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Sebastien Ash retweeted
25 Nov 2024
🇱🇹 A DHL cargo plane has crashed near the airport in Lithuania's capital, killing one person, authorities said as they searched for clues to what caused the tragedy.
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ALT Lithuanian rescuers inspect the wreckage of a cargo plane following its crash near the Vilnius International Airport on November 25, 2024.
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Sebastien Ash retweeted
15 Nov 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to engage in peace talks with Ukraine, in the first call between the leaders in almost two years ⬇️ u.afp.com/5Vk2
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Sebastien Ash retweeted
11 Nov 2024
BREAKING: PM of war-ravaged Lebanon urges countries to keep sending aid, via @AFP.
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Sebastien Ash retweeted
9 Sep 2024
#UPDATE Germany on Monday moved to tighten border controls and curb irregular migrant inflows after a series of suspected Islamist attacks sparked public anger and piled pressure on the government ⬇️ u.afp.com/5bbB
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Sebastien Ash retweeted
9 Sep 2024
#BREAKING Germany to extend temporary controls to all borders to curb irregular migration: govt source
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Sebastien Ash retweeted
6 Sep 2024
President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared in person at a meeting of Ukraine's international backers in Germany on Friday, appealing for additional weapons as Kyiv faces advancing Russian forces in the east and devastating strikes by Moscow.
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Sebastien Ash retweeted
5 Sep 2024
#BREAKING German police shot dead gunman near Munich's Israel consulate: state minister
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4 Sep 2024
#BREAKING Ex-VW boss tells trial 'dieselgate' charges are 'implausible'
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Sebastien Ash retweeted
19 Apr 2024
German national team coach Julian Nagelsmann has signed a contract extension to remain in post until at least the 2026 World Cup, the German Football Association (DFB) said Friday.
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Sebastien Ash retweeted
16 Apr 2024
#BREAKING Germany's Scholz says asked China's Xi to exert his influence on Russia to end 'senseless' Ukraine war
ALT A large screen shows news coverage of Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) meeting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Beijing on April 16, 2024.
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Sebastien Ash retweeted
22 Mar 2024
German football's decision to drop Adidas as its kit supplier sparked dismay in Berlin on Friday, with the economy minister blasting the switch to US sportswear giant Nike as a lack of "patriotism".
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Sebastien Ash retweeted
21 Feb 2024
The German Football League (DFL) said Wednesday it was abandoning a billion-euro investment deal after widespread protests by Bundesliga fans, a U-turn hailed by supporters' groups as a "success" ⬇️
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Sebastien Ash retweeted
21 Feb 2024
#UPDATE Bayern Munich said on Wednesday they would part ways with coach Thomas Tuchel at the end of the season, as the reigning German champions struggled to stay in the Bundesliga title race ➡️ u.afp.com/5Nzp #AFPSports
ALT File photo shows Bayern Munich's German head coach Thomas Tuchel in Rome on February 13, 2024.
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Sebastien Ash retweeted
8 Feb 2024
German libraries up defences against far-right attack.
Defaced and destroyed, books torn up and political messages scrawled across their pages: the evidence of an alleged far-right vandalism spree at a city library in Berlin covers an entire table
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ALT A book with torn out pages is pictured at the library Tempelhof-Schoeneberg in Berlin
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Sebastien Ash retweeted
7 Dec 2023
An AFP investigation into the strike in southern Lebanon that killed a Reuters journalist and injured six others, including two from AFP, points to a tank round used only by the Israeli army in this border region
Read our full report ➡️ u.afp.com/oct13investigation
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Sebastien Ash retweeted
24 Apr 2023
Climate activists stop traffic in Berlin to highlight German government's inactivity lemonde.fr/en/environment/ar…
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Sebastien Ash retweeted
25 Jan 2023
#UPDATE Germany is set to narrowly escape a recession this year, the government said Wednesday, as Europe's biggest economy weathers the fallout from the Ukraine war better than expected.
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Sebastien Ash retweeted
23 Jan 2023
Germany is ready to authorise Poland to send German-made Leopard tanks to Ukraine to help it fight the Russian invasion if Warsaw makes such a request, Foreign Minister Baerbock says.
Poland had earlier said it is ready to send 14 Leopard tanks to Kyiv
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Sebastien Ash retweeted
16 Jan 2023
The last two climate activists occupying a German village to stop it making way for a coal mine extension left their underground hideout, marking the end of the police operation to evict them. @AFP's @SebastienAsh wraps up #Luetzerath's stand-off uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/las…
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Sebastien Ash retweeted
15 Jan 2023
VIDEO: Police clash with anti-coal demonstrators in the village of Luetzerath, in western Germany, which is due to be destroyed to make space for an open-cast coal mine extension.
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