• No party planned for Berlin's new, much-delayed airport
  
  BERLIN (AP) - The opening of Berlin's new airport on Oct. 31 will happen without fanfare, operators say, a nod to the long delays and massive cost overrun since construction started in 2006. ...
  Washington Times.  Tue, 29 Sep 2020 05:43:22 -0400.
• AP PHOTOS: Remnants of East Germany, 30 years after its end
  
  EISENACH, Germany (AP) - Thirty years after Germany was reunited, many once-decrepit city centers in the formerly communist east have been painstakingly restored and new factories have sprung up. ...
  Washington Times.  Tue, 29 Sep 2020 02:50:07 -0400.
• Earth-skimming meteoroid dipped 56 miles into the atmosphere before returning to space
  
  A meteoroid skimmed Earth's atmosphere for 19 seconds over the Netherlands and Germany. The object came in as low as 56 miles in altitude, covering a path of more than 466 miles
  Daily Mail.  Mon, 28 Sep 2020 18:35:59 GMT.
• Russian fighter scrambled to intercept US, German patrol aircraft over Baltic Sea
  
  Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov told a briefing on Friday that the United States and other NATO nations had been conducting military activities some 20-30 kilometers off the Russian border
  Tass.  Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:50:00 +0300.
• Belarus: Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel winner and opposition figure, goes to Germany
  
  Svetlana Alexievich's aide says the trip to Germany is not linked to the Belarus political crisis.
  BBC News.  Mon, 28 Sep 2020 16:17:46 GMT.
• Germany confirms one more African swine fever case in wild boar
  
  One more case of African swine fever (ASF) has been confirmed in a wild boar in the eastern German state of Brandenburg, the agriculture ministry said on Monday. There have been 36 confirmed cases since the first one on Sept. 10. ...
  Yahoo.  Mon, 28 Sep 2020 09:09:07 -0400.
• Nobel Laureate Alexievich Leaves Belarus For Medical Treatment In Germany
  
  Belarusian Nobel Prize-winning writer Svetlana Alexievich has left the country for treatment in Germany, according to an aide and a friend.
  Radio Liberty.  Mon, 28 Sep 2020 13:01:00 +0000.
• BMW (BAMXF) Fined $18M for Misrepresenting Sales Figures
  
  BMW (BAMXF) falsely inflated its monthly sales figures through sales punching, which helped the German luxury automaker become a leading brand among its rivals.
  Zacks Equity Research.  Zacks.  Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:46:00 GMT.
• Poisoned Putin critic Navalny visited by Merkel in hospital
  
  German chancellor Angela Merkel visited Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a Berlin hospital where he was recovering after being poisoned with Novichok, her spokesman has revealed.
  Sky News.  Mon, 28 Sep 2020 12:42:00 +0100.
• Germany names hydrogen the hero of its post-coal future
  
  Europe's largest economy has identified Australia as a potential supplier of the vast quantities of hydrogen needed to decarbonise its heavy industry.
  Bevan Shields.  Sydney Morning Herald.  Sun, 27 Sep 2020 23:45:00 +1000.
• Alps surprised by early snowfall, Swiss town sees new record
  
  Parts of Switzerland, Austria, and Germany were surprised by unseasonably early snowfall overnight, after a sharp drop in temperatures and heavy precipitation.
  Fox News.  Sun, 27 Sep 2020 12:22:19 GMT.
• This Carousel Has Had Quite a Ride. Will Anyone in Japan Save It?
  
  The 113-year-old merry-go-round, which arrived in Tokyo after stints in Germany and Coney Island, is now in storage, its fate uncertain in a country that tends to preserve only the very old.
  Motoko Rich and Hikari Hida.  New York Times.  Sat, 26 Sep 2020 09:00:28 +0000.
• Poisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny thanks pilots, medics who helped him
  
  Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who is in Germany recovering from what authorities there determined to be nerve agent poisoning, thanked Russian pilots and paramedics for acting quickly after he fell into a coma on a ...
  New Zealand Herald.  Sat, 26 Sep 2020 13:27:03 +1200.
• Germany: No probe of column on police that angered minister
  
  German prosecutors say they won’t open an investigation of a newspaper column that disparaged police and infuriated the country’s interior minister
  Via Ap News Wire.  The Independent.  Fri, 25 Sep 2020 12:18:34 GMT.
• Why is Italy Seeing Fewer COVID Cases Than Its Neighbors?
  
  As cases surge across most of Europe, Italy and Germany have yet to see a second wave.
  Voice of America.  Fri, 25 Sep 2020 01:54:27 -0400.
• The German medical students who want to learn about abortion
  
  Lack of training is restricting access to abortion in Germany, but students are trying to change that.
  BBC News.  Thu, 24 Sep 2020 23:07:57 GMT.
• Y chromosomes of Neanderthals and Denisovans now sequenced
  
  An international research team led by Martin Petr and Janet Kelso of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has determined Y chromosome sequences of three Neandertals and two Denisovans. ...
  Science Daily.  Thu, 24 Sep 2020 14:14:49 EDT.
• Arab, European states call Israel and Palestine to restart talks
  
  Foreign ministers from France, Egypt, Germany and Jordan back beginning of talks on the basis of two-state solution.
  Al Jazeera.  Thu, 24 Sep 2020 12:16:17 +0000.
• American Airlines And Lufthansa Look To Preflight Testing To Protect Passengers From Coronavirus
  
  Lufthansa offers preflight testing for passengers at four airports in Germany, while American said it's 'looking seriously at rapid testing as we explore options for boosting confidence in air travel.'
  By Ted Reed, Senior Contributor.  Forbes.  Wed, 23 Sep 2020 17:42:57 -0400.
• Subway president Mike Kehoe can become a hero
  
  Amsterdam/Berlin, 23.9.2020 -- 22 animal protection groups from 16 European countries are carrying out a “hero’s wake-up call” to appeal to Mike Kehoe to help millions of animals. ...
  Realwire.  Wed, 23 Sep 2020 12:08:00 +0100.

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