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FRIENDS ALWAYS: Candy Bomber Inspires at Campaign Kick-Off
Legendary "Candy Bomber" Gail Halvorsen launched the FRIENDS ALWAYS campaign celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift before 150 officers of the U.S. Air Mobility Command and 600 member of the U.S. Air Force at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. |
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Water and Security - Finding Cooperative Solutions
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier at the opening of the international ministerial conference "Water Unites" in Berlin presented the parameters for a Central Asia water initiative. |
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Bavarian Minister Says Terror Attack Averted at 2006 World Cup
German security forces scotched possible terrorist plans to attack the Munich stadium on the occasion of the opening game of the 2006 soccer World Cup, Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said recently. |
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Two New Members – and the Door Remains Open
The 26 NATO heads of state and government took decisions today in the Romanian capital of Bucharest on enlarging the Alliance. Croatia and Albania have been invited to enter into concrete accession talks. |
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60th Anniversary of the Marshall Plan in Germany –
Return to Community of the Nations
Sixty years after the United States launched its billion-dollar reconstruction program for Europe, the Marshall Plan has long become a symbol for successful development aid. |
| Business, Technology
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Unemployment Falls More than Expected Despite Slowing Growth
German unemployment fell to its lowest point in more than 15 years in March, data released Tuesday (April 1) showed, adding to hopes that Europe's biggest economy remained on a growth path despite a global economic slowdown. |
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Siemens Wins Order From Portland General for 141 Wind Turbines
German engineering giant Siemens AG has won an order from Portland General Electric Company for the installation of 141 wind turbines in Oregon with a capacity of 2.3 megawatts each. |
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Germany Inches Toward Canceling Plan for More Biofuels
Amid growing fears that biofuel farming is harming the environment and driving up world food prices, Germany's Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel set out Wednesday (2 April) an exit strategy from Berlin's controversial fuel blend plans. |
| Culture
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Lehmann New President of the Goethe-Institut
Formerly a director of major German libraries and cultural foundations, Klaus-Dieter Lehmann will take the helm of Germany's premier cultural institute abroad. |
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Ludlow 38 - The Real World
"The Real World" is an exhibition of works by Munich-based writer Andreas Neumeister, Sean Snyder, a visual media artist from Virginia Beach, and German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans.
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Tokio Hotel Calls off US Concerts, Singer Enters Surgery
Tokio Hotel Singer Bill Kaulitz's overtaxed vocal cords threatened to turn him from singer to squawker if he did not give them a rest.
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Readings: TWIG Cannot Cover it All - But We Can
Tell You Where to Find it!
This week, new German fiction from Michael Kruger are on sale at bookstores near you and old letters and manuscripts from Karl May, Karl Marx and others are on auction. |
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