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German Chancellor Angela Merkel, front second left, waits for the arrival of leaders prior to a group photo at a conference on Libya at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020. Front row left to right, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, French President Emmanuel Macron, and United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres. Back row left to right, European Council President Charles Michel, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Fighting rages as Libya force pushes toward key western city

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, welcomes Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before the conference on Libya at the Chancellery in Berlin, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020. German Chancellor Angela Merkel hosts the one-day conference of world powers in Berlin to discuss efforts to broker peace in Libya.(Turkish Presidency Press Service via AP, Pool)

Erdogan urges international pressure on Libya’s Hifter

By AYSE WIETING and SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

'Betrayal in Berlin' (book cover)

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Betrayal in Berlin’

By Paul Davis

UN welcomes commitments toward Libya peace, urges cease-fire

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, rear center, leads a conference on Libya at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020. (Kay Nietfeld/DPA via AP, Pool)

Germany downplays flap over Tunisia invite to Libya summit

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a news conference with Croatia's Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic after a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Libya players agree to respect arms embargo, push cease-fire

By FRANK JORDANS and GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

Farmers drive past the Reichstag building with their tractors in Berlin, Saturday, Jan.18, 2020. On the occasion of the Green Week agricultural and food fair, people in Berlin demonstrate for more environmentally friendly agriculture. (Christophe Gateau/dpa via AP)

Protesters in Berlin support environment-friendly farming

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Libyan Gen. Khalifa Hifter, center, shakes hands with the Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, left, as they surrounded by security in Athens, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2019. Greece will block any European peace deal on Libya unless an agreement between the internationally-recognized government in Tripoli and Turkey on maritime borders is scrapped, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis warned Thursday. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)

Libya’s rival military commander seeks support in Greece

By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, left, and Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi deliver statements to the press, in Amman, Jordan, Monday, June 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Merkel upbeat over cease-fire pledge ahead of Libya meeting

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

The steps of the German agriculture ministry are poured with contaminated honey during a demonstration of beekeepers against the use of Glyphosate-based herbicides in agricultural in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

German beekeepers stage sticky protest on ministry steps

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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, left, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attend a joint news conference following their talks in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Jan. 13, 2020. Foreign and defense ministers of Russia and Turkey met as part of an effort by Moscow and Ankara to sponsor Monday's talks between rival parties in Libya in the Russian capital. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, Pool)

Russia downplays failed Libya talks before Berlin summit

By DARIA LITVINOVA and VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV - Associated Press

In this Monday, Dec. 9, 2019, file photo, French President Emmanuel Macron, left, Russian President Vladimir Putin, second left, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, second right, arrive for a working session at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France. Russia's envoy at the talks with Ukraine and Russia-backed separatists said Monday, Dec. 23, 2019, they agreed on terms of exchanging prisoners following an agreement reached by the nations' presidents in Paris earlier this month. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, Pool, File)

Merkel to meet Putin in Moscow for talks on Mideast crises

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In this Oct. 20, 2019, photo an unsold 2019 Model X sits under a sign at a Tesla dealership in Littleton, Colo. Tesla says its global deliveries rose more than 50% last year meaning the company surpassed the low end of its sales goals for 2019. The electric car maker said Friday, Jan. 3, 2020, that it delivered a record of about 112,000 vehicles in the fourth quarter and about 367,500 for the full year. Tesla previously announced that it expected to deliver 360,000 to 400,000 units worldwide last year. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Tesla aims to build 500,000 vehicles per year near Berlin

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, French President Emmanuel Macron, second left, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, right, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrive at a working session at the Elysee Palace Monday, Dec. 9, 2019 in Paris. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's president are meeting for the first time at a summit in Paris to find a way to end the five years of fighting in eastern Ukraine. (Christophe Petit Tesson/Pool via AP)

Russia expels 2 German diplomats over Berlin murder probe

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The painting ‚Madonna of the Pinks' of Renaissance artist Raphael from London's National Gallery is on display at an exhibition at the Gemaeldegalerie in Berlin, Wednesday, Germany, Dec. 11, 2019. Berlin is opening the first of several Raphael exhibitions as the art world celebrates the 500th anniversary of his death next year. The show is dedicated to five famous Madonna paintings by the renowned Renaissance master that belong to Berlin's Gemaeldegalerie collections and another masterpiece of the Virgin Mary that is on loan from the National Gallery in London. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Raphael show with famous Madonna paintings opens in Berlin

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER - Associated Press

FILE-In this Aug. 29, 2019 file photo people carry the body of the victim who has been identified as Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a Georgian Muslim during the funeral in Duisi village, the Pankisi Gorge valley, in Georgia. Germany’s foreign ministry says it has expelled two Russian diplomats after prosecutors announced they suspected Moscow’s involvement in the brazen daylight slaying of a Georgian man in Berlin. (AP Photo/Zurab Tsertsvadze)

Germany expels Russian diplomats in probe of Berlin killing

By DAVID RISING - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with military officials in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019. The meeting focused on modernization of the Russian navy. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

The Latest: Russia calls Germany expulsions ‘groundless’

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Activists of the 'BUND' environment protection organization jump into the river spree in front of the German federal parliament to protest against the climate policy in Berlin, Germany, Friday, Nov. 29, 2019. Word on the box reads "Climate Package." (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Australia fire survivors join global climate protests

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Police enters a house in Berlin, Germany, where a suspect was arrested on Tuesday morning, Nov. 19, 2019. Authorities say German special police forces have arrested a Syrian man in a raid on his apartment after receiving intelligence from American officials that he was planning an extremist attack. Federal prosecutors said in a statement Tuesday that the 26-year-old “radical Islamist” was planning an attack in Germany designed to “kill and injure a maximum number of people.” (Paul Zinken/dpa via AP)

Officials: Germany foils alleged attack plan after US tip

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and DAVID RISING - Associated Press

In this Thursday Nov. 6, 2019, A Turkish flag is seen through a fence that divided the Greek Cypriot south to the Turkish Cypriots north in divided capital Nicosia, Cyprus. As the world commemorates 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the bullet-riddled sandstone walls of abandoned, crumbling homes and concrete machine gun nests dotting in Cyprus' no-man's land are a reminder of Europe's last divided country. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

30 years after the Berlin Wall, Cyprus’ division endures

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press