesbank, was optimistic. Springtime would bring a rapid recovery from the winter blues and an increase in investment, it said. ...
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With two German teams playing against one another in this Saturday's Champions League final, it seemed like things couldn't get much better for German football. But, on ...
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An initiative by the Prague public transport system intends to give new meaning to the phenomenon of speed dating: singles-only "love trains." Starting later this year, select ...
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These are no ordinary job interviews. When 53-year-old Christian Quincke meets with an applicant, instead of trying to find holes in their resumes with pointed questions, he ...
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Germany's foreign intelligence agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), has fundamentally changed its view of the ongoing civil war in Syria . SPIEGEL ONLINE has learned ...
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In the 1953 election campaign, German Economy Minister Ludwig Erhard knew which voters he needed to address. "Dear Hausfrau!" he wrote in his "Letter to Women Voters" ahead of ...
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The German SS henchmen showed no mercy. The killing began as they climbed up to the small Tuscan mountain village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema, where they murdererd two old men at ...
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The presents always came in the springtime. When the representatives of Western pharmaceutical companies arrived at the Leipzig Trade Fair, they made sure that East German ...
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German Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière was disappointed. The "stronger public debate" he had envisioned did "not really occur," he said, adding that the discussion was ...
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Jonathan Meese: "Keine Gurus", Ãl und Acryl auf Leinwand von 2011. Klinger Forum e.V In honor of Richard Wagner's 200th birthday on Wednesday, Leipzig's Klinger Forum has ...
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For the first time in centuries, a European bison, or wisent, has been born in the wild in Germany, conservationists announced on Tuesday. The calf, which arrived early this ...
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"Water," says Stefan Kröpelin, "water as far as the eye can see." He is pointing to the south, where there is only one thing stretching to the horizon: sand, sand and more ...
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From cybergoths and steampunks to deathrockers, rivetheads and leather fetishists, some 21,000 people attended this year's Wave Gothic Festival (known here as the ...
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SPIEGEL ONLINE: Why should a Marxist be concerned about major cities instead of the working class these days? Harvey : Traditional Marxists admittedly see the avant-garde of ...
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From the outside, it looks as though the European Union is hopelessly divided. Northern member states demand budgetary discipline while those in the south bemoan drastic ...
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Forget trying to reserve a table in a London pub to watch Saturday's Champions League final in Wembley between Germany's top two teams, Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund. In ...
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The man who's job it should be to protect the Great Barrier Reef is actually afraid of water. The vast ocean, with all the creatures it contains, makes him uneasy. Only once ...
