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Legacy
of Friendship: Germany and the United States Commemorate the 60th Anniversary
of the Berlin Airlift.
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Chancellor Merkel has been awarded the International
Charlemagne Prize of Aachen for her decisive leadership and
outstanding contribution to the new momentum within the European
Union. The prize is named for the Emporer Charlemagne, considered
the first unifier of Europe.
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To meet the most pressing needs, the Foreign
Office is making available 500,000 euros to German aid organizations
for shelters, drinking water, household goods and mosquito
nets. The cyclone is estimated to have claimed the lives of
thousands and left hundreds of thousands homeless.
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In a phone call
with Afghan President Karzai on Sunday, following a deadly
attack on an official ceremony he was attending in Kabul, Chancellor
Merkel assured him that Germany would remain committed to and
continue to stand closely by Afghanistan's side.
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Eleven Afghan diplomats, including four women,
are currently taking part in an intensive ten-week program,
the Executive Seminar, designed to make them skillful advocates
of Afghanistan's interests. The seminar is part of the Foreign
Office's Training for International Diplomats program.
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Two meetings exemplified the UN’s motto
for sustainable development. In Virginia, the first US-European
Conference for Metropolitan Regional Councils took place, and
in Berlin, an international forum addressed the creation of
an international agency to promote renewable energy forms.
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Germany is well on the
way to meeting its ambitious targets for the expansion of renewable
energies. This is demonstrated by the most recent data on the
development of renewable energies in 2007, which were published
on March 14 by the German Federal Environment Ministry.
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German business confidence rose for the third
consecutive month in March, according to the Munich-based Ifo
economic institute, adding to hopes that Europe's largest economy
will be able to withstand the fallout from slowing global growth.
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Culture and Society
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Brachiosaurus brancai has been
dead for 150 million years, but he remains impressive,
towering nearly 43 feet over visitors to the Berlin
Museum of Natural History. Special binoculars now
allow the curious to see life-like images of the
dinosaur moving about its environment..
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Director Fatih Akin can simply
not stop winning awards. A winner at the prestigious
Cannes Film Festival last year, his movie "The
Edge of Heaven" (Auf der Anderen Seite) picked
up four awards—best film, best director,
best script and best editing—from the German
Film Academy in Berlin.
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Jamestown was the site of the first permanent
English settlement in America and is generally considered "the
birthplace of the United States." A series of events
on April 18 to 20 at Jamestown and Williamsburg, VA, will
highlight the important presence of Germans at the birth
of the American Nation.
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