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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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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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