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ROMAN HERZOG, FORMER PRESIDENT OF GERMANY, DIES AT 82
Roman Herzog was born in Landshut, Germany, on April 5, 1934... READ MORE›
GERMANY MOURNS REFORMIST FORMER PRESIDENT ROMAN HERZOG
Mr Herzog was born on April 5, 1934, in Landshut in Bavaria... READ MORE›
HANS TIETMEYER, ONETIME HEAD OF GERMANY'S CENTRAL BANK, DIES AT 85
Hans Tietmeyer, onetime head of Germany's central bank, dies at 85... READ MORE›
GERMANY HUNTS TUNISIAN TIED TO TRUCK ATTACK THAT KILLED 12
Germany Hunts Tunisian Tied to Truck Attack That Killed 12... READ MORE›
AGREEMENT REACHED AT MARRAKECH CLIMATE TALKS
As the United Nations' climate talks came to an end, countries pledged on Friday November 18 to move forward with the implementation of the Paris Agreement... READ MORE›
U.S. 'PRAGMATISM' URGED AT U.N. CLIMATE TALKS
The Paris pact seeks to hold nations to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit ... READ MORE›
THE WORLD'S BEST CHOCOLATE, PICKED BY TOP PASTRY CHEFS
Colin Gasko, the chocolatier of this Three Rivers, Mass., operation, comes across as totally humble, self-critical, artistic, and haunted by a little mad scientist complex... READ MORE›
THREE MONTHS AGO IT WAS A TINY UGANDAN VILLAGE NOW ITS THE WORLDS FOURTH-LARGEST REFUGEE CAMP
South Sudanese refugees walk through Bidi Bidi Reception Center, northern Uganda, where new arrivals are temporarily hosted before being given plots of land close by... READ MORE›
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'ISIS FLAG' PICTURE THAT CLAIMS TO SHOW REFUGEES ATTACKING POLICE GOES VIRAL A?? AND IS A LIE
Isis flag picture that claims to show refugees attacking police goes viral and is a lie... READ MORE›
'THEY HAVE HATRED IN THEIR HEARTS'
Angela Merkel's fierce attack on Germany's anti-Islamic protest is outstanding... READ MORE›
RECORD NUMBERS RALLY AGAINST 'ISLAMISATION' IN GERMANY
Chancellor Angela Merkel has cautioned Germans against falling prey to any form of xenophobic rabble-rousing, while other lawmakers have deplored the new pinstriped Nazis ... READ MORE›
EUROPE'S GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS FALL TO RECORD LOW
Greenhouse gas emissions in Europe have plunged to the lowest level ever recorded after the EU's member states reported an estimated 23 drop in emissions between 1990 and 2014... READ MORE›
REFUGEE WHO THREW KIDS OUT OF WINDOW BECAUSE WIFE WANTED 'WESTERN FREEDOM' GOES ON TRIAL IN GERMANY
The growing public concern about terrorism and integration have led to a surge of support for the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany AfD party... READ MORE›
GIRL KNOCKS 'ELF ON THE SHELF' ONTO THE FLOOR, CALLS 911
So, after Isabelle LaPeruta accidentally knocked her family's elf from its perch, she worried her actions might not sit well with Santa Claus... READ MORE›
HELMUT SCHMIDT ASSERTIVE WEST GERMAN CHANCELLOR DIES AT 96
For decades, Mr. Schmidt was one of West Germany's most popular politicians... READ MORE›
OBAMA DEFENDS ARCTIC DRILLING DECISION ON EVE OF ALASKA CLIMATE CHANGE TRIP
Obama in his weekly address on Saturday insisted there was no clash between his climate change agenda and Arctic drilling... READ MORE›
2 DEGREES CELSIUS: A CRITICAL NUMBER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
Framework Convention on Climate Change said in a statement... READ MORE›
PUTIN SAYS WEST IS PROVOKING RUSSIA INTO NEW COLD WAR AS A??SPIESA?? DEPORTED
Photograph Tass Barcroft Vladimir Putin has suggested to a German interviewer that the west is provoking Russia into a new cold war... READ MORE›
COHEN BRITAIN TO LEAVE EUROPE FOR A LIE
LONDON -- I have been overcome by gloom since Britain voted to leave the European Union... READ MORE›
GERMAN CO-PILOT HID ILLNESS FROM EMPLOYER
The statement did not disclose the nature of Lubitz's illness, although German media outlets reported he may have suffered from depression... READ MORE›
ANTI-IMMIGRANT VIOLENCE IN GERMANY SPURS NEW DEBATE ON HATE SPEECH
In Germany, the stabbing last Saturday of Henriette Reker, 58, a senior official responsible for welfare and thus migrants in Cologne, stunned Germans... READ MORE›
GREAT BARRIER REEF: UNESCO PUSHES FOR TREE-CLEARING CONTROLS
The reef suffered its world bleaching event on record this Australian summer, killing off 22 percent of its coral, according to government agencies... READ MORE›
FORTH BRIDGE NAMED AS SCOTLAND'S SIXTH WORLD HERITAGE SITE
The Forth Bridge that majestic russet-hued testament to Victorian engineering has been confirmed by Unesco as Scotland's sixth world heritage site... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIA SENDS DIPLOMATS OUT TO DEFEND ITS ACTIONS
Fish swim over coral in the Great Barrier Reef, which the Australian government is lobbying to keep off the World Heritage Committee's in danger list... READ MORE›
GERMANWINGS CO-PILOT ANDREAS LUBITZ WAS 'ON SUICIDE MISSION' PARENTS LEARN
The parents of killer co-pilot Andreas Lubitz only discovered the truth of their son's suicide mission moments before French prosecutors released the information to the world... READ MORE›
TRUMP SENDS SHIVERS DOWN SPINES OF NATIONS TRYING TO SOLIDIFY GLOBAL WARMING PACT
Sidestepping a recalcitrant Congress under Republican control, U.S. President Barack Obama has used executive power to aggressively confront global warming at home and abroad... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIA LOBBYING TO STOP GREAT BARRIER REEF MAKING 'IN DANGER' LIST
Australia lobbying to stop Great Barrier Reef making 'in danger' list... READ MORE›
EGYPT S GLOBAL TELECOM TO SELL DJEZZY MAJORITY STAKE FOR 2.6 BILLION
An unsparing 1985 address to the Bonn Parliament on the 40th anniversary of Germany's surrender in World War II earned him respect abroad... READ MORE›
GLOBAL WARMING WORSENS WITH RECORD TEMPS, WIDESPREAD CORAL BLEACHING
Post to Facebook Global warming worsens with record temps, widespread coral bleaching Since 195 nations promised to tackle the problem, greenhouse gas emissions have increased... READ MORE›
CHRISTIANA FIGUERES: THE WOMAN TASKED WITH SAVING THE WORLD FROM GLOBAL WARMING
Christiana Figueres, the UN's climate change chief, has a task just as great as the architects of that plan... READ MORE›
REFUGEES DETAINED BY HUNGARIAN POLICE AS SERBIA TELLS BUDAPEST
Refugees on the Serbian side of Hungary's razor-wire border fence Photo EPA On the refugee crisis, Mr Putin said..... READ MORE›
'SPRINT NEEDED' TO SECURE EMISSIONS DEAL IN DECEMBER
Observers say draft text shows countries close to consensus after Bonn talks to hammer out final details of global agreement on greenhouse gas emissions... READ MORE›
NATO LAUNCHES NAVAL PATROLS TO RETURN MIGRANTS TO TURKEY
Greece and Turkey have agreed that any migrants they intercept will be sent back... READ MORE›
HMCS FREDERICTON DEPLOYED ON NATO MISSION TO STOP MIGRANT SMUGGLING
Virginia Mayo Associated Press NATO was responding to a request by Turkey, Germany and Greece for alliance participation in an international effort targeting the smugglers... READ MORE›
EGON BAHR WHO LAID GROUNDWORK FOR GERMAN REUNIFICATION DIES AT 93
Two years later, in a controversial speech, Mr. Bahr articulated his concept of change through contact in dealing with East Germany and the Soviet Union... READ MORE›
AFTER CONCESSION TO SEOUL ON FORCED LABOR MEIJI INDUSTRIAL SITES ADDED TO WORLD HERITAGE LIST
At meeting June 21 of their foreign ministers, Japan and South Korea reached a basic agreement to cooperate on heritage listings of each other's sites... READ MORE›
BATTLESHIP ISLAND A?? A SYMBOL OF JAPAN'S PROGRESS OR REMINDER OF ITS DARK HISTORY?
Japan seeks Unesco recognition for Hashima island, known as Battleship island, but the bid makes no mention of its history as a site of slave labour... READ MORE›
DEUTSCHE TELEKOM TALKS TO COMCAST ABOUT T-MOBILE US SALE
Deutsche Telekom talks to Comcast about T-Mobile US sale Manager Magazin... READ MORE›
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GERMAN COALITION AGREES TO CUT CARBON EMISSIONS UP TO 95% BY 2050
Germany's environment minister Barbara Hendricks first presented a list of ambitious CO2 reduction targets for various economic sectors in 2015... READ MORE›
CLIMATE CHANGE: WORLD'S BIGGEST OIL FIRMS TO INVEST $1 BILLION IN LOW-CARBON TECHNOLOGY
Ten of the world's biggest oil companies have created a fund to invest 1 billion in technologies that would reduce carbon emissions from oil and natural gas... READ MORE›
WORLD ON TRACK FOR 3C OF WARMING UNDER CURRENT GLOBAL CLIMATE PLEDGES, WARNS UN
Mass migration as a result of climate change is hard to separate from other causes of migration, but is predicted to become a much greater problem... READ MORE›
EUROPEAN UNION COULD RATIFY THE DEAL WEDNESDAY
As of Monday, 62 out of 197 countries had ratified the Paris Agreement, accounting for 51.89 percent of the Earth's total greenhouse gas emissions... READ MORE›
OBAMA'S CLIMATE CHANGE LEGACY AT STAKE AS CLEAN POWER PLAN HAS ITS DAY IN COURT
On Tuesday, lawyers representing the states and the Obama administration presented oral arguments to the US court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit... READ MORE›
HUMAN-INDUCED CLIMATE CHANGE BEGAN EARLIER THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT
Industrialisation led to only minor rises in greenhouse gases in the 1800s, but what struck the scientists was how swiftly the climate changed as a result... READ MORE›
NO WORLD LEADER DENIES GLOBAL WARMING, SO TRUMP WOULD BE ODD MAN OUT
The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive, Trump tweeted in 2012... READ MORE›
BIGGEST US COAL COMPANY FUNDED DOZENS OF GROUPS QUESTIONING CLIMATE CHANGE
Analysis of Peabody Energy court documents show company backed trade groups, lobbyists and thinktanks dubbed 'heart and soul of climate denial'... READ MORE›
PHASING OUT COAL, OIL AND GAS EXTRACTION IN US WOULD DRASTICALLY CUT EMISSIONS
A quarter of all fossil fuel extraction in the US occurs on the 650m acres of land under federal management... READ MORE›
CARBON PRICING BECOMES A CAUSE FOR THE WORLD BANK AND IMF
Mr. Kim, the World Bank president, acknowledged that carbon pricing would come with burdens including higher energy costs... READ MORE›
IS THE 1.5 C TARGET A MIRAGE?
PARIS - The Paris Agreement to try to cap global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius was a stunning political victory for poor countries threatened by climate change... READ MORE›
OIL INDUSTRY KNEW OF 'SERIOUS' CLIMATE CONCERNS MORE THAN 45 YEARS AGO
Former US president Lyndon Johnson also received an early warning about climate change, with scientists explaining the mechanism of the greenhouse effect in 1965... READ MORE›